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Drift

Tiny piano solo improvisation for you. 
So nighty. 

Painting by Stefanie Fuenfrocken.

Middle-Summer tiny song

Some of my favorite songs from 2013.  A wonderful year for music.


Tracklist:

0:00 - 1:12 - Dustin O'Halloran - New Day (from "The Beauty Inside")

1:12 - 5:22 - Lusine - Another Tomorrow (from "The Waiting Room")

5:22 - 9:46 - Photek - Pyramid (from "Ku:Palm")

9:46 - 13:49 - Bibio - Tout L'hueure (from "Silver Wilkinson")

13:49 - 19:49 - Ben Boysen - Gravity (from "Gravity")

19:49 - 25:28 - Jon Hopkins - Form By Firelight (from "Immunity")

25:28 - 29:24 - Airhead - Autumn (from "For Years")

29:24 - 33:51 - Andy Fitts - Yarn Tale (from "Smoky Wilds")

33:51 - 36:12 - Don Peris - Swansea (from "The Old Century")

36:12 - 43:19 - Brambles - Half-Gramme Holiday (from "PF Edition One")

43:19 - 46:46 - Ex Confusion - What It Means to Me (from "With Love")

46:46 - 55:33 - Taylor Duepree - Shutter (from "Faint")


Cover image by Colin Kenniff.

http://www.unseen-music.com



Best of 2013 Mix

Taken from AMB1401 E.P. released on Apollo Records. bit.ly/1hhmfcQ

Breaks My Heart Each Time

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The first full track stream from Nils Frahm's new album 'FELT' which will be released worldwide via Erased Tapes on October 10, 2011.



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ORDER it on CD/LP/DL here: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP033
and receive 2 exclusive outtakes and a limited edition postcard.

LIKE and FOLLOW Nils Frahm here: http://facebook.com/nilsfrahm



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★★★★ – MOJO | ★★★★ – CLASH | ★★★★★ – MUSO | 9/10 – Drowned In Sound
★★★★ - ROLLING STONE (Germany) | ★★★★★ – WESTZEIT


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CONTEXT: Berlin-based pianist Nils Frahm is already a firebrand in the modern classical world, collaborating with contemporaries such as Peter Broderick, Ólafur Arnalds and Anne Müller. His unconventional approach to an age-old instrument, played contemplatively and intimately, has won him many fans around the world.

As announced by Drowned In Sound, he finally returns on October 10th 2011 with the successor to his highly acclaimed solo piano works Wintermusik and The Bells. Released on Erased Tapes Records and entitled FELT, the album will coincide with a European tour in November 2011 – a truly memorable and magical live experience.


CONTENT: Having recorded his last album live in a large, reverberant church, Nils Frahm now invites you to put on your headphones and dive into a world of microscopic and delicate sounds – so intimate that you could be sitting beside him.

Recorded late at night in the reflective solitude and silence of his studio in Berlin, Frahm uncovers a new sound and source of inspiration within these peaceful moments:

'Originally I wanted to do my neighbours a favour by damping the sound of my piano. If I want to play piano during the quiet of the night, the only respectful way is by layering thick felt in front of the strings and using very gentle fingers. It was then that I discovered that my piano sounds beautiful with the damper.’

Captivated by this sonic exposition, he placed the microphones so deep inside the piano that they were almost touching the strings. This brought a host of external sounds to the recordings which most producers would try their hardest to hide:

‘I hear myself breathing and panting, the scraping sound of the piano's action and the creaking of my wooden floorboards – all equally as loud as the music. The music becomes a contingency, a chance, an accident within all this rustling. My heart opens and I wonder what exactly it is that makes me feel so happy.’

FELT creates its own personal microcosm, offering a refuge of tender and honest beauty.

