ich muss den track jetzt ma rausballern, bevor's so aussieht, als würde ich auf den anti-nazi-zug aufspringen.
demo von anfang 2014.


Atemlos (Germany History X)

I entered this song into Listen Up Music's Songwriter's Festival 2018 - whittled down from 2780 entries it made it to their 'Sounds Good' album.  All proceeds go to mental health charity CALM.  You can download it here... goo.gl/EjXtHC

The Light - Ambient Mix

Multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Peter Broderick will release a new extended player titled 'Two Balloons' on November 9th with Erased Tapes. Available as a limited edition 10” vinyl and digital download, it features the score for the award-winning animation of the same name, inspired by an early recording of his, plus a 9-minute electronic rework on the B-side titled Techno For Lemurs.

Fairly often we see albums of “Music inspired by the film __”, but less common is a film inspired by music. Such is the case with Two Balloons. Director Mark C. Smith got the idea for his nine-minute stop frame animation film while out at sea, looking at a majestic funnel cloud in the distance. Shortly after he heard a song by Peter Broderick from one of his earliest recordings — 4 Track Songs — and the music struck a chord so strongly, he knew he wanted to make a film to fit the melody. And so began the five-year labour of love that would eventually produce this enchanting little film, currently circulating film festivals around the world and racking up countless awards and accolades including ‘Best Original Music Score’ at the New Renaissance Film Festival in Amsterdam.

Peter begins his European tour tomorrow in Cardiff and will perform at the Erased Tapes Northern Showcase in Wakefield with Rival Consoles and Hatis Noit on Saturday September 15th. Information and tickets: https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1124408
 
European Dates:

2018
13.09. Cardiff (UK) — The Gate Arts & Community Centre 
14.09. Oxford (UK) — The Old Fire Station 
15.09. Wakefield (UK) — Erased Tapes Showcase  
16.09. Dublin (IE) — Pavilion Theatre 
07.10. Galway (IE) — Galway Jazz Festival at LOAM 
17.10. Lausanne (CH) — Le Bourg  
18.10. Lugano (CH) — FOCE 
27.10. Kaltern (IT) — Kaltern Pop Festival (with Stargaze) 
17.11. Cobh (IE) — Sirius Arts Centre (One Hear Now)
15.12. Pattaya (TH) — Wonderfruit Festival 
30.03. Mechelen (BE) — Cultuurcentrum

Pre-order 'Two Balloons' on 10"EP/DL: https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp115-peter-broderick-two-balloons

Two Balloons

Two Balloons (Part 4)

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Peter Broderick - Two Balloons (Part 4)

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

We made a video for this track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Uoe8tfsbI
While working on my new album, I began to try to write a track which encapsulated in its sound the feeling of something new and being full of hope with #pianoday approaching. Around the same time I discovered this beautiful old word in a twitter feed from Susie Dent, and it was perfect for the emotion in this track being created. 'Respair' means fresh hope and a recovery from despair.  The Piano is very much celebrated in this piece by it's background role as a continuous, percussive-like sound, providing a platform for the other instruments to dance upon. I also wanted to use the Piano to somehow gently lead the piece through its chord changes, establishing the mood, as an ode to the way I like to work with piano in my music. 

Credits:
Artwork - Pure Romance by TB Ward (2017 oil on linen)
Piano, electric organ, xylophone - Joel Pike
Violin, Viola - Faith Brackenbury
Written, recorded and produced by Joel Pike.
Mastered by Stavros Kokkinos.

Respair

Piano Day single by Japanese composer and pianist Daigo Hanada

Stream on Spotify: http://bit.ly/dh-fernweh
Download: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/fernweh

Composed and recorded by Daigo Hanada 
Piano: Daigo Hanada 
Mastered by Martyn Heyne

Fernweh

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Daigo Hanada - Fernweh

"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)

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

A song that unfortunately didn't make it on my last record "Melo". 

Recorded & Mixed by Sebastian Gimm

Performed by Tom Gatza

Mastered by Philipp Welsing at Original Mastering

Grand (B-Side)

Christoph Klinger (*1983) grew up in Rosenheim, a small town in the south of Germany. His best friend was a 120 year old Steingraeber piano on which he improvised for hours and hours every day. After studying philosophy he moved to Hamburg to turn his passion into a career. Since then he´s been working as pianist, composer and producer on many different projects.

A few years ago the Steingraeber piano also found its way to Hamburg. It was carefully restored and put into service again. Ever since, Klinger's focus has shifted to piano music again.

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