Piano Day 2017 Playlist

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A selection of tracks released on Piano Day 2017

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Eighty-Eight (Piano Day 2017)

instrumental

Piano Day

Douceur

piano

The new album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

EU order link: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP055
US order link: http://www.midheaven.com/item/spaces-by-frahm-nils-cd

9/10 Drowned In Sound · 9/10 Clash · 4.5/5 Fact · 4.5/5 Resident Advisor · 9/10 Popmatters · 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit · 8.5/10 Under The Radar · 8/10 Exclaim! ★★★★1/2 Music Omh · ★★★★ The Irish Times · ★★★★ Arts Desk

‘Frahm truly excels’ 9/10 Uncut 
‘Frahm works his magic’ ★★★★ Mojo
‘The infinite elasticity of sound’ 7.8 Pitchfork 
‘Improvisatory, wild, heartfelt’ Interview Magazine
‘A fantastic record’ The Guardian Album of the Week 
‘Frahm creates something mesmerising’ ★★★★ The Observer
‘My favourite new piece of music this year’ Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music

erasedtapes.com · nilsfrahm.com

Spaces

Says

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Nils Frahm - Says

Track #06 of the upcoming album "Anmut" mastered at Soundset MM studios by Dirk Mallwitz.

a great pleasure to work with Koen on this track. 

please follow and check out my music @spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/758yIKdhJhWL6oTuTSFVV6

also checkout Koen's cloud here: https://soundcloud.com/koenjanssenmusic 

thanks Nick for the wonderful "wild romantic" winter scenery...
www.flickr.com/photos/leeneek/

Anmut Track #06 - White (with Koen Janssen) -> thanks for following @spotify

A Cover for the Pirates of the Caribbean Theme Music.

Pirates Of The Carribean Cover - Maan Hamadeh

Papercut - My Melody

親しさの負担

featuring excerpts from 'Nanami: the Inferno of First Love', by Susumu Hani & Shuji Terayama
引用：『初恋・地獄編』羽仁進、寺山修司 1968年

The Burden of Familiarity

Taken from the compilation Piano Cloud Series - Volume One
Release date: March 11, 2016

www.1631recordings.com
www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com

Peter Broderick - Eyes Closed And Traveling

Study for Player Piano (i)

These are demo tracks for our newest sample library, Nailstrom, deeply sampled from a hand built Cigar Box Guitar. The Kontakt library will be releasing on April 18th on http://www.exoticstates.com/

Generdyn - Sailor's Lullaby (Dressed)

Minimalistic waltz with emphasis placed on catchy melody BUY HERE https://oliverbohovic.bandcamp.com/track/val-k-v-h-mol-waltz-in-b-minor
The track is featured in the Piano Day playlist 2017 :-)

Valčík v h mol(Waltz in B minor)

Improvised, recorded and produced in Berlin by Sebastian Plano and Tom Adams.

2am is an improvisation for two pianos performed using a Yamaha CP80 and a C.Bechstein Mark B grand piano. It was recorded late at night as part of a longer series of piano improvisations by long time friends and collaborators Tom and Sebastian. 

Sebastian Plano: http://www.sebastianplano.com
Tom Adams: http://tomadams.eu

Image by: Hara Katsiki (FCB @HaraKatsiki, www.harakatsiki.com)

Berlin, 2am - (Tom Adams X Sebastian Plano)

Written, recorded and mixed by Janek Sprachta at Einraum Studio.
Mastered by Andreas Bonkowski.

Grow

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4011 Liter is Henrik Schwarz's first ever released solo piano piece. Its part of his upcoming 4 track EP "WORKS PIANO" on the new label BETWEEN BUTTONS. Release will be available on vinyl and digital end of April 2017. www.betweenbuttons.com

Works Piano (between buttons demo)

Works Piano

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Henrik Schwarz - 4011 Liter - version for 3 hands

For Piano Day 2017 I give you this little tune for Piano and Viola from the score for a documentary called Out Of Thin Air (coming later in 2017)

