“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

Happy Piano Day 2018! It's the day for all piano players, lovers and dreamers, and it's great to see how many awesome artists contributed also this year a piece for this special day. 

If you want to learn more about it, please head over to the official Piano Day website: http://www.pianoday.org/

Piano Day 2018 by Sonoraspace

A selection of music released in celebration of Piano Day 2018

Image by Markus Gjengaar via Unsplash
Source: https://unsplash.com/collections/768064/music

Piano Day 2018 Selections

Official Piano Day 2018 Playlist

Happy Piano Day!

Piano Day 2018 Playlist

PIANO DAY 2018

sleeping songs

Piano Day Tracks

Happy Piano Day 2016! On the 88th day of the year, pianist Nils Frahm and other musicians come together to celebrate the piano and all its glory. Here is my humble contribution. A rough recent recording of a solo piano piece.

Check other contributions to Piano Day at http://www.pianoday.org/

Hymn 1 - Ascension (Piano Day 2016)

A track I wrote to celebrate Piano Day, the 88th day of the year (March 29th, 2017). All sounds on the track are created using a single piano.

Piano Day 2017

Every Atom of You and Every Atom of Me (Piano Day 2017)

This track is being released as a homage to Nils Frahm (and friends) PianoDay 2018 (available on other digital platforms here radi.al/Unless ):

“Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better,
it’s not.” The Lorax, Dr Seuss

This piece was inspired by our beautiful yet fragile planet and the wisdom of the Lorax. “Unless” speaks of the realisation and the moment of turning.

Credits:

Written, produced and engineered by Joel Pike - Tiny Leaves
Mastered by Stavros Kokkinos 

Piano, Guitar and Xylophone - Joel Pike

Artwork - “Craning Crane” by TB Ward
http://www.tbward.com

Unless

Single track of the album Reminiscence by Aukai
Stream & Download: https://aukai-music.lnk.to/P6haa
Order Limited Edition CD: https://aukai.bandcamp.com/album/reminiscence

Markus Sieber - piano, ronroco, guitars, bass
Alexander Nickmann - synth, melotron, vibraphone
Miguel Hiroshi - drums

Mixed by Moshik Kop, London

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Reframe

From the EP Safe House on 1631 Recordings - https://1631recordings.bandcamp.com/

Released for Piano Day 2018 www.pianoday.org

Safe House

Set In Motion

Happy Piano Day:http://pianoday.org/
Experimental Baroque Melodic Abstractions from a Bygone Era
Piano Ep out now: https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/cryptic-comfort

Mood Exhibit- Cryptic Comfort [Piano Day 2018]

Time should not be measured in hours and minutes, but in transformations.

This is my special tale for #PianoDay2018.

music: luca longobardi
artwork: luca longobardi, upon an original illustration by Gaetano Bruno (http://www.gaetanobruno.it/about/)

Pavel (Piano Day 2018)

from 'Intervals' (Piano Day 2018 compilation)

Download/Buy: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intervals

Composition and production: Jacob David

Violins: Madeleine Rygner Holm & Zerlina Rigmor Rygner
Viola: Marianne Rygner
Cello: Nicolaus Tamino Rygner
Piano: Jacob David 

Mix: Thomas Haahr

Loft

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Jacob David - Loft

Recorded for Nils Frahm's Piano Day on 29th March 2018

Polaroid Notes - Oh Dear Heart

My contribution to Piano Day 2018. I went a little more experimental this time out, I hope you enjoy what I found when I opened my piano.

Piano Day 2018

Continuum For Open Piano (Piano Day 2018)

from compilation 'Intervals' (Piano Day 2018)

download/buy: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intervals

composed & produced by Manos Milonakis
piano, wurlitzer and synth: Manos Milonakis

Manos Milonakis - Margarette

Moss

from compilation 'Intervals' (Piano Day 2018)

download/buy: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intervals

Composed & Produced by James Maloney
Piano: James Maloney

Intervals

Thirds

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James Maloney - Thirds

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com
www.pianoday.org

Jakob Lindhagen - Icicles

Garreth Broke - Undercurrent

sound gift for piano day celebration 
29th march 2018

recorded in reykjavik with bergur parisson
original music by hania rani

www.facebook.com/haniaranimusic
www.youtube.com/hannaranna
www.instagram.com/haniarani

hania rani is coming
and she is coming
soon

hania rani - today it came

www.facebook.com/laakemusic

Recorded, composed & mixed by LAAKE for Piano Day 2018
Mastering by Jeremy Henry @ La Villa Mastering

CLOCKS

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)

Koltrast - My contribution to piano day 2018. 
Find my other works here:

https://open.spotify.com/track/7arVAG3yarEaebADQsBZDo?si=vcdb00FFSKCDg0XWPcGUPg

https://twitter.com/TheArtByFabian

https://facebook.com/TheArtByFabian

https://instagram.com/TheArtByFabian

Klangriket

Koltrast

Christian Löffler - The Undertow

Released on March 29 in celebration of Piano Day 2018.
Pre-order the album 'Persona' here: http://phonofile.link/rivalconsoles-persona

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Be Kind

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Rival Consoles - Be Kind

An improvisation based on a theme from my track "Mountain" from November Hymnal. My very first recording in my new house! Happy Piano Day 2019!

Piano Day 2019

Without The Weight Of Expectations (Piano Day 2019)

My contribution to Piano Day 2020, the celebration on the 88th day of the year. Considering the difficult times the world is currently in, this piece seemed to be rather appropriate.

Let The Light In (Piano Day 2020)

Songwriter and musician currently working out of Minnesota. Released four albums, with the most recent being 2016's "November Hymnal".

Continuum For Open Piano (Piano Day 2018)

Isaac John