And here you can find the video 🙂https://youtu.be/qIow6ZMmNFU

I like everything...your piano, your voice, your music. Glad I found you ;)

between Tori amos and anouk ... beautiful voice,great intensity!!

Official Piano Day 2019 Playlist

Happy Piano Day!

Artwork by Skrew Studio.

Piano Day 2019 Playlist

This year, piano and coffee turns five, and to celebrate, we are releasing our first compilation: Realismo Mágico — a conceptual project featuring unconventional works by new and old friends we have made along the way.

Inspired by magical realism, an artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy, this special release presents unheard material by twelve exceptional musicians — from experimental sound artist Martyna Basta to award-winning film composer Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, and from poly-instrumental duo Brueder Selke to prolific pianist and producer John Hayes.

Each artist has contributed with a new track that invites the listeners to submerge into their very own musical universes, which, at the same time, have been re-shaped by their interpretation of magical realism. We start off on our journey with the delicate nostalgia of Tim Linghaus, passing through Jakob Lindhagen and Vargkvint’s modern take on the story of a Norse mythological creature, followed by the harmonic ambiguity in Simeon Walker’s pleasingly strong dialogue between felted piano and drums. Later on, John Hayes shares with us a chaotic composition born out of samples from an old clock in his parents’ garage and saturated voices, which precedes Lucy Claire’s processed hydrophone recordings of seaweeds and starfishes in Australian waters. Ondes Martenot, pump organ, zither, analogue synthesizers, vocal processing, musical saw, and bowed gongs are some of the unusual elements to be found on this eclectic yet coherently unified record.

Realismo Mágico has been conceptually crafted and musically curated by Peruvian composer Sergio Díaz De Rojas, and beautifully depicted by illustrator Jordan Amy Lee and graphic designer Celia Fernández González.

Lucy Claire - Kelp

The world has become bombastic. Ironically, even among the most minimalist and ambient communities. The labels trying to out-shout one another: “listen to meeee!” they proclaim, sometimes in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, with descriptions in press releases spanning multiple pages of concepts and tales. And I don’t really blame them for that – it’s impossible to stand out these days, to “capture” your attention (the most important currency we “pay”), and to turn that focus into plays [what comes after, is a whole other story]. And then there are artists (and labels) that seem to continue their modest and humble quest for the essence that we may extract from this wonder we call ‘music’. They come unexpecting to share the love. One of such imprints remains the Québec-based Moderna, which searches the globe for the next hidden gem. It has introduced me to many new and up-and-coming composers, which have remained on my playlists and Best of the Year lists. Their latest small gift comes in a form of a four-track EP from a Dutch musician Jeroen Dirrix (he’s put out some singles and appeared on Moderna’s compilations before). It’s a 20-minute glimpse into a place behind the space that occupies the concrete jungle of the cities where we dwell. In this particular case, it is his city of Rotterdam (which I find to be architecturally beautiful, by the way), that quietly yearns for the nature which has since receded in urban defeat.

"Jeroen Dirrix dreams up an imaginary escape from his urban studio centred around the acoustic piano, with the soothing sounds of analog synthesizers and field recordings weaving their way meditatively through the soundscape."

A Hidden Place

TRACK PREMIERE : Jeroen Dirrix - Call the Flood

You look at the spelling of the name and you wonder to yourself, where is this artist from? But then you realize that it's actually a name of a project, or "alternative modern classical band" comprised of Tom Hobden and Eliot James, who, together, compose some beautiful and cinematic music for the beloved Moderna Records. I first learned of Pêtr Aleksänder back in 2021, when the duo first came on the scene with their debut, Collage, which subsequently ended up on my Best of the Year list [in an appropriately named "Music For Withered Leaves And Lonely Fishtanks" category]. A year later the project is back with a follow-up, titled The Whole World Laid Out Before Me, and it's just as melancholic and exuberant, as wistful and celebratory, and as meditative and cerebral as before. This time, instead of enlisting an ensemble to perform the music, Tom and Eliot play all of the instruments across the nine pieces of the album, which makes it a truly personal and intimate experience. My favourite piece, to which I keep returning over and over, and which, as a result, I've requested to premiere for you today, is called "Dawn Reverie" and it features a carefully recorded clarinet melody, which, for some reason, puts me truly into a reflective mood. Maybe it's the rain outside of my window. Maybe it's the inevitable state of being and the final acceptance of reality as it is. Or maybe, just maybe, it is only this clarinet, playing just for me. I hope you enjoy this piece as much as I do, and get excited about the upcoming full album, which is out this Friday, November 4th.