Viola: Karl Pestka

Slow Decay (Out of Thin Air - OST) Piano Day 2017

sound gift for piano day celebration 
29th march 2017

by
hania rani 

http://haniarani.com
https://www.facebook.com/haniaranimusic
https://www.youtube.com/hannaranna
https://www.instagram.com/haniarani

hania rani is coming
and she is coming
soon

hania rani - hawaii oslo

44,2 km (with Poltrock)

with @parraforcuva
„Als ich mit dem Songwriting angefangen habe, hat das Klavier eine wichtige Rolle beim Zugang zu meiner Kreativität gespielt. Es ist ein Symbol für meine ästhetische Wahrnehmung der Musik. Besonders die Leichtigkeit der softeren Töne harmoniert sehr gut mit meiner Musik. Schon ein paar Tastendrücke können so viel ausdrücken, das können nicht viele Instrumente. In vielen meiner Songs benutze ich das Klavier und in einigen ist es sogar das Schlüsselinstrument."

Read More here: http://i-d.vice.com/de_de/article/piano-day-quotes
& here: pianoday.org

Get It Here

Christian Löffler - Pigment (Parra for Cuva Piano Reinterpretation)

from compilation ‘Algorithmics’ (Piano Day 2017)
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2oG1fbz
iTunes: https://itun.es/ca/wNf5ib
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2pfs44p

@edcarlsen
Ed Carlsen: piano, programming
Recorded by Ed Carlsen 
Mixed by Ed Carlsen
Mastered by Emil Thomsen

distorted strings:
Matias Emil Fyhn: Cello
Sofia Kongsgaard Lang: viola
Nanna Treu: violin

Artwork by Marin Blanc (http://www.marinblanc.com)
Layout by Nicolas Hyatt

Ed Carlsen - Weaved (Algorithmics/Piano Day 2017)

from compilation ‘Algorithmics’ (Piano Day 2017)
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2oG1fbz
iTunes: https://itun.es/ca/wNf5ib
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2pfs44p

@pianonoise
Recorded at Wallring Cabin
Written and mixed by Tim Linghaus
Mastered by Mark Bihler at Calyx Mastering

Artwork by Marin Blanc (http://www.marinblanc.com)
Layout by Nicolas Hyatt

Tim Linghaus - Funeral For Dad (Algorithmics/Piano Day 2017)

In celebration of piano day 2017 I wrote a tune based on my brown colour scale.

Music composed by: Kaleidoscope of Colours/Susanne Geisler
Mixing & Mastering: Henning Fuchs 
https://soundcloud.com/henning-fuchs/sets/film
Image: Sebastian Boguszewicz/unsplash

For more information about colour composing visit:
www.kaleidoscopeofcolours.com
www.facebook.com/kaleidoscopeofcoloursmusic

Nuancen von Braun (Piano Day 2017)

Piano Day 2017

Matthew Bourne returns to the piano on ‘Candela (for Sascha Heeney)’, the first single from his forthcoming album, to be released this summer.

‘Candela' 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)

Free download

written by Matt Pixel;
available on all digital store or on my bandcamp page: https://mattpixel.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-morning

December Day (Piano Day 2017)

Colliding Redux

#PianoDay

https://www.facebook.com/WaxworksInMotion/

Departure From Kuala Lumpur

Tess Said So is the creative partnership of musicians Rasa Daukus and Will Larsen. Adopting a pop sensibility to a classical format, Rasa and Will write and perform all their own material, blurring the lines that define musical genre, infusing their sound with pop, jazz, ambience, minimalism, and electronica. http://www.tesssaidso.com

Fern

Fern (for Piano Day 2017)

I wrote the first theme of this piece a couple of years ago and could never quite figure out how to finish it. There have been many iterations of it and it has been booted off of two full length records. I guess it always seemed to be a little island unto itself. Well anyway, what better reason than to put this out into the world than #PianoDay2017?

Happy #PianoDay folks.

Armoire Nocturne

To coincide with Piano Day 2017 we share a cover of an old Penguin Cafe Orchestra song by Penguin Cafe from their upcoming new album 'The Imperfect Sea' - out on Erased Tapes 5th May 2017.

"This piece by my father has always been a favourite of mine and when we were playing in the studio last year with making rocks resonate through the soundboard of the piano, the drone on F# made me think of it immediately. The transition between free-form and structure allows for space and some more expressionist moments and then the simple yet rather beautiful melody creates a sort of profound optimism I think." — Arthur Jeffes

Pre-order 'The Imperfect Sea' on Vinyl, CD and DL here: phonofile.link/the-imperfect-sea

The iconic Penguin Cafe join the Erased Tapes family and open a brand new chapter to their unique world with new album The Imperfect Sea.

