Olafur Arnalds + Friends

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Every month I will gather all submissions that don't make it directly onto the channel in a playlist and make a final selection of my personal favourites at the end of every month.

Chillicious Discoveries - March 2019

عبیدی

A selection of tracks released for Piano Day 2019

Image by Arūnas Naujokas via Unsplash
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Piano Day 2019 Selections

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Improvisation with the studio doors open. 

Goldmund - Improvisation 4:54 PM

"Í gegnum Ísinn" from Ólafurs original score for the film Vonarstræti / Life In a Fishbowl 

Stari Í Gegnum Ísinn

To celebrate Piano Day I recorded a cover version of a piece from one of my favorite piano composers/performers, Michael Nyman.  This piece is titled "Molly" off of the wonderful score to the Michael Winterbottom film "Wonderland". 

www.unseen-music.com
www.pianoday.org

Molly - (Goldmund Cover)

Title track from my new Goldmund album, "Sometimes", out  November 14th on Western Vinyl.

Mastered by Taylor Duepree.

www.unseen-music.com
www.westernvinyl.com

Goldmund - Sometimes

You can PRE-ORDER Living Room Songs on CD/LP/Download or Special Edition CD&amp;DVD here: 
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP037

ABOUT LIVING ROOM SONGS:

Icelandic contemporary composer Ólafur Arnalds created and released a new song, one per day for one for one whole week during the month of October 2011. The songs were recorded and filmed live in the living room of his Reykjavik apartment and released instantly for free as streamed videos and mp3 downloads.

Thousands of fans followed this exciting project online at: livingroomsongs.olafurarnalds.com

Living Room Songs will now also be released on CD, Vinyl, Ltd. Special Edition CD &amp; DVD and as High Quality Downloads on December 5th via Erased Tapes.


Following in the spirit of Ólafur Arnalds’ critically acclaimed Found Songs (2009) now comes Living Room Songs. This time Ólafur takes the idea further and invites the audience into the comfort of his living room, where the songs were recorded live and the whole process filmed. The songs were instantly released in form of a free mp3 download and video stream- straight from Ólafur's Reykjavik apartment.

IN HIS OWN WORDS: ‘One night I was just playing my piano here in this apartment and I was writing a new song and I didn't have my phone on me which I usually use to record ideas. So I actually took out my MacBook and I didn't want to open like a proper recording program, so I just opened Photo Booth and recorded a video of myself playing the song so that I would remember the song. And I really liked the atmosphere of that video and that's when I thought I should do a series of songs in my living room...’             – Ólafur Arnalds


Born in the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, a few kilometers outside of Reykjavík, the 24-year old composer has always enjoyed pushing boundaries with both his studio work and his live-shows. Through relentless touring and determination this young artist has steadily gained recognition worldwide since his 2007 debut Eulogy for Evolution. Ólafur Arnalds’ second full-length album ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness, continues his mission to lure an indie-generation of pop and rock fans into an emotive world of beguiling electronic chamber music and delicate classical arrangements. Ólafur is currently touring with Ryuichi Sakamoto on his Trio Tour throughout Europe.

'The indie kid who knows the score’ – Guardian’s Observer

'Timeless and sublime’ **** – Uncut

'An artist of immense maturity' (9/10) – Drowned In Sound

'Hotwired to the soul. ...will reduce you to wordless tears'  – The Quietus


 
TRACK LISTING: 

I. Fyrsta 
II. Near Light 
III. Film Credits 
IV. Tomorrow's Song 
V. Ágúst 
VI. Lag Fyrir Ömmu 
VII. This Place Is A Shelter


