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Official Piano Day 2022 Playlist

Happy Piano Day!

Piano Day 2022 Playlist

Classic Piano

piano makes me more relaxed

PIANO

Sleepless Wake

Old Friends New Friends

Late

Piano Layers Vol. II

The Flower That Vanished

#pianoday2022 
A humble and minimalistic composition without any airs and graces to celebrate pianoday 2022 and to say thank you. Thank you, for the beautiful time with Nils Frahm, when he was still in private cellars together with me and other dear people on the musical search... Nonumy (for you).

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Nonumy

A Berlin Waltz 

Capturing the charm, never ending change, roughness, and unforgettable smirk of my hometown Berlin. Listening to this melancholic and sometimes dissonant piano piece you can feel the contrasts and quirkiness of this unique city.
This neoclassical song is an homage to all of Berlin’s wonders and foibles.
A music video will be released with the song taking you on a little walk through the ugly pretty city. 
This is the first single from the upcoming EP 'River Soul (Songs For Piano, Wind & Water) This project was funded by GVL & Neustarthilfe Kultur.

#pianoday #pianoday2022 #piano

A Berlin Waltz

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Valeska and the River - A Berlin Waltz

A collaboration with the great composer and my old friend @kianoooosh.

Composed by: Kianoosh Ghaffarzadeh
Produced by: Zia Ghiasi

Prelude in G Minor

Unveil

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Julia Gjertsen - Unveil

Felt

TÉPHRA(#Pianoday2022)

Composer: L. v. Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano: Carlos Marquez

Background image by David Burrows
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32491696@N00/

Ludwig van Beethoven: Für Elise, WoO 59

Something I recorded at the beginning of the year at home.. warts and all

Disquiet Improv

Letting Go

‘Rivers and Streams’ will be released by Erased Tapes in LP/CD/DL format on November 27th, 2015.

Pre-order LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP077
or digitally on iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/riversandstreams

Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk has often felt that his unique Continuous Music playing is akin to water – flowing and ever connected. As he further developed his technique, and the more the notes flowed, the closer to water he felt. “I found my hands and arms and everything inside them changing from normal muscle and flesh to well... water.”

With his latest album, ‘Rivers and Streams’, Lubomyr focuses deeply on this connection to water, to the point where the music itself begins to embody its liquid form. Produced by Robert Raths and Jamie Perera, the album flows seamlessly from the live recordings of ‘The Pool of Memories’, captured in a church, to pieces entirely born in the studio, such as ‘Sunshimmers’ and ‘Ripples in a Water Scene’, which feature Perera on acoustic and electric guitar.

Amorphous, ever-changing, Lubomyr as performer becomes subsumed into the natural ebb and flow of the keys as the album drifts between nascent upstream trickles and deeply reflective passages through winding river valleys. The album reaches its climax in ‘The Amazon’, a 20-minute piece dedicated to the world’s largest river. Raths invited Korean flautist Hyelim Kim to guest on the first part, before Lubomyr closes the album with cascades of arpeggio figures, stretching across the breadth of the keyboard with rapid virtuosity.

Following on from 2013’s ‘Corollaries’ album and last year’s ‘Evertina’ EP, Lubomyr’s latest offering compounds upon his existing fluid signature style, and breathes an organic vitality, both nuanced and thoughtful. 

"In the body of the Continuous Piano Master, the fingers and the hands turn into Water, Air and Stone. These are the three manifestations of the Continuous Technique. And for the Continuous Pianist, the fingers physically transform the music into one of these three elements.

The greatest of all miracles in the universe is Water. It is also, I believe, the rarest of all physical things in the universe. Water is the most magical and the most mysterious of all things we know! And so I dedicate this album to the Rivers and Streams of this world – in gratitude for their Beauty!“ – Lubomyr Melnyk

The cover artwork shows the surface of vines captured with macro photography by French artist Marion Benoit, which Lubomyr discovered in early 2015 as the perfect visual counterpart.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Parasol
2. The Pool of Memories
3. Sunshimmers
4. Ripples in a Water Scene	
5. The Amazon: The Highlands
6. The Amazon: The Lowlands

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: lubomyr.com · erasedtapes.com · marion-benoit.com

Rivers And Stream

Parasol

Lubomyr Melnyk – Parasol (excerpt)

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Dirk Maassen - Reminiscence (follow @dirk_maassen on instagram)

Gymnopédie no.1 - Erik Satie

Single World Of Clouds is about moment, when plane flies above the clouds and behind plane windows appears beautiful world of clouds. Exciting and very memorable moment, that people remember for a long time.

