British composer Matthew Peter Gough has presented his new album ‘The Piano Field’, released on 1 May 2026. For many fans of his work, this release came as a pleasant surprise: Matthew, widely known in the world of children’s music through his BabyGoodnight project in partnership with Hollywood Tracks, has this time stepped far beyond his familiar role. A native of the picturesque seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea on the east coast of England, he recorded and produced the album entirely on his own, right in his studio by the sea, where nature literally dictated every note.

‘The Piano Field’ is eleven piano sketches in which the instrument remains the primary voice. The inspiration was a buttercup field near the composer’s home, and so each track on ‘The Piano Field’ is a separate image and a separate moment caught in nature.

Piano, Nature, Tranquillity

-PurpleMistress

I like how the first ‘The Piano Field’ gently opens the album with soft keys and an airy atmosphere. In ‘Buttercup Field’, the melody sounds like sunlight at dawn. You can almost hear how the yellow flowers sway in the warm wind. The remarkable ‘Sitting in the Garden’, with its more accelerated rhythm and more melancholic atmosphere, creates the atmosphere of a windy day. A day on which you want to stay at home and watch through the window at the sky covered with clouds and think about eternity. ‘Pitter Patter’ is perhaps the most touching story on the album: it was inspired by raindrops on the studio window. Small, uneven, alive. And Matthew Peter Gough’s piano repeats their rhythm with soft precision. The final ‘End of the Day’ is a lullaby to the departing day. Nature falls asleep and the melody by Matthew Peter Gough unhurriedly unfolds, gifting a feeling of tranquillity and peace.

‘The Piano Field’ is the LP by an artist who has found his own language of silence. Matthew Peter Gough simply invites you to live one day alone with nature and its endless beauty. And that, perhaps, is the boldest thing a composer can do today.