Near Light

Ólafur Arnalds - Near Light

The new album 'A Moment Apart’ out now: http://odesza.co/a-moment-apart
 
2017 A Moment Apart Tour 
Sun, Sep 3 - Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot
Thu, Sep 14 - Auckland, NZ - Great Hall@
Fri, Sep 15 - Melbourne, AU - Forum@
Sat, Sep 16 - Sydney, AU - Enmore Theatre@
Sun, Sep 17 - Sydney, AU - Enmore Theatre@
Fri, Sep 29 - London, UK - O2 Forum Kentish Town#
Sat, Sep 30 - Paris, FR - Élysée Montmartre#
Tue, Oct 3 - Brussels, BE - AB Main Hall#
Wed, Oct 4 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso#
Thu, Oct 5 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso#
Sat, Oct 7 - Berlin, DE - Astra Kulturhaus#
Thu, Oct 19 - San Diego, CA - Valley View Casino Center*+
Fri, Oct 20 - Los Angeles, CA - STAPLES Center*
Sat, Oct 21 - Las Vegas, NV - Downtown Las Vegas Events Center
Sun, Oct 22 - Phoenix, AZ - Lost Lake Festival
Tue, Oct, 24 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl*+
Thu, Oct 26 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre*+
Fri, Oct 27 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre*+
Sat, Oct 28 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre*+
Tue, Oct 31 - Sacramento, CA - Papa Murphy's Park at Cal Expo*^
Thu, Nov 2 - Portland, OR - Veterans Memorial Coliseum*^
Fri, Nov 3 - Vancouver, BC - PNE Forum*^
Sat, Nov 4 - Vancouver, BC - PNE Forum*^
Wed, Nov 8 - Minneapolis, MN - Myth*^
Thu, Nov 9 - Minneapolis, MN - Myth*^
Fri, Nov 10 - Madison, WI - Alliant Energy Center*^
Sat, Nov 11 - Chicago, IL - UIC Pavilion*%
Mon, Nov 13 - Grand Rapids, MI - 20 Monroe Live*%
Tue, Nov 14 - Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple*%
Fri, Nov 17 - Montreal, QC - Metropolis*%
Sat, Nov 18 - Montreal, QC - Metropolis*%
Mon, Nov 20 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory*%
Tue, Nov 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory*%
Wed, Nov 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory*%
Fri, Nov 24 - Washington, DC - The Anthem*%
Mon, Dec 11 - Boston, MA - House Of Blues Boston*
Fri, Dec 15 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center*
 
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#with Hayden James and MUTO
@with The Kite String Tangle and Running Touch
%with Louis Futon 
+with Chet Porter 
^with Kasbo 
 
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A Moment Apart

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Furkan Soysal - Reflection

Written as part of my licensing library for film / TV. unseen-music.com/licensing
Art by Stephanie Ho. https://www.stephaniesyho.com/

Adventurers

Aurora

Take Time ft. Grace Walker

Winterton

Nathan Shubert - Winterton - Piano Day 2019

Butterfly

Lotte Pen stands for a new generation of classical musicians. Pen, saxophonist and music composer, has played in concert halls in Tokyo, Berlin, Paris and New York. Before taking part in a number of bands and projects, she followed a classic conservatory education that she considers particularly inspiring - 'especially when you talk about it composers like Steve Reich, Debussy or David Lang have'- but also as restrictive. 'What I learned from pop music is the freedom that you can embrace, that you do not have the have responsibility to comply with the unwritten laws of classical.' 

Pen was selected as the best producer from East Netherlands for ‘Nieuw
Electronic Waar 2018’ and her track "Tabernacle" was picked up by an Italian
documentary maker who uses it as a soundtrack. Lotte Pen composed music for children dance society ‘De Stilte’ and ‘Tuinfeest-Literair Festival’ in Deventer, Netherlands.

Pen performed live among other things at Theater Bouwkunde and the Vondelpark in Amsterdam.

Lotte Pen - Triptych I+II

'Rubrik' is the first single of Blurstem's debut LP. Blurstem is a piano-centric offshoot of Chris Bartels' ambient moniker @elskavon.

Stream/download: http://smarturl.it/blur-brique-rubrik

Anthem Falls Music
www.anthemfallsmusic.com
www.instagram.com/chris_bartels

@mannightmusic
www.derekmount.com
info@derekmount.com

Releasing on Piano Day 2019 - March 29th. @nilsfrahm

Design by Tyssul Patel
http://www.tyssul.co/

Blurstem & Brique A Braq - Rubrik

Different Kind Of Love

As-of-yet unreleased track. All rights reserved, © 2019 Unseen
www.unseen-music.com

Photo by Vidard Nordli Mathisen

Goldmund - The End

'Meanwhile' is a little two-song ambient EP made with love. Hoping to help you focus on the constant ticking of the clock and to give you the sensation of cruising in an indoor ocean, which may be your bedroom, your office, or wherever you please. Hope you like it.

Released via Sonder House (NY).

Social media:
Twitter: twitter.com/LuisAlvarezMus
Instagram: instagram.com/luisalvarezmus

Stream it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/39S7mYwFIIBhQ3hVPc0Vcu?si=y2mJDAv2Q1G6Xixfb5U6BA

If you want to buy it, you can do it on:
Bandcamp: https://luisalvarezmus.bandcamp.com/album/meanwhile
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Luis_%C3%81lvarez_Meanwhile?id=Bkp46ukrxdfwga3hcwneqezpsku

Meanwhile

Indoor Sailing

Download at http://music.lowercasenoises.com
Stream on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2HByTcZ

I've Been Lying Open

To celebrate Piano Day 2019 Here is the title track from my upcoming release of piano works.  Happy Piano day! #pianoday
Recorded at Bakermoon Studios in Berlin.
Mix/Mastered by Francesco Berta.

