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The new album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

EU order link: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP055
US order link: http://www.midheaven.com/item/spaces-by-frahm-nils-cd

9/10 Drowned In Sound · 9/10 Clash · 4.5/5 Fact · 4.5/5 Resident Advisor · 9/10 Popmatters · 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit · 8.5/10 Under The Radar · 8/10 Exclaim! ★★★★1/2 Music Omh · ★★★★ The Irish Times · ★★★★ Arts Desk

‘Frahm truly excels’ 9/10 Uncut 
‘Frahm works his magic’ ★★★★ Mojo
‘The infinite elasticity of sound’ 7.8 Pitchfork 
‘Improvisatory, wild, heartfelt’ Interview Magazine
‘A fantastic record’ The Guardian Album of the Week 
‘Frahm creates something mesmerising’ ★★★★ The Observer
‘My favourite new piece of music this year’ Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music

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Spaces

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Taken from Daniel Bachman's album, 'Jesus I'm A Sinner', out October 8th 2013 on Tompkins Square. Available on LP/CD/DL.

"With each new album, guitarist Daniel Bachman further establishes himself as one of the great living fingerstyle artists."
 - FRETBOARD JOURNAL

'Jesus I'm a Sinner' is the 4th LP by Daniel Bachman, the follow up to last year's acclaimed 'Seven Pines'.  It was recorded in Rappahannock County Virginia at Forrest Marquisee's studio inside his father's woodshop in May of 2013 after spending 8 months on the road.  

The first song 'Sarah Anne' is for one of his best friends and sister, Sarah Anne Bachman, and it's also his first full song for the lap guitar.  'Honeysuckle Reel' is a springtime tune, for that first day when the heat and humidity sets in and the smell of the honeysuckle bloom creeps in your open windows driving.  'Happy One Step' is a guitar/fiddle duet with Sally Morgan of the Black Twig Pickers/The Freight Hoppers.  It is a Cajun tune by Dennis McGee.  'Jesus I'm a Sinner' is for cutting loose.  'Variation on Goose Chase' is a version of Virgil Anderson's 'Goose Chase'.  Although attempted to adapt to the guitar, playing it on the banjo was the only way to keep the feel of the original version. 

'Under the Shade of the Trees' has the undertone and drone of the 17 year cicada hatch that hit Virginia summer of 2013.  The title is taken from Stonewall Jackson's last words on his deathbed, "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees".  'Chattanooga' is played by Sally Anne Morgan (fiddle) and Charlie Devine (banjo).  This version was taken from Blaine Smith.  'Blenheim' is the name of the Latané family's property in Westmoreland Co. Virginia.  It's a song for good food, drinks and solid company nestled on the banks of the Potomac River.  'Leaving Istanbul (4 AM)' is a frustration song - the feeling of being very tired thousands and thousands of miles away from home.

'Jesus I'm A Sinner' Available on LP (TSQ2950), CD (TSQ2943) and DL OCTOBER 8th
Distributed by INgrooves in the US, Cargo UK for Europe, FUSE for Australia
Tour dates (w/ Ryley Walker) :

OCTOBER
7th - New York - The Living Room
10th - Antwerp - Audio Plant 
11th - Koln - Bastille Kalk
12th - Weisbaden - Fragmente
13th - Berlin - Monarch Berlin 
14th - Berlin - Normans House Party
15th - Schwarzenburg - Galerie Rademann 
16th - Ceske Budejovice -Horka Vana
17th - Vienna - Mo.e 
19th - Genoa - Garage 1517 
21st - Marseille - Grim 
22nd - Cafè El Cercle, Girona 
23rd - Barcelona - Heliogabal 
24th - Madrid - La Faena Bolos
25th - Paris -  les Instants Chavirés 
27th - Louvain La Neuve - Ecuries de la Ferme du Biéreau 
28 - Brussels -Bonnefooi  
29th - Leiden - Hannah And Leos 
30th - Den Hag - Villa Te Kuip 
31 - Amsterdam - Occi 
 
NOVEMBER solo dates
15th - Durham - Pinhook 
16th - Ashville - Apothecary 
17th - Nashville - Bang Candy Company 
18th - Louisville - TBA
19th - Urbana - Indigo 
20th - Oberlin - Fairchild Chapel 
21st - Pittsburgh - Acoustic Music Works 
22nd - Charlottesville - Tea Bazaar 


Honeysuckle Reel by Daniel Bachman

from the album 'no. 2' available 2/24

Music composed by Christina Vantzou
Arrangements by Minna Choi 
Recorded w/ Magik*Magik Orchestra at Tiny Telephone Studios

www.kranky.net
www.christinavantzou.com

christina vantzou 'going backwards to recover that which was left behind'

'Music For Steamed Rocks' appears on 'Commissions I' by @oneohtrix-point-never, exclusive to Record Store Day 2014, learn more at http://bit.ly/commissions-i

Lopatin interpreted Witold Lutoslawski's Preludes in 'Music For Steamed Rocks', a piece composed for Polish Icons at Sacrum Profanum, a Warp staple that's previously hosted Clark & Aphex Twin.

