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Piano Day 2017 Playlist

Feeder Piano Vol.1 - Piano Day 2017

Reading / Calm Music

A selection of tracks released on Piano Day 2017

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hessyz/10439808776/

Eighty-Eight (Piano Day 2017)

Piano Day

Phiano

piano

sOOTHING

Clémence

From the forthcoming Goldmund album, Sometimes, out November 13th on Western Vinyl. Pre-order now: 
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Goldmund - As Old Roads

親しさの負担

featuring excerpts from 'Nanami: the Inferno of First Love', by Susumu Hani & Shuji Terayama
引用：『初恋・地獄編』羽仁進、寺山修司 1968年

The Burden of Familiarity

From the forthcoming Goldmund album, Sometimes, out November 13th on Western Vinyl. Pre-order now: 
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Goldmund - A Word I Give (Feat. Ryuichi Sakamoto)

A number of people asked to be able to download this version of the famous Christmas carol that I recorded last year. I'm now making it available for download, for free, or for a donation of your choosing. 

All money raised from this will be donated to the Leeds-based homeless charity Simon On The Streets. Read more about their work here: 

http://simononthestreets.co.uk  

Download the song:

https://simeonwalkermusic.bandcamp.com

Happy Christmas x

Download

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

www.patreon.com/alicebaldwin

Für Rik. 
Experimenting with an old song idea. Trying not to mess it all up with the strings..

Freiheit wär viel lustiger

Taken from the compilation Piano Cloud Series - Volume One
Release date: March 11, 2016

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Peter Broderick - Eyes Closed And Traveling

Study for Player Piano (i)

Bildet er tatt av Ich bin dann mal raus hier. fra Pixabay

The Pianist

Taken from their forthcoming mini-album 'Ellis' out July 8 on Erased Tapes.

Pre-order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP086
or from iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/ellis

For the first half of the twentieth century, Ellis Island stood as the gateway to America. For some twelve million people, it was their first encounter with the land they hoped to call home. 

Directed by acclaimed artist JR, ELLIS tells the story of one such migrant. Starring Robert De Niro, the film winds its way through the crumbling hallways of the abandoned Ellis Island hospital complex, now home to JR’s Unframed art installation. It’s a place that reverberates with the hopes and fears of those who passed through it, the echoes especially resonant today.

Entwined with the narrative is a score composed by Woodkid, performed and co-written by Nils Frahm. The delicate piano motifs of Winter Morning I culminate in a crescendo of strings, while the harmonium swells on the B-side are the foundation for De Niro’s narration: an encomium for those who shaped modern America. 

There’s perhaps never been a more fitting time for this story, with all the proceeds going to the Sea Watch initiative, a non-profit charity dedicated to the protection and rescue of civilian refugees. 

Following a screening as part of Nils’s Barbican Weekender, the ELLIS score will be out July 8th, the same week as America’s great federal holiday. It will be available via Erased Tapes as a mini album on CD, vinyl and in digital format containing a 12-page picture booklet.


IN THE ARTISTS’ OWN WORDS:

Nils Frahm: ‘The opportunity to work on JR´s fantastic short film ELLIS came through my good friend Yoann aka Woodkid. We agreed on recording the piano parts in my studio in Berlin and so it happened that JR and Woodkid were guests at Durton studio on a wonderful late summer day in 2015. We managed to record all the crucial elements that day. The music fell in our laps and melted with the images: a wonderful experience. The film has stuck in my head ever since; it moved my heart and changed my soul.

A couple of weeks later I had to cancel a trip to Brussels because of a terror warning; all events got cancelled and I stayed home, having an unexpected day off. I felt rather depressed that day, thinking that the Europe I knew was already gone. I sat down at the harmonium, listened to Robert De Niro’s voice and played for the rest of the day. The result is ‘Winter Morning II,’ the B-side of the ELLIS soundtrack release.

Robert says it all in 17 minutes. We are not facing a refugee crisis. We are facing a crisis because we do not embrace, we do not sympathise and we cannot give up fear. Art can encourage so I hope this project will help fight the fear in all of us.’

Yoann Lemoine, aka Woodkid:  ‘Ellis is my second collaboration with JR after the New York City Ballet piece for Les Bosquets. I initially wanted this piece to sound like it was recorded on an old piano that we found in the ruins of Ellis Island, in the restricted area that is not open to the public, where JR pasted the pictures on the walls for the film Ellis.

I had worked with Nils before and I wanted him to create a sound for this piano part that I composed that was extremely gentle and organic. I wanted the listener to hear the mechanisms, the breathing of the instrument. I wanted it to be imperfect, to sound like a ruin, a trace, an echo, the way the pastings on the walls seem to be ghosts, almost imperceptible.

