Eliot James & Tom Hobden of @petraleksander have been working away on new music for the last year, and we’re thrilled to be releasing the resulting LP ‘Collage’ this September! 

The record's sparkling first single ‘Fireworks in G’ is out now, and you can give it a listen wherever you find your tunes: IDOL.lnk.to/pa-fireworks

“A crackling modular synth, reminiscent of a firework display in the distance, provides what we can imagine as a spectacular backdrop for the unfurling of a far more intimate scene, played out between a mournful viola and its string family counterparts…”

Collage

Fireworks in G

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Pêtr Aleksänder - Fireworks in G

Angele David Guillou -  Valley Of Detachment

Having raised over $7,000 USD with the first volume, we are happy to present you with this follow-up, featuring 25 amazing compositions created for this benefit compilation.

We are especially honoured to open up this volume with this gorgeous piece composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Ukrainian violinist Illia Bondarenko called "Piece for Illia". Sending files back and forth, the two produced the music, a touching cry for healing, and no war. Illia has been playing and uniting musicians from a bomb shelter in Ukraine.

100% of all the proceeds (excluding Bandcamp's revenue share and payment processor fees) will be donated to International Rescue Committee (rescue.org) to support displaced children and families with vital supplies during the Crisis in Ukraine.

Volume 2 is out on Friday, April 29th, 2022.

Be sure to also check out the first volume here:
https://headphonecommute.bandcamp.com/album/for-ukraine-volume-1

Please help and support our message. Thank you.

For Ukraine (Volume 2)

Piece for Illia

Ryuichi Sakamoto And Illia Bondarenko - Piece For Illia

A piece I composed for a short film by Everynone for Radiolab / NPR.  Buy this track, and watch the film here: http://www.unseen.bigcartel.com/product/goldmund-words-flac

Everynone | http://www.everynone.com

Goldmund-words

It's easier if you don't think about it, but if you do, someday it won't be so hard to ignore :)

~Addendum~

Cradle

From the album Sometimes out November 13, 2015 on Western Vinyl.  Vinyl LP format will be out on January 22, 2016.

CD/LP http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv138
Bandcamp http://goldmund.bandcamp.com/album/sometimes
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Amazon hyperurl.co/56ffvu

Rare live performance in New York on November 27th at Le Poisson Rouge w/ Lubomyr Melnyk

Golmund:
Label page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/goldmund
Twitter https://twitter.com/Goldmund
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/keith.kenniff
Instagram https://instagram.com/kenniffs/
Artist site http://www.unseen-music.com/

Live Performance:
November 27, 2015 - New York, NY • Le Poisson Rouge w/ Lubomyr Melnyk 

Raised in the rural town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Keith Kenniff aka Goldmund started playing piano at age 20, while studying percussion at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.  Though he may not be a household name, Kenniff's evocative, distinctly American music has become quietly ubiquitous in the past few years, often appearing on NPR, in films, on TV, and in ads for Apple, Facebook, and Google among others.  As an artist who spends a great deal of his time producing music for others, it might be surprising to find out that when he has the opportunity to relax and re-center himself, he often chooses to produce music for himself.  Recorded over the course of three years, the material on his new album Sometimes functions as a journal, documenting brief moments in Kenniff's day when he could turn to the piano as a source of solace and unending creative possibilities.  Kenniff wrote and recorded everything on the album with the exception of the track "A Word I Give", which is a collaboration with preeminent Japanese pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto, who once described Goldmund's music as “…so, so, so beautiful…”.  

Kenniff's pseudonym is taken from the Herman Hesse novel Narcissus and Goldmund in which the Goldmund character leaves the cloister where he was living and studying in search of meaning for his life.  The story resonated with Kenniff when he was searching for a moniker to represent his solo piano work, "I think the way I approached the piano was in the same way: impulsive—searching and feeling things out in the dark."  On Sometimes he continues his explorations in the dark; each of the album's 17 pieces were improvised, and recorded in one or two takes, often late at night, after work-for-hire was finished, and the kids were in bed.  In an interview with NPR's Weekend Edition Keith Kenniff discussed his appreciation of Civil War era music, and it's ability to covey "…so much story in so few notes."  Similarly, these improvisations manage to be richly evocative despite their technical and compositional simplicity, using subtle details and dynamics to express what might otherwise be inexpressible.  

