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The Saddest Word of all is Love

the saddest word of all is Love
it cries tears that turn its head
to gaze on the arguments of the undead
as they pretend to fight for life
under the shadow of another dark night
where upon the dying deeds already done
it treatens to break the hearts of everyone
to speak a spoken word so rare - so kind
under the shadow of another distant kiss
two hearts prepare to miss each other
one has given her heart to another
under the shadow of another dark night
two eyes wallow in the sadness of life.

Poem by S.D. Clifford (https://www.facebook.com/sdcliffordpoetry)
This piece is dedicated to Alison

The Saddest Word Of All Is Love

Hey guys just finished the anime movie "The Garden of Words" If you have not watched it I suggest you do its a wounderful movie! Its pretty good, here's my piano tribute for the anime itself, gave it my own rainy gardeny touch! Tell me your thoughts about this!&#13;
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PLAY THIS HERE ARE THE CHORD PROGRESSIONS!!&#13;
Left Hand :&#13;
 F#, F, Eb, C# (Notes)&#13;
      then&#13;
 F#, Ab, Bb, (CHORDS)&#13;
For your right hand:&#13;
 Bb, C, Eb, F, Ab, (to roll up and down) (and then just add whatever you want make it your own!! :D have fun and with this knowledge you can surely learn this song ;p)&#13;


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Garden Of Words

Shadows in paradise

For Bert

One month

S. Carey - Two Angles

from the 2012 album valtari. http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/valtari

ekki múkk

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Zedd - Spectrum (feat. Matthew Koma)

Garden

The image is from the outstanding artist Richard Brocken (see http://www.saatchionline.com/richardbrocken) 

Moonstruck

September 20th marks the 30th birthday of Berlin pianist Nils Frahm, but also the day he has chosen to give his fans a special gift in the form of 9 songs he recorded with 9 fingers, entitled 'Screws'.

Nils experienced an unfortunate accident which saw him fall from his bunk bed located directly above his studio, which resulted in a broken thumb. But through inspiration from his fans and after a gentle walk and talk through the park with a close friend, he decided to deal with the situation in the only way he knew – playing his piano.

With four screws surgically placed inside his thumb, he started recording with his remaining 9 fingers, what later resulted in 9 intimate piano recordings.

Fans can download 'Screws' as mp3s or in full 24-bit 44.100 kHz audio quality here (http://screws.durtonstudio.com), and pre-order a Vinyl/CD edition from the Erased Tapes online store (http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP046), which will be released later this year.

'I am sitting in front of a sheet of paper. My right hand is bending over my left thumb. The first day I got out of my cast I could bend it by 15°. Now I am already at 50° and that makes me happy. Things are going uphill...

As you can imagine, it is really bad news for a pianist when he gets diagnosed with a broken thumb. That day I was sitting in the emergency room, feeling rather dizzy while thinking of a zillion shows coming up and all the people involved around it. I realised in that moment how busy things have become. It is hard to turn down interesting projects and opportunities, since I surely love my work. It actually never felt like work. Playing piano and playing it for wonderful people is the greatest joy I can imagine.

For a couple of days I felt like this all could be over. How pathetic. But hey – also feeling sorry for yourself has its place somewhere. All of a sudden I had so much time, an unexpected holiday. I cancelled most of my schedule and found myself being a little bored. Even though my doctor told me not to touch a piano for a while, I just couldn't resist. I started playing a silent song with 4 fingers on my left and the remaining 5 on my right hand. I set up one microphone and recorded another tune every other night before falling asleep.

The day I got rid of my cast I had recorded 9 little tunes. They have helped me feel less annoyed about my accident and reminded me that any good is something I can only achieve, when I am making the most out of what I've got.

Thank you all for listening!

