Improvisation. 

Photo by Jake Erwin Berry

Goldmund - Improvisation 11:15pm

It is an absolute delight to announce @daigohanada's new LP Satori, which we'll release in March of next year. It's hard not to overstate how special Daigo is as a person and musician ; his care and thoughtfulness shine through every interaction and every note chosen on the piano, synth or organ. He's been writing material for Satori over the last couple years and the collection of 13 pieces is an intimate invitation into his world, infused with hopeful melodies and a soulful vulnerability. We'll be telling you lots more about it over the coming months, and you can discover the album track 'Emi' now right here: https://idol.lnk.to/dh-emi

Big thanks to Andrea Diotallevi for the lovely artwork and to Martyn Heyne for the tasteful master. With such great audiovisual collaborators we've prepared beautiful pressings of the LP in vinyl & CD format - which we'll share with you early in the new year!

Satori

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Daigo Hanada - Emi

Score I was commissioned to write for an interactive film for Miru.  

Interactive film: http://miru.menicon.com/tosee/

Uninteractive film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piPQtz_ChJs

Directed by Rob Chui | http://robchiu.com/
Produced by Stink Digital

Keith Kenniff - To See

Cradlesong

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Memum - Under The Grove (Noemi Bolojan Remix)

A gentle, cinematic soundscape evoking memory, melancholy, and the changing seasons.

Autumn Reverie

Departure floats like a memory you’re not ready to leave behind — slow-building pads, gentle pulses, and a weightless sense of movement.

Departure

A couple of things I recorded last night at home, warts and all.

Forgotten Postcards

Untitled 28 was a sculpture, video and sound installation created in 28 days by artist Marie-Louise Jones and composer Lucy Claire. It was exhibited in July 2017 at Here East in London as part of Gavin Turk and Anna Maloney’s show, Inside Out. 

The music reflects each sculpture in the installation and explores themes of duality and pairs through atmospheric binaural recordings, beautiful violin melodies and vocal textures. The materials used in the physical installation; wood, stone and metal play a prominent role in the soundtrack and the sounds created when collided together were used to create unusual textures which were weaved into the piece.

This is the first track to my new project, Aural Method's freshman release: "When I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody".

If you like this perhaps you may enjoy the rest of the record. You can find it at http://www.auralmethod.com

Aural Method - As I awoke...

I made a little video about how I made this piece and it's story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RfIRPWCpCQ&t=72s 
I begun to write this track for last year's Pianoday amongst other album tracks. I was inspired by prepared piano composers and used recordings of the strings of the piano being strummed with the keys taped down to allow them to resonate. I didn't complete it till later on in the year and felt it belonged on the album alongside other tracks that we're being written sequentially at the same time ( https://orcd.co/alone-not-alone-album ) so I'm thrilled to now see it come home and contribute to Piano Day 2020!

In the track delicate beginnings give way to an overwhelming sense of wistfulness, surrounded by the sirens of compassion.  A reflection on the challenges of departure and the need for independence and, in the end, solitude and the possibilities therein. The piano strings we're close mic'd and gently strummed for the intro and background soundscape. Later on they we're hit with the handle of a glockenspiel beater to make the stronger sound for the middle section. The piano melody is joined by bow'd xylophone and string glissando's and melodies to create an atmospheric track that speaks of the tensions of solitude and togetherness, inspired by a visit to Crozon in France and our country's own challenges of leaving the EU and the tensions therein.

The Near Isle

Post-rock and ambient music set to poetry by Matthew Kidd.