Замечательно!! Прелестно!!!

10 years ago, I recorded some piano improvisations with weather on my mind. This one is for all us cloud-gazers. And you know what they say about weather ... it always changes ... 

Stream: https://tinyurl.com/TAOClouds

Written and performed by Michael Price
http://www.michaelpricemusic.com

Recorded by at Snap Studios, London
http://www.snapstudios.co.uk/

Mastered by Katie Tavani
https://www.katietavini.co.uk/

Illustration & Animation by Deepesh Patel
https://www.artstation.com/deepeshpatel

The Anatomy of Clouds

The Anatomy Of Clouds

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Unity, is an emotionally evocative collection that moves the listener through moments that exalt the senses. Through cyclical and minimalist sound, the composer creates visceral experiences that are both ethereal and hauntingly beautiful.
All songs written and recorded by Bruno Sanfilippo at Onix II Studio, Barcelona, Spain
Analog Mastered on a classic SSL desk and Studer A80 reel-to-reel by Ian Hawgood, Warsaw, Poland
www.bruno-sanfilippo.com

Unity

Spiral

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I suppose that it is inevitable for a writeup about a solo piano album to begin with an acknowledgment of the current state of affairs in the present classical music scene (a term I coined to balance out the "modern classical" and "contemporary classical" genres, which also signifies the act of being present during the act of listening). It's inevitable to admit the oversaturation of this style as composers and pianists all rush to jump on the bandwagon of the trend and get a piece of that much-coveted pie from the digital platform streaming revenues, no matter how small it is in the end. But it's also extremely essential to point out that not every solo piano album recorded in the night with close-mic'ed felted hammers gently caressing the strings conveys the emotion of its creator and connects us to his soul. All of the ones I've loved have been covered on here. But it is the playing of Otto A Totland that I cherish the most. From the delicate melodies to his beautiful playing, from the tastefully somber storytelling to the technical attention put in each recording, and finally from the overall delivery to the completely absorbing transfer of his mind to mine, through the keys and the fingers, that is what makes this Norwegian composer stand out among the rest. For this exclusive premiere, I have selected one of my favorite tracks from his upcoming album on Sonic Pieces, which happens to be the same one he played on my very own piano when he has visited London about two years ago (okay, so I'm a little bit biased towards that piece). Nevertheless, I invite you to close your eyes and listen and see if you can uncover that memory that seems to somehow remain forlorn.

Read more on this release here: https://hcdi.gs/Pago

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Pago

TRACK PREMIERE : Otto A Totland - Pago

Hiding (Reworks) is a unique collection of recompositions highlighting the talents of several exciting musicians, centering around a track that pianist and composer Garreth Broke wrote for solo piano called Hiding.

Hiding was first released as part of a collaboration with artist Anna Salzmann titled Healing, which explored the healing process in all its complexities. Whenever Garreth returned to the piece or played it in concerts, he kept having new ideas for it, as if the piece itself were telling him that it wanted to grow. This prompted him to invite a group of musicians whose work he admires to create a series of reworks of this composition, encouraging them to be as adventurous as they liked — a task that they really embraced, leading to some mesmerising results.

The result is this EP, in which Hiding is presented in six different forms. First, you’ll hear the original piece re-recorded on a gorgeous felted C. Bechstein upright piano, then reinterpreted by the fantastic ondes Martenot player and multi-instrumentalist Josh Semans from the UK. The wonderful Australian clarinetist and looper Ruby Lulham, aka Clariloops, offers up the gorgeous third track, which is followed by an exhilerating rework by Sweden-based Vargkvint and Jakob Lindhagen featuring wordless vocals, kantele, zither, harmonium, electric organ and synthesizers. In the fifth track, the piece is reworked into an atmospheric piano-led song sung by Vargkvint with lyrics by artist Anna Salzmann, who created the paintings that first inspired the project. Finally, Josh Semans closes out the collection with a brief but beautiful reprise.

This collection of recompositions shines a light on the unique talents of its contributors and, like a kaleidoscope, fragments of the original piece are ever-present but always shown in a new light. Hiding (Reworks) comes out on the 3rd of March, featuring artwork by Anna Salzmann and graphic design by Celia Bayo.

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Garreth Broke, Clariloops - Hiding (Clariloops Rework)

You and I

Recorded for Nils Frahm's Piano Day on 29th March 2018

Polaroid Notes - Oh Dear Heart

This is my small contribution to celebrate Piano Day 2018. Hope you enjoy it!

What you make of it (Piano Day 2018)

Composed, performed and recorded by Ben Crosland
Mastered by Ben Wiffen

Songs From Rainbow Hill

Rainbow Hill

Ben Crosland - Rainbow Hill

An urgency, an intimate explosion. The new single by Laura Masotto was inspired by the recent climatic situation giving voice to one of the most direct, essential truths: Our House is on Fire.

Our house burns, like our certainties. Her violin translates both the human sentiment in front of danger and the danger itself, the threat. From fragility to vehemence, from fear to resistance, from fight to oppression: all these feelings interwoven creating a DNA of our times. These sensations condense into an almost mystical vortex, built thanks to a crescendo pattern that intersects the strong solidity of the violin. Like a human being trapped in the vortex of a larger entity, of an unstoppable force.

The electronic sounds, which are direct effects of the distorted violin, surround the sonorities of the instrument, they merge, as an opposite output deriving from the same source. An overwhelming duality that touches the human being in his intimate essence.

The track evolves trough two opposing forces that seem to fight: the violin grows, explodes, as in a form of resistance, and it contrasts the electronic dissonances, arising from the instrument itself: it is a vertical ascent, which follows the delicate sense of balance that is formed between all things, in harmony. The track is in fact a unique track, a hypnosis, a fire: it stands out in the silence like a tremendous and romantic incipit, which opens to the experimental future of a violinist able to treat her instrument with courage and talent.

 

‘This track came as a sort of epiphany. I have been very inspired by the incredible strength of Greta Thunberg and the power of her resistance. I see in this young woman the realisation of a solid resistance, the blossoming of a new hope. But despite the deeply moving feelings this new movement’s triggered in me, I couldn’t separate the fact that this is happening because we are already living in dark, critical times. It is already happening. This created a sort of duality in my mind, in which both light and dark are fighting each other, in a sort of perpetual motion. I wanted it out, as a statement on its own.’ - Laura Masotto

Our House is on Fire

Part of 1631 Recordings' Piano Clouds volume five.
As it is a solo piano piece, it's listed under my own name, not OUTER.

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Tom Paul Soetaert - December 29th

Born in 1985, at the age of five she began studying violin and graduated from the Conservatory of music of Verona. After her Jazz specialization, she began to experiment with a wide variety of contemporary musical styles.
In 2015 she collaborated with Lorenzo Masotto for the single 'Pierrot', released on Moderna Records.
In 2017 she recorded as first violin with the orchestra 'Come ti vedono gli altri', a tribute to Luigi Tenco with arrangements by Mauro Ottolini.
She recorded the soundtrack for the movie 'Gli Asteroidi' by Germano Maccioni, in selection at the Locarno Film Festival.
In 2018 she composed the original soundtrack of the video installation created by Duae Collective titled 'Pattern for a Relationship', which is part of the project “Besos” and exhibited at Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Center in Barcelona. 
Her first solo album 'Fireflies' is a collection of compositions performed live with the use of a looper which allows her to accompany her melodies independently. The album is released on Lady Blunt Records and it was presented with Sofar Sounds in Los Angeles in January 2019.

Our House is on Fire

Laura Masotto

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