Soft Piano for Reading

Your Name In August

‘Parrots’ is a melodic, expressive and soft solo piano piece.

It was composed at Sunday evening, just coming back from a family day at a parrots park. All the lovely and chill feelings were set into the song. Right hand plays a one note very peaceful and sensitive melody, easy to catch up. Recorded and mixed 2023 at GAM Studio by producer Armen Bedrossian near Paris on a classic C. Bernstein grand piano.

Composed and performed: @Byebyefish
Cover Art: NJ Renaud
Pictures: Alan Godphrey (Unsplash)
Recorded and mixed: Armen Bedrossian @ GAM Studio
Music video: @Byebyefish

Parrots

4th most listened Finnish pianist (Spotify 12/2023) releases solo piano album
from legendary Mons Records
”Intimate & emotional (…) pure sincerity”
— Active Light Records, Canada
”Soul’s melody hums, echoes of heart’s true song, harmony within.”
— Piano Haiku
Finland’s only Piano Balladist, Heikki Hallanoro, makes a strong melodic mark
with his sensitive and delicate piano pieces that are delivered with such a
tenderness and bold simplicity that it is not just beautiful but simply – shines
truth.
Heikki, once a promising astronomer who discovered the origins of Saturn’s
rings, a boy of an alcoholic mother who has no classical training, but who has
played his own songs on piano since a little boy and makes his living playing
live his ennobling and relaxing Piano Ballads, got immediately signed with
his first piano solo album by legendary jazz/classical record company Mons
Records, a label that has released albums from such artists as Clark Terry
(trumpetist of Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington), Manu Katché (drummer of
Sting, Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell) and Bob Mintzer (saxophonist of Buddy
Rich, Jaco Pastorius, Tito Puente), among others.
Bon Voyage!
Soul Songs album comprises 8 felt piano pieces that unite minimalistic modern
classical idiom and Arvo Pärt kind of quietness and spirituality. Soul Songs are
not named but numbered (Soul Song No. 1, Soul Song No. 2, etc.), but they
paint vivid scenes. “My intension was to create safe and comforting space for
listener to embark on inner journey.” Heikki didn’t want to name the songs
and direct listeners impression any way since he knew from own experience
that same song can evoke different emotions and memories at different times.
“Songs are continuous and ever-evolving, and they work like magic, since so
are we.”
Old piano like mother elephant
On Soul Songs album Heikki plays over 100 years old piano. It has extremely
dark sound, behaves like a mother elephant, who remembers too many
graveyards. Recordings were engineered by the studio guru Pentti Amore
with 3 gold albums and a the most sold physical album in Finland 2020. Pentti
also mixed and mastered the album. “Presence of both of them, Piano and
Heikki, in this album is unbelievable. The setup is so sensitive – it captures all.”
— Pentti Amore

Soul Songs are Heikki Hallanoro’s life’s work
Soul Songs album series will continue. Soul Songs Vol. 2 is already recorded.
In Soul Songs album series the even albums (Soul Songs Vol. 2, Soul Songs
Vol. 4, etc.) are happy “spring/summer” albums and odd albums (Soul Songs,
Soul Songs Vol. 3, etc.) are more melancholic “winter” albums with darker hues in them.

Soul Song No. 1 - Heikki Hallanoro Repair

The Vessel

Impressions

Monet's Garden

05:55. Mist. Morning. (Piano Version)

05-55. Mist. Morning. (Piano Version)

This piece is inspired by a walk through the park in Milan on a beautiful day. A young man is standing there, creating countless soap bubbles for the people, while some French film music plays in the background. The bubbles float around, bringing joy to everyone around them.

'Inner Compass' is a journey through the emotional world within. The pieces are inspired by places and the emotions I associate with them. The Inner Compass leads the way through it all.

Written, performed & produced by Andreas Wolff
Artwork by Maximilian Hein
Mastering by Jay Pocknell

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Inner Compass

Bubbles

Autumn Sketches Vol. 1
Each original piano piece offers a sonic journey that captures the golden melancholy of autumn. These brief compositions remind us of the shortening days and the fleeting beauty of falling leaves, a moment when nature slowly withdraws and invites introspection.

Autumn Sketches Vol. 1

Aureate

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Aureate - Nicholas Baskerville

Undertow

We’re delighted to welcome French pianist and composer Adrien Bertrand to the ad21 family. His new single Novembre is a serene and heartfelt piano piece that captures quiet emotion through graceful simplicity. With its warm felt tone and delicate phrasing, it invites intimacy, like a gentle moment suspended in time. ad21

Novembre

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A cinematic, hopeful piano piece with a sense of movement and mystery - like walking under a
starlit sky toward something unknown but full of promise.

Starlight

Golden Hour

my quiet home

my quiet home (piano solo)

The title of this album my attempt at translating the Farsi phrase قارچ‌های غربت to English. It comes from the poem "The Sound of Water's Footsteps" by Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri. 

A more literal translation of the phrase would be Mushrooms of "Ghurba", an originally Arabic word that has several meanings, including senses of estrangement, alienation, loneliness, being away for home, and longing.

I composed many of these pieces during and after Israel's 12 day war on Iran in the summer of 2025. Being  an Iranian living abroad for 15 years, I had never felt Ghurba the way I felt it this summer, as I realized more and more that Iranian lives matter to exactly no one.
Ghurba and all its meanings overshadow most of the pieces in this album. 

The music heard on this post is the final track, which is an improv piece with the same title as the album.

In the album art, I tried to depict a mycelial network creeping up the piano and my body, and expanding into the ground, maybe a thread or two reaching the other side of the world where home is.

As Sepehri's poem says "Who cares if sometimes the mushrooms of ghurba start to grow?" 

You are right Sohrab, nobody does...

Nocturne No. 1 in B-Flat Minor - Remember to Forget

Illusionary Daytime, by Shirfine, performed and recorded on Dexibell Vivo H10 as a #30DaysofLoveSongs Challenger on @claracmee (Instagram) nominated by @akuahinds (Instagram) who was nominated by @tahako.tank (Instagram). Video available on YouTube (see link under bio). Thank you for listening! #pianoteachersplayingpiano #amorfati❤️

Illusionary Daytime by Shirfine

Pianist/composer Julie Hanney has been playing piano and composing music since she was a young child. Her composition style is peaceful, innovative and eclectic. Her playing is expressive and fluid. Julie's mission is to create the music she wishes was in the world.

For more info: www.juliehanneypiano.com or find her on Instagram:

www.instagram.com/juliehanneypiano/

Monet's Garden

Julie Hanney

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