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My selection of 2016 Piano Day compositions.
The full playlist: https://soundcloud.com/nils_frahm/sets/piano-day-2016-playlist

Piano Day 2016

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Soft love

Tiny piano solo improvisation for you. 
So nighty. 

Painting by Stefanie Fuenfrocken.

Middle-Summer tiny song

Annie - Anthonio - Berlin Breakdown Version

The new album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

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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

Says

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Alternate download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/wq9b17mj0wnqvew/Thomas+Newman+-+Ghosts+%28Aaron+Static+%26+Fort+Road+Remix%29.mp3

Remix we done of Thomas Newman's amazing composition "Ghosts", we hope you enjoy.

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Thomas Newman - Ghosts (Aaron Static & Fort Road Remix)

So Irish up and coming producer "Fort Road" (follow him below) sends me this remix he's working on and I say "sounds cool just needs some crackly beats", so he sends me the FL project and I finish it.

Hope you like it :)

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Some of my favorite songs from 2013.  A wonderful year for music.


Tracklist:

0:00 - 1:12 - Dustin O'Halloran - New Day (from "The Beauty Inside")

1:12 - 5:22 - Lusine - Another Tomorrow (from "The Waiting Room")

5:22 - 9:46 - Photek - Pyramid (from "Ku:Palm")

9:46 - 13:49 - Bibio - Tout L'hueure (from "Silver Wilkinson")

13:49 - 19:49 - Ben Boysen - Gravity (from "Gravity")

19:49 - 25:28 - Jon Hopkins - Form By Firelight (from "Immunity")

25:28 - 29:24 - Airhead - Autumn (from "For Years")

29:24 - 33:51 - Andy Fitts - Yarn Tale (from "Smoky Wilds")

33:51 - 36:12 - Don Peris - Swansea (from "The Old Century")

36:12 - 43:19 - Brambles - Half-Gramme Holiday (from "PF Edition One")

43:19 - 46:46 - Ex Confusion - What It Means to Me (from "With Love")

46:46 - 55:33 - Taylor Duepree - Shutter (from "Faint")


Cover image by Colin Kenniff.

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Best of 2013 Mix

Taken from AMB1401 E.P. released on Apollo Records. bit.ly/1hhmfcQ

Breaks My Heart Each Time

Need a Name - Now I See

Coldplay performing Magic in the BBC radio 1 live lounge, truly beautiful!

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Sorry for the BBC intro & outro, bit annoying!

Magic - Coldplay ( BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge)

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James Bay - Let It Go (Bearson Remix)

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The first full track stream from Nils Frahm's new album 'FELT' which will be released worldwide via Erased Tapes on October 10, 2011.



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★★★★ – MOJO | ★★★★ – CLASH | ★★★★★ – MUSO | 9/10 – Drowned In Sound
★★★★ - ROLLING STONE (Germany) | ★★★★★ – WESTZEIT


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CONTEXT: Berlin-based pianist Nils Frahm is already a firebrand in the modern classical world, collaborating with contemporaries such as Peter Broderick, Ólafur Arnalds and Anne Müller. His unconventional approach to an age-old instrument, played contemplatively and intimately, has won him many fans around the world.

As announced by Drowned In Sound, he finally returns on October 10th 2011 with the successor to his highly acclaimed solo piano works Wintermusik and The Bells. Released on Erased Tapes Records and entitled FELT, the album will coincide with a European tour in November 2011 – a truly memorable and magical live experience.


CONTENT: Having recorded his last album live in a large, reverberant church, Nils Frahm now invites you to put on your headphones and dive into a world of microscopic and delicate sounds – so intimate that you could be sitting beside him.

Recorded late at night in the reflective solitude and silence of his studio in Berlin, Frahm uncovers a new sound and source of inspiration within these peaceful moments:

'Originally I wanted to do my neighbours a favour by damping the sound of my piano. If I want to play piano during the quiet of the night, the only respectful way is by layering thick felt in front of the strings and using very gentle fingers. It was then that I discovered that my piano sounds beautiful with the damper.’

Captivated by this sonic exposition, he placed the microphones so deep inside the piano that they were almost touching the strings. This brought a host of external sounds to the recordings which most producers would try their hardest to hide:

‘I hear myself breathing and panting, the scraping sound of the piano's action and the creaking of my wooden floorboards – all equally as loud as the music. The music becomes a contingency, a chance, an accident within all this rustling. My heart opens and I wonder what exactly it is that makes me feel so happy.’

FELT creates its own personal microcosm, offering a refuge of tender and honest beauty.

A video for the pre-release single UNTER can be watched here:
http://vimeo.com/13833500


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Press reactions to his last album THE BELLS:

'The Bells is a record of astonishing beauty' (8/10) – Drowned In Sound  

'Nils Frahm is poised to become something of a sensation' – The Economist's Intelligent Life  

 ‘Emotionally charged piano music which always errs toward the melodic side of melancholy' **** – Mojo  

 ‘If there’s any justice The Bells, along with his recently released Wintermusik set, will expose Frahm to a wider audience, a demographic with a seemingly insatiable appetite for more prime neo-classicism’ – BBC Music  


TRACK LISTING:       1. KEEP 2. LESS 3. FAMILIAR 4. UNTER 5. OLD THOUGHT 6. SNIPPET 7. KIND 8. PAUSE 9. MORE

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Felt

Nils Frahm - Snippet

Keith Kenniff - Resolve

Olei

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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

Bilde tatt av  Johnnie Shannon fra Pixabay

The Ocean

12" Edition of Screws Rework album from Nils Frahm. I did a remix from the song "Mi", more infos here : reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Mi (Soul Channel Rework)___Out on Erased Tapes Records

Compline is a monastic practice where monks gather to reflect & mark the completion of the working day.

There's no religious significance as such for me, but the concept of reflecting on the day's events right at it's very end, is an interesting and fascinating idea. Feel free to listen to this song in this way, and maybe with headphones.

I recorded this song for Piano Day 2016, held on 28th March. I hope you enjoy it! www.pianoday.org 

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Compline (Piano Day 2016)

This is a piano piece written for, and dedicated to, Piano Day 2016

And We Danced (Piano Day 2016)

This is a spontaneous and simple track I composed for the second Piano Day ever (http://www.pianoday.org), which we'll celebrate on 28 March, 2016. Hope you enjoy it and happy piano day!

Photo by:
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Closer (for Piano Day)

Composed for Nils Frahm's second PIANO DAY on 28th March 2016. Enjoy my relaxing and soothing piano solo track "Windwalzer".
This track is to celebrate the PIANO DAY 2016. 
With "Windwalzer" (eng. "wind waltz") I try to capture the moment when you  turn your eyes up to heaven and see the big clouds  floating across the sky...

Music: MACRIMA

Picture: Maria Träg-Engerer




PIANO DAY 2016: Windwalzer

Here's a track to celebrate Piano Day. 
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Goldmund - Source (Piano Day 2016)

Enya - Only Time - (Violin Cover)

I was excited to see this wonderful collection of little piano vignettes released by Nils, one of my favorite piano players and people. The simplicity of these pieces and the honesty I feel in the music communicated a sense of ease and exploration that I immediately connected with.  This is my rework of a beautiful passage contained in the song "Re". 

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Nils Frahm - Re (Helios Rework)

Thomas Newman - Any other name

Latest:
Helios - Espera: https://ghostly.ffm.to/helios-espera
Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift: https://ampl.ink/5Y9Rw
Mint Julep - In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep: https://ampl.ink/omKoq
Goldmund - The Time it Takes: smarturl.it/ibfvzw

I write music for film and record as Helios, Mint Julep, Goldmund.

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