I am stunned by the patience and virtue of this piece. It goes to my soul and stands there. I love it. It began at your beginning of writing music and represents where you always wanted to be. It is so so good. I can sit and listen over and over. I am inclined to write lyrics for it. I feel words bubbling. Thank you.

Watch the stunning video for Paean, filmed on Saddleworth Moor: https://youtu.be/LC7SUZRjGk0

Paean

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 - Hiding (Felted Piano Rework)

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My contribution to Piano Day 2019.
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2GibdU7nW2HBeo6UtZ0Gkx?si=Vxs6Fwa5SJmU5S9ER1zn1g 

Cambria was originally written while being rained in, in a beautiful little cabin on the California coast overlooking the Cambria shoreline and finally recorded in my parents living room on their 1917 Feurich upright while visiting them during the winter of 2019. 
It's the first piece in a series of four pieces, all recorded during that visit.

Cambria

This is one of my oldest pieces, which I discovered few days ago, and recorded it once again at home, and experimented with the sound.
hope you like it.

Einsam

Taken from the album 'Coalescence of Form'.
Release date: February 20, 2020 on Hidden Vibes.

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Visionary Hours - Time Keeps Me In Her Shadow

Most Things Are Beautiful (Piano Day 2020)

Today I’m premiering a title track from a self-released single by Todd Chappell, recording under his project name, The Ideal Setback. Chappel and I first connected back in 2008, when I came upon his debut, Dream Dialogue. He has later self-released a follow-up, Window Seat, and I have since had my eye [and ear] on the development of his sound. Back then, his beautiful crossover between ambient and shoegaze comfortably settled into the plush cushion of guitar-driven swells and loop-based organic textures that comforted the mind. Nearly a decade later The Ideal Setback surprised me with Farnweh (2017), on which he combined his ambient, pastoral, and guitar-driven soundscapes with string fragments, piano chords, and even a few vocals. On “Anchor,” Chappell dives even further into cinematic orchestration with a beautifully arranged modern-classical composition, showcasing fragile violins, expanding pads, and swelling bass offering up a cozy space for the piano to tell its story. This is a natural progression for his sound, and I am eager to check out a full-length when one day it hopefully appears.

Anchor

TRACK PREMIERE : The Ideal Setback - Anchor

03 But A Mermaid Has No Tears

an Armenian pianist, born in Lebanon and currently living in Germany.
for me, Music is talking and sharing the things which I can not say in words... the most feelings that are hidden in each one of us.
please have a look inside my world. 
I hope you like it.

Einsam

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