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

I find it absolutely fascinating and, at the same time, truly inspiring thought, that with the untimely passing of Jóhann Jóhannsson in February of 2018 (wow, almost four years ago now!), he still really lives on through the music he made. And not just through his own. And although he left an incredible void, it's not like someone just stepped into his shoes. Instead, a significant number of collaborators and followers that he touched through the years continued to carry his legacy through their own unique sound. His light didn't go out - it just exploded into hundreds of thousands of fragments of many other lights, that are now expanding, forming their gravity, and with time growing larger. And I sort of wonder if that would have happened if it didn't happen the way it already has. That is an absolutely fascinating and truly inspiring thought with which I opened this write-up. In today's track premiere, we have precisely just that. Danish composer Jonas Colstrup worked closely with Jóhann throughout the years, collaborating on scores for the Japanese films Blind Massage (2014) and The Shadow Play (2018). Inspired by the late musician's approach to neo-classical minimalism carried forth with the cinematic elegance, as well as the incredible score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto and Bryce Dessner for The Revenant (Milan, 2015), and contemporary compositions by William Walton and Arvo Pärt, Colstrup gently sculpts a sonic chrysalis of emotion, in which one wants to wait out all current angst. And if this was a blind listening session, you may have even thought I'd uncovered an unreleased Johannsson track, with those scaling chord progressions and the beautiful arrangements performed by the Budapest Art Orchestra and Theatre of Voices. But to be clear, once again, this is not a copy, made from a mould lifted from Jóhann's work. It is an unmatched gorgeous sculpture, on which you may find his imprint, still warm to the touch.

At The Crest

TRACK PREMIERE : Jonas Colstrup - At The Crest

VEHUIAH 'Lux Incitans' - Angel No.1

This track appears on the Touched Music compilation "Touched 3", which features a staggering 417 artists, including: Digitonal, 808 State, Isan, Olan Mill, Greg Haines and so many more great artists.  It was released by the wonderful Martin Boulton to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. So far he has raised over £50,000 for the charity.

Please listen, share and support this very important cause. You can buy this amazing compilation here: https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-3 Antonymes on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2cAJxyL

Drawn Away

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

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

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

Not Home

11th May 2018

DeeDee

Into Sporks

Leah Kardos -  Into Sporks

Overcoming distance and solitude, Julia Gjertsen and Nico Rosenberg join from across the oceans for a tranquil new project. A precursor to their full EP on Moderna Records later this year, Los Océanos delivers an unmistakable quietude to prepare the mental palette for what is to come.

Find it here: https://bit.ly/2FyJ3Lq

A sense of floating on waves under an illuminated night sky, being rocked to sleep by its gentle caress.

The two started collaborating online, bridging the 8,000 miles between Norway and Chile. Beginning as a MAX/MSP patch designed by Rosenberg, Gjertsen supplied layers of piano improvisations, before the result being recorded to tape at a slower pace, giving it its serene, dream-like quality.

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Dmitry Evgrafov