Organic

ambient piano

Songs that are just so damn good that they send shivers down my spine. Anything goes in here.

gives me the chills

Selections // 4th August

Piano

Get it here!

Cherubim

Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover)

Denis Kozhukhin: Haydn Piano Sonata No.38, Adagio (ONYX Classics)

#1 iTunes Classical (9.22.14)

Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, introduces a new spin on 10 beloved Chopin works. With the undeniable resurgence in classical/instrumental music, Lawson felt compelled to show how Chopin's masterpieces are as spellbinding in most simplest form as they are in their original nature.

Disc One (tracks 1-10)
Chad Lawson - piano
Judy Kang - violin
Rubin Kodheli - cello

Disc Two (tracks 11-21)
Chad Lawson - solo piano

iTunes

Chopin Prelude in E Minor-Op. 28, No. 4 (Variation Arr. for Piano, Vioin and Cello) - Chad Lawson

Something I recorded at the beginning of the year at home.. warts and all

Disquiet Improv

Freeze

TREE - #PianoDay

“TREE” is a part of a composition written for Simphonie Cinétique, a collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and Joachim Sauter. Re-edited and mixed for release in celebration of Nils Frahm’s #PianoDay and features Nils himself on celeste.

Composed, arranged and performed by Ólafur Arnalds
Violin: Viktor Orri Árnason
Celeste: Nils Frahm

Recorded at Durton Studio, Berlin.
Mixed at E7 Studios, Reykjavik.

See more about Symphonie Cinétique here:
https://vimeo.com/70897666

TREE

09 - Voices

Part of the Voices (Remastered) album.

Voices

Order 7"/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP073
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/lifestoryloveandglory

Erased Tapes artists and friends Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm have separately carved out a musical career that defies genres both with their unique live shows and a loyal fan base that’s always eager to hear what their prolific output will bring. 

Their latest collaborative 2-track release ‘Life Story Love and Glory’ is a live improv affair on two pianos, recorded in 2012 at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin. Fans may wonder why they have waited until 2015 to release these tracks, but having revealed a new website www.arnaldsfrahm.com you may think this may not be the end to their musical story this year. 

“We would meet in Reykjavik or Berlin with the intention to share some days off work, hiking, swimming or eating pizza. That is great for a couple days, but after a while we would always end up back in the studio, fiddling with synths or pianos.” – Nils Frahm 
“You can hear in the beginning of ‘Life Story’ how I have already started playing the piano whilst Nils is still moving microphones around and preparing everything. It was all kept in!“ – Ólafur Arnalds 

‘Life Story Love and Glory’ will be released as a 7” on Erased Tapes – exclusively through record stores only on August 21, 2015 ahead of its digital release later on – as an ode to this classic and beloved format. 

More info: www.arnaldsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Life Story Love And Glory

Life Story

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Life Story

Ocoeur - Progression

Shift

from 'Landscapes of the Unfinished' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den251
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/pianointerrupted]

Recorded partly in Senegal with local musicians playing traditional instruments, "Landscapes Of The Unfinished" is Piano Interrupted's 3rd album for German experimental label Denovali.

This album sees pianist Tom Hodge and “electronician” Franz Kirmann explore a more introspective approach to their sound. The sonorities and recordings the pair brought back from West Africa are deconstructed, mangled and texturised, turned into a pointillist landscape until only a faint and distant souvenir remains.

These beds of pulsating soundscapes and earthy textures serve as base for Hodge’s delicate piano phrases and intricate compositions, interlaced with long-time collaborator Tim Fairhall's fluid double bass playing.

Harsher territories are also visited during the 9 tracks that compose the LP; fuzzy Senegalese radio voices and the distant memory of African percussion collide with distorted bass and buzzing drones or screaming textures battle with screeching double bass sounds and tortured piano strings.

The overall tone of the album reflects the duo’s desire to musically translate the experience of the Dakar trip (where Franz Kirmann grew up), but also to break away from the first two albums' intricate programming and editing and instead go towards a writing and recording experience directly inspired by their live experience. Hodge’s clarinet, an important facet of the Piano Interrupted live show, is captured on record for the first time. 

This surge towards documenting a moment, leaving a trace or examining something concrete is further reflected in the choice of titles (all named after the musicians who took part in the recordings) and also the design, which is for the first time a photograph. Taken by filmmaker Cath Elliott, who travelled with the pair to Dakar to document the process, the album artwork captures one of the numerous half-built structures, infinite and abandoned, surrounding the studio in the suburbs of Dakar, and provides both an unfinished urban landscape and yet when viewed as a single moment in time, one of many compellingly complete landscapes of the unfinished.

Landscapes of the Unfinished

Piano Interrupted - Vieux

Tracks For My Cat 01

Three, raw, unmastered ambient tracks made in Detroit, January 15th, 2015.
I hope these can ease a little bit of the pain, anxiety, frustration and pressure I'm sure we've all been feeling this year. 
I believe there is still love.
<3 Shi

 



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Low-key, melodic melancholia from Hedge Maze.

A real club cool down track to bring the night to a close. 

Kerb Hits

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Hedge Maze - Interlude

You can PRE-ORDER Living Room Songs on CD/LP/Download or Special Edition CD&amp;DVD here: 
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP037

ABOUT LIVING ROOM SONGS:

Icelandic contemporary composer Ólafur Arnalds created and released a new song, one per day for one for one whole week during the month of October 2011. The songs were recorded and filmed live in the living room of his Reykjavik apartment and released instantly for free as streamed videos and mp3 downloads.

