Specially remastered for Yarlung’s 20th Anniversary, The Power of the Keyboard shines brightly, showcasing Nathan Ben-Yehuda on piano, and his mesmerizing Acoustic/Electronic Ensemble Astral Mixtape. This album took the Munich High End Show by storm in 2024 during Yarlung’s presentations in five superb rooms, and now you can hear why. Nathan pursues a fulltime solo concert career as a classical pianist but also performs regularly with Astral Mixtape, his innovative crossover quartet writing new works and reimagining classics from Monteverdi to Rimsky-Korsakov, and playing with ideas and thematic material from Sigur Ros to Radiohead and Four Tet. We end this album with two tracks by Astral Mixtape. Track 6 offers Goddess Gardens, including intoxicating “mixtape” snippets from Scheherazade and Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending, as well as more recent fare. Seven Hellos closes the album on track 7, an original composition by the four members of the quartet. Astral Mixtape is clearly close to Nathan’s heart. Nathan’s solo piano repertoire makes a powerful statement; not only can Nathan handle the thorny Knussen Variations, but he plays Haydn beautifully, and he recorded my favorite performances to date of both Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit and Villa-Lobos’ Rudepoêma. Nathan kindly agreed to play Peter Sculthorpe’s Nocturnal by special request.