I love the echoes. Reminds me of swimming underwater :)

Really like this. Great playing and mix x

@seaview-2: Thank you much appreciated :-)

@seaview-2: I wanted to preserve the "real" feeling of a piano with all its imperfections....

Yes, I have already premiered two tracks this week (see Plïnkï Plønkï and Resina), and yes, this is another premiere of a track, and yet it is immensely needed, wanted, and necessary during these somewhat anxious times. “Rjóður” comes from the Icelandic composer Snorri Hallgrímsson, whom I’ve profiled on many occasions before (see also his In the Studio with… feature), as well as celebrated for his film music, which has been backed by the wonderful Moderna Records (home to many fantastic modern classical and solo piano composers, such as Jacob David, Ed Carlsen, Tim Linghaus, Tambour, and even yours truly). This particular piece appears on Hallgrímsson’s second EP titled Landbrot II – the first having been released last November with five pieces, and now, a year later, with five more. “The collection takes its name from the location of Hallgrímsson’s family cabin in rural Iceland, which he describes as his ‘happy place’. Landbrot translates to erosion or ‘land fractures’, and from this, we can imagine the search for inner calm and acceptance amongst the many obstacles of daily life.”

Read more about this release here: https://hcdi.gs/Landbrot

Landbrot II

Rjóður

TRACK PREMIERE : Snorri Hallgrímsson - Rjóður

Following the warmly-received Paces (1631 Recordings/Decca Publishing) and the collaborative Stadsbilder (Time Released Sound), Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist Jakob Lindhagen presents his second solo full-length album Memory Constructions on piano and coffee records.

Recorded together with German brother-duo Sebastian and Daniel Selke (aka CEEYS, whose collaborations also include Ólafur Arnalds and Spitfire) and longtime artistic collaborator Sofia Nystrand (Vargkvint), the album merges elements of neoclassical and ambient music, with a foundation of intimate piano works paired with violoncello and vocal synth, expanded with musical saw, kantele, bowed glockenspiel and sound experiments, recorded to analogue equipment. 

”Memories are an equally complicated as fascinating aspect of the human mind. After realizing a couple of memories from my childhood surroundings simply didn’t add up - the timeline didn’t make sense so I couldn’t have been in that place at that time, or a block of houses not being placed where they actually were - I became slightly obsessed with memory research. Our memories play such a huge part of our identities, yet they are extremely unreliable, change and fade over time, and are easily influenced and manipulated. And yet I couldn’t help myself also finding beauty in the fact that I both completely trust and distrust my own memories, that make up who I am. So digging from these slightly contradicting feelings, and from where my own memories are either constructed, fading, forgotten, rewritten, made up or completely true, this album was concieved.” 

Memory Constructions has been supported by the Swedish Arts Council, and is coming out digitally and on limited edition vinyl on the 23rd of September, featuring artwork by Sofia Nystrand and desing/layout by Celia Bayo.

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Jakob Lindhagen - Tomorrow

From "Going Home", Tristan's new album of solo piano improvisations.  Listen to/download the album:  https://tristaneckerson.com/

For "Going Home", Tristan Eckerson's first full length album in two years, the composer/pianist decided to shy away from his normal compositional approach, opting instead for an album of completely improvised pieces for solo piano. Recorded by Tristan with the unique sound of the Una Corda piano, the stream of consciousness tracks evoke the sounds of Tristan's influences, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tigran Hamasyan, and Ballaké Sissoko, and hover between the worlds of classical and jazz.

Endless Field (From The New Album - Going Home)

2nd single from Norwegian pianist and composer Ole-Bjørn Talstad's upcoming record Ferd. This is a delicate and reflective piece entitled Motbakke, but it has a deeper meaning.

"Sometimes life feels like a constant uphill struggle, never reaching the top, always new hills to climb. But that’s how we evolve... This song is an ode to the process/work/struggle/hard-times and a reminder to try and look for the joy and beauty in it."

You can listen to Motbakke on your favorite platform, right here: moderna.lnk.to/motbakke

Ferd

Motbakke

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Ole-Bjørn Talstad - Motbakke

idea 22 (ambient version super slowed down) w/ seeyouthere

Taken from the album 'Taking The Veil', released worldwide on May 24, 2015 on Kitchen. Label

Pre-order on CD + Art Book here:
www.kitchen-label.com/ki015-hior-chr…king-the-veil/

“Shadows surrounding, this lucid veil that will not conceal.”
Released & distributed by Kitchen. Label
Ⓟ & © 2015 Kitchen. Label

MORE INFO:
www.kitchen-label.com

Nest Of Autumn with Sophie Hutchings

This track is a rework I did for the track Dualisms by Illuminine.

Available on Tape on the label Dauw.(http://dauwlabel.tumblr.com/)
Digital: https://dauw.bandcamp.com/

Sebastian Plano's rework of 'Dualisms' by Illuminine

Eighty-Eight Days

August (Luke Howard)

A midnight solo piano take recorded with microphones deep inside the piano to capture extreme musical details but also mechanical noises and pedal creaks. Released to celebrate Piano Day 2017.

© 2017 Gianluca Piacenza
℗ 2017 Gianluca Piacenza

Official Web Site: http://www.gianlucapiacenza.it

Twitter: https://twitter.com/p_gianluca

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7qEuC0mCSgDPFzQQPp8RcS

Moonlight Walk

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Moonlight Walk (Piano Day 2017)

Ninety-Nine Stones is inspired by a story told by Erling Kagge in his book Silence In the Age of Noise. It is a story about ninety-nine scientists based at the South Pole who had seen nothing but snow, ice and man made objects for several months at a time. One year someone smuggled in ninety-nine stones and as a Christmas gift gave each resisdent at the base one stone. Everyone sat holding their stones in quiet reflection feeling the weight of the stone without uttering a word. 

I imagined the jumble of sounds they might each individually be hearing in their heads, sounds from all around the world, where home is and where the pebble took them back to. I wanted to make them all sound at once. 

The solo violin part performed by Marie Schreer.

Ninety-Nine Stones ft Marie Schreer

Cedric Vermue - We Came And Left

Gianluca Piacenza is an italian composer, pianist and sound designer.
Academically trained in Piano and Composition, winner and finalist in national and international competitions, he appears in concerts both as soloist and as chamber music partner. Influenced by both the great tradition of classical music and the electronica/ambient scene, in 2014 began working on his first album “Dream”, an emotional and cinematic work in which he first experimented acoustic piano and live electronics interaction.
Today he works as music producer at Red Couch Studio, an inspirational space in which analog and digital equipment, acoustic and electronic instruments are equally important to develop a unique sound palette.
His sonic world could be described as a blend of acoustic textures, recorded and processed live in many different ways, and electronic soundscapes, created manipulating natural sounds and programming synthesizers and samplers, lately focusing on minimal solo piano music where the spaces between notes are as powerful and meaningful as the notes themselves.
With four official Piano Day playlist features and many great reviews from across the music world, Gianluca Piacenza creates music that goes straight to the heart of the listeners, filling their minds with cinematic landscapes and their souls with calm and peacefulness.

Contact: info@gianlucapiacenza.it

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