You can also find it on:
https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bciyhbw4v2t6so76kyqsetaz3le&tid=song-Tyuppoltuu25a2wnh3scmeniwbq
https://open.spotify.com/artist/43HScyaOrzPzHaKEqEkc3x

World Of Clouds

Chasing Stars

Walk In Bern

Dedicated to soundcloud.com/marj-banoo
Artwork illustration by Marjan Sadeqi
https://www.instagram.com/marjillu/

The Illustrator

Albert Camus once said: "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." This song is one of the ways to realize it.

You can also find it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Uffk5jSfrSm4yu9LzUfE1 or visit my new website: jirihorakpiano.wz.cz to find out more from my music.

Autumn Leaves

I wrote Warming Playing in November 2011. At that time, we used to talk every day on the phone, about the flood in Genova, about our future, about your cancer.
In these busy days of new projects, works and ideas, you are stocking in my head more than usual.
I understood then it was time to write it again. 
Full video at:

Warming Playing (2018 Edit)

Happy Piano Day 2018!

Middle Names is original released by Devendra Banhart on his 2016 record "Ape In Pink Marble" (Nonesuch Records).

Middle Names (rework by Nils Frahm)

This song on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/62wig4trhCTcBy45NCDMoI?si=hjssvPAwShmcUjfZz6WnDw
For Piano Day 2019

Today is the New Tomorrow

Sheet Music: https://www.musicnotes.com/sheet-music/artist/ibi

Ludovico Einaudi - Experience (Cover)

For Piano Day 2020

This, I think, is the first song I ever wrote. At the time (sometime between 2012 and 2014), I didn’t have a piano or ever played one; I wrote this piece on my laptop keyboard. It’s the gist of what I’ve been through during my first years after emigration.

Blue Years

Threads and loops of consciousness grown from semi-isolation.

Regeneration

In the scorching Summer of 2019-20, devastating bushfires raged through Australia, killing over 3 billion animals and pushing many native species closer to extinction. This is the story of their innocence, and my heart’s lament for their loss.

The Fire - Song For The Billion

Building piano orchestral track with beats

Bathed in Sunlight

Dark Morning

New album 'Invisible Forces', released 22 April 2022 on Ahead Of Our Time: jamesheather.lnk.to/invisibleSo

Taken from 'Modulations: EP2', released 28 May on Ahead Of Our Time: https://jamesheather.lnk.to/ep2So

Follow James Heather -
Spotify: https://found.ee/jheather-sp
Apple Music: https://found.ee/jheather-am
Instagram: https://found.ee/jheather-ig
TikTok: https://found.ee/jheather-tt
Facebook: https://found.ee/jheather-fb
Twitter: https://found.ee/jheather-tw
YouTube: https://found.ee/jheather-yt
Bandcamp: https://found.ee/jheather-bc
Soundcloud: https://found.ee/jheather-sc

#pianoday2021 #classical #classicalcrossover #ambient #alternative

Passing Soul

HEMSING enjoys composing and drawing inspiration from various music genres. With his solo work, he successfully navigates a seamless blend of contemporary neoclassic and experimental ambience music. As a live keyboardist and pianist, HEMSING regularly performs with bands, such as his Jazz Trio Nu Jazz Avenue and collaborates with singers at numerous concerts and festivals.

»For me, music has always been about the live experience. Nothing beats a good concert. It's all about that one special moment between the artist and the audience – a connection that feels deeply personal. This experience is worth more than any click on a video or stream.«
It took some time for him to finally release solo music, as he had always been involved in group or band contexts. However, the release and success of his first single, Felt, gave him the confidence to continue. His fifth single called, Stiller, even made it onto Nils Frahm‘s official Piano Day playlist.

In March 2024, HEMSING moved to Paris, where he is exploring new opportunities to perform live and connect with the local music scene. In the meantime, he continues his solo work. Plans for concerts and more electronic songs are becoming increasingly concrete. There is so much more to come.