Piano Piano

piano rest

Classical

Dustinohalloran

"it's just a break."

Nyssandra - Soft whispers

atmospheric and instrumental

downbeat

Remix by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs + + +
Insomniacs Club is from "Rambutan" out now on Bella Union
http://www.bellaunion.com

Insomniacs Club

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Landshapes - Insomniacs Club (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix)

Bach, out of his mind with grief after the sudden death of his wife (not to mention his siblings, parents and half of his 21 kids), wrote this piece for solo violin. Busoni later arranged it for piano.
Recorded live and unedited.
(Performed by James Rhodes)

J S Bach Arr. F Busoni Chaconne In D Minor

Busoni's transcription of Bach's organ (stop smirking at the back) adagio from the Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C. Offensively crunchy & modern chords towards the end...
Heartbroken bastard.

Bach-Busoni Adagio From BWV 564

Arguably Chopin's greatest composition. If you can offer a description using words you're much smarter than I am...

Amazon UK

Chopin Ballade No 4 In F Minor Op 52

6 Quintette N.1

9 Snow + Light

The last movement of Beethoven's immortal 30th piano sonata (played by me).

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 In E Major, Op. 109  final movement

11 Opus 37

Balakirev's transcription for solo piano of the slow movement of Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto. Chopin wrote it when he was still a teenager. Precocious bastard.

Chopin (arr. Balakirev) Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 11  Romanza

Elizabeth Bay

A sampling of each band on the Joyful Noise 2014 Flexi Disc Series (joyfulnoiserecordings.com/joyful-noise-2014-flexi-disc-series.html) NOTE: these are not the actual tracks featured on the 2014 flexi series. This is just a sampling of the awesome bands participating this year. The Flexi series features never-before-heard, exclusive tracks from each of these artists -- limited to just 1000 copies on flexi disc.

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's "Flying saucer blues"

CLEAR Scene 02/Track 02 from Christopher Willits' album/film OPENING. Out September 02, 2014.

Watch CLEAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPFQvluC7nc&feature=youtu.be
Pre-order OPENING through The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/christopher-willits-opening

Website - http://christopherwillits.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/christopher.willits.page
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Willits

Christopher Willits - CLEAR

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/08/helios

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Rival Consoles - Helios

Hiatus
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https://twitter.com/hiatusmusic

Sheepy on Spotify
http://bit.ly/MrSuicideSheepSpotify

Hiatus - Precious Little

For five years, Friends of Friends has been at the forefront of Los Angeles' independent music culture, propagating a rich catalogue of innovative releases from across the electronic music spectrum. This year, FoF is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a massive compilation featuring classic songs from the likes of Shlohmo, Salva, LOL Boys and Tomas Barfod alongside B-sides, rarities, remixes and brand new tracks from the extended Friends of Friends family. Disparate sounds from Rome Fortune, Shigeto and Nicolas Jaar find a home on 5oFoF: Five Years of Friends of Friends, drawing together the label's eclectic past with its exciting, genre-melding future. 

Includes unlimited streaming of 5oFoF: Five Years of Friends of Friends via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Water Collides - Shigeto X Kyson

from the sophomore album 'another eternity' out March 3rd, 2015

available now: https://lastgang.myshopify.com/products/purity-ring-another-eternity 

Purity Ring - begin again

Prelude N.5

We Move Lightly

Quartet N. 2

Fragile N.4

Departures N1

Museum Nights

Rain

Confrontations

Confession of a Child of the Century (Original Soundtrack)

OCTAVE*  Soundtrack from "Confession of a child of the century"

MELO* Soundtrack from "Confession of a child of the century"

DOUCE IVRESSE*  Soundtrack from "Confession of a child of the century"

Daughter - Youth

A track from Simão Cayatte's Portuguese film, "The Trip" ("A Viagem"). 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1930271

Out of Here (from "The Trip")

A Hope

Track taken from Dustin O’Halloran's upcoming album 'Lumiere' released via FatCat’s 130701 imprint (a home for the orchestrally/classically aligned composers attached to the label)

Dustin O’Halloran - We Move Lightly

Radiohead - Separator

Circa Survive - Battle, My Love

A self-taught pianist from the age of 7, Dustin O’Halloran’s personal histories give us some clue to the thickly-woven tapestries of his music: he has lived in LA (where he studied art at Santa Monica College and formed the much-adored Devics with Sara Lov), Italy (in the depths of rural Emilia Romagna) and Berlin. His arresting, heartbreaking music is as much an elegant exercise in nuance and grace as it is a pure, intuitive, personal expression – and here is where we see some explanation into Dustin’s quiet rise to notoriety and his continued ascension.



Having gained serious recognition with his stunning score to Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette (which sits neatly alongside his soundtrack work for William Olsen’s An American Affair (2010) and Drake Doremus’ Sundance-winning Like Crazy (2011),



Dustin has quickly become one of the most recogniseable names in the broad-reaching “post-classical” field, a definition of the genre rather than vice-versa. Now sitting alongside peers and friends Max Richter, Hauschka and Johann Johannsson (who, incidentally, aided Dustin in mixing his newest album) on FatCat’s dedicated orchestral imprint 130701, new album Lumiere is a glowing addition to O’Halloran’s musical canon, at once an amalgamation of everything that his music has been leading up to, and an unprecedented step forwards in terms of timbral palette and harmony. Featuring NYC’s ACME Quartet, Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie and prodigious young composer Peter Broderick among the guest musicians, the scale of Lumiere is expansive: “it made me realize how important it is to find players that truly understand what you do and to create a language with them,” writes Dustin.



Dustin’s rock background - primarily with Bella Union’s “dream-pop” outfit Devics – has yielded an unassuming, perceptive approach to composing modern classical pieces. Inspired by, among others, Arvo Part,  Philip Glass, Hans Otte, John Luther Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Ennio Morricone, Gavin Bryars, there is no lack of articulation or academic musicality in Dustin’s work, but there is also none of the aloofness or detachment that is so readily perceived around contemporary classical music. This can perhaps be attributed to the environments in which Dustin has worked - Lumiere is full of those rare elements of life shared by both vibrant cities and lush countrysides: colour, both organic and rich, sensorial intrigue and a deep awareness of space. Or perhaps it is a product of Dustin’s synaesthesia, a condition he first noticed around the time of his performance at New York’s Guggenheim Museum for their Kandisnky retrospective and 50th anniversary gala. Able to visualize his compositions as vividly as a painter might see his own work, Dustin’s expressiveness is beyond compare.



Lumiere will be Dustin’s third solo full-length, following Bella Union albums released in 2004 and 2006 respectively (Piano Solos vol. 1 and Piano Solos vol. 2). These two records were originally opportunity for Dustin to express a non-Devics creative streak: gently and privately pieced together piano suites written and recorded on a beautifully-restored 1920’s Sabel piano in his Italian farmhouse. The compositions, however, gradually grew into fully-formed solo pieces as Dustin’s ambitions and designs developed. The path, of course, would eventually lead him to Lumiere’s majestic, swooning ensemble arrangements and a focus-shift away from the piano as his work’s primary timbre without losing any of the affection for the instrument that bore his first two records.



A sublime solo live album - entitled Vorleben – will be released by FatCat / 130701 in June.