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Here is the third fragment. 
from the album "2 Days & a Year"
Hope you enjoy...

fragments of a journey #3

from 'The Unified Field' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den182
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/pianointerrupted]

The Unified Field

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Piano Interrupted - Emoticon

الترتيلة 567 من نصوص الاهرامات

Taken from the album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

EU order link: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP055
US order link: www.midheaven.com/item/spaces-by-frahm-nils-cd
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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

www.nilsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Spaces

Hammers

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Pièce pour deux flûtes et piano, extrait de l'opéra Lakmé

Leo Delibes, Duo des Fleurs

a few months ago, Fivos asked me, if I would play to one of his piano pieces. Finally I had time to record and it was a great pleasure to feel myself into his wonderful music. 
you can hear the original version here: https://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/nocturne-29-oct-looping

Don't miss his wonderful music, find him @FivosValachis


Nocturne    -    fivosvalachis/jensfelger

from 'Odham's Standard' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den191
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/origamibiro]

Origamibiro is a collaborative project consisting of three core members: musician, soundtrack composer and producer Tom Hill, visual artist and filmmaker The Joy Of Box, and multi-instrumentalist Andy Tytherleigh. Originally started as a solo project for Tom, Origamibiro has since evolved into an audio-visual collective, producing studio music, art objects, interactive installations and hauntingly original live audio-visual performances. Origamibiro like to create work with an array of unorthodox processes and contraptions, found objects, video feeds and multi instrumentalism. Their unique live performances involve treated books, typewriters, found celluloid, paper, eerie wildlife recordings, home movies, sellotape and bespoke visual contraptions. All of these things had been added, adapted, even destroyed as a way to generate images and audio that could evoke a feeling, a response, an understanding or perhaps a question from audiences.

2014 sees the re-release of Origamibiro's entire back catalogue - the albums ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’, ‘Shakkei’ and ‘Shakkei Remixed’ - through Denovali and also the release of their fourth studio album 'Odham's Standard'. Discussions concerning tone and theme took place much earlier in the writing process this time around and unbeknown to each other, both Tom and Jim were taking an interest in more supernatural aspects of audio and video material generation. Jim had begun to research into spirit photography, where images of deceased spirits are apparently imprinted onto photographic plates through the presence of a medium. Looking for an audio equivalent, Tom began looking into EVP or electronic voice phenomenon whereby hidden voices from deceased spirits appear to present themselves in audio recordings. What is fascinating about this process is not how legitimate the phenomenon actually is but how dependant it is on the decision or need of the viewer or listener to believe it is significant or even personal.

Interestingly, there have been many attempts over the years to debunk or disprove the validity of spirit photography and yet for every court case there are also a number of witnesses willing to passionately testify that not only is the phenomenon real but that it applied directly to them. Arthur Conan Doyle was the creator of the most famous detective in the world and, conversely, a staunch defendant of the validity of spirit photography. In his infamous treatise 'The Case For Spirit Photography' he is both naive and strangely prescient: “Victorian science would have left the world hard and clean and bare, like a landscape in the moon. (however) There is nothing scientifically impossible, so far as I can see, in some people seeing things that are invisible to others. One or two consequences are obvious, the experiences of children will be taken more seriously. Cameras will be forthcoming. These folk who appear to be our neighbours, with only some small difference of vibration to separate us, will become familiar.” 

Odham's Standard

Origamibiro - Ada Deane

A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN - 'ATOMOS VII'
12"/digital out on Erased Tapes/Kranky (US) on April 28, 2013

PRE-ORDER: 
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP056 (worldwide excl. North America)
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http://www.awvfts.com (band shop)

Erased Tapes and Kranky are pleased to announce the release of A Winged Victory for the Sullen's 'ATOMOS VII'. April 28 sees the first installment leading up to the release of the second full length studio album 'ATOMOS', and score for choreographer Wayne McGregor's long form dance piece. 

McGregor was heavily influenced by the duo's 2011 self-titled debut, playing it repeatedly during practices with his core group of dancers. After noticing the group's reaction with the music, he contacted Adam & Dustin to see if they could write the score for his new oeuvre. 

The duo recorded more than sixty minutes of music over a four month period during the summer of 2013 in Brussels, Berlin and Reykjavik with the help of their longtime collaborative sound engineer Francesco Donadello. This EP also sees the involvement of Ben Frost, who composed the music for McGregor's previous work 'Far'.

McGregor, mastermind behind the Random Dance Company and resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet since 2006, is known in popular culture circles for serving as movement director for the film 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'. He has also choreographed the Radiohead video 'Lotus Flower' and 'Ingenue' by Atoms for Peace.

"While we were re-amping guitars at Greenhouse studios, Ben expressed interest and admiration in the sounds we had created. We were planning for the B-side to be a metamorphosis of part VII, and Ben seemed the obvious choice. With the multi-tracks transformed, it follows a trajectory that we had not felt comfortable with before. But with Ben's involvement and influence, it was a painless entrance to this crooked, distorted world." - Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie

"We never imagined 2013 would be such an explosively creative year. The first record took us 2 years from start to finish, but in the micro span of time over last summer we were able to change the formula for the way we write, record, and let go. It was incredibly liberating." - Dustin O'Halloran

'A surprisingly emotional score' ★★★★ The Telegraph
'Intense, reflective, occasionally threatening and wholly enveloping' ★★★★ Times

TRACK LISTING:

A1 Atomos VII - taken from the upcoming full length album ATOMOS
A2 Minuet For A Cheap Piano Number One - outtake from debut album sessions
B1 Atomos VII (Greenhouse Re-Interpretation) - with Ben Frost

