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Haiku Salut – The Hill, The Light, The Ghost

Contact Improv

Depth

Clay

Silver

Entering

I Dreamed I Was Awake For A Very Long Time

We Need These Beams

The Hill, The Light, The Ghost

Try Again And Again And Again

How The Day Starts

Wide Awake

#1 iTunes Classical Album (US).

Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, decided Chopin needed a new introduction. Along with violinist Judy Kang (Lady Gaga, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and cellist Rubin Kodheli (Kanye West, Norah Jones), Lawson has arranged ten Chopin works into a minimalist landscape.

It's a risk editing the "poet of the piano" but one that Chopin would be proud of.

Taking 10 Chopin works, Lawson decided to scale the works down to a minimalist setting. "I knew even if bare-bones, Chopin's works could still be as spellbinding as the original compositions we are so familiar with." says the pianist.

Produced by Chad Lawson & Alejandro Clavijo. Mixed by Stephen Lee Price. Mastered by Michael Graves of Osiris Studios (Atlanta, GA).

Chopin Waltz in A Minor-Op. 34, No. 2 (Variation Arr. for Piano, Vioin and Cello) - Chad Lawson

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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

Talking Timbuktu (with Ry Cooder)

Ai Du (with Ry Cooder)

Written by Bryde 

You pinch your cheeks, bring back the colour
some winter sun could make a world of difference
But you belong here
Wed to a time zone
of draughty hearts
of stoic arts and crafts 

Try to be brave, make it go away
leave the light on sometimes all night
and carry on regardless 
so you wont get swallowed up by the darkness
try to be brave, don’t give the game the away
You're a strong one, just carry on and
No one needs to notice
that there’s only silence holding this

Always prepared to make excuses
To go along, to nod in firm agreement 
But there's no rest on shaky ground, 
And we are guilty of looking down 
Careless creatures trying to save face

These are the screen shots
This is the version we live
To keep on smiling
To strain it all through a sieve 
When you’ve got nothing, when you’ve got nothing to give
Turn up the filter and don’t admit it.

Produced with Chris Sorem
Mixed by Catherine Marks
Mastered by Mandy Parnell

Like an Island

To Be Brave

R.Y.C

Today

Like an Island (Deluxe)

To Be Brave (Alt Version)

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