With lots of love,

Nils


9FINGERS North American Tour 2012

09/16 New York (US) – West Park Presbyterian Church 
09/21 Boulder (US) – Cherryvale Studios
09/22 Colorado Springs (US) – The Mesa
09/23 Santa Fe (US) – O'Shaughnessy Performance Space @ Santa Fe Uni
09/24 San Fransisco (US) – private show (RSVP only)
09/29 Seattle (US) – Decibel Festival @ Broadway Performance Hall
09/30 Portland (US) – Classic Pianos
10/03 Mexico City (MX) – Mutek

ERASED TAPES 5th Anniversary Tour w/ Ólafur Arnalds & A Winged Victory For The Sullen

10/08 HAMBURG (DE) – Fliegende Bauten
10/09 PRAGUE (CZ) – Palac Akropolis
10/10 BUDAPEST (HU) – Trafo
10/11 MANNHEIM (DE) – Alte Feuerwache
10/13-14 BERLIN (DE) – Radialsystem
10/15 AMSTERDAM (NL) – Paradiso
10/16-17 LEUVEN (BE) – Stuk
10/18 LONDON (UK) – Hackney Empire
10/19-20 ISTANBUL (TR) – Salon IKSV

PREVIOUS PRESS:

'No. 42 Best Albums Of 2011' -The Guardian
'Felt is a transportative album, a balm for troubled minds.' BBC Music
'Frahm’s hyper-intimate recording technique for the album makes Felt a captivating listen' (9/10) DIS

★ ★ ★ ★ – Popmatters ★ ★ ★ ★ – Uncut ★ ★ ★ ★ – Clash ★ ★ ★ ★ – Mojo

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: screws.durtonstudio.com · facebook.com/nilsfrahm · twitter.com/nilsfrahm · erasedtapes.com

Screws

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Nils Frahm - Si

One evening, when I came home from a troubled day at work, I found my neighbor transformed into Franz Kafka. He sat unter the staircase, and if I bowed down my head a little I could see his brown, old-fashioned suit, slightly creased and divided by arches into stiff sections. His legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. «What’s happened to him?» I thought. It wasn’t a dream.
We went for a walk on that rainy day and talked about solitude and bundt-cakes.

This is a contribution to "Sound Interpretations" on HAZE Netlabel: http://h-a-z-e.org/compilation 

Daniela Escobar G has created a wonderful video ... rainy, moody and very much Kafka! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSI6aggCMn0&feature=youtu.be

From their page: 
The HAZE Netlabel presents the project Sound Interpretations. In this project we propose to rethink literary heritage of the 20th century. Over the 2012-2013 years, each month we will release the compilation dedicated to the 12 most outstanding writers of the 20th century. Musicians create tracks-dedications, rethink the writer’s works, translate text to the language of sounds and vibrations. The following compilation is dedicated to Franz Kafka.

Going For A Walk With Kafka On A Rainy Day

E-flat major: Master of the Universe

Roughly a year ago I joined the cloud ... and I met wonderful people here... 
People who encouraged me. 
People who understand my desire for music. 
People who share the passion for music. 
People who are unbelievable funny. 
People who went through ups and lows with me. 
People who are patient with me. 
People who are creating inspiring music. 
People who have most interesting thoughts. 
People who are sensitive. 
People who became friends over time. 
People who became sort of my family over time. 
People whom to know I am very proud. 
People with whom I collaborate. 

Dear Vicente, dear Davide: thank you for being here with me. Thank you for being with me on this journey, and thank you for giving the chance to me to create music together! You are dear friends <3 


Project #3 - Quiet City

My apartment is in front of a small river/lake, and every summer there has been a cute couple of swans. Actually swans are monogamic, once they have chosen a partner they stay together their entire life. 

I was expecting them back this spring ... but only one of them was coming. I have seen him at all the places they always shared together, and he always seemed to look for her. But she was not coming, and I don't know what happened to her. It was so sad! 

This swan belongs to the family of "Mute Swans" (Cygnus Olor). They are completely silent during their lifetime until the moment just before death, when the swan sings one beautiful song.

In autumn the other swans prepared for their anual flight to warmer regions, but the sad swan was not with them, and hence I wondered was happened to him. 

One night in late golden october, one of those few where the summer rears up a last time, I woke up by a strange sound. I went to my balcony, the lake in silver moonlight in front of me ... with the swan in the middle. 

And than I heard it ... the most beautiful and saddest melody in the world. Obviously the swan was singing the story of his life, and it was full of melancholy, so much about missing her and the moments they shared together as a loving couple. 

This was the last time I had seen the swan. When I went back in the room I immediately tried to note down the melody I had heard, and I need to excuse that due to my inconsiderable musical abilities this song here is only a cheap imitation ... but I hope you can get at least a glance.


