After last year’s celebrated moogmemory project, Matthew Bourne returns to the piano for breathtaking new track ‘Candela (for Sascha Heeney)’. In tribute to new love, this is the first single from Bourne’s forthcoming album, to be released this summer.

Where Bourne’s previous work would often seek to challenge, this is a deep meditation in texture and melody: skeletal piano motifs buoyed on a bed of strings. There is an emotional directness and vulnerability that Bourne has only ever hinted at. When taken in the context of his back catalogue, this unadorned simplicity is a bold and challenging step to make, and all the more devastating for it.

‘Candela (for Sascha Heeney)’ is available to download for free from Bourne’s Bandcamp in exchange for an email address.

Bourne is playing a moogmemory show tonight (March 27th) at The Cockpit Theatre, London.

You’ll find him collaborating with east London grime artist Trim as part of Piano Day at London’s Union Chapel on Wednesday March 29th.

On Saturday May 6th, Bourne will join Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt for a rare performance of 2014’s Kraftwerk-inspired Radioland project at the Jazz Café.