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Official Piano Day 2019 Playlist

Happy Piano Day!

Artwork by Skrew Studio.

Piano Day 2019 Playlist

Only the best tracks composed for Piano Day 2019, selected by me.
Artwork by Skrewstudio.

Piano Day 2019 - Best of

Piano Day 2019 - Personal Favorites

Jacob Smith - Composer - DEMO

Under the Rising Sun

The Broken and Stray

Vision

Heron's Path

Pre-order 'Trance Frendz' on LP/DL: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP081
or digitally iTunes: snip.ftpromo.net/trancefrendz

Having been available exclusively as the second disc to 2015's 'Collaborative Works', Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm's improvised audio recordings 'Trance Frendz', taken from their 45-minute studio film of the same name, have been given their own vinyl release – out March 4th, 2016.

Prior to a string of collaborative Erased Tapes releases, which include 2012's 'Stare' 10” and last year’s 'Life Story Love and Glory' 7” and 'Loon' 12” – compiled on the 'Collaborative Works' 2-CD set, Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm spent many hours together in their studios across Berlin and Reykjavik. Both have carved out genre-defying musical careers and formed unique live shows, creating a fan base loyal to their prolific output.

During a session at Durton Studio in Berlin last summer, Nils and Ólafur invited Alexander Schneider and his camera to document it. The recording continued long after the first take, stretching out into the next day until, eventually, several new improvisations had been recorded in 8 hours with no overdubs or edits. The unexpected nature in which these pieces had been created was reminiscent of their first on-stage improvisation many years ago. It became immediately clear how special these songs were.

"At the end of the night we had all this music that sounded unfamiliar even to us, loudly asking to be included in this collection.”

Originally made available as a 45-minute film on their joint website (www.arnaldsfrahm.com) last September, 'Trance Frendz' will be available to own on vinyl from March 4th, 2016.

Press for their 'Collaborative Works':

'A particularly joyous wash of slinky percussion and juddering layers' (8/10) – Clash

'An enchanting listen. The bar for a Lads' Night In has just been raised a few notches' (7/10) – Drowned In Sound

‘This is music for slowing down the pace of modern life... An immersive listening experience is guaranteed, while we must hope Frahm and Arnalds go on ‘holiday’ together more in future, and don’t forget to take their musical instruments.’ ★★★★ – MusicOMH

'A collection of gorgeously intimate piano compositions and eye-opening synth pieces, each never aggressive but always powerfully poignant' (8/10) – Under The Radar

'What Collaborative Works offers is something strange: a shared world created by two mad geniuses. Long may Arnalds and Frahm tinker' (8/10) – PopMatters

'Collaborative Works further proves just how natural a fit Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm are together' – Resident Advisor

Trance Frendz

20:17

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – 20:17

Happy Piano Day!
#JulienMarchal #PianoDay 

Trying To Get By

Here in this delicate moment

Artist : Tambour 
Album : Chapitre II

Listen/Buy :
Bandcamp : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chapitre-ii
iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/chapitre-ii-ep/id1133272661
Spotify : https://play.spotify.com/album/6uYv8v3XhhsRdLXdDINY9A
BUY / 12" VINYL : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chapitres-vinyl-edition

Composed and produced by Simon P. Castonguay (Tambour)
Piano, glockenspiel, synthesizer, electronics - Simon P. Castonguay
Violon I - Rose Frappier
Violon II - Audrée Leduc
Viola - Mélanie Venditti
Cello - Anaïs Constantin
Mixed and mastered by Pierre Duchesne

Tambour - L'apostrophe

Alfardan

And our faded memories, we leave behind

FLOAT proudly welcomes their second artist into the fold. UK electronic artist and Szun Waves band member Luke Abbott, presents a special 10-track album to celebrate Piano Day 2019 – an international event series initiated by Nils Frahm which acts as a platform for piano-related projects. 

“It's a very self-contained body of work, I haven't ever made music with this kind of sound pallet before” – Luke Abbott 

Pre Order LP/LTD ETD: www.wearefloat.co.uk/luke-abbott-music-from-the-edge-of-an-island
Pre Order Digital: http://radi.al/LukeAbbottMftEoaI
Buy Show Tickets March 29th at Earth, Hackney: www.wearefloat.co.uk/piano-day-2019

‘Music for the Edge of an Island’ sees Abbott divert from his typically experimental electronic style to explore a more compositional approach centred around VST instruments. Rather than the usual themes of synthesis and improvisation, the album is lead by piano motifs, structured around emotive melodies and sparkling arrangements. The record began as a part of a soundtrack commission by producer / actor Jessica Hynes for her film ‘The Fight’ and ultimately became a fully-realised album. The film script had a coastal setting that created the record’s thematic idea: “I had this idea about being on the edge of England, almost ready to fall off a cliff into the sea but keeping your balance on the edge.”

