Only the best tracks composed for Piano Day 2019, selected by me.
Artwork by Skrewstudio.

Piano Day 2019 - Best of

And our faded memories, we leave behind

Usually I do a million takes when I record a new song. This time I stopped around take 10 to prevent perfectionism taking over.. 
So, it’s not super precise, but hey! I finished something! 
I hope you enjoy it. 

*Alice

Unverzagt

© Wilson Trouvé - all rights reserved
#pianoday

Winter (piano works)

Winter (part.1) #pianoday

Mute

Simple piano, lush strings, nature sounds and beats. A good track to get lost in.

LOST

Piano solo piece composed for Piano Day 2019: www.pianoday.org
Available here, with the free piano sheet: https://dominiquecharpentier.bandcamp.com/album/la-sieste-free-piano-sheet
Released by Sonder House & Modern Piano Recordings
© 2019 Dominique Charpentier. All rights reserved
Artwork by Sara Birocchi & Dominique Charpentier

La Sieste

Buy (+free sheet)

La Sieste - (Piano Day 2019)

EP released in celebration of Piano Day 2019.
Bandcamp: derekhunterwilson.bandcamp.com/album/memory-invention
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/memory-invention-ep/1457601154
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2EhDVNazQyihVcjegMIspz
Amazon: amazon.com/Memory-Invention-Derek-Hunter-Wilson/dp/B07PWYPXQ9/

Composition Notes:
Over the past year I've been listening a lot and learning how to play music by Bach. My piece "Memory Invention" takes a similar progression as some of his keyboard works and adds strings to it. The two alternate versions couple this with the idea of how what we remember about an event changes and can even deteriorate over time.

Abstraktes #7 continues my series of solo piano music exploring the line between improvisation and composition.
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Piano and Cello - Derek Hunter Wilson
Viola - Mirabai Peart

Recorded at Type Foundry, Portland, OR

Engineering, Mixing, and Mastering by Jason Powers

February 2019 Recording Session Rough Mixes

Memory Invention

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1qw2Z2Lcs1YAx6zxih1yEJ?si=-u_oumWVSi2HXjCMHopkzA

My contribution to Piano Day 2019 and played live for the first time at AfrikaBurn 2019 (State of Bliss on Saturday 1-2 am)

Here is a dreamy piano piece which started as a short improvisation thinking about my AfrikaBurn experience. After having had four improvisation bars resting in the drawer for months I re-listened one morning and finalised this piece within an hour, simply following my heart and emotions at that very moment. It stops as abrupt as a dream.

The current version, however, is a remake posted April 7, 2019 with less 16th notes.

I grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark, and believe it has a very danish sound to it - whatever that is.

Enjoy <3

Bjørn-Henrik Zink - Tankwa Daydreaming (Piano Day 2019)

Offline Improvisation

🙃🎹Piano day 2019!!🎹🎉
Stream on Spotify and more! -> https://fanlink.to/PlinkPlay

🌱And what better way to celebrate our roots then dusting off the 🎼sheet music 🎶 and relearning some of the most important pieces from our youth 🤔

🇫🇷 Satie's Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes are two incredibly important pieces to us, and have been for a long time. As we're sure they are for many 😊 When you play them, it really holds up a mirror your craft as a performer, really showing you /and/ the listener what's going on behind the hands 🙌 There's so much s p a c e, that you can't help but reveal yourself in them 🧙‍♂️With the Gymnopédies you play the 🔕silences🔇 as much as you do the sound! How long should a chord last ⏰⁉️ When does it finish saying what it's saying 🙊 Is the melody at the top or dancing between the phrasings of the chords?! It is bare in execution but so so dense in decision, and we've heard so many different ways of playing it! 🌿

The 🗿Gnossiennes🗿 on the other hand school you in your own sense and style of rubato 🏃‍♀️it's like finding ones musical pulse 💙 It evokes such pulsing summation tones between phrasings, that with the wrong pedaling it can be a somewhat unforgiving journey- we tried our best with it haha 🙉

🎵 Set together these two pieces aim to show how we arrived where we are as a player, as well as play homage to the track that started it all, and of course- the Piano itself. Hopefully it will resonate with other like us too- let us know! ✍️ A large motivator too was a friend who's been asking for ten years for us to record a version ⏳ so if you're any requests for 2029 let us know haha 😆 With our next album nearly finished, it felt like a great stop gap to reflect 🔍 on the greats that brought us to where we are, with hopefully our unique and soft take on an old classic! 👩‍🎨

🌚 For all new listeners and old, thank you so, so much! It means to the absoloute world to us that people are tuning in to our little songs- and pushes us forward to do more and more. We hand't expected anything near the engagement we've gotten and it genuinely makes our world a better place. Thank you 🍃

Now...to the album!!