A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes’ journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe have evolved into something of their own at the hands of Arthur who started the band in 2009 with the continuation and homage to his father’s legacy, to the late Simon Jeffes’ Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Now, their upcoming album echoes reminiscent sounds that embrace the new.

The album title refers to a saying by his father that “we wade in a sea of imperfections…”, reflecting upon the idea that beauty can be found amongst the chaos. “If there is a narrative to the album it’s coming to the acceptance of the imperfections in all aspects of life; moreover, the recognition that these imperfections and tiny randomnesses are in fact what make up the best parts”, Arthur explains. This has also been highlighted by the striking cover artwork designed by FELD under the art direction of label founder Robert Raths, resembling a lone figure adapting to and accepting its surrounding environment.

Predominantly self-composed, the new album also features covers of electronic works by Simian Mobile Disco and Kraftwerk, along with a re-working of Simon's 'Now Nothing'. Arthur has developed from the traditional folk and jazz heritage Penguin Cafe Orchestra is known for into another realm of blissful ambience and dance music, recreated using strictly acoustic elements.

“For this album I wanted to effect a departure from where we’d been up to now. The idea was to create a musical world that would feel familiar to an audience more used to dance records but stay true to our own values. So we replaced electronic layers with real instruments: pads with real string sections, synths with heavily-effected pianos, and atmospheric analogue drones with real feedback loops ringing through a stone and a piano soundboard.”

On the day of release, the band will play a headline show at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, commencing the beginning of this new adventure for Penguin Cafe.

The Imperfect Sea

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Penguin Cafe - Now Nothing (Rock Music)

A song for upright & plucked piano, written for Piano Day 2017.

FREE HQ download: https://andrewlangmusician.bandcamp.com/track/from-before

pianoday.org

Written, recorded, performed and produced by Andrew Lang
Artwork by Jeremy Driver

From Before

"Steve Reich in The Hague"  
 14.12.2003
 Bootleg

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

This song is from Origen's  album "In Search of the Future of Music"- http://www.origenmusic.com/origen-in-search-of-the-future-of-music.html

All music performed by Alexsey Zakharenko
All vocals performed by Tetiana Lubimenko AKA Milana

In Search of the Future of Music

Quando corpus morietur (by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi)

Single track of the album Reminiscence by Aukai
Stream & Download: https://aukai-music.lnk.to/P6haa
Order Limited Edition CD: https://aukai.bandcamp.com/album/reminiscence

Markus Sieber - piano, ronroco, guitars, bass
Alexander Nickmann - synth, melotron, vibraphone
Miguel Hiroshi - drums

Mixed by Moshik Kop, London

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Reframe

Select your favorite platform: https://ampl.ink/d3Qm4 
'Pianette' consists of a collection of solo piano compositions inspired by dreams and the bucolic fantasy of mechanical toys, the dolls, the essence of the circus and the puppets.
Available on CD, Sheet Music Book & digital.
Analog Mastered by Ian Hawgood · Cover image by Larissa Kulik
Design by Nikki Snow BNBA
www.bruno-sanfilippo.com

Pianette

Marionette

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Canopus, the second brightest star in the night-time sky.

A piece written for Piano Day 2018.

Composed: HAMU
Produced & Mixed: Patrick Jonsson (http://patrickjonsson.com/)

www.facebook.com/hamumusic/
Check out my debut EP; 
hamu.bandcamp.com/releases
open.spotify.com/album/6GfmsZ395BIThxu86iDX4K
itunes.apple.com/gb/album/introve…on-ep/1315805632

Touch Canopus

Happy Piano Day 2018!

Middle Names is original released by Devendra Banhart on his 2016 record "Ape In Pink Marble" (Nonesuch Records).

Middle Names (rework by Nils Frahm)

Can you tell the difference? listen to Maia on a piano tuned at 432hz
https://soundcloud.com/gabriel-ruata/maia-432hz

Please support me and buy the track for only 1.00$ just click on the link ;)
https://gabrielruata.bandcamp.com/track/maia

A Bunch Of Stars a Bunch Of Stories

Maia

Andrew Lang is a composer, sound artist, and performer from Adelaide, Australia. His new album, Momentary Senses, is out now through Rusted Tone Recordings.