Originally written for Piano Day 2021 celebration.

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Track taken from the upcoming album 'Between The Leaves', forthcoming on Fluid Audio.

Music: Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa
Mastering: Lee Yi (Rottenman Editions)
Print design: Craig Tattersall
Packaging design: Daniel Crossley

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Between The Leaves

Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa - Violet Rain

German sound pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius and American composer Tim Story join Erased Tapes as Roedelius & Story with their new album 4 Hands out February 25, 2022.

Pre-save and pre-order it on LP · CD · DL here: https://idol.lnk.to/4hands

4 Hands, an intimate and surreal musical conversation on the piano, is an example of all the warm yet otherworldly beauty that can come from approaching a shared love for a singular instrument from overlapping directions.

Recorded sequentially but on one and the same grand piano, Roedelius laid down a few impromptu piano études in May 2019 whilst visiting his transatlantic friend Story. Tim then learned all their intricate phrasings to add his own parts in the following months. 4 Hands encapsulates rippling minimalistic patterns and delicate, ghostly interactions with surprising harmonic twists. Roedelius’ intuitive and instinctive approach based in improvisation, paired hand in hand with Story’s deliberate distilling of ideas over time, creates two sides of an engaging and thought-provoking conversation that seems to evolve and deepen with each successive listen.

The first single Spirit Clock received its name from Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths, born out of a conversation around timing: “to me this term perfectly describes what’s going on here. There is this invisible bond, this very strong energy between Ach and Tim whenever they make music together that’s still perfectly intact even when they are dimensions apart. This metaphysical intersection of four hands on one and the same mechanical instrument at different times, something so technical yet deeply spiritual, is what fascinates me.”

4 Hands

Spirit Clock

Roedelius & Story - Spirit Clock

Composed, Played & Recorded By Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt.                                                                                                                Mixed by Monolyth & Cobalt in October 2015.

Madeleine Cocolas : piano                                                                                                                                                                                     Monolyth & Cobalt : strings, breathes on tapes, electronic devices,  effects processors, loop pedal, amplified objects.

Month Seven Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

The first piece in a set of introspective anthems for solo piano.

Inner Anthem No. 1 : In

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJTknlfpIQ4
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I am happy to announce the release of my new album - "Yet Another Love Story"! This is the first album recorded on my acoustic grand piano will be released on 29th of March - The Piano Day, 88th day of the year (http://www.pianoday.org/)! The album is available for pre-order (I have a small lot of CDs to sign):

BandCamp: https://milana.bandcamp.com/album/yet-another-love-story
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/yet-another-love-story-live/id1210505002
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Yet-Another-Love-Story-Live/dp/B06XC8NQ26/

There is no love story that is unique, yet no love story is the same. My love happened to be deeply intertwined with music and with my husband. When he asked me to improvise different feelings on my piano, I didn't think it would end up as a story of our life: from the anticipation of the first date, from the surprise and joy of new relations to the moments of doubt and fear, disgust and anger, followed by guilt, sadness and contemplation. But above all it always comes down to trust and love. 

I let my piano play and it sang me this song, jazzy and romantic, swinging and rocking, lush harmonies and memorable motifs. Starting today, I will post videos of each track every week, unveiling  this love story chapter by chapter.

From me to you, 
    into eternal story,
        with love in every note I play.
        
            Milana

"Anticipation" for the Piano Day 2017 by Milana

'XV', the final song of my second collection -
oliverbrouwer.bandcamp.com/album/lp-2

Recorded on the night of the 6th of November in Lancaster Priory Church
Written and performed by Oliver Brouwer 
Recorded by Joe Ramsden and Zac Barfoot
Mixed by Joe Ramsden 
Mastered by Stefano de Silva
Artwork by Harvey Pearson

Points of Light (for Piano Day 2018)

A Score for Darling

Erik K Skodvin & Rauelsson - The Return

Not Home may seem an unusual choice of single from Anne Garner’s upcoming album Lost Play but there’s precious little that is conventional about this singer-songwriter. Fans of her strange, seductive melancholy will be beguiled once again by the song’s signature union of disembodied sadness and reassuring intimacy. Warm waves of electric guitar and synthesiser cradle glitchy, restless percussives, the soaring silvered pedal steel of Jack Hayter (Hefner, Dollboy) and a lyrical message both beautiful and hard to hear.

Not Home and Porya Hatami's remix are available across all major platforms and in lossless 24bit audio exclusively from Slowcraft Records.

Written by Anne Garner
Produced by James Murray with Anne Garner
Artwork by Bobbie Russon
Mastered by Dean Honer
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annegarner.com
poryahatami.com
jackhayter.com
bobbierusson.com

slowcraft.info

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/not-home

Not Home

11th May 2018

Track taken from the upcoming album 'The Topologies of Blue'...

Bill Seaman - Piano, Piano Libraries, Sample Compositions, Samples, Abstracted Percussion, Non-location Recordings, Electric Guitar Abstractions 
Wei Ping Lin – Violin Solos 
David Rothenberg - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contralto Clarinet Solos
Sid Richardson – Upright Bass Libraries
Tim Bjorklund – Electric Guitar Libraries
Volkmar Klein, Sound Engineer for initial violin recording

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Produced by Bill Seaman
Mastered by James Plotkin 
Cover design by Ian Hazeldine 
Overall design by Daniel Crossley

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Special Thanks to all of the musicians + John Supko, Craig Tattersall, Volkmar Klein, Maura Walsh-Seaman, Dan Crossley & James Plotkin.

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Dmitry Evgrafov