Following the warmly-received Paces (1631 Recordings/Decca Publishing) and the collaborative Stadsbilder (Time Released Sound), Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist Jakob Lindhagen presents his second solo full-length album Memory Constructions on piano and coffee records.

Recorded together with German brother-duo Sebastian and Daniel Selke (aka CEEYS, whose collaborations also include Ólafur Arnalds and Spitfire) and longtime artistic collaborator Sofia Nystrand (Vargkvint), the album merges elements of neoclassical and ambient music, with a foundation of intimate piano works paired with violoncello and vocal synth, expanded with musical saw, kantele, bowed glockenspiel and sound experiments, recorded to analogue equipment. 

”Memories are an equally complicated as fascinating aspect of the human mind. After realizing a couple of memories from my childhood surroundings simply didn’t add up - the timeline didn’t make sense so I couldn’t have been in that place at that time, or a block of houses not being placed where they actually were - I became slightly obsessed with memory research. Our memories play such a huge part of our identities, yet they are extremely unreliable, change and fade over time, and are easily influenced and manipulated. And yet I couldn’t help myself also finding beauty in the fact that I both completely trust and distrust my own memories, that make up who I am. So digging from these slightly contradicting feelings, and from where my own memories are either constructed, fading, forgotten, rewritten, made up or completely true, this album was concieved.” 

Memory Constructions has been supported by the Swedish Arts Council, and is coming out digitally and on limited edition vinyl on the 23rd of September, featuring artwork by Sofia Nystrand and desing/layout by Celia Bayo.

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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

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What do we do now

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

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

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

Yearning

Leise, sonst hörn uns die Wale

Download: https://tristaneckerson.bandcamp.com/

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Listen on Apple Music: itunes.apple.com/us/artist/trista…erson/1243764726

Patreon: www.patreon.com/tristaneckerson

Soma

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

Norden

Alice Baldwin

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