After a few rehearsals, Nils stripped down my piano parts and we removed almost all orchestration around the piano. He then worked on the extended version that is his interpretation of my piece, with Robert de Niro’s vocals.

Because this film and this recording is historically meaningful, it was important for us to create this piece as an echo to the immigration situation in Europe, and decided to release it in support of Sea Watch.’

Ellis

Winter Morning I

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Woodkid & Nils Frahm - Winter Morning I

Bildet er tatt av Free-Photos fra Pixabay

Care

Composed for "Life is flux", a film project by Müge Yıldız.

İstanbul

I used the Native Instruments Maverick and Una Corda piano, and sounds from Spitfire Audio Tundra and Symphonic Evolutions, and Wide Blue Sound Eclipse. #native instruments # una corda #spitfireaudio #widebluesound

Christmas Night

The First Noel

The download limit (100) is already achieved, SoundCloud deactivated the "Download"-button! You can buy the track on BandCamp. Thank you for your support!

I'm An Astronaut

Improvised, recorded and produced in Berlin by Sebastian Plano and Tom Adams.

2am is an improvisation for two pianos performed using a Yamaha CP80 and a C.Bechstein Mark B grand piano. It was recorded late at night as part of a longer series of piano improvisations by long time friends and collaborators Tom and Sebastian. 

Sebastian Plano: http://www.sebastianplano.com
Tom Adams: http://tomadams.eu

Image by: Hara Katsiki (FCB @HaraKatsiki, www.harakatsiki.com)

Berlin, 2am - (Tom Adams X Sebastian Plano)

Written, recorded and mixed by Janek Sprachta at Einraum Studio.
Mastered by Andreas Bonkowski.

Grow

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Contribution to Piano Day 2017 by Tired Tape Machine, through Feeder Recordings

Tired Tape Machine - Tankeflykt

Contribution to Piano Day 2017 by Vargkvint, through Feeder Recordings

Vargkvint - Regnsång

Contribution to Piano Day 2017 by Jakob Lindhagen, through Feeder Recordings.

Jakob Lindhagen - Veiled

For Piano Day 2017. A piece from the new album "Exile". #PianoDay
Listen to the whole album and follow me on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/6lRzdTd7lTOxX1rMgBLj7g
If you like my music, please "like" my Facebook page - www.facebook.com/Michael-Ford-Pia…221557034537760/

Exile

Nocturne

'Fifty Horses' Live at St Giles in the Fields Church, London. Played on a Casio Grand Hybrid GP-500 to celebrate Piano Day 2017.

Composed & Performed by Okiem.

www.OkiemOfficial.com

Instagram:
@OkiemOfficial

Fifty Horses LIVE

My second album "Different Ways" is now on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/intl-tr/album/1KKm4xk6RZ4Ty4O5dGjxY5?si=EIb-PsrLSxOwN-pBk-FTKQ

Chaos

4011 Liter is Henrik Schwarz's first ever released solo piano piece. Its part of his upcoming 4 track EP "WORKS PIANO" on the new label BETWEEN BUTTONS. Release will be available on vinyl and digital end of April 2017. www.betweenbuttons.com

Works Piano (between buttons demo)

Works Piano

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Henrik Schwarz - 4011 Liter - version for 3 hands

For Piano Day 2017 I give you this little tune for Piano and Viola from the score for a documentary called Out Of Thin Air (coming later in 2017)

Viola: Karl Pestka

Slow Decay (Out of Thin Air - OST) Piano Day 2017

sound gift for piano day celebration 
29th march 2017

by
hania rani 

http://haniarani.com
https://www.facebook.com/haniaranimusic
https://www.youtube.com/hannaranna
https://www.instagram.com/haniarani

hania rani is coming
and she is coming
soon

hania rani - hawaii oslo

44,2 km (with Poltrock)

with @parraforcuva
„Als ich mit dem Songwriting angefangen habe, hat das Klavier eine wichtige Rolle beim Zugang zu meiner Kreativität gespielt. Es ist ein Symbol für meine ästhetische Wahrnehmung der Musik. Besonders die Leichtigkeit der softeren Töne harmoniert sehr gut mit meiner Musik. Schon ein paar Tastendrücke können so viel ausdrücken, das können nicht viele Instrumente. In vielen meiner Songs benutze ich das Klavier und in einigen ist es sogar das Schlüsselinstrument."

