ghadi

Lucy Claire / neoclassical / ambient

Piano

Lucy Claire

After 3 months of absence, here's my new cover of Yann Tiersen's La Valse d'Amelie. I hope you liked it.

Music & Production by: Ahmed Emad

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpDUlLjy9NnVeGsECf-7_oA
Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr: @Emadoforte
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AhmedEmadAmin

La Valse d'Amélie - Ahmed Emad - Piano Solo

Spotify

The Path. The Heart Decides - Nocturne, 03 Jun - Piano Solo

Voices - Alev Lenz
Piano - Lucy Claire
Violins - John Garner and Julia Loucks
Viola - Marie Schreer
Cello - Samuel Justitz

Recorded by Josh Green
Produced by Lucy Claire

Somnus Ft. Bruised Skies

November

Embers

In celebration of the first ever piano day, here's a little binaural recording of something new I've been working on! 

It was recorded on the beautiful piano at One Good Lied a Day, London.  

- Piano Day 29.03.2015 -

Voices of the Sea (solo piano / binaural recording)

Buy on iTunes

Victor's Piano Solo, The Piano Duet (Corpse Bride Medley)

It has been more than a year since I last uploaded any music, so here's a cover of Yann Tiersen's well known Comptine D'un Autre Été. I hope it's worthy of your time and I'd appreciate your feedback.

Performed and produced by: Ahmed Emad

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpDUlLjy9NnVeGsECf-7_oA
Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr: @Emadoforte

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/AEPianoProductions

Comptine D'un Autre Été - Ahmed Emad - Piano Solo

This is the first track from my second collaborations collection (Out 11th March) and features the amazing Yuri Kono.  

I have many talented friends and I love to work with people. After a few years I found I had a small collection of music that I wanted to share so started this Collaborations series. I am very lucky to work with such talented people. 


LUCY CLAIRE - Kawaita Tsuki / The Barren Moon Ft. Yuri Kono

Johan Pachelbel - Canon in D
Uploaded by Athir Aldefaie

Pachelbel Canon in D - Solo Piano

Pre-order 'Eulogy For Evolution 2017' on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/eulogy-for-evolution

Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds reissues and revives his debut album in form of a special remastered 10th Anniversary edition titled Eulogy For Evolution 2017 — available worldwide via Erased Tapes on August 25th. 

Following its initial release in 2007 and coinciding with Ólafur’s 30th birthday, label founder Robert Raths gifted the chance for this record to shine a second time. 

'Eulogy For Evolution' is a journey from birth to death, transporting the listener through life itself. Originally written as a teenager, the record has now been restored with the help of his friends, remixed by Ólafur himself and remastered by Nils Frahm. The cover art was redesigned and enhanced by Torsten Posselt at FELD using the original photographs taken by Stuart Bailes during a trip to Ólafur’s home in Iceland in 2007.

To experience the record in the present day is not only to experience the past, but also the sheer timelessness and relevance of these compositions, and the ambition Ólafur has had from the very beginning. “Fast forward 10 years, our relationships and knowledge in sound have matured, but you can still hear this urgency in Óli’s songs that caught my ears to begin with”, states Robert Raths.

Words from Ólafur, June 2017:

 “I spent a couple of weeks in some sort of a time machine, opening up and working on 12-year-old recordings. There was noise in the microphones, some channels seemed accidentally muted, but sometimes I found myself admiring what my teenage self was capable of. It was somehow charming. Well, most of it. So I fixed the stuff that wasn’t before sending it off to Nils Frahm for remastering. 

It was an ambitious outing. When I was 18 my uncle passed away from cancer. It was the first time I had experienced the passing of someone close to me, so I dedicated my work to him. Around the same time his first grandchild was born, and was named after him. I was inspired by the joy and positivity he brought, and saw that somehow life was extended after our death. So I set out to create a solid piece of music that would take us through the circle of life. 

This work by a highly emotional teenager has been revived, matured and, I hope you’ll agree, improved by some of my favourite people in this world. I’m grateful to see it get another chance to shine and I hope you will enjoy this journey to the past.”

Tracklisting:

1. 0040		
2. 0048 / 0729
3. 0952		
4. 1440
5. 1953		
6. 3055
7. 3326
8. 3704 / 3837

Ólafur Arnalds - 1440

If The Moon Could Frown ft. The Iskra String Quartet

Dear Shadows - Piano Day 2018

Piano Works is the second installment of Lucy Claire’s ‘Works’ series. It is an eclectic take on what piano music can be. Featuring cellist Ren Ford (Keaton Henson’s Romantic Works) and violinist Marie Schreer (The Royal Northern Sinfonia) and surrounded in atmospheric binaural soundscapes, the piano is far from lonely. The work features a collection of pianos from grands and uprights, to electric keyboards, toy and thumb pianos. It is grounded in the real world but hints strongly at the magical and supernatural, it absorbs, transports, then delivers you back to reality with new perspective.

Sage Ft. Ren Ford

Ninety-Nine Stones is inspired by a story told by Erling Kagge in his book Silence In the Age of Noise. It is a story about ninety-nine scientists based at the South Pole who had seen nothing but snow, ice and man made objects for several months at a time. One year someone smuggled in ninety-nine stones and as a Christmas gift gave each resisdent at the base one stone. Everyone sat holding their stones in quiet reflection feeling the weight of the stone without uttering a word. 

I imagined the jumble of sounds they might each individually be hearing in their heads, sounds from all around the world, where home is and where the pebble took them back to. I wanted to make them all sound at once. 

The solo violin part performed by Marie Schreer.

Ninety-Nine Stones ft Marie Schreer

If the Moon could Frown...

A piece for String quartet and Electronics. 

                                                            Violin 1; Marie Schreer
                                                            Violin 2; Helena Buckie
                                                            Viola;     Dora Maria
                                                            Cello;     Lily Thornton

If the Moon Could Frown - Soundscape version

The original Re is such a beautiful piece just the way it is. I was a little apprehensive attempting a rework of it, but found it irresistible. I had to do it. I feel I've created a delicate rework, as melancholic as the original with just a touch of what I love best; strings and soundscapes.

Re; Nils Frahm - a rework

'‘Paelistin’ is not just a political statement, it is the deep running river of anxiety for a region plagued by war. The resolution amounts to running in circles when we are faced with the futility of war.

The paper burns the careful, clean hand-writing:“The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most honourable place, but in time of war the right hand. Those sharp weapons are instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior man”'

http://vimeo.com/71766228
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/09/lucy-claire/

John Garner - violin
Marie Schreer - violin
Tim Gill - viola
Lily Thornton - cello

Recorded by Josh Green
Mastered by David Lawrie

All music composed and produced by Lucy Claire

