Thank you for enabling download. This track is a great source of artistic inspiration. If I wanted to include this in a very short reel of work on my website, or use it in a proposal, would that be okay? I want to give/list appropriate artist credit.

I can't stop listening to it. That's so beautiful, I can't find the words to express what I feel. Thank you!

Line (Alternate Take 5)

Lars Danielsson, Leszek Możdżer & Zohar Fresco - Suffering

(THE NATIONAL FANFARE OF) KADEBOSTANY - LA SAETA

La version MIDI de la seconde musique de l'album "Earth Anthems", Morning Dew.

Earth Anthems (Version MIDI)

Morning Dew (Version MIDI)

Morning Dew [Version Electro]

Artist: Rachel Grimes
Title: The Herald
Album: The Clearing
Release Date: May 26, 2015

Rachel Grimes is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in Kentucky – most renowned for her work in Rachel's, the groundbreaking chamber-rock ensemble that introduced an entire generation of underground rock fans to the unexpected similarities and appeal of neoclassical music. Grimes has toured the world as a solo pianist, and as a collaborator with chamber ensembles such as Portland Cello Project, astrïd, Cicada, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta trio, and Orchestra Kandinskij.

Unhurried, at times fleeting, and stretching into the sky, The Clearing is a winding path of transient moments exploring personal memory, relationships, and mystery from a deeply internal place. The music is a wide spectrum of textures in strings, harp, piano, woodwinds, and percussion. Following Book of Leaves (2009), the Marion County 1938 DVD/EP (2011), the Compound Leaves EP (2013), and an album with King’s Daughters & Sons (2011), this new full-length album reveals a broad new chapter for Rachel Grimes.

Several composed pieces evolved from improvisation, such as “In the Vapor”, “The Clearing”, and “Further Foundation”. Others include captured improvisation: album highlight “The Herald”, recorded live with Jacob Duncan on saxophone and Helen Money on cello, and “The Air at Night”, a late-night meditation at a recording session in Antwerp. 

The title track, “The Clearing”, was recorded with members of the Amsterdam
Sinfonietta following a series of performances for CrossLinx Festival in spring of 2013. After the joy of working together, Grimes proposed a long-distance recording session. Evolving from a single repeated piano note, “The Clearing” begins tense and dissonant with the string trio and piano eventually arriving at a moment of relief and grace – a light in the forest – and then returning again to the material of the opening.

“Transverse Plane” was designed for SITI Company of New York for an actor training stage exercise. In two sections, the piece uses a pre-existing architecture of tempo and underlying compositional structure. The first part – “Vertical” – is a driving, orchestral texture of strings, harp, piano, oboe and saxophone with Kyle Crabtree (Shipping News) on mixed percussion. The second half – “Horizontal” – unfolds from a mist of strings with slow-moving chords and features Christian Frederickson (Rachel's) in an angular and expressive viola solo.

Inspired by the wind and sky, “The Airs” feature violinist Scott Moore. Written with a single theme and mode, the suite becomes a connective tissue for the album’s various textures. In perhaps the album's most vital collaboration, Scott Morgan (aka LOSCIL) provides the delicate processing and additional depth of field that invites outsiders to enter this fluid space for their own experience.

© 2015 Temporary Residence Ltd.

Pre-Order CD / LP

Rachel Grimes – The Herald

Jean-Michel Blais and CFCF are both accomplished musicians. Their collaborative work on the 'Cascades' EP, which is out March 15th on Arts & Crafts, is a heartbreakingly pretty collection of lush explorations pulled forward by warm piano and a fluid mix of new age calm and forward-thinking ambient. "In a Landscape (Rework)," as the parenthetical suggests, is a cover – of sorts – of a piece by John Cage of the same name. It premiered on RBMA Radio's Discreet Music, our weekly deep-dive into all manner of experimental sounds.

@cfcf
@artsandcrafts
https://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/discreet-music/
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/

Cascades

Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF - In a Landscape (Rework) [Discreet Music Premiere]

[p*dis] distribution sampler for February 2012.

Dictaphone - Poems from a Rooftop - The Conversation (sonic pieces)

Order 'Union Cafe' on LP/CD/DL: phonofile.link/union-cafe

Erased Tapes has the huge privilege of reissuing the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s last ever studio album Union Cafe including a first time vinyl edition — out now to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of founder Simon Jeffes’ passing in 1997.

It was 1972 in the South of France when Simon had an unfortunate experience with food poisoning which lead to a much more fortunate circumstance when a vivid dream, induced from his illness and depicting a dystopian future, conceived the Penguin Cafe; a charming place where solace, harmony, and the orchestra’s unique music could be found amidst brutal concrete structures and darkness. For the following 25 years, Simon carried out this vision bringing brightness into a world full of noise. Sadly, after his passing, the original orchestra disbanded, but the doors to this happy place reopened when his son Arthur decided to continue his father’s legacy under the name Penguin Cafe.

The continuation of the PCO began at London’s Union Chapel in 2007 when Arthur and the original musicians commemorated Simon 10 years after his death. Another 10 years forward, 2017 will see Penguin Cafe pay tribute to him once again at the Union Chapel on December 11th where they will perform Union Cafe in full – a union from all corners of this magical world.

Union Cafe was the fifth, and the last studio album by Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It was initially released in 1993 merely on cassette and CD, and will now be given a new breath of life, for the first time available on vinyl, and another chance to reach old and new fans alike.

“Union Cafe was the last studio album recorded by the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra and marked a move towards a definitive English pastoral sound combined with larger string arrangements set against longer solo piano pieces. With this last album they got even closer to the PCO idea of squaring the circle of intellectually challenging modern music that is still actually beautiful. For me this has always been a contender as my favourite PCO album, and the fact that it never ended up on vinyl was more to do with the way things were in the early 90s, and chance rather than it being deliberate. So in that sense this release is righting an old wrong. The slow development of the pieces means that you can really get lost in them and vinyl is of course the perfect way to do that.” — Arthur Jeffes

Arthur very kindly gave access to the original Union Cafe painting that currently lives in his North London home studio, created by Arthur’s mother Emily Young and now photographed by Alex Kozobolis for this special reissue edition.

Union Cafe

Buy 2LP/CD/DL

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Kora Kora

Our final demo sound and video recording of the M450i Vertical Concert Grand at the workshop, before we brought it to Berlin - Nils Frahm's studio at the Funkhaus Berlin - one of my favorite pieces of Hania's beautiful compositions.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8veLuNmQbI

Hania Rani - SUN on the Klavins M450i Vertical Concert Grand

Opening de Philip Glass

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/01/re-modiac-rework

Download on XLR8R

Nils Frahm "Re (Modiac Rework)"

New album // TERRALONE // https://ffm.to/zbzq5rz
Aurélie Barbé est harpiste, enseignante et compositrice. Elle s’exprime à travers les musiques modales, minimalistes et improvisées sur harpe classique et électrique (avec le groupe Naccara, puis Avallon) 
Aujourd’hui, elle poursuit recherches et compositions avec pédales d’effet, looper et ordinateur, en solo ou avec d’autres musiciens. Elle vient de sortir son 1er album solo Terralone.

Opening de Philip Glass

aureharp

Recent comments

Robert M Thomas

JJ92

Weerthof

karenhofstetter

Related tracks