You can download the sheet music for free: http://bit.ly/1OIFvOc

Huge thanks to Lukas, who put the notes on the paper for me. Check out his music here: http://bit.ly/1JrNW4s

Ich trank Tee mit einer englischen Dame

New record of an old song from 2010. Had been dark days. Listened to Schubert a lot that time.

Innerhalb

Wrote this piece some years ago when I was 17 in a night before I had a class test. I just had my first e-piano and could play at night. So I procrastinated with learning, didn't sleep and consequently totally failed at the exam. But well, there's now a piano piece instead..

Slightly rearranged over time and now renamed.
Original title: "Spross falscher Prioritätensetzung" / "Ich möchte lieber nicht"
The picture was taken at David Klavins Pianomanufaktur in Balingen, Germany.

I would prefer not to

Norden, a sketch. Melody by Edwin. 

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This is about loosing people to their mental illness.



 



Norden

Sheet music: http://bit.ly/1UbO46X
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Finished an old piece today, which accompanied me for a long time. Feels good to see all the pieces of the puzzle together after all this years. 

I hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening!

Recorded on my electric piano with the 'Giant' VST.

Vater

Wrote this seven years ago. It's actually my very first music piece (: It's really simple and ordinary but I still somehow like the melody. 

Picture taken by my father, must haven been around 1996.



Unberührt

Another very early piece from 2008, when I just started to play my own music.
I'm sorry, it's not very catchy, difficult to understand and has some very awkward parts. I think my approach to music was a bit different that time.. 
But if you give it a careful listen, it has some worthwile stories to tell. 


Original title: Mollgau
Picture taken at Klavins Piano Manufaktur

Moll

Für Lena † 2011
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her short life ended so suddenly and unexpected with only 20. beside the huge pain i experienced through her decision to leave, i think i can now say after years of thoughts and reflection, that it was also the event i learned the most of.

this day changed literally everything. it was the hardest reminder that we only have very limited time together, so early in life. it effected all my decisions, every breath is a deeper one since this day. i see with a clear mind and open heart now. it gave me more passion, the ability for self care, it strengthened my empathy & understanding and created a even stronger will to leave the world better than i found it.

i’m sharing this because i don’t want her to become forgotten and meaningless. so, this is what i learned. maybe you get something good from it, too.

be good to yourself. be good to people, even the ones you think that don’t deserve it. be kind to every other sentient being. everyone has her or his own invisible struggles, be aware of it and respect it. keep the people that don’t make you grow and keep you small out of your life. trust yourself, but be ready to question yourself, too. fight. try to find beauty in the saddest and darkest moments. don’t be surprised of change, because it will happen. don’t live a life of bad compromises, go for the whole. don’t fear insecurity. be more brave than you actually are.

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Was am Ende

www.patreon.com/alicebaldwin

Für Rik. 
Experimenting with an old song idea. Trying not to mess it all up with the strings..

Freiheit wär viel lustiger

For a good stranger.

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Made a tiny teaser for it: bit.ly/1Q17VDK  

// In case there's anybody out there who likes to teach me how to keep the rhythm properly, I'm always happy to get in contact with you (:



Wald werden

Your eyes must make some rain if you ever want to grow. 

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I'd recommend to listen it loud. 

Took the photo on a hill in Balingen, Germany. It's the valley where the Una Corda piano is built! :)



Kreisreise

Have a very happy Piano Day everybody!

Made a little childrensong (:

I dedicate it to my mom - for her loving support on my way so far, despite it seemed a bit adventuresome and crazy at some points (and still does).

Fussel: https://twitter.com/fussel_im_kopf

Fussel im Kopf

Part of it was recorded on a cemetery :)

As usual I used my inner rubato metronome for the recording.


Polyamorie

Leise, sonst hörn uns die Wale

Usually I do a million takes when I record a new song. This time I stopped around take 10 to prevent perfectionism taking over.. 
So, it’s not super precise, but hey! I finished something! 
I hope you enjoy it. 

*Alice

Unverzagt

Piano Cloud Series - Volume Four

Free Download of the sheet music: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U4a7Hu0f91URzi019wVD5ouytAmkImxk/view?usp=sharing

Mixed & mastered by Martyn Heyne. 
Released by Moderna Records.
Cover picture by Jacob David.

‘Please tell my mum to burn me’, he suddenly said, after we‘d been silently sitting together for a while, carefully watching the fies residing in the kitchen. It came out of nowhere, seemed like a random thought going through his mind.
My friend is not a passionate talker, he rarely shares any thoughts with anyone. But if so, it’s often a pretty weird conversation starter.

So it came that on this summerly day he was asking me to contact his mom after his death and tell her that he wants his corpse to be burned. We started discussing death, our experiences we had in life with it so far and how we deal with it. From his viewpoint, death was a pretty rational thing. It just happens at a point. There’s no need or use for grief for other people.
This was new to me - I’ve never met someone before who could not understand why humans connect to each other emotionally and why they might miss each other. I told him not to die for a while, because I would still like to have him around.

This whole conversation got stuck in my mind and I started making a playful / happy song in connection with the quote from him.

It was originally a piece played only with my left hand and accompanied by me singing. But I found my singing terrible :-) That’s why it became a solo piano version.
In case there’s anybody out there who enjoys singing, feel free to make use of the lyrics :)

These are the lyrics (original quotes):

please please 
please tell my mum 
please tell my mum 
to burn me

please tell my mum 
please tell my mum 
to burn me, burn me 
burn my dead body

death is inevitable
death is inevitable

oh i don‘t know how i came to this topic 
oh well yes i said i liked fire
fire
fire fire

please tell my mum to burn me

hi! this is alice & her piano. 

here you'll find music inspired by compassion - and its absence.


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compassion hurts. when you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. and you cannot turn away.
your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. you must either learn to carry the universe or be crushed by it. you must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. -andrew boyd

title picture by Jacob David

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