Saffron for PIANO DAY 2019 #pianoday

a sonic space of piano drones and feathers on charango strings for Piano Day 2019.

photo by Zoltan Tasi

Close To The Morning

Margarette II 

composed, performed, produced by: Manos Milonakis

A pianistic venture based on "Margarette" (a track for Piano Day 2018, part of "Intervals" compilation by Moderna Records: download/buy: modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intervals)

www.manosmilonakismusic.com
www.pianoday.org

Margarette II

Margarette II (Piano Day 2019)

Following the release of his debut record “A Louder Silence” last October on Late Night Lates, Leifur James returns with his new single ‘Wurlitzer’ ahead of a run of dates including a headline show at The Southbank Centre in late March.

Leifur’s debut fused ambient electronica, jazz, classical and soul music, a recording process which was over a 2 year period. ‘Wurlitzer’ is the first piece of music he reveals from a new creative period after those sessions.

“’Wurlitzer’ was kind of a break away from the ambience of the album.” says Leifur. “I was wanting to corrupt the mood of the album with something a bit intense and destructive. I guess there was an unusual balance there for creating something new but in a bit of a destructive mind-set.” 

“I’d been staying at my dad’s in the winter months, he lives in the middle of a rural pre historic stone circle, its quite an intense place in winter. I was playing on the old upright wurlitzer piano there and the wind was shaking the house, I could hear it aggressively whistling in the chimney. The contrast of the wind with the piano was interesting and gave me the idea.” 

The video was created by animator/director Balázs Simon. “We spoke about the video and this balance of creation and destruction in the music. The theme for the video being the duality of creation; creation and destruction and the cross over point between those.” The result is ravishing 4 minutes of piano-fused electronica haunted by ecological currents.

Leifur James – Live

16.03.19
Paradiso, Amsterdam
17.03.19
La Botanique, Brussels
30.03.19
Southbank Centre, London
06.04.19
La Petite Halle, Paris
10.05.19
The Great Escape, Brighton
01.06.19
Inner City Electronic Festival, Leeds (Solo)

Wurlitzer

Leifur James - Wurlitzer

Happy Piano Day everyone ! We're very excited to celebrate with some new music by @edcarlsen

'Yearn' on Spotify : https://spoti.fi/2V3gwAG

Written, arranged, recorded and mixed by Ed Carlsen 
Piano, guitar, synth: Ed Carlsen 
Cello: Dominik Frankiewicz 
Violin: Piotr Mitka

Yearn

Download

Ed Carlsen - Yearn

Goldmund - Respite

20/04/2019

Falling Clouds (feat.Limitless Wave)

Ljósið was the 7nd and last track in a week long project, called Found Songs, where i wrote, recorded and released one song per day, for free. I thought it was nice to end the week with something uplifting. Esteban Diacono's video to the song has been very popular.

You can down all the Found Songs for free at http://foundsongs.erasedtapes.com

Ljósið

Uploaded by your request! This is my personal favorite track off my first album, Eulogy for Evolution. 


3055

Postiljonen is a dream pop trio deriving from Scandinavia. The band emerged quietly back in September 2011 and is composed of Norwegian vocalist Mia Bøe alongside Swedish multi-instrumentalists Daniel Sjörs and Joel Nyström Holm.

After releasing a handful of online only singles in their native Scandinavia (including the heartbreaking interpretation of Whitney Houston’s classic ‘How Will I Know’, renamed here to ‘All That We Had Is Lost’) the trio have managed to create a highly characteristic sound, where ethereal and alluring vocals are interwoven in a mystical, ambient, dreamy and lovable expression. They have been compared to the likes of M83, Air France, Sigur Ros, jj and Cocteau Twins.

Taking inspiration from old black and white movies, the golden 80s, Balearic scenery, sleepless summer nights and describe themselves as nostalgic daydreamers, all of which mirrors beautifully within Skyer’s ten songs.

Featuring singles ‘Supreme’ and Atlantis’, Skyer is summery pop music at its best; made for lazy days and dreamy nights.

Skyer is released on July 22 2013.

http://bestfitrecordings.com/
http://hybr.is/
http://postiljonen.tumblr.com/


Postiljonen - Atlantis

@anthemfallsmusic (Blurstem releases here)
@elskavon
@borayork
@chrisbartels

Debut album, Among The Oaks: https://smarturl.it/BlurstemAmongTheOaks

Minneapolis composer Chris Bartels has been writing ambient music under the name Elskavon for a decade, and Blurstem was born as a piano-centric offshoot of the project. 

He and his wife were gifted an old spinet piano when they bought a house in 2015. Always slightly out of tune, a little dusty sounding, and very much imperfect, the instrument has its own character. But it wasn’t until Chris cut up an old sweater and taped it to the strings, so as to avoid waking up their children at night, that his love for that character really took form.