Joe Zazulak created a video featuring this music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zdN11Mk8lc&list=UUm4JxLIqANfhK26UChsixiA&index=1

The Monogamic Swan

Balanced is dedicated to Carlos Juan, the man who produces the best pickups for acoustic guitar I know and it's a memory of an inspiring saturday afternoon in his showroom.
Hello Carlos, I hope you like it.

Balanced

"Rain Has Fallen All The Day" is a marvelous poem by James Joyce. 
Some time ago http://soundcloud.com/mementoaeterna and I had the idea to create a song from it ... and it was a wonderful journey: first we shared our impressions about the various meanings, atmosphere and interpretations of this poem. She is so sensitive, and she has the gift of noticing the extraordinary where others just see the ordinary ... it has been pure pleasure! Once we had an idea of the situation and all layers of meaning the music came out of nowhere. We haven't been in a hurry, hence we allowed ourself more sweet anticipation by simply not finalizing the last percent of work ... but NOW I am incredibly proud to present our collab :-) 

In case you have not listened to her music yet ... wow, than you have some incredible nice experience in front of you! By the way, she is also one of the smartest, nicest, funniest and most gifted persons I have met ... so what are you doing here ... hurry, and go here: http://soundcloud.com/mementoaeterna 

Lyrics: James Joyce 
Vocals: http://soundcloud.com/mementoaeterna 
Artwork: http://soundcloud.com/mementoaeterna  
Piano: cis minor 

Rain Has Fallen All The Day 
=================
Rain has fallen all the day. 
O come among the laden trees: 
The leaves lie thick upon the way 
Of memories. 

Staying a little by the way 
Of memories shall we depart. 
Come, my beloved, where I may 
Speak to your heart.

Rain Has Fallen All The Day (after poem from James Joyce)

"dreaming" is an improvisation I recorded for two guitars. 


dreaming

The 27 January is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day - a memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million Jews, 2 million Gypsies (Roma and Sinti), 15,000 homosexual people and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. 

The image "void" is a so called "flame fractal" created with the software Oxidizer. 

void [Composition for The Holocaust Memorial Day - 27th January]

Yuki-onna (雪女, snow woman) is a spirit in Japanese mythology. Yuki-onna appears on snowy nights as a tall, beautiful woman with long black hair and blue lips. Her inhumanly pale or even transparent skin makes her blend into the snowy landscape. She is at the same time beautiful and serene, yet ruthless in killing unsuspecting mortals. Like the snow and winter weather she represents, Yuki-onna has a softer side. She sometimes lets would-be victims go for various reasons. In one popular Yuki-onna legend, for example, she sets a young boy free because of his beauty and age. She makes him promise never to speak of her, but later in life, he tells the story to his wife who reveals herself to be the snow woman. She reviles him for breaking his promise, but spares him again, this time out of concern for their children (but if he dares mistreat their children, she will return with no mercy. Luckily for him, he is a loving father).

Yuki Onna

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Radio Rip of Moonshine played on the BBC Introducing show on BBC Radio Bristol 2/3/2013

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pistolshrimpuk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PistolShrimpUK
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pistol-shrimp


AaronKnute
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aaronknute?ref=ts&fref=ts
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/frenetic-1

Moonshine (BBC Introducing Radio Rip)

All the waterdrops in a the river just have one aspiration ... to become one with the sea again. When we watch a river flow we can feel this ... and we want to take the same route. 

This piece is a birthday present for Astrid - I wish you a happy birthday!!! <3 

I was thinking/reading a lot about harmony-theory recently; and the more I read, the more I wished to create something that does not follow this theory at all. This piece is a try ... instead of any sequence of chords it uses only shades of one lonely chord and a simple melody. 


All Water Is Longing For The Sea

This is a recording of a set of singing bowls.  The root bowl is C#, the Aum tone or Earth tone.  The other bowls are harmonized with the Chakras in this scale.

These types of singing bowls have been used since ancient times in meditations and healing work.  They are traditionally made with 7 metals representing the 7 planets that the tibetan monks were aware of at the time.  The bowls produce monaural beats and harmonic overtones that affect body and mind on a deep level.  The bowl set here is based on the Earth tone.  This is also known as "Om" and is the calculated sound signature of the Earth as it travels around the sun. In Indian music this is also called the Sadja. The corresponding bowls were matched according to the Chakra system in Ayurvedic medicine.  This also corresponds roughly with the western major scale.

