For the composers piano reworks from Ólafur Arnalds official discord.

All original source material - Copyright 2020 Ólafur Arnalds, under exclusive license to Mercury KX, a division of Decca Music Group Limited.

Ólafur Arnalds - Josin - The Bottom Line - (SKOP) - (Máistrí Interpretation)

Piano Cover of "We Float" by Dustin O'Halloran.

We Float - Piano Cover (Dustin O'halloran)

Minha primeira gravação e primeira experiência com técnica mista/piano preparado. Sugestões e críticas aceitas. Música: Unsayable, de Brambles. Álbum 'Charcoal' (2012).

Unsayable (Brambles cover)

apollo

Story
Faust; The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything
Prologue in Heaven
God and Mephistopheles, the devil, debate human nature. Mephistopheles claims he can corrupt the noblest of men: Heinrich Faustus, a dissatisfied sage. God accepts the challenge, trusting that Faustus will seek goodness even in the face of temptation.
The Dark Pact.
Faust, frustrated by the limits of academic and religious knowledge, summons magical powers. Mephistopheles appears and offers him a pact: servitude on Earth in exchange for his soul in the afterlife. Faustus accepts, adding a clause: if he is ever fully satisfied, his soul will belong to the devil.
Love and Perdition.
Faust is rejuvenated with a magic potion and falls in love with Margaret (Gretchen), an innocent young woman. Their love turns into tragedy: Margaret is seduced, her mother dies from a potion, her brother dies in a duel, and she, in desperation, kills her illegitimate son. She is imprisoned and sentenced to death. Faustus tries to save her, but she refuses to escape, seeking divine redemption.
Beyond the Soul.
The second part moves away from the intimate drama and becomes a philosophical epic. Faustus becomes involved in politics, economics, and world-building. He seeks to found a utopia, but his ambition drives him to commit dark deeds. In the end, he dies without having uttered the sentence that would seal his doom. Angels rescue his soul, for his constant struggle for good redeems him.

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Sonic Universe

Faust

Original short film soundtrack by Ruslan Perezhilo. Klara's Dance (Klarin ples) is a short film produced in Slovenia by Elephant Art Film Production, directed by Jan Fabris, featuring actors Lara Fortuna (on the cover), Miha Rodman (on the cover) and Blaž Setnikar.

Klara's Dance

Taken from their forthcoming mini-album 'Ellis' out July 8 on Erased Tapes.

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or from iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/ellis

For the first half of the twentieth century, Ellis Island stood as the gateway to America. For some twelve million people, it was their first encounter with the land they hoped to call home. 

Directed by acclaimed artist JR, ELLIS tells the story of one such migrant. Starring Robert De Niro, the film winds its way through the crumbling hallways of the abandoned Ellis Island hospital complex, now home to JR’s Unframed art installation. It’s a place that reverberates with the hopes and fears of those who passed through it, the echoes especially resonant today.

Entwined with the narrative is a score composed by Woodkid, performed and co-written by Nils Frahm. The delicate piano motifs of Winter Morning I culminate in a crescendo of strings, while the harmonium swells on the B-side are the foundation for De Niro’s narration: an encomium for those who shaped modern America. 

There’s perhaps never been a more fitting time for this story, with all the proceeds going to the Sea Watch initiative, a non-profit charity dedicated to the protection and rescue of civilian refugees. 

Following a screening as part of Nils’s Barbican Weekender, the ELLIS score will be out July 8th, the same week as America’s great federal holiday. It will be available via Erased Tapes as a mini album on CD, vinyl and in digital format containing a 12-page picture booklet.


IN THE ARTISTS’ OWN WORDS:

Nils Frahm: ‘The opportunity to work on JR´s fantastic short film ELLIS came through my good friend Yoann aka Woodkid. We agreed on recording the piano parts in my studio in Berlin and so it happened that JR and Woodkid were guests at Durton studio on a wonderful late summer day in 2015. We managed to record all the crucial elements that day. The music fell in our laps and melted with the images: a wonderful experience. The film has stuck in my head ever since; it moved my heart and changed my soul.

A couple of weeks later I had to cancel a trip to Brussels because of a terror warning; all events got cancelled and I stayed home, having an unexpected day off. I felt rather depressed that day, thinking that the Europe I knew was already gone. I sat down at the harmonium, listened to Robert De Niro’s voice and played for the rest of the day. The result is ‘Winter Morning II,’ the B-side of the ELLIS soundtrack release.

Robert says it all in 17 minutes. We are not facing a refugee crisis. We are facing a crisis because we do not embrace, we do not sympathise and we cannot give up fear. Art can encourage so I hope this project will help fight the fear in all of us.’

Yoann Lemoine, aka Woodkid:  ‘Ellis is my second collaboration with JR after the New York City Ballet piece for Les Bosquets. I initially wanted this piece to sound like it was recorded on an old piano that we found in the ruins of Ellis Island, in the restricted area that is not open to the public, where JR pasted the pictures on the walls for the film Ellis.

I had worked with Nils before and I wanted him to create a sound for this piano part that I composed that was extremely gentle and organic. I wanted the listener to hear the mechanisms, the breathing of the instrument. I wanted it to be imperfect, to sound like a ruin, a trace, an echo, the way the pastings on the walls seem to be ghosts, almost imperceptible.

After a few rehearsals, Nils stripped down my piano parts and we removed almost all orchestration around the piano. He then worked on the extended version that is his interpretation of my piece, with Robert de Niro’s vocals.

Because this film and this recording is historically meaningful, it was important for us to create this piece as an echo to the immigration situation in Europe, and decided to release it in support of Sea Watch.’

Ellis

Winter Morning I

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Woodkid & Nils Frahm - Winter Morning I (teaser)

Remix of Jonsi and Alex - Happiness, by Humanizer

Jónsi & Alex - Happiness (Humanizer Remix)

Taken from Piano Cloud - Volume Three 
https://1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/piano-cloud-series-volume-three
Release day: March 29 (Piano Day)

Akira Kosemura - Resonance

SSG Music premieres James Blackshaw's "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" off 'Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death' due out April 24th on Important Records

James Blackshaw - "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" (SSG Music Premiere)

WOVEN SONG | OLAFUR ARNALDS(COVER)

There is something deeply moving and profound in Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnald's music. Music of serenity and melancholy. I made this cover of one of his latest pieces on his new album that is really just released. I find something in this song that conjures up deep emotions for me. In the original Ólafur has used a recording of a Rainforest tribe singing what seems to be a lullaby...

In his words:
“Woven Song” features a piano alongside Amazonian tribal chanting, which has a connection to me as I have friends who are from the same tribe. I always want my instruments to be very soft and quiet, as I feel more comfortable and free to explore them musically. When it’s so quiet, you have to put the microphone close and then you start hearing the mechanical action and creaking–even from the piano stool. It’s a wonderful side effect. When I’d finished this track, I knew exactly what this album needed to be.

– Ólafur Arnalds

https://youtu.be/oOsuploHPjk

I hope you'll enjoy this little and humble cover of this beautiful music, please check Ólafur's music out, it's wonderful.  As always I really enjoy your comments, likes and share. Thank you!

-Dan

Data:
Original music by Ólafur Arnalds, arranged for three guitars by Daniël van den Berg, December 28, 2020
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015
Recorded using an Apogee MiC.
Mixed in Auria, masterered in Auria and Final Touch.
Photo edit by Dan van den Berg, 2020

Woven Song

Woven Song | Ólafur Arnalds (Cover)| Dan van den Berg

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