Luke Abbott - Tree

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Wish you the best my friends around the world :)

Ambient Seeds (V2)

Mute

Offline Improvisation

Piano solo piece from my new EP "Chrysalide", released on March 29th 2019, with Memory Recordings.
© 2019 Dominique Charpentier. All rights reserved
© 2019 Memory Recordings. All rights reserved
Artwork by Anna Salzmann: www.annasalzmann.com/

Chrysalide

"Terre" - Piano Day 2019 (from my Chrysalide EP, out now)

2nd song from the upcoming album 'Chameleon' (out April 26).
https://lnk.to/LisaMorgenstern_Chameleon

Chameleon

At the Top of a Tree

Transmutation (noun)
uk ​ /ˌtrænz.mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/ us ​ /ˌtræns.mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/
​the act or process of changing something completely, especially into something different

NOVA is my special track for #PianoDay 2019.

live recorded on February 14th during one of my house concert

mixed and mastered by Iacopo Sinigaglia at Pepperpot

piano: Scholze upright (1985)

mics: Oktava MK-012 (modded, cardioid capsule)

synths and electronic gears:

_ Dave Smith Prophet 6
_ Moog Mother 32
_ IK Multimedia UNO Synth
_ Keith McMillan Softstep
_ Strymon Big Sky

artwork: NOVA by luca longobardi

NOVA (Piano Day 2019)

This June 7th, we're releasing Tom Adams' LP 'Particles' - a series of explorations for piano & electronics. 

▶ CD/DL pre-order + stream the lead single : https://orcd.co/tomadamsparticles

The Berlin based producer and songwriter originally did a small 'soundcloud only' self-release of the record in 2014, and we were stunned by the singular vision and voice present in each of the album's explorations. We're very pleased to be giving this record a worldwide release in CD format and on all digital platforms, with a new master by fellow Berliner / sound artist Martyn Heyne.

Particles

Particle VI

buy/stream 'Particles'

Tom Adams - Particle VI (Shadow & Light)

"I think I am the same as an artist and as a person. Music is my way of communication and I see the art, the music as a whole thing, with no borders, divisions, or even genres." - https://soundcloud.com/haniarani

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik, and released an album with her Polish group tęskno last year. She has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in Europe - from the National Philharmony in Warsaw, to Funkhaus in Berlin, to The Roundhouse in London (where she made her debut at the Gondwana 10thanniversary festival last October) and at festivals such as Open'er, Scope Festival and Eurosonic. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.

'Esja' is her debut solo album and for Rani it is her first, real, personal statement as an artist. "No hiding behind the "collaborations" or "projects" anymore. For the very first time, finally - just me, as I am".

Recorded at Rani's apartment in Warsaw (the piano room has a beautiful reverb and the space has become part art studio and part sound laboratory for Rani) and at her friend Bergur Þórisson'sstudio in Reykjavik, Esja is a series of beautiful melodic vignettes. Sensual, sensitive, rhythmic, atmospheric, free but harmonious, beguiling and hypnotic, collectively they project a sense of unlimited space and time.

Esja

Hawaii Oslo

Hania Rani - Hawaii Oslo (Piano Day 2019)

Nightports w/Matthew Bourne - You Would Say That

Composed & produced by Philippe Larvor & Nicolas Garnier
Mixed by Benoit Guivarc'h at BG's studio
Mastered by Hubert Marniau at Studio Voltaire
- Phalaenopsis Prod -

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facebook.com/pianonoirmusic
instagram.com/pianonoirmusic
twitter.com/pianonoirmusic
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYpZLO8VxVaLu3tk8Q78F_A

Paraza

Following on from last year's acclaimed debut with Erased Tapes The Transition — named #17 album of the year by The Sunday Times — Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with 'The Cell', released on June 14th. Listen to lead track 'Nature's Course', released especially for Piano Day.

“Nature’s Course is a feeling pertaining to the way our subjective human experience is subconsciously directly related to the slow steady pace of nature and our ability to cope with our inner struggles accordingly” explains David.

The Cell further cements David’s place among the American songwriting tradition, from the slow methodical spacey instrumental Mandatory Soul to the poetic solo piano number Family and the dense and continuous Lexington Hills. With each piece we are transported to David’s unusual but rich and textured little world.

Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon – David worked as a sound engineer and session musician, featuring on multiple recordings by the likes of Birger Olsen, Brigid Mae Power, Brumes, The Beacon Sound Choir, Chantal Acda, Heather Woods Broderick, Jung Body, Masayoshi Fujita, and many more. He quickly found himself touring Europe with Peter Broderick, culminating in a Royal Festival Hall performance, and contributing the arresting voice and double bass piece Ahoy to the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary box set 1+1=X.

David will return to Europe with more dates to be announced soon. 

· pre-order 'The Cell' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/thecell

· order 'The Transition' on LP/CD/DL: https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp114-david-allred-the-transition

The Cell

Nature's Course

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David Allred - Nature's Course

Hi, here's my music, released on March 29th in celebration of Piano Day 2019.
Bandcamp: https://urlz.fr/9k62
Read More here: www.pianoday.org
Piano Day: everything you need to know: The National https://urlz.fr/9k6d
Produced, Played, and Recorded by Stéphane Horeczko,
Mixed by Maxime Lefèvre at Claudia Sound Studios, Levallois-Perret (FR),
Mastered by Mark Bihler at Calyx Mastering, Berlin (DE).

LITTLE THINGS

Little Things

I have a bad (fun) habit of collection pianos/keyboard instruments, so in the spirit of Piano Day 2019, I thought I'd give them all some love. This piece features all 14 of my keyboarded friends, some happy and healthy and others... not so much.

#pianoday