Enstrümantal

This track was exclusively made with 8Dio 1969 Steinway Legacy Grand Piano, including all the sound design type of patches.

8Dio 1969 Legacy Piano: "Patch Examples" by Troels Folmann

Track 3 of 5 in the EP 'Shallows'. A concept album of love, betrayal and heartbreak.
Captain depicts the obscene sorrow you feel in heartbreak. Feeling as though you can't breathe. Drowning in the emotions. How your whole world can crash on top of you, suffocating you. Once the captain, now struggling to stay afloat. 


Captain
Written, produced and performed by Tom Bem, 
Ft. Strings by Dexter Britain
Copyright 2013

The storm is coming now,
The dark’s engulfing me,
I’m in too deep,
She’s the temptress of this sea.
I’m submerged in her waters,
I choke as my lungs fill,
My ship is a wreck now,
My sails are empty.

Hope is all we have, it’s sink or swim.
Hope is all I have.

Oh, Captain, Captain,
This ship is going down,
Captain, Captain,
Abandon ship now
How do I compose myself?
Wake me up and clear my senses?
Swim to shore from the sea Bed?
Cos I’m drowning in your shallows.

So I breathe,
In between waves of emotions, 
Crashing down on me,
Caused by the words you said,
Swirling round and round my head.
I’ve lost my compass,
And I’ve lost my first mate,
So batten down the hatches,
And anchors aweigh.

Hope is all we have, it’s sink or swim.

Oh, Captain, Captain,
This ship is going down,
Captain, Captain,
Abandon ship now
How do I compose myself?
Wake me up and clear my senses?
Swim to shore from the sea Bed?
Cos I’m drowning in your shallows.

Oh, Captain, Captain,
This ship is going down,
Captain, Captain,
Abandon ship now
The only way I’ll stay afloat,
Keep my head above the surface,
Is realise I need no boat…
Cos she’s so shallow. 


Captain

Echo

The first piece / track of the second album, "A New Beginning" by James Spiteri

www.jamesspiteri.co.uk

A New Beginning - James Spiteri

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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

Hi friends! 💛
My new song "Myself & I" is OUT NOW:
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The Leftovers: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series)

The Departure

Departure (Home)

From the updated version of The Score (Part One). The Score features over an hour of soundtrack themes from the gentle opening through to full and epic hollywood.
 
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Ideas

26-year old prodigy and former pianist James Spiteri has been composing his own music for the last half-decade and still hoping for it to be revealed to a worldwide audience. One can only encourage him to go this way, so much his melodies and tracks are as fascinating as truly beautiful, perfectly mastered and full of mental images. Far from only being a simple performer, he is giving respectability to his instrument thanks to clever and emotional tunes about to move each one of us to tears.

His art can be considered as a motion picture soundtrack, a collection of subtle paintings leading each listener/ member of the audience to the deepest contemplation ever. Sometimes reminding us of Michael Nyman or Thee Silver Mt. Zion. James also takes detours to more personal genres.

He decorates his piano tones with simple and quality-valuing strings arrangements thus revealing his rare gift for drawing melodies that every filmmaker would need as a recording surrounding pictures. His work on delicate and sensitive arpeggio is an invitation to dance as well as a comfortable place to hide, where walls are covered with sweet musical curtains.

Moreover, not only composing to support already existing movies, the artist aims to inspire psychic drawings in our own minds. Remembrances, landscapes, moments of life are created to reassure and slowly look back, in order to consider all the way everyone has covered through the years, until now. Not only paying tribute to his own existence, James Spiteri plays with people’s difficulties and instants, but also with himself, his dreams and desires, and learns more and more while performing piano in a sober and right way.

His never-excessive art goes straight to the heart and is magnificently emphasized by his ability to decorate music with admirable splendors, finally allowing each one of us to go deeper into an intimate and classical harmony that many still refuse to understand or enjoy.

Now, this is the right time for the performer to replace the composer; most of all, he needs to give his creations to the world, make them live through it, and arouse emotions and tears.

All tracks slowly flow, caress and bring a brand new warmth to our bodies, souls and senses. In front of such a perfect exhibition of feelings everybody will recognize as his/her own, a smile then will shine on people’s faces while listening to these absolutely fascinating sounds.

As movie music sounds quite off-putting and wanting to get too much for nothing, the solitude James Spiteri is inviting us to is a blessing and an example to be followed. And, of course, share to value his music all around the world."


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Review by Raphaël DUPREZ
Twitter:  @frombtozee 

A New Beginning - James Spiteri

James Spiteri

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