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Throwing a Spoon 
Takeo Toyama (piano)
Seigen Tokuzawa (cello)

Throwing a spoon was founded 2012 by pianist Takeo Toyama and cellist Seigen Tokuzawa.
They are going to release the first album"awakening" in February, 2014. They recorded it early in the morning in a small hut in the heart of a mountain.
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Throwing a Spoon / clouds

m&h demo

Piano. Created in Real-Time in the Recital Hall at Midwest Music Conservatory, St. Louis MO.

Photo by Brad Wright, www.BradWrightPhotography.com.

Year of Music I

Year of Music: June 8, 2011

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Erased Tapes artists and friends Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm have separately carved out a musical career that defies genres both with their unique live shows and a loyal fan base that’s always eager to hear what their prolific output will bring. 

Their latest collaborative 2-track release ‘Life Story Love and Glory’ is a live improv affair on two pianos, recorded in 2012 at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin. Fans may wonder why they have waited until 2015 to release these tracks, but having revealed a new website www.arnaldsfrahm.com you may think this may not be the end to their musical story this year. 

“We would meet in Reykjavik or Berlin with the intention to share some days off work, hiking, swimming or eating pizza. That is great for a couple days, but after a while we would always end up back in the studio, fiddling with synths or pianos.” – Nils Frahm 
“You can hear in the beginning of ‘Life Story’ how I have already started playing the piano whilst Nils is still moving microphones around and preparing everything. It was all kept in!“ – Ólafur Arnalds 

‘Life Story Love and Glory’ will be released as a 7” on Erased Tapes – exclusively through record stores only on August 21, 2015 ahead of its digital release later on – as an ode to this classic and beloved format. 

More info: www.arnaldsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Life Story Love And Glory

Life Story

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Life Story

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"Farewell" is worldwide debut album of Taiwanese female fronted chamber ensemble Cicada who played with Olafur Arnalds, Rachel Grimes, Balmorhea.
“Farewell” described how someone who went through the cycle of a relationship. It’s about breakup, facing the future alone and also reveals the teenage girls inside us. Cicada selected 14 songs from “Over the Sea /Under the Water”, “Pieces”, and “Let’s Go” With the new recording and production, together they told a story.

Cicada - Lake's End

Cicada - Drowning In The Fog Of Yours

Junya Nishimura × no11room

piano & photo : Junya Nishimura（jun)
https://soundcloud.com/junj6
guitar：no11room

春の庭、記憶の彼方 〜 remember spring garden 〜 Junya Nishimura × no11room

For Piano Day 2016.

Ⓟ & © 2016 Kitchen. Label

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sonicbrat - air (Piano Day 28.03.16)

Veteran Erased Tapes recording artist Peter Broderick set to release new studio album 'Partners' on 19th August 2016.

Order it on LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP088

In an email to Robert on February 3rd 2016: 

Dear Robert.

There’s a lot I’d love to tell you about this music.

The inspiration really came when I decided to learn to play John Cage’s In A Landscape on the piano . . . I listened to a recording I had over and over again, five seconds or so at a time, picking out every single note. Then cross referencing what I’d learned with other versions of the piece as well as the original score. The feeling of playing this piece really brought me close to the piano again, and brought new life to my own piano songs.

Beyond Cage’s music, his life and practice have interested me more and more, after having read about his love for foraging wild foods and using chance operations to compose music, in a sense taking his ‘self’ out of the music. I love his so-called ‘mesostics’ and began to write several poems using that method, around this phrase:

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When it came time to record in the studio, I rolled two dice to decide how many poems to read. I rolled 5. Then I assigned a number to each poem and rolled the dice to see which five poems would be read and in which order. That’s the first track Partners, which is also the last word of the last poem I selected through this chance-based process. Track two is my version of In A Landscape. I love playing that piece so much. Carried  is a piece I wrote in Berlin which I’ve played live from time to time. There was a soft vocal loop playing out through an amplifier in the room while I played the piano.

Under The Bridge is my first ever chance-based composition, written by assigning different numbers to different notes and then rolling dice to decide in which order to play those notes. Conspiraling is another piece I’ve been playing for a while. Actually a version of this was recorded in the session that became ‘How They Are’, but it didn’t quite feel right. I like to pretend my voice is like a synthesizer in this song. Then there’s Up Niek Mountain which is a piece I finished composing while in residence at a farm in the Netherlands back in 2010, and is named after one of the family farmers there, Niek, who passed away shorty after I was there. We miss you Niek. The last song is a cover of Brigid’s Sometimes. Brigid to whom I dedicate this recording.

And then there’s Tucker, Mr. Martine, who agreed to record this album without me ever hearing the mixes. We talked about all the sounds and he set up several devices with which to manipulate the sound live, as it was being recorded and mixed down to tape. Francesco also agreed to master the record without me hearing it. I like to imagine maybe one day, five or ten years from now, I’ll walk into a café or roadside diner and hear it for the first time, playing as background music while people eat.

OK surely that’s enough for now! Sorry for blabbing, Robert. Your support has really meant a lot to me. I’ve loved having you in mind while working on this project, knowing it could very well have a home on your sweeeeeet label. Hope all is well.

With love,
Peter

Partners

Sometimes

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Peter Broderick - Sometimes

ARAKI Shin: saxophone, Yukiko Hayakawa: Sho
Music for an exhibition at "10 Watts", Yokohama, Japan, 2016.

Encounter

Fábio Caramuru - tico-tico

A raw acoustic piano recording of "temporal" 《浮》for my new album to be released under Kitchen. Label next year. This track is just the piano recording and does not represent the completed track. It will also feature Natalie Soh on violin...

Inspired by the photography of light by Foo Aiwei

PHOTO: Foo Aiwei

temporal [raw piano recording]

taken from the Selected Experimental Works
https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/fragments

アルバム『Fragments』のCDをご購入くださいました皆様に先着特典でMOTORO FAAMが舞台／映像作品などに提供してきた未発表楽曲をまとめた「Selected Experimental Worksのダウンロードコードをプレゼント。
CD buyers at initial order get a special code for an extended digital download for "Selected Experimental Works"  (17 tracks).

MOTORO FAAM - O Mar

Lotte Kestner - Pink Moon

http://flau.jp/releases/white-forest/

White Forest is dedicated to animals including whales, dolphins, coral reefs, sea turtles, as well as cats in the city and birds in the mountains. Along with “Ocean” is the series of Cicada’s work themed with marine and land.

“Dolphins Leap” proceeds with different speeds to imitate spinner dolphins and risso’s dolphins. “Used to be Home” portrayed the impact of offshore wind energy caused on white dolphin’s habitat from their point of views. “Whale Family” is about humpback whales caring and raising babies. “White Forest” starts from the dreamy coral reef spawning into their bleaching due to seawater warming. Cicada’s attempts are to describe the relationship between human and its impact on ocean and animals.

Cicada - White Forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunmgVjRXuA

im frühling (Piano Day 2018)

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Cicada - Drowning In The Fog Of Yours

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