Thousands of fans followed this exciting project online at: livingroomsongs.olafurarnalds.com

Living Room Songs will now also be released on CD, Vinyl, Ltd. Special Edition CD &amp; DVD and as High Quality Downloads on December 5th via Erased Tapes.


Following in the spirit of Ólafur Arnalds’ critically acclaimed Found Songs (2009) now comes Living Room Songs. This time Ólafur takes the idea further and invites the audience into the comfort of his living room, where the songs were recorded live and the whole process filmed. The songs were instantly released in form of a free mp3 download and video stream- straight from Ólafur's Reykjavik apartment.

IN HIS OWN WORDS: ‘One night I was just playing my piano here in this apartment and I was writing a new song and I didn't have my phone on me which I usually use to record ideas. So I actually took out my MacBook and I didn't want to open like a proper recording program, so I just opened Photo Booth and recorded a video of myself playing the song so that I would remember the song. And I really liked the atmosphere of that video and that's when I thought I should do a series of songs in my living room...’             – Ólafur Arnalds


Born in the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, a few kilometers outside of Reykjavík, the 24-year old composer has always enjoyed pushing boundaries with both his studio work and his live-shows. Through relentless touring and determination this young artist has steadily gained recognition worldwide since his 2007 debut Eulogy for Evolution. Ólafur Arnalds’ second full-length album ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness, continues his mission to lure an indie-generation of pop and rock fans into an emotive world of beguiling electronic chamber music and delicate classical arrangements. Ólafur is currently touring with Ryuichi Sakamoto on his Trio Tour throughout Europe.

'The indie kid who knows the score’ – Guardian’s Observer

'Timeless and sublime’ **** – Uncut

'An artist of immense maturity' (9/10) – Drowned In Sound

'Hotwired to the soul. ...will reduce you to wordless tears'  – The Quietus


 
TRACK LISTING: 

I. Fyrsta 
II. Near Light 
III. Film Credits 
IV. Tomorrow's Song 
V. Ágúst 
VI. Lag Fyrir Ömmu 
VII. This Place Is A Shelter


Near Light

Ólafur Arnalds - Near Light

Essential Mix

permvac 154-1 John Talabot " Voices "  incl Gerd Janson Version 12" out now

John Talabot - Voices - Original Mix

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In Dust We Trust with Chaos In The CBD - Dec 2016

From that 0.001% tape
(drumbreaks by BadBadnotgood)
if you don't know the original song, you're sleepinggggggg.

LATRELLE - House Party (KAYTRANADA EDIT)

H.E.R. - Focus (Dpat Remix)

03 183 Times

For Piano Day 2017 I give you this little tune for Piano and Viola from the score for a documentary called Out Of Thin Air (coming later in 2017)

Viola: Karl Pestka

Slow Decay (Out of Thin Air - OST) Piano Day 2017

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Akuila:
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<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/514eb3'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Akuila - Levitate

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Mr FijiWiji & Exist Strategy - Andromeda (feat. Matt Van)

Hey everyone back again with an argofox release! There is one version available with vocals and one without. 

This version with vocals is only available on my page.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgqT12_gUY

Track without vocals: https://soundcloud.com/argofox/inova-glow

Argofox: royalty free background music for YouTube videos and Twitch streams. Monetize songs with no copyright concerns!

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Glow (Circles)

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Glow (Circles) [Argofox]

New single by Photay from his upcoming full-length album 'Onism' due out August 11th via Astro Nautico. Additional synths and production by Toby Gale.

Onism

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Photay - Inharmonious Slog

❤︎This is an experiment we made mixing 2 tracks: Joy Orbison - Walworth Window and Maria Rita Stumpf - Cântico Brasileiro Nº3 (Kamaiurá).

Joy Orbison Und Maria Rita - Brasileiro Window | Underspreche Experiment |

Planet

'Audio Track 5' Out Now -
Ninjashop / Stream / Download: https://actressxlco.lnk.to/at5SO

Taken from 'Audio Track 5' released 1st September 2017 via Ninja Tune.

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Audio Track 5

Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra  - 'Audio Track 5'

Isotach

Extinction

I wrote a song for someone who unfortunately I haven't known for very long, and their time is now rapidly coming to an end. Its a song about how hard it is to say goodbye in in these situations, but its kind of become a symbolic track for a couple of other endings I've had recently (other than death too)

I hope you can relate to this, I would also love to hear how! i'm sure it'll invoke more inspiration for me. 

This was produced by the very talented Shabda. 

Lyrics
Though I don't know, all that you were, all that you are
Its so hard to say goodbye
Even when your spirit leaves, we'll keep you near
Its so hard to say goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, farewell - may the spirits take you high, goodbye
The memories, will forever be held on to, yeh
Its so hard to say goodbye

Lots of Love 
Jasmine
x 

So Hard To Say Goodbye - Jasmine Bee & Shabda

From the album "The Piano Pieces".
Available through itunes: goo.gl/imeem

October

This is the SoundCloud page of pianist and composer Matthew Bourne - frequently mistaken for the choreographer of the same name. You are most welcome...