Name: Annihilation by bzur
Duration: 6 min 26 s
Description: This short piano suite is my contribution to Piano Day 2018!

During the first lockdown in 2020, I began learning a number of string figures to pass the time. My next release of music is a reflection of that strange period of uncertainty and the string figures I learned. ‘Opening A’ is the lead track from my next EP ‘String Figures’, and I am delighted it will be released on Friday 21st May with Piano and Coffee Records!

Opening A is named after the opening move of a lot of the string figures that I learned. Most of them started in the same way.

String Figures

String figures

Opening A

Piano Diary - 1st May 2024

Emma Och Jennifers Visa

You can buy and download my albums here:
https://peternanasi.bandcamp.com/

Grace

Piano solo piece composed and performed by Dominique Charpentier
It's an hommage to the victims of the Bataclan terrorist attack of November 13, 2015
© 2017 Dominique Charpentier. All rights reserved
Picture by Anthony Delanoix: https://unsplash.com/@anthonydelanoix

Paris (13/11/2017)

From my upcoming album "Nocturnal Whispers"

Shadows in My Room

This short piano suite is my contribution to Piano Day 2018!

Annihilation

Piano Works is the second installment of Lucy Claire’s ‘Works’ series. It is an eclectic take on what piano music can be. Featuring cellist Ren Ford (Keaton Henson’s Romantic Works) and violinist Marie Schreer (The Royal Northern Sinfonia) and surrounded in atmospheric binaural soundscapes, the piano is far from lonely. The work features a collection of pianos from grands and uprights, to electric keyboards, toy and thumb pianos. It is grounded in the real world but hints strongly at the magical and supernatural, it absorbs, transports, then delivers you back to reality with new perspective.

Sage Ft. Ren Ford

6th and final entry in our fall single series by London based composer and pianist Mike Lazarev. 
Spotify ⊜ AppleMusic : https://orcd.co/all-ive-said

Comes paired with a stunning video by director Jessie Rodger and dancer Nancy Nerantzi filmed on the coast of Cornwall : https://youtu.be/oyH_VIFWiDU 

"it was unspoken, hence unheard
unwritten, and in turn unread
but in between each silent word
i have resigned to all i've said"

All I've Said

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Mike Lazarev - All I've Said

Thessaloniki-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Manos Milonakis debuts on piano and coffee records with "The Seagull", a synopsis of his original score for Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov’s play of the same name, directed by Yiannis Paraskevopoulos for theatres of Greece and Romania.

The first musical lines of this project were drawn while in Romania, where together with the director, Milonakis travelled to prepare a show for Craiova’s National Theatre. The post-communist atmosphere, the humid streets, the sense of modern balkan darkness contrasting with incredibly vivid painted walls, strong flavors, smells, and amazingly passionate and friendly people would be decoded into music for the classic Russian play. The thirteen tracks in "The Seagull" blend melancholic piano melodies, soaring strings, gentle electronics, atmospheric haze, and evocative soundscapes. Sometimes discreet and others at the forefront of a strong narrative, each piece pours itself into the other like communicating vessels, coexisting with romantic encounters, philosophical arguments, family quarrels and a series of unanticipated arrivals and departures. Piece by piece, Milonakis masterfully introduces us into a world of frustrated lives and unrequited love.

Even though "The Seagull" was composed in 2015, a year before his previous release, "Festen", it took Milonakis significantly more time to decide it was the right moment to release it. “During these years and working in-between other projects”, he says, “I sometimes looked back in my hardrives and these recordings always resonated inside my heart. Having performed the music extensively in concerts was also revealing an urge to me: that I should probably share this stuff with the world”. This brought him to Denmark, where he had the pleasure to have some piano re-recorded and the full album freshly re-mixed by Ed Carlsen at his studio in Kongens Lyngby.

"The Seagull" releases on 13 March 2020 via piano and coffee records worldwide, and is available on limited edition CD and digital formats, with artwork by London-based illustrator Jordan Amy Lee.

Credits:

Recorded and mixed by Manos Milonakis and Ed Carlsen between Thessaloniki and Kongens Lyngby.

Mastered by Manos Milonakis at -1 Studio.

All instruments performed by Manos Milonakis except:
Violin: Christina Georgeli, David Bogorad
Cello: Thodoris Papadimitriou

Artwork by Jordan Amy Lee
Layout by Rita Silva

Big thanks to Yiannis Paraskevopoulos, T.N.M.S Craiova-Romania, all actors and contributors, Sergio, Ed, Eirini, Mihalis, Etten, The Salonico String Quartet, my friends and family.

Manos Milonakis - Treplev's Song

original music: luca longobardi

Main theme from the soundtrack from About us, a movie directed by Stefan Schwartz with Ross McCall, Allison Miller and Alessandra Mastronardi.

Full album out on March 19th

Aquarium (l'absence)

bzur is an independent tune generator for electronic, orchestral and piano music lovers.

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