A video for the pre-release single UNTER can be watched here:
http://vimeo.com/13833500


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Press reactions to his last album THE BELLS:

'The Bells is a record of astonishing beauty' (8/10) – Drowned In Sound  

'Nils Frahm is poised to become something of a sensation' – The Economist's Intelligent Life  

 ‘Emotionally charged piano music which always errs toward the melodic side of melancholy' **** – Mojo  

 ‘If there’s any justice The Bells, along with his recently released Wintermusik set, will expose Frahm to a wider audience, a demographic with a seemingly insatiable appetite for more prime neo-classicism’ – BBC Music  


TRACK LISTING:       1. KEEP 2. LESS 3. FAMILIAR 4. UNTER 5. OLD THOUGHT 6. SNIPPET 7. KIND 8. PAUSE 9. MORE

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:          

WWW.DURTONSTUDIO.COM
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NILSFRAHM
WWW.ERASEDTAPES.COM 


Felt

Nils Frahm - Snippet

Previously unreleased adaptation of the Twin Peaks classic.
Credits:
Martyn Heyne - Piano
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Guitar, Rhodes, Synths & Cymbals
Benoit Pioulard - Vocals,  Bass, Field Recordings
Valerie Trebeljahr (Lali Puna) - "Now it's dark" phone message
Mastered at www.blackknollstudio.com
Many thanks to Martyn Heyne for uncovering this one too!

O R C A S - Into The Night

From Ben Chatwin's debut record on Ba Da Bing, Heat & Entropy, out July 29th.

Ben Chatwin "Inflexion"

Music by Alex Somers from the film, Captain Fantastic.
Soundtrack out on July 8

Digital/CD on Lakeshore Records
Vinyl on Invada Records

Dream - 0:00
A New Beginning - 0:10
Church - 0:48
Campfire - 1:00
Funeral Pyre - 1:23
She Slit Her Wrists - 1:52
Memories - 2:22
Home - 3:18
Remembering - 3:47
Disappear - 4:26

Captain Fantastic - Alex Somers - Album Preview (Official Audio)

The NYC-via-Kansas producer Brian Leeds (Huerco S), known for his distinctly murky productions, returns to Anthony Naples' Proibito imprint with a brilliant full-length release of dense meditative ambiance. A marked move away from Leeds' house music ventures, For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those That Have) is an intensely cerebral experience, sparking raw emotions throughout.

Our pick of the bunch is "Promises of Fertility". Seven blissful minutes of softly smudged chords lay the foundation for an innocent melody that beams you into a world of mystical sounds and fantasy.

Dropping on June 6th, For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those That Have) is now available to pre-order.

Pre-Order

Huerco S "Promises Of Fertility" - Boiler Room Debuts

'A Single Hope' is taken from 'Centres’ - the stunning new album from Vancouver-based vocalist / composer Ian William Craig, and his first release for FatCat’s pioneering 130701 imprint (Max Richter, Hauschka, Dustin O’Halloran, Jóhann Jóhannsson, etc). 

The signing of Craig marks something of a departure for 130701, as the label looks to adventurously expand its repertoire beyond the established post-classical palette of piano / strings / brass. Whilst elements recall the visceral, home-baked immersion of fellow Canadian outfit Set Fire To Flames (who kick-started the imprint 15 years ago), the hands-on customisation of Hauschka’s prepared piano or the tape-grain bleed of Max Richter, this is the first album we have ever released to substantially feature the voice and the song at its centre.

Ian William Craig is a trained operatic vocalist who combines his voice with analogue synthesizers, reel-to-reel machines, and faulty tape decks to create sublime cascades of unpredictable decay and beauty. His music engages with the operatic and orchestral, submerging them under a shifting palette of vocal improvisations, analogue tape hiss and billowing clouds of erasure. 

A stunning album that stands with a similarly unique sense of vision and integrity as the likes of William Basinski or Colin Stetson, ‘Centres’ will be available on CD, digital and in a deluxe gatefold double vinyl edition.

01 - Ian William Craig - Contain (Astoria Version)

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Letting Go Variations' by Kirill Nikolai...

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Letting Go Variations

Kirill Nikolai - Reconstructions, For Lack Of Anything Else

Rhian Sheehan - Whispering Goodbye

From the upcoming full length album "Stories From Elsewhere".

Buy here: http://rhiansheehan.bandcamp.com/

www.rhiansheehan.com

(c) R Sheehan

Rhian Sheehan - The Upper Sky

Beautiful remix from the album "Helios - Remixed" out now!.

You can order the release as CD / MP3 or Flac here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/helios-remixed

www.hammockmusic.com

Helios - The Obesiant Vine (Hammock Remix) (FREE DOWNLOAD)

“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.” 

- Albert Camus

Vacant Mind- All Things Truly Wicked Start From Innocence

Focusing on experimental genres, we aim to provide a space to share in the creative process and spread the experience of inner exploration through musical expression.

Kirill Nikolai - Reconstructions, For Lack Of Anything Else

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