BUY track: https://sonicyogi.com/track/1282599/root-chakra-tibetan-singing-bowls-with-nature-sounds
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Tibetan Singing Bowls - C# Root Chakra Earth Tone - Relaxation and Meditation

Tibetan Singing Bowls - Chakra Set C# Earth Tone

This is a romantic piece for piano.
The image is the chinese actor Fan BingBing from the movie "Lost in Beijing". 

Joe Zazulak has created a shortfilm utilizing this piece: https://vimeo.com/63236597
https://soundcloud.com/manuel-vinicio also used this music in a video: http://vimeo.com/74079638

She Knows Somewhere Love Is Real

It's a funky piece for my children. It based on a melody they had sung while playing in the garden.
from the album "2 Days & a Year"

Wolkenlos

Out through Insight Records on BandCamp over here : http://insightrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-ep

Download/Buy the EP

Love

My Remix for the wonderful Keith / Helios.
Available here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/helios-remixed

Helios - Every Hair On Your Head (Ben Lukas Boysen Remix)

A tranquil moment of silence in the midst of the hectic everyday life. 


21st Century Monk

Happy Easter soundcloud. 
In Germany, there is still no spring in sight. "Fresh air" is the desire for the long-awaited spring and a bit of warming sun.
from the album "2 Days & a Year"

Fresh air

Choralis

After the Rain

A quick cover of Ra Ra Riot's "Can You Tell"!
Updates: on 8/9/14 Equalized all tracks 

Can You Tell (Ra Ra Riot Cover)

"Dissent" Cirrus out 24th May 2013

a piece for two guitars, dedicated to my father

Sometimes

Returning to my native village after many years’ absence: 
Ill, I put up at a country inn and listen to the rain. 
One robe, one bowl is all I have. 
I light incense and strain to sit in meditation; 
All night a steady drizzle outside the dark window --  
Inside, poignant memories of these long years of pilgrimage.
(Ryōkan, 18th century, translated by John Stevens) 


Flute: https://soundcloud.com/soulful-woods 
Piano: https://soundcloud.com/cis-minor 

This lovely music came to me more or less as a gift: some weeks back I recorded the piano (https://soundcloud.com/cis-minor/21st-century-monk-free). The incredible Soulful Woods felt inspired to create an enchanting flute expression - we already planned to do a collab for some longer time. 
From the first time I had heard his music I was intrigued by the sound, the authenticity and the depth of emotional expression in his flute play. His music is pure and thorough. Listening to his music is bringing peace and awareness to me, but still it breathes some sense of solitude and sorrow. Have a listen to this most beautiful and soulful music here: https://soundcloud.com/soulful-woods

A Monk Returns Home

The key signatures of music are kind of like the signs of the zodiac. If you take all the music in a given key, you’ll discover certain characteristics —﻿ characteristics that can define your personality.﻿﻿

http://bit.ly/whichkeyareyou

The Signature Series is produced for CBC Radio 2's In Concert by @paolopp with Denise Ball.

E minor: The Handsome Rogue

The key signatures of music are kind of like the signs of the zodiac. If you take all the music in a given key, you’ll discover certain characteristics —﻿ characteristics that can define your personality.

Visit CBC Music to view a photo gallery of A-flat major people and read more about their characteristics:
bit.ly/Abmajor

The Signature Series is produced for CBC Radio 2's In Concert by @paolopp with Denise Ball.

A-flat major: The Good Woman

Written by Buddy Guy
Produced by Tyler Nimon

Mary Had A Little Lamb

Krishna Das - baba hanuman
Album: Breath of the Heart

Krishna Das - baba hanuman

This piece is composed for Harp, Flute & Strings.

WARNING: this is orchestral, but definitely NOT "epic" ;-)  
It's certainly not mainstream ... but a few might be able to hear its beauty and enjoy a rest in this garden. I wrote this music for you <3




 


I Pause In This Garden

Some people ask: can one make a living from music? Let me ask back: can one make a living without music?