LIVE DATES:

24.05. KORTRIJK (BE) – Festival van Vlaanderen Kortrijk
29.05. BARCELONA (ES) - Primavera Sound
20.10. LONDON (UK)  - Milton Court (Barbican)
25.10. ANTWERP (BE) – De Roma

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A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Atomos VII

The opening theme to Andante from trio in E-flat, opus 100 by Schubert. Arranged for cello quintet and performed by Deryn Cullen.
Full track available to purchase as a download here:
https://deryncullen.bandcamp.com/track/andante-from-trio-in-e-flat-op-100-franz-schubert

Download

Schubert - Theme From Andante

I learned it from the only rendition I own.  It's possible i missed some details.
My try on Gnossienne 3 http://snd.sc/11VAyvl
I'm really sorry for the bad audio quality. I didn't have a proper recording process back then. So I probably re-record this at some point. 

Gnossienne No 1 - Erik Satie

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - 'ATOMOS'
Double-Vinyl/CD/Digital out on Erased Tapes/Kranky on October 6, 2014

PRE-ORDER the album now!

Worldwide (excl. North America):
via Erased Tapes: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP061
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/atomositms

In North America:
via Kranky: www.kranky.net
or via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/atomos/id894692856

TOUR DATES: 
https://www.facebook.com/awvfts/app_123966167614127

After releasing a first glimpse in the form of the ‘Atomos VII’ EP earlier this year, A Winged Victory For The Sullen finally reveal their second full-length album entitled ‘Atomos’, which besides familiar piano, string and drone sounds also sees the duo introduce flurries of electronics, harp and modular synthesisers.  

Wayne McGregor, founder of Random Dance Company and resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, chose to play the album repeatedly during practices with his core group of dancers. After noticing the group's reaction with the music, he contacted Adam and Dustin to see if they could write the score for his new oeuvre. The duo were given complete artistic freedom and they treated the score with the same care and attention as their debut album. They recorded more than sixty minutes of music over a four-month period during the summer of 2013 across studios in Brussels, Berlin and Reykjavik, with the help of their long time collaborative sound engineer Francesco Donadello. During the recording process they realised, that this would become their official second studio album. McGregor provided them with the inspiration to expand their sound palette into more electronic territory, whilst keeping their signature chamber sound, resulting in a very unique record.  

“As a wise man once said, one who procrastinates their own choosing will inevitably have their choice served to them by circumstance. We had virtually no time for second guessing ourselves. That being said, we tried to balance the discordance between being creative, and fulfilling our duties for a commissioned soundtrack with a very strict deadline, and all the while staying true to our collective melancholy.‘’ – Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie  

“We never imagined 2013 would be such an explosively creative year. The first record took us two years from start to finish, but in the micro span of time over last summer we were able to change the formula for the way we write, record, and let go. It was incredibly liberating.” – Dustin O’Halloran

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  awvfts.com · erasedtapes.com · kranky.net

Atomos VI

For String Trio from Antoine Chessex 'Selected Chamber Music Works 2009-2013' CD (Tochnit Aleph TA122) released 2014

Antoine Chessex - Ritournelle Fulgurante (for String Trio, 2013)

Gramophone - Eugen Doga

Zbigniew Preisner  - Lacrimosa

for piano six-hands (and slight live analogue electronic processing)

commissioned and performed by the junctQin keyboard collective http://junctqin.com/

recorded/mixed/mastered by Paul Talbott
recorded at the Canadian Music Centre's Chalmers House 
www.jasondoell.com

Our Lovèd Dominion Bless (for piano six-hands)

Taken from the album Rabbit Eclipse (PP19) CD/LP

http://penultimate-press.blogspot.co.uk

Rabbit Eclipse is the second full-length recording from the legendary Księżyc following on from their self titled debut from 1996. 

The Moon never went away. 

The 2013 the Penultimate Press re-issue of Księżyc’s timeless debut exposed the band to a large new audience resulting in a return to live performance and the subsequent development of new material.

Rabbit Eclipse was recorded in Warsaw throughout May to September 2015 within the idyllic Palladian palace Królikarnia (The Rabbit House).  All original members gathered to conjure the peculiar hybrid of the the ancient and the contemporary unique to the band. 

With more expanded forms, Rabbit Eclipse presents a rich and subtle environment of beguiling narratives hanging in suspended tension.  This opens up an entire new phase in the cycle of the band where an enchanting discrete musical continuum of rich and subtle sound excursions are enveloped in a mysterious melancholia.

Rabbit Eclipse is another exemplary presentation from one of Poland’s most idiosyncratic and respected outfits. 

Line up: 

Agata Harz - vocals, objects
Katarzyna Smoluk-Moczydłowska - vocals, keyboards, objects
Lechosław Polak - accordion, keyboards, synthesizers
Remigiusz Mazur Hanaj - tapes, hurdy-gurdy, violin
Robert Niziński - clarinet, keyboards, objects
Paweł Romańczuk - Fidel, Stössel-Laute, objects 

Track listing:

1. Kapkowa
2. Mglista
3. Flażoletowa
4. Walczyk III
5. Syreny  


Księżyc - Mglista

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rain live

More information here: http://www.theleaflabel.com/en/releases/view/197/Julia%20Kent/Character/BAY%2080CD

Julia Kent - Tourbillon

This is a live concert performance of an original piece I composed for the concert. I did not notate the piece, and no longer play it. Other works on the program that evening included Scriabin's "Desir," Chick Corea's "Children's Pieces," and Chopin's G-minor Ballade.

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