It resonates with me. It can’t be better. At some point, I will see if words will come to me.

Hi. I added this track to piano gems playlist 👏👏👏

I listen to your works almost daily and certainly sing that one song of ours. Thank you for such beauty.

Allude

As a teenager in Warsaw's School of Music I was practicing Chopin and other Romantics. But secretly, by night, I listened to Keith Jarrett. Trained classically, I fell in love with the layering of piano sounds that he so beautifully does in his non-classical recordings. A few years later I discovered Morton Feldman and the possibility of space - and silence - evoked around each piano key touched, in his amazing piano pieces. 

This morning's mediation is dedicated to both of them, a brief 5 min 45 sec encounter with the instrument. 

Photo by Paul Takeuchi, Brooklyn, 2021

Piano Meditation July 4 2025

Federico Albanese - THE BLUE HOUR


'The Blue Hour' will be released on LP, CD, Download via Berlin Classics Neue Meister on 15 January, 2016   

Buy on Itunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-blue-hour/id1053970394

Berlin based, ‘piano poet’ Federico Albanese took inspiration from the brief transitional state between day and night, writing a collection of chamber-music miniatures that withdraw, explore, yet assert their laconic melodies all the more decisively. The emotions to which Albanese has given expression in his thirteen compositions have been articulated with well-considered gestures.   

Equally well-considered is the choice of instruments that Federico Albanese deploys on ‘The Blue Hour’. Piano and synthesizers are joined by a cello, magnified by over-dubbing and sound effects that culminate into a little chamber orchestra, which swells the acoustics while checking the dominance of a clear solo voice. Albanese esteems the Gesamtklang, the overall sound image, with its mixture of compositional precision and dreamlike fluidity. For this reason, the pieces are recorded from start to finish on analogue equipment, further enhancing the warmth of their sound. In ‘Céline’ we hear a discreet beat, scarcely perceptible, a gentle pulse that lends structure without jeopardizing the charm of ‘The Blue Hour’.  

“There is a particular moment when opposites are very close, almost touching one another. When there is still light but not quite darkness. A world in between, where all things are uncertain, vague, floating into shade. We can follow or observe, unsure where this would lead - into darkness or light; into the shadow of memories and dreams. A reflection of our desires and hopes, ready to be seen or unseen. It can be a sudden glimpse, with ideas turning into shapes, not yet complete. You can see things, but are unsure what they are. It is an unrevealed choice. A place to recover and heal, lulled by the security of the warm shadow of an ancient tree upon a hill" – Federico Albanese

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Migrants

Taken from my debut LP "Ichiru".

Stream/Buy the full album (12 tracks LP)-(CD/Digital): 
Bandcamp : modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ichiru
iTunes : itunes.apple.com/ca/album/ichiru/id1198539909
Spotify : open.spotify.com/album/4rVHa8DsyPyT12IMpdSQOL

written and recorded by me


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happy new year :') 
this recording is a 2016 version of "close". well.. kind of.

i want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has been taking your time to listen to my pieces since 2015.  i had an amazing year and learned so much about music, cultures and got to know so many amazing people through sound cloud. this year, i will be more active so i hope you will stay in touch with me and my music.  arigato gozaimasu :')

love,
daigo

Ichiru

Buy CD/Digital

Close (2016)

Lachrymosia

WAV / FLAC / MP3

Composed for "Life is flux", a film project by Müge Yıldız.

İstanbul

Stream/Buy the full album (12 tracks LP)-(CD/Digital): 
Bandcamp : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ichiru
iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/ichiru/id1198539909
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/4rVHa8DsyPyT12IMpdSQOL

written and recorded by daigo hanada 
mastered by emil thomsen (et mastering)

Daigo Hanada - Solitude

New album "Isolated" from Roberto Attanasio, available to pre-order. 
The album will be fully released on October 20th.
Available in digital and limited white vinyl edition.

Isolated

Isolated III

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Roberto Attanasio - Isolated III

So… this is slightly awkward… When it comes to promoting my very own music, I seem to be at loss for words. And yet, I accept that self-promotion is part of every composer’s journey, at the end of each release. This album has been in the making for a very long time. In fact, it was complete before I even left New York, and I’ve been “sitting on it”, afraid to let it out, too weak to let it breathe. And yet here it is, fulfilling the unavoidable and at times desirable closure to something I meant to leave behind.

Beneath the dark veil of the night, covered in an intoxicating somber solitude, somewhat sorrow and slightly sweet, ‘Dislodged’ is a place of isolation, melancholy, and a bit of heartache. Composed and intended to be listened to as the second half to the ‘Unhinged’ mini-album, this intimate recording of my beloved instrument explores the outer reaches of spatial and reductionist pianism, occasionally echoed by the song of a lonely cello, contributing to the detachment, displacement, and dislocation of a damper pedal, controlling the felt rail which muffles the hammers against the strings. This is where my music lives…

The ten-piece mini-album, beginning with the same-titled “Dislodged” track, which is being premiered exclusively today on Headphone Commute, is out on November 10th, on 1631 Recordings. Recommended for fans of solo piano music, and my all-time favorite composers who inspire me, such as Nils Frahm, Otto A. Totland, Julien Marchal, Goldmund, Dustin O’Halloran, Fabrizio Paterlini, and Sophie Hutchings, and many, many more…

Dislodged

TRACK PREMIERE : Mike Lazarev - Dislodged

olafur arnalds - living room songs

musica original: luca longobardi

Lella è un cortometraggio di Michele Capuano, con Barbara Chichiarelli, Giacomo Bottoni, Alessandro Bernardini.

Lella (Original Motion Picture Sountrack)

Lella Main Theme (Bonus Track)

Lella - Main Theme (Bonus Track)

Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!

TRACK PREMIERE : Mike Lazarev - Dislodged

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