Read More here: http://i-d.vice.com/de_de/article/piano-day-quotes
& here: pianoday.org

Get It Here

Christian Löffler - Pigment (Parra for Cuva Piano Reinterpretation)

from compilation ‘Algorithmics’ (Piano Day 2017)
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2oG1fbz
iTunes: https://itun.es/ca/wNf5ib
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2pfs44p

@pianonoise
Recorded at Wallring Cabin
Written and mixed by Tim Linghaus
Mastered by Mark Bihler at Calyx Mastering

Artwork by Marin Blanc (http://www.marinblanc.com)
Layout by Nicolas Hyatt

Tim Linghaus - Funeral For Dad (Algorithmics/Piano Day 2017)

Matthew Bourne returns to the piano on ‘Candela (for Sascha Heeney)’, the first single from his forthcoming album, to be released this summer.

‘Candela' is a deep meditation in texture and melody: skeletal piano motifs buoyed on a bed of strings. There is an emotional directness and vulnerability that Bourne has only ever hinted at. When taken in the context of his back catalogue, this unadorned simplicity is a bold and challenging step to make, and all the more devastating for it.

Candela (for Sascha Heeney)

Free download

Colliding Redux

Tess Said So is the creative partnership of musicians Rasa Daukus and Will Larsen. Adopting a pop sensibility to a classical format, Rasa and Will write and perform all their own material, blurring the lines that define musical genre, infusing their sound with pop, jazz, ambience, minimalism, and electronica. http://www.tesssaidso.com

Fern

Fern (for Piano Day 2017)

I wrote the first theme of this piece a couple of years ago and could never quite figure out how to finish it. There have been many iterations of it and it has been booted off of two full length records. I guess it always seemed to be a little island unto itself. Well anyway, what better reason than to put this out into the world than #PianoDay2017?

Happy #PianoDay folks.

Armoire Nocturne

To coincide with Piano Day 2017 we share a cover of an old Penguin Cafe Orchestra song by Penguin Cafe from their upcoming new album 'The Imperfect Sea' - out on Erased Tapes 5th May 2017.

"This piece by my father has always been a favourite of mine and when we were playing in the studio last year with making rocks resonate through the soundboard of the piano, the drone on F# made me think of it immediately. The transition between free-form and structure allows for space and some more expressionist moments and then the simple yet rather beautiful melody creates a sort of profound optimism I think." — Arthur Jeffes

Pre-order 'The Imperfect Sea' on Vinyl, CD and DL here: phonofile.link/the-imperfect-sea

The iconic Penguin Cafe join the Erased Tapes family and open a brand new chapter to their unique world with new album The Imperfect Sea.

A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes’ journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe have evolved into something of their own at the hands of Arthur who started the band in 2009 with the continuation and homage to his father’s legacy, to the late Simon Jeffes’ Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Now, their upcoming album echoes reminiscent sounds that embrace the new.

The album title refers to a saying by his father that “we wade in a sea of imperfections…”, reflecting upon the idea that beauty can be found amongst the chaos. “If there is a narrative to the album it’s coming to the acceptance of the imperfections in all aspects of life; moreover, the recognition that these imperfections and tiny randomnesses are in fact what make up the best parts”, Arthur explains. This has also been highlighted by the striking cover artwork designed by FELD under the art direction of label founder Robert Raths, resembling a lone figure adapting to and accepting its surrounding environment.

Predominantly self-composed, the new album also features covers of electronic works by Simian Mobile Disco and Kraftwerk, along with a re-working of Simon's 'Now Nothing'. Arthur has developed from the traditional folk and jazz heritage Penguin Cafe Orchestra is known for into another realm of blissful ambience and dance music, recreated using strictly acoustic elements.

“For this album I wanted to effect a departure from where we’d been up to now. The idea was to create a musical world that would feel familiar to an audience more used to dance records but stay true to our own values. So we replaced electronic layers with real instruments: pads with real string sections, synths with heavily-effected pianos, and atmospheric analogue drones with real feedback loops ringing through a stone and a piano soundboard.”

On the day of release, the band will play a headline show at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, commencing the beginning of this new adventure for Penguin Cafe.

The Imperfect Sea

Penguin Cafe - Now Nothing (Rock Music)

Hi all - here's another recording from my recent concert in London - I hope you like it! :)

Crystalline (Live at St James's Church)

Olwen

New cinematic EP released today on Musicbed​ for your listening & licensing pleasure. This is the only place you'll hear this release so if you're looking to license new music, may I suggest? 

Video shot and edited by the brilliant Matsuno Media​.  

Hear the complete EP at https://www.musicbed.com/albums/this-is-life/3302

Breathe

Hi guys, please say hello to Three.

The penultimate Piece from this package of 8 I've been putting together, which collectively will be named : Numbers. Released a little later this year.

Across the recordings I've used different mic placements and combinations to try and aid what I had to say.. The mixes up on SC are where ever I feel settled.. to share, So it's always interesting to read your comments, thanks :)

Headphones are always a nice way to listen.. 
Hope you enjoy. 

Vargkvint - Regnsång

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