The Whole World Laid Out Before Me

Dawn Reverie

TRACK PREMIERE : Pêtr Aleksänder - Dawn Reverie

From The album Ver Sacrum. 
"Spectral and haunting, there’s an almost monastic quality to ‘Sacred Spring’, the first piece to be taken from pianist and composer Bruno Sanfilippo’s forthcoming new album ‘Ver Sacrum’. An air of quiet solitude too; poignant strings wash in and out of focus punctuated by a slow, melancholic organ line. Like all his best work, it’s emotionally resonant yet quietly captivating, a master class in mood and shadow" Derek Robertson, journalist and music writer: Guardian, Independent, NME, VICE, Timeout, The Quietus, The Face.

Vanesa Tomás (Soprano)
Mariel Aguilar (Mezzo Soprano) 
Analog mastered by Ian Hawgood, 
Cover by Javier Guglielmi 

https//www.bruno-sanfilippo.com
https//www.ad21music.com

Ver Sacrum

Sacred Spring

AppleMusic/Spotify

I am exceedingly happy to share with you the first part of my "LIVE Music for the Stars" series. These ambient improvisations are based on the OST for the indie space game Avorion​. Thanks for listening!

Watch the HQ video on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1GqMM7yaI

Play Avorion:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/445220/Avorion/

Presented by:
Avorion
Boxelware
Unperceived Records​

Editing: Maya Nadir​
Camera: Niklas Paschburg​

LIVE Music for the Stars I [Pt. I]

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

Track 11 on my forthcoming album A Place that Exists. Thanks to the wonderful Bess Cavendish from the band We are AYA (who happens to be my daughter!) for the vocals.

Album

The Call #pianoday

Porya Hatami | Aaron Martin | Roberto Attanasio ​ - 'Sallaw' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-58
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ DL
Release date: March 1st, 2019

“Sallaw” is a Kurdish word that expresses the passing of time, and on this new album the three sound artists have found a way of expressing that notion in music. Four tracks of slowly unfolding ambience make up this collection, each piece named after different months, again in Kurdish. The four sections represent the different seasons and their movement through time.

Mastered by Fraser McGowan
Artwork by Hawar Amini

Buy CD / DL

PORYA HATAMI | AARON MARTIN | ROBERTO ATTANASIO - Gelarêzan

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

This June 7th, we're releasing Tom Adams' LP 'Particles' - a series of explorations for piano & electronics. 

▶ CD/DL pre-order + stream the lead single : https://orcd.co/tomadamsparticles

The Berlin based producer and songwriter originally did a small 'soundcloud only' self-release of the record in 2014, and we were stunned by the singular vision and voice present in each of the album's explorations. We're very pleased to be giving this record a worldwide release in CD format and on all digital platforms, with a new master by fellow Berliner / sound artist Martyn Heyne.

Particles

Particle VI

buy/stream 'Particles'

Tom Adams - Particle VI (Shadow & Light)

"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)

Nightports w/Matthew Bourne - You Would Say That

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

Buy LP/CD/DL

David Allred - Nature's Course

Watch the video here: youtu.be/qIow6ZMmNFU

LAVALU on 'Dull Mistake':
"When you've made a mistake so many times.
It becomes like a dull knife.
But was it a mistake to begin with?"

Recorded at Klavins Piano Manufaktúra especially for Piano Day 2019.
The song is from my upcoming album Midair, that will see the light of day on October 11th, 2019.

Album van Marielle Woltring

Dull Mistake - live at Klavins Piano Manufaktúra Kft. - Piano Day 2019

Shame/Shame

As an artist Lavalu scratches the back of classical
music while poking the fires of pop.

She recently wrote and recorded a contemporary song cycle, 
inspired by composers such as: Schubert and Schumann. 
Piano. Voice. Honest and bare.
Lyrics that can be read as stories about blunt desire. 

'Solitary High' is her finest work to date. 
She has succeeded in developing a style
in which influences of Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor
can be heard combined with Debussy and Satie.

More info: www.nilsfrahm.com

Management: 
felix(at)agentur-grimm(dot)com


Dull Mistake - live at Klavins Piano Manufaktúra Kft. - Piano Day 2019

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