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FotoSounds Vol. 2

Dancing In The Dark

"A hope that one day some may understand"

Screen Prints / Hum and Hiss

Release Date: March, 2014
Format: CD & LP
Label: Fastcut Records

Recorded on Yamaha MT120 / MT3X  4 track Cassette Portastudios and an Akai 1722II 2 track Reel to Reel Tape Recorder between 1997 and 2000 at Trafford General Hospital and Chorlton, Manchester. 

Remastered by Declan Meehan 2013

Interview 2013 with Screen Prints (Declan Meehan & Justin Hughes): http://fastcut.jp/sp/sp/

Screen Prints - Same Time Next Year (remastered)

Soundcloud: @annaofthenorth
Facebook: facebook.com/annaofthenorth
Twitter: twitter.com/anna_ofthenorth

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Anna of the North - Sway

Angelina Jordan perform "Fly me to the moon" originally titled In Other Words on Senkveld Norwegian "The Late Show" 21.03.2014

Angelina Jordan - Fly Me To The Moon

Canción incluida en el Ep "Desencuentros" de Elsa de Alfonso y Los Prestigio, editado por CANADA Editorial (2014)
www.laeditorialdecanada.com

Elsa de Alfonso y Los Prestigio - Gardenias

Recondite - Levo

On February 23 the Stockholm/Malmö based pop group Testbild! will release their new album 'Belka & Strelka' on Kalligrammofon. 

https://kalligrammofon.bandcamp.com/album/belka-strelka

Testbild! - Dogs in the Sky

In the Woods is a short piano piece commissioned by the IRMT, Wellington, New Zealand.
The piece was played by David Ianni and recorded by Georg Burdicek (Tonzauber.at) at Konzerthaus Wien, Austria.

The mp3 of this track is available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/ewan-clark-in-the-woods-single/id968877939

Sheet music can be purchased from: http://sounz.org.nz/works/availability/22247#scores

In the Woods

'Some' is taken from the new album by Nils Frahm – 'Solo'. Revealed on Piano Day as a free download and available on CD/LP/DL here:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP065

iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/soloitunes
Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.net/solospotify
HDTracks: http://snip.ftpromo.net/hdtracksnf
Qobuz: http://snip.ftpromo.net/qobuznf

Recorded as an Improvisation. Single take, no overdubs.

Fans can donate to the special piano project which will enable Nils and piano builder David Klavins to create the Klavins M450, the tallest piano in the world.

Read More here: www.pianoday.org

“Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn’t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.” – Nils Frahm

HOW WILL YOU CELEBRATE PIANO DAY?

create your own piano events with friends or simply share your videos, poems, photos - anything that is piano inspired. don’t forget to tag us in your posts!

Instagram – #pianodayofficial
Twitter – twitter.com/piano__day
Facebook – facebook.com/pages/Piano-Day/382403391947996
Email – share your fun stuff with info@pianoday.org

Solo

Some

Buy LP/CD/DL

Nils Frahm - Some

TREE - #PianoDay

“TREE” is a part of a composition written for Simphonie Cinétique, a collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and Joachim Sauter. Re-edited and mixed for release in celebration of Nils Frahm’s #PianoDay and features Nils himself on celeste.

Composed, arranged and performed by Ólafur Arnalds
Violin: Viktor Orri Árnason
Celeste: Nils Frahm

Recorded at Durton Studio, Berlin.
Mixed at E7 Studios, Reykjavik.

See more about Symphonie Cinétique here:
https://vimeo.com/70897666

TREE

** Merganzer's first full length album, "Mirror Maze" is now available here: https://merganzer.bandcamp.com **
Wonderful German pianist Nils Frahm has declared March 29th, the 88th day of the year, world "Piano Day" so, in honour of this celebration, here's a sneak preview of a track from Merganzer's upcoming full-length record that makes use of this tender and timeless instrument. 
Merganzer is the new experimental pop project of Violinist Mika Posen (Timber Timbre, Agnes Obel). Most of her music is built around strings and keyboards, but "Ganz Großes Kino" was written and recorded on an old acoustic upright piano late one night in Berlin during the early winter of 2014. String sounds and tape delay were added later on back in Canada.


Ganz Großes Kino

SONGS OF HOPE op. 116, a cycle of piano pieces in all minor keys, composed in March 2015.

Gratitude

UNITED CRUSHERS, out March 4, 2016 / Pre-order Now!

CD/LP: smarturl.it/PolicaUC_Preorder
iTunes: smarturl.it/Polica_UC

TOUR: thisispolica.com/tour.php

POLIÇA - Lately

Coming soon on the S'Express 'Enjoy This Trip' album! A collection of remodels, remixes and remakes. Out May 27th on Needle Boss Records!