Love love
💙
PP
xx

Plïnkï Pläys: Satie

Trois Gymnopédies: No 1, Lent et douloureux

We made a video for this track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Uoe8tfsbI
While working on my new album, I began to try to write a track which encapsulated in its sound the feeling of something new and being full of hope with #pianoday approaching. Around the same time I discovered this beautiful old word in a twitter feed from Susie Dent, and it was perfect for the emotion in this track being created. 'Respair' means fresh hope and a recovery from despair.  The Piano is very much celebrated in this piece by it's background role as a continuous, percussive-like sound, providing a platform for the other instruments to dance upon. I also wanted to use the Piano to somehow gently lead the piece through its chord changes, establishing the mood, as an ode to the way I like to work with piano in my music. 

Credits:
Artwork - Pure Romance by TB Ward (2017 oil on linen)
Piano, electric organ, xylophone - Joel Pike
Violin, Viola - Faith Brackenbury
Written, recorded and produced by Joel Pike.
Mastered by Stavros Kokkinos.

Respair

Piano solo piece from my new EP "Chrysalide", released on March 29th 2019, with Memory Recordings.
© 2019 Dominique Charpentier. All rights reserved
© 2019 Memory Recordings. All rights reserved
Artwork by Anna Salzmann: www.annasalzmann.com/

Chrysalide

"Terre" - Piano Day 2019 (from my Chrysalide EP, out now)

Quasar

“Wolfgang 1” – Single
Composed for the piano by Doug Thomas
Performed and recorded by Affan
Mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k Mastering)
LSPD01 (Lonely Swallow Piano Day)

Wolfgang 1 – Single

Wolfgang 1 – Doug Thomas / Affan

Transmutation (noun)
uk ​ /ˌtrænz.mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/ us ​ /ˌtræns.mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/
​the act or process of changing something completely, especially into something different

NOVA is my special track for #PianoDay 2019.

live recorded on February 14th during one of my house concert

mixed and mastered by Iacopo Sinigaglia at Pepperpot

piano: Scholze upright (1985)

mics: Oktava MK-012 (modded, cardioid capsule)

synths and electronic gears:

_ Dave Smith Prophet 6
_ Moog Mother 32
_ IK Multimedia UNO Synth
_ Keith McMillan Softstep
_ Strymon Big Sky

artwork: NOVA by luca longobardi

NOVA (Piano Day 2019)

"I think I am the same as an artist and as a person. Music is my way of communication and I see the art, the music as a whole thing, with no borders, divisions, or even genres." - https://soundcloud.com/haniarani

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik, and released an album with her Polish group tęskno last year. She has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in Europe - from the National Philharmony in Warsaw, to Funkhaus in Berlin, to The Roundhouse in London (where she made her debut at the Gondwana 10thanniversary festival last October) and at festivals such as Open'er, Scope Festival and Eurosonic. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.

'Esja' is her debut solo album and for Rani it is her first, real, personal statement as an artist. "No hiding behind the "collaborations" or "projects" anymore. For the very first time, finally - just me, as I am".

Recorded at Rani's apartment in Warsaw (the piano room has a beautiful reverb and the space has become part art studio and part sound laboratory for Rani) and at her friend Bergur Þórisson'sstudio in Reykjavik, Esja is a series of beautiful melodic vignettes. Sensual, sensitive, rhythmic, atmospheric, free but harmonious, beguiling and hypnotic, collectively they project a sense of unlimited space and time.

Esja

Hawaii Oslo

Hania Rani - Hawaii Oslo (Piano Day 2019)

Composed & produced by Philippe Larvor & Nicolas Garnier
Mixed by Benoit Guivarc'h at BG's studio
Mastered by Hubert Marniau at Studio Voltaire
- Phalaenopsis Prod -

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Paraza

'Dolour' is my contribution for this years Piano Day. 

Composed, performed and produced by myself.  

Hope you enjoy


©ben stanbridge 2019

Dolour  [piano day 2019]

Illumination

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

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Ed Carlsen - Yearn

Independent neoclassical pianist and composer from France with millions of streams worldwide. Passionate about creating cinematic music that tells stories and touches emotions.