Throughout Sometimes, Kenniff fully employs the wabi-sabi aesthetic that has always defined Goldmund recordings.  "I like mistakes, I like when things don't go perfectly. I do have a tendency to want for things to be perfect and precise, but I have to also realize that a lot of things I like about music and art are very rough and impulsive, the slight imperfections that give something or someone a unique voice," says Kenniff.  He goes on to explain that these pieces served as a way for him to "step outside of whatever I was doing and return back to a place of discovery very much like when I first started playing."  As we follow him on his path of discovery, we get a glimpse into the world of a young man expressing his myriad feelings and experiences with honesty, and inherently imperfect gestures, which is part of what makes them so relatable and powerful — the local, for a few moments, resonating with the universal. 

Goldmund - "A Word I Give (featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto)"

Taken from "Intentions and Variations" out on Morr Music April 8th 2016.
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Anost: http://bit.ly/1TCHxWl
Bandcamp: https://mikaellind.bandcamp.com/
itunes: https://api.morrmusic.com/itunes/1086154304
Follow Mikael Lind:
 https://www.facebook.com/mikaellindmusic

Mikael Lind is a composer of experimental ambient music, currently residing in Reykjavik, Iceland. 'Intentions and Variations' is his debut for Morr Music.


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Mikael Lind:  Intentions And Variations

The final moments of an hour-long piano improvisation in Port Meadow, Oxford. Released for #PianoDay 2016. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CVLS0-ZYI&feature=youtu.be 

Duck

from compilation ‘Algorithmics’ (Piano Day 2017)
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2oG1fbz
iTunes: https://itun.es/ca/wNf5ib
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2pfs44p

@daniel-mulhern
Piano and programming by Danny Mulhern
Recorded and mixed by Danny Mulhern
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon

Artwork by Marin Blanc (http://www.marinblanc.com)
Layout by Nicolas Hyatt

Danny Mulhern - Depth Perception (Algorithmics/Piano Day 2017)

Emmy award-winning composer Michael Price will release Tender Symmetry, his second album with Erased Tapes, on August 31st 2018. The ambitious musical project takes in a series of iconic National Trust locations across England as its inspiration, turning them into unlikely recording spaces. Michael and a host of musicians and collaborators — including soprano Grace Davidson (featured on Max Richter’s Sleep) and Shards (the choir on Nils Frahm’s All Melody) — travelled across the country in pursuit of places far removed from the traditional recording studio to create seven unique and moving pieces.

The diversity of Michael Price’s choices ranges from the ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire to the Fan Bay WWII shelter, cut deep into the chalk cliffs of Dover. All owned by the National Trust save one, each venue became both the inspiration and the recording studio for Michael Price and his accompaniment of renowned musical ensembles, choirs and soloists. 

While each piece of music is named after the location in which it was created, William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience courses through them as well. Soprano Grace Davidson sings Blake’s poignant words about nature, religion and the industrial revolution on several of the pieces including the astoundingly beautiful album closer Shade Of Dreams, written after the birth of Michael’s daughter. “The final piece, Shade of Dreams, is part of a group of pieces I wrote for the birth of our daughter, Emilie. It, like all the works on the album, takes its text from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, in this case, A Cradle Song. As much as Tender Symmetry is about the past, it is firmly about the future, and all our of shared futures.”

Alongside soprano Grace Davidson and Shards choir, other performers include virtuoso cellist Peter Gregson, new music experimentalists Immix Ensemble and Manchester Collective. Tender Symmetry will be available worldwide on LP, CD and digitally, including selected National Trust shops, on August 31st 2018. Michael Price will premiere Tender Symmetry live at London’s Kings Place on September 6th.

Released by:
Erased Tapes Records Ltd.

Release date:
31 Augist 2018

P-line:
℗ 2018 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.

Tender Symmetry

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Michael Price - Shade Of Dreams

Snowdrops - Trapezian Fields

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

Ryuichi Sakamoto And Illia Bondarenko - Piece For Illia

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