Learn more about the release at <a href="http://bit.ly/commissions-i" target="_blank">warp.net</a>, set for release on 12" vinyl in a black foil print jacket with die-cut view of inner sleeve.

OPN's debut release for Warp 'R Plus Seven' is out now, learn more at http://bit.ly/1aE9CEM

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Learn more at warp.net

Oneohtrix Point Never - Music For Steamed Rocks

grouper 'call across rooms'

Order 7"/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP073
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/lifestoryloveandglory

Erased Tapes artists and friends Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm have separately carved out a musical career that defies genres both with their unique live shows and a loyal fan base that’s always eager to hear what their prolific output will bring. 

Their latest collaborative 2-track release ‘Life Story Love and Glory’ is a live improv affair on two pianos, recorded in 2012 at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin. Fans may wonder why they have waited until 2015 to release these tracks, but having revealed a new website www.arnaldsfrahm.com you may think this may not be the end to their musical story this year. 

“We would meet in Reykjavik or Berlin with the intention to share some days off work, hiking, swimming or eating pizza. That is great for a couple days, but after a while we would always end up back in the studio, fiddling with synths or pianos.” – Nils Frahm 
“You can hear in the beginning of ‘Life Story’ how I have already started playing the piano whilst Nils is still moving microphones around and preparing everything. It was all kept in!“ – Ólafur Arnalds 

‘Life Story Love and Glory’ will be released as a 7” on Erased Tapes – exclusively through record stores only on August 21, 2015 ahead of its digital release later on – as an ode to this classic and beloved format. 

More info: www.arnaldsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Life Story Love And Glory

Life Story

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Life Story

‘Loon’ will be released on Erased Tapes as a 12” vinyl as well as digitally on October 2nd. 
Pre-order it here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP072
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/loon

Containing five synthesiser-led pieces, ‘Loon’ was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues on from the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For this new EP the duo wired an Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the mixing desk and performed live takes on both instruments. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape.

Like on ‘Stare’, their first collaborative affair in 2012, they simply followed what was laying in front of them, and this time they were driven by some new synths, a kick drum and tape effects. Indulging in dub, the tracks where all performed rather than engineered, with Ólafur riding a few elements on faders and Nils bringing effects in and out. After running several mixes, they went for the five strongest moments from this session. The release was announced on a joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com together with the launch of an intimate 45-minute studio film titled ‘Trance Frendz’, featuring another seven improvisations.

“Nils got some new synths and we thought we’d try them out. We loved them so much that we didn’t actually end up using anything else to make these songs.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“When I was young I was smuggled to Goa parties by my brother. The music played there in the late nineties had a somewhat deep effect on me. ‘Loon’ is almost a blurry memory of these times. In other words, it is what I’d like to remember that music sounded like back then. In fact it sounded probably really cheesy.” – Nils Frahm

Loon

Four

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Four

From the recordings that produced Drums Between the Bells - the collaboration between Brian Eno and British poet Rick Holland – comes an all new EP titled Panic Of Looking.

The 6 tracks continue the exploration of how lyric & song- writing are perceived in the post-everything era.  As the Sunday Times suggests, "The poems aren't sung, yet the pieces are undeniably songlike, first because the music refuses to act simply as background, but lurches frequently, sometimes unexpected to the fore, and second because we hear the meaning of the words in the way we normally pick up song lyrics," while WIRED Magazine calls Eno’s soundscapes, "a tapestry of pillowy synths, minor-key melodies, chiming guitars and skittering drums."

All of these elements come together for the November 7th/8th release of the EP, which was produced by Eno and features his original artwork on vinyl, CD & digital formats.

Panic of Looking

panic of looking

Brian Eno and the words of Rick Holland - panic of looking

from the album 'dropped pianos', available 10/10.

Tim Hecker 'Sketch 5'

christina vantzou 'homemade mountains'

from the album 'tragedy & geometry' available 11/14

steve hauschildt 'batteries may drain'

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Closed Circuit

Learn more at RVNG: http://smarturl.it/frkwys13-rvng
Add to your collection at Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/frkwys13-bcamp
Download + stream everywhere else here: http://smarturl.it/frkwys13-digital

From FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy. Out everywhere September 16, 2016.

℗ and © 2016 RVNG Intl. / www.igetrvng.com

FRKWYS Vol. 13 - Sunergy

Closed Circuit

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Closed Circuit

Fissures

Tree of the Wind

I. 2c 
II. Flutter
III. Moments in Love

out 04.28.17 https://boomkat.com/products/grafts

GRAFTS

from the album 'we will always be' available 01/30

windy & carl 'remember'

The Sheltering Sky theme, composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990).

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlxAEmGmK-s

Soundtrack from the movie The Sheltering Sky (Il tè nel deserto) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Yamaha studio C7 grand piano, with pedal noise and string resonance, and sampled orchestral strings.

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