Originally written for Piano Day 2021 celebration.

Stage

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Between The Leaves', forthcoming on Fluid Audio.

Music: Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa
Mastering: Lee Yi (Rottenman Editions)
Print design: Craig Tattersall
Packaging design: Daniel Crossley

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Between The Leaves

Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa - Violet Rain

There are only a few artists out there whose aesthetic resonates with my entire being. Jason van Wyk is one of them. And at this point, it almost seems that it doesn't matter which route he goes with his music - I will always be there, absorbing it all. Except, of course, that he manages to go down the same road that I've been on myself. These are richly textured cinematic atmospherics, with gently modulated open-air pads, moving bass, and elemental particles of rhythm and sound. Shuffling grains of lo-fi sonics ebb and flow like night-time waves. Everything appears to be perfectly held together, with just the right amount of reverb and space. And then the piano comes in. Maybe it's just a few notes, but it's enough to tell a story. And I am listening with awe. I've said this before and I'll say it again - perhaps the best compliment I can give to any musician is to say that I wish I'd make such music as them. And if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then let me imitate van Wyk's sound all day long. But all these words aside, here's a piece which I am honoured to premiere. It's called "Undoing" and it's just a glimpse into the Descendants, which I cannot wait to own on white 12". I hope that you agree.

Descendants

Undoing

TRACK PREMIERE : Jason van Wyk - Undoing

I find it absolutely fascinating and, at the same time, truly inspiring thought, that with the untimely passing of Jóhann Jóhannsson in February of 2018 (wow, almost four years ago now!), he still really lives on through the music he made. And not just through his own. And although he left an incredible void, it's not like someone just stepped into his shoes. Instead, a significant number of collaborators and followers that he touched through the years continued to carry his legacy through their own unique sound. His light didn't go out - it just exploded into hundreds of thousands of fragments of many other lights, that are now expanding, forming their gravity, and with time growing larger. And I sort of wonder if that would have happened if it didn't happen the way it already has. That is an absolutely fascinating and truly inspiring thought with which I opened this write-up. In today's track premiere, we have precisely just that. Danish composer Jonas Colstrup worked closely with Jóhann throughout the years, collaborating on scores for the Japanese films Blind Massage (2014) and The Shadow Play (2018). Inspired by the late musician's approach to neo-classical minimalism carried forth with the cinematic elegance, as well as the incredible score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto and Bryce Dessner for The Revenant (Milan, 2015), and contemporary compositions by William Walton and Arvo Pärt, Colstrup gently sculpts a sonic chrysalis of emotion, in which one wants to wait out all current angst. And if this was a blind listening session, you may have even thought I'd uncovered an unreleased Johannsson track, with those scaling chord progressions and the beautiful arrangements performed by the Budapest Art Orchestra and Theatre of Voices. But to be clear, once again, this is not a copy, made from a mould lifted from Jóhann's work. It is an unmatched gorgeous sculpture, on which you may find his imprint, still warm to the touch.

At The Crest

TRACK PREMIERE : Jonas Colstrup - At The Crest

May facilitate a Serene calming experience. Sending Love!!

Serenity - McFiddles

Instrumental  new age music and ambient music from various albums by UK Musician Paul Landry.
© 2019 Paul Landry
℗ 2025 Ditto Music LTD



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Liverpool pt 1

A Sunday after the Storm

The first piece in a set of introspective anthems for solo piano.

Inner Anthem No. 1 : In

'XV', the final song of my second collection -
oliverbrouwer.bandcamp.com/album/lp-2

Recorded on the night of the 6th of November in Lancaster Priory Church
Written and performed by Oliver Brouwer 
Recorded by Joe Ramsden and Zac Barfoot
Mixed by Joe Ramsden 
Mastered by Stefano de Silva
Artwork by Harvey Pearson

Not Home may seem an unusual choice of single from Anne Garner’s upcoming album Lost Play but there’s precious little that is conventional about this singer-songwriter. Fans of her strange, seductive melancholy will be beguiled once again by the song’s signature union of disembodied sadness and reassuring intimacy. Warm waves of electric guitar and synthesiser cradle glitchy, restless percussives, the soaring silvered pedal steel of Jack Hayter (Hefner, Dollboy) and a lyrical message both beautiful and hard to hear.

Not Home and Porya Hatami's remix are available across all major platforms and in lossless 24bit audio exclusively from Slowcraft Records.

Written by Anne Garner
Produced by James Murray with Anne Garner
Artwork by Bobbie Russon
Mastered by Dean Honer
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Not Home

11th May 2018

From my upcoming album 'Albatross' to be released April 30th 2021

https://simonleoza.lnk.to/Bloom

Composed by Simon P. Castonguay (Simon Leoza)
Produced by Blaise Borboën-Léonard and Simon P. Castonguay
Recorded by Blaise Borboën-Léonard in Montréal and St-Adrien
Mix by Tonio Morin-Vargas, L’Excellent Studio du Québec
Mastering by Richard Addison, Trillium Sound
Artwork: Christy Lee Rogers

Bloom

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!