The first sounds of @snorrihallgrimsson’s Landbrot II have officially arrived with the record’s sublime lead single ‘Sandlóa’. It is the perfect soundtrack for this lovely early autumn 🎧 idol.lnk.to/sandloa

Pre-order LP/Vinyl : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/landbrot

Landbrot

Sandlóa

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Snorri Hallgrímsson - Sandlóa

Raw Improvisation in remembrance of JJ. On the theme of Flight from the City.

Improvisation In Rememberance Of Jóhann Jóhannsson

It's the 1st advance from my forthcoming album ‘Ver Sacrum’, out on March 10 through ad21
"Spectral and haunting, there’s an almost monastic quality to ‘Sacred Spring’, the first piece to be taken from pianist and composer Bruno Sanfilippo’s forthcoming new album ‘Ver Sacrum’. An air of quiet solitude too; poignant strings wash in and out of focus punctuated by a slow, melancholic organ line. Like all his best work, it’s emotionally resonant yet quietly captivating, a master class in mood and shadow" Derek Robertson, journalist and music writer: Guardian, Independent, NME, VICE, Timeout, The Quietus, The Face.

Vanesa Tomás (Soprano)
Mariel Aguilar (Mezzo Soprano) 
Analog mastered by Ian Hawgood, 
Cover by Javier Guglielmi 

https//www.bruno-sanfilippo.com

Ver Sacrum

Sacred Spring

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Classically trained pianist and composer Carlos Cipa returns with Sculptures, a piano-solo mini-album, right in time for some calm and quiet winter days.
Most of 2017, Carlos has been working on his next full-length album, a colourful record combining piano and other key instruments with a variety of orchestral instruments and electronically processed soundscapes, which will see the light of day in 2018. In between writing scores for musicians and long recording sessions, he often found himself sitting on his upright piano late at night, messing around with simple melodies or patterns as a distraction.
Recorded in his very own Beatschuppen Studio over a couple of days in November, Sculptures brings a few of these raw, intimate song fractures to life and places them alongside three brand mark pieces of Carlos Cipa’s second album, re-recorded on his peculiar Upright piano for the first time.

The Place Where They Go

In memory of Carl Anderson, I wish I had known you better.

Download: https://philipganderson.bandcamp.com/track/close
License this track: https://musicvine.com/track/2839

Violin: Ayako Kikuchi, Kyle Dickson, Iris Wei
Cello: Magdalena Sustere
Piano: Philip G Anderson
Recording engineer: Dan Farnsworth
Recorded at Gravity Studios, Chicago, IL

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Anne Lovett’s stunning new release for 1631 is a departure from her beautiful previous solo piano album Beyond (and below). Without loosing any of the startling beauty of the preceding album, in The Eleventh Hour, Anne Lovett revels in a new sonic world. Joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra , UK’s most innovative and respected ensemble routinely heard alongside such luminaries as Radiohead or Johnny Greenwood, and later in duo with phenomenal cellist and composer Oliver Coates, Anne Lovett also introduces subtle electronics interwoven carefully alongside layered melodic piano lines.

The main narrative for the album was conceived shortly after a new addition was brought in to Anne’s studio, a plantation chair which sat opposite her Grotrian-Steinweg grand piano. It led to intense hours of rethinking around the instrument itself and more generally about the seismic shifts that were taking place in society. The album is an attempt to reconcile the flaws of time. 

Best described by the Japanese concept of Kintsugi or “broken beauty”, The Eleventh Hour is a heartbreakingly beautiful contribution to the modern “indie” classical genre. The thirteen tracks all meticulously crafted and ringing out with a dark luminosity, like an elegy to our troubled times. 

It will appeal to fans of Dustin O’Halloran, Nils Frahm, Max Richter, Philipp Glass, Jóhann Jóhannson who will find many reasons to love this album .

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-eleventh-hour

The Eleventh Hour

Anne Lovett - The Eleventh Hour

A couple of things I recorded last night at home, warts and all.

Forgotten Postcards

Oversky

Horror Vacui

Hannes Kretzer - 0BLIGATI0

This is the moor that inspired the title track of this album A Place That Exists (launching 29 May 2020)

My mother lives here in Scotland  so I visit a lot and spend the afternoons walking . . The majesty and space . . I’m not sure quite how . . I think it gets into your head . . and somehow into the music you make . . ..
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. just knowing that this place will still be standing here, eternal and gracious long after we are all gone . . I find that comforting . .. and discomforting.
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08 - Frances Shelley - A Place That Exists (was The Return)

As most of the readers of Headphone Commute are musicians in their own right, they should already be familiar with the Berlin-based Martyn Heyne, who should be known to them as the owner of Lichte Studio, in which so many experimental, ambient, and modern classical albums have been recorded, mixed, mastered, and produced. These include some of the releases by Aukai, Tambour, Kelly James Wyse, Ceeys, Shida Shahabi, Tom Adams, Luke Howard, and Hecq, among the many others. But, of course, since I'm running this track premiere today, Heyne is also an outstanding composer, first appearing on my radar (and indeed these pages) with his 2017 release, Electric Intervals on 7k!. What may be surprising among all of this is that Heyne is also a fantastic guitar player, showcasing his favorite instrument on the upcoming solo album, titled Open Lines. Well, actually, he plays more than one instrument on the album. Among his performance on the electric, acoustic, 12-string, and classical guitar, Rhodes, bass, and piano, there's also the kalimba, bongos, and bells! Not to mention the appearance of the wonderful Anne Mülle on the cello on a couple of tracks, and the Finnish percussionist, Tatu Rönkkö on the drums, with whom Heyne has played live as Efterklang. The album traverses the boundaries of contemporary classical, krautrock, slow-shuffling jazz, and everything in between. The heart of the release, touching upon all of the above-mentioned aesthetics, and my favorite piece as well, is a track titled "Neuwerk." And that is precisely why I am happy to share it with you today.

Open Lines

TRACK PREMIERE : Martyn Heyne - Neuwerk

So pleased to share Promise / Sleepy Meadows, a new double single for solo piano by Finnish composer @julia_andersson

You can give this reflective pair of pieces a listen wherever you stream music: orcd.co/promise
 
"...like the winds of reassuring words, whispered in your ear by someone waiting patiently at your side..."

Promise / Sleepy Meadows

Promise

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Julia Andersson - Promise

Neoclassical Artist / animist and lover of this fragile planet.
Rep:@mannersmcade 
one half of @pianofield.

08 - Frances Shelley - A Place That Exists (was The Return)

FRANCES SHELLEY

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