S'Express - Enjoy This Trip
CD on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ENJOY-THIS-TRIP-Sexpress/dp/B01DE8XPHE

Digital on Juno (WAV or Mp3 + 4 bonus tracks Including Primal Scream's cover of Mantra For A State Of Mind)
http://www.junodownload.com/products/sexpress-enjoy-this-trip/3101263-02/

www.markmoore.com

S'Express - Lollypop (Chris & Cosey Remix)

Just forget it, I can make it mind over matter 
I can make you feel something better 
I don’t want to be apart 

And I said it, everything in life has an ending 
think of all the days we were spending 
hoping for a way to start 

I came to leave it right 
I hope to stay the night 
you back away but its already love 

I know you think that I’m crazy 
'cause I can’t stop calling you baby 
and I know that you’ll never break me 
'cause it’s already love, 'cause it’s already love 

I’m a soldier, fight it but I know that I need it 
try to look away but I see it 
yea, your body feels like home

is it over? We don’t have to wait on forever
We could go the wrong way together 
I just want to let you know 

I came to leave it right 
I hope to stay the night 
you back away but its already love 

I know you think that I’m crazy 
'cause I can’t stop calling you baby 
and I know that you’ll never break me 
'cause it’s already love, 'cause it’s already love 

You know that look that you gave me 
yea it knocked me out but it saved me 
and I don’t quite know what Im saying 
'cause it’s already love, 'cause it’s already love

Feel it calling you back 
hoping for a little 
waiting for somebody to come 
and show you what to look for 
nothing can mistake my love 
everything you are is everything I wanted  
now i want to tell you, now I want to tell you

I know you think that I’m crazy 
'cause I can’t stop calling you baby 
and I know that you’ll never break me 
'cause it’s already love, 'cause it’s already love 

You know that look that you gave me 
yea it knocked me out but it saved me 
and I don’t quite know what Im saying 
'cause it’s already love, 'cause it’s already love

Already Love

Original version on the album Morning/Evening released on Text Records in 2015.

Evening Side (Oneohtrix Point Never edit)

Taken from the album 'Taking The Veil', released worldwide on May 24, 2015 on Kitchen. Label

Pre-order on CD + Art Book here:
www.kitchen-label.com/ki015-hior-chr…king-the-veil/

Tracklist:
1 - London Bridges (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
2 - Nest of Autumn (Feat. Sophie Hutchings)
3 - Twice (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
4 - Small Wonders (Feat. Yasushi Yoshida)
5 - Cold Winter Morning (Feat. Lüüp)
6 - Simple is Beautiful (Feat. Field Rotation)
7 - Sailing Away (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
8 - We Are All Snowflakes (Feat. Yoshinori Takezawa)
9 - Oblivion (Feat. Field Rotation)
10 - Can You Hear (Feat. Familiar Trees)
11 - When The Night Comes (Feat. Daphne Farazi)
12 - Between Two Rooms (Feat. Seiji Takahashi)
13 - The Sense We Make (Feat. Halo)
14 - Quiet Inside Your Chest (Feat. Aaron Martin)
15 - The Ghost You Left Behind

“Shadows surrounding, this lucid veil that will not conceal.”

‘Taking the Veil’ is the debut solo album on Kitchen. Label by Berlin-based musician Hior Chronik. Originally from Athens, the new album is a follow-up to his previous work on the label as the duo Pill-Oh in ‘Vanishing Mirror’. The established foundation are intact on ‘Taking the Veil’: the bitterly romantic strings and gentle electronics whisper melting over plaintive piano scores. Hior Chronik has a penchant of producing subtly immense and cinematic compositions which are remarkably chilling in its beauty.

The latest release follows Hior Chronik’s distinctive compositional path with the pairing of a collaborator on each track. This time the instrumental colors are most intimate, honed to evocative perfection with each collaboration bringing its own nuances to a permeable set of motives. Through the contemplative moments, what give it life is the varied scoring which goes from solo piano to string orchestra, opening up a space that shimmers with stirring melancholy. Featuring classically aligned contemporaries such as Field Rotation (Denovali Records), Sophie Hutchings (Preservation), Lüüp (Experimedia) and Japanese composers Yasushi Yoshida (noble), Yoshinori Takezawa (Schole Records) among many others. The biggest change in this new album is the addition of vocals by Amber Ortolano and Fabiola Sanchez (Familiar Trees) on four songs. Figured centrally in the soundtrack as recurring lyrical voicing, the Amber Ortolano and Hior Chronik pairing also produced a rearranged version of ‘Twice’ originally written by Swedish electronic band Little Dragon.

‘Taking the Veil’ is presented in a 16-page art book format, also featuring the New York based Amber Ortolano as a photographer. The subject in the visual narrative of ‘Taking the Veil’ is of young women imprisoned by their flow of thoughts and their dark imagination. The delicate beauty and ambiguous gestures of feminine protagonists serve as powerful metaphors of the veil as the title of the album reflects – They reveal and conceal all at once, reviving emotions conjured by a sense of mystery. The album underlines this atmosphere that probe the consciousness imbued with burnished hues of something half-remembered and half-dreamed. ‘Taking the Veil’ is the best company for late hours and memory searching in a world of mist and shadows.

Released & distributed by Kitchen. Label
Ⓟ & © 2015 Kitchen. Label

MORE INFO:
www.kitchen-label.com

Hior Chronik - Oblivion (Featuring Field Rotation)

Wallflower - Dreamy Days

Based in Berlin, Hior Chronik was born in Athens in 1974. His relationship with music started when he was working as a radio producer for Jazz fm in the early 90s’ and as a columnist for various music magazines. He began creating music about 7 years ago and today his focus is on minimal ambient based mainly on piano, characterized by cinematography, melancholy, scattered notes and long melodies that form expressive engagements. His music is featured in various films, documentaries as well as art performance. His debut album entitled “I’m a tree”" was released from Enregistrements Variables label in 2010. Collaborations constitute his basic core of inspiration and motivation for creating music. His 2nd solo album, entitled “Unspoken Words” was released by mü-nest in November of 2011, which will include collaborations with Akira Kosemura, Natalie Tba, Roger Doering (of Dictaphone) and many more. He released an album as Pill-Oh entitled “Vanishing Mirror” on Kitchen. Label in 2012.