{"product_id":"scenes_from_a_velvet_room","title":"Scenes From A Velvet Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eScenes From A Velvet Room is Stephan Moccio’s fourth solo album for Decca Records, a nostalgic, jazz‑infused piano project inspired by his formative years playing six nights a week as the house pianist at Toronto’s Four Seasons hotel. Released June 26, 2026, the 12‑track, roughly 46‑minute record revisits that “velvet room” atmosphere—low light, clinking glasses, quiet conversations—through intimate compositions that balance classical crossover, jazz, and film‑score sensitivity. Pieces such as Beneath The Amber Hour, Room 3A, Melt, Pink Lady, Positano, Bossa Noir, Where The River Heals, and I Break Everything I Love unfold patiently, with softly melancholic, virtuosic piano at the center and arrangements designed to shape ambience rather than overpower it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoccio has said that the Four Seasons gig taught him to “read a room and build a mood” by entering with a quiet tone, an approach that defines the album’s restrained, candle‑lit feel. Three tracks—Like An Old Photograph, The Beautiful Undoing, and Opaline—feature Branford Marsalis, whose saxophone threads through the record and culminates in the closing track I Break Everything I Love, adding a smoky, late‑night bar color to Moccio’s lyrical themes. Compositions like Melt and Dear Burt are highlighted by reviewers as gently melancholic yet calming, while Opaline and Like An Old Photograph are described as haunting and perfectly suited to intimate lounges as much as concert halls. Critics stress that Scenes From A Velvet Room sits far from Moccio’s chart‑topping pop work for artists like Céline Dion, Miley Cyrus, and The Weeknd; instead it’s “music you feel in your bones,” a personal, quietly expressive collection that uses the instincts he once applied to other people’s songs to tell his own story of memory, mood, and the beauty of subtlety.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":53699015672122,"sku":"39029","price":54.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-07-07_at_5.33.05_PM.jpeg?v=1783460122","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/scenes_from_a_velvet_room","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}