Forbidden Kiss

Excerpt from Emporium Drone 018. To be released late August 2025. Thanks to Ian Haygreen for the cover photo.

Cousin Silas - Emporium Drone 018 (Edit)

TOUCHING TOO LOUD (single #1) from long awaited Spark In The Machine LP out 1st December 2025
on Bandcamp: https://olaszmidt.bandcamp.com/album/spark-in-the-machine-2

Press Release: 

Ola Szmidt’s music breathes in the rhythm of wounds.
Those visible, and those hidden beneath the skin.

She lets them speak through her in their own language.

It is the voice of women whose tenderness has been silenced for years, pushed into the shadows. Now, in subtle whispers, in trembling resonance, it slowly finds its way to the surface.

Each phrase is like a breath of freedom, a fragile yet courageous touch of the truth. Though still “too loud” for a world accustomed to silence.

This album is an intimate testimony of healing.

A process in which pain does not vanish, but transforms into strength.

In the space between silence and voice, between fragility and courage, Ola captures something essential: the path of reclaiming oneself.

It is music for all those who know that scars are not an end.
They are like a memory. They make us more sensitive and stronger same time. They are like a map leading towards freedom.

Touching Too Loud is a journey through the landscape of body and soul that have learned to live with scars.

They told us to be quiet.
To fold our feelings into silence.
To carry pain like a secret,
and let fear stitch itself into our skin.

But silence is not the end.
Beneath the weight of what was done to us,
our voices never disappeared

TOUCHING TOO LOUD is the sound of that waiting ending.
It is the trembling breath of women rising from shadows,
the fragile resonance of truths once too dangerous to be spoken.
Each musical line is a scar turned into a voice. And from those multiple lines, a song is formed.

This is not music for forgetting what happened.
It is music for remembering.
This is music about growing up, becoming stronger,
For feeling the wound and the healing at once,
for reclaiming the body, the tenderness, the right to be heard.

Here, our voices are no longer small.
They are subtle, yes, but unstoppable.
They are soft, but unbroken.
They are free.

Press Release written by Karolina Wolska
meditativedrawings.com  

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TOUCHING TOO LOUD

so sensitive his nature seemed - #4289 (94R55 percent 247 left) by chair house 250911
(again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

*** NEW CATCHPHRASE FOR PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVES ***

" Gentleness, carried on 4,536 leaves of sound "

*** "PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVE" COMPLETE WORK ALBUM SERIES START ***

Now begins a new challenge:
to compile all 4,536 pieces into 91 albums
and deliver them to the future.
Just as "Ten Thousand Leaves ( Manyoushu ) " carried
the hearts of lovers across a thousand years,
we hope these piano pieces will reach
people a thousand years from now.

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VOLUME1-3
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*** youtube full video
https://youtu.be/ue7KsUBdLME?si=5UbdJelOAPjqboiJ
*** spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/6BAV5XloL6HDGboFeiE3VF?si=e4E-3zI0RqCt8aQNrnMHrQ
*** Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-3/1834912123
*** all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/8RNRdEa3?lang=en

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VOLUME1-2 
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*** youtube: full video of 50 pieces 2 hours
https://youtu.be/fBmIMLpM10g?si=MQmAdF95M7GCm4Ve
*** spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/1KDM283kVS8x7fO9q79w2v?si=iIJ4sZidSqWW8ah59Y_a1g
*** Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-2/1832629621
*** all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/VeA0UreQ?lang=en

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VOLUME1-1
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*** youtube: full video of 50 pieces 2 hours
https://youtu.be/YERNF74cvKw?si=6FiU67TOdybggkQk
*** spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/12vCnNiO4EfBz6eVPGhvOr?si=P3cL7RZSTV-87jeswyI8BA
*** Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-1/1831717286
*** all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/Y9VNVN23


so sensitive his nature seemed - #4289 (94R55 percent 247 left) by chair house 250911

We welcome Spanish pianist and composer Nel Aique to the ad21 family with his new single Riveries.
Aique’s story with music began as a childhood dream, when he first discovered the piano. Years later, that dream turned into a true passion, shaping a voice that seeks beauty through simplicity.

Riveries is a serene and contemplative piece, touched with cinematic elegance, its gentle flow evokes the stillness of a misty day, inviting quiet reflection and inner calm. ad21.

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24 Postcards In Full Colour

Circles From The Rue Simon – Crubellier

Max Richter trained in composition and piano at Edinburgh University, at the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence.

On completing his studies, Max co-founded the iconoclastic classical ensemble Piano Circus, where he stayed for ten years, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe and Steve Reich.

In the late 90s he worked with a number of electronic artists, notably Future Sound of London on their album 'Dead Cities". He subsequently collaborated with FSOL over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums "The Isness" and "The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness". Max also collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size, on "In the Mode".

In June 2002, Max released his debut solo album, "memoryhouse", recorded with The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. This was followed in March 2004 by FatCat's release of "The Blue Notebooks", with featured readings by Tilda Swinton.

In 2005 Max produced Vashti Bunyan's outstanding comeback album "Lookaftering".

2006 saw the release of "Songs From Before" based on Haruki Murakami texts read by Robert Wyatt. That same year, Max began performing "from The Art of Mirrors", an evolving score to previously unseen Super 8mm films of Derek Jarman.

Max's more recent work continues to stretch the notions of what Classical music is.  ‘24 Postcards In Full Colour’, released in August 2008, is an experimental work made up of 24 composed ringtones.

Max works widely in film music, installation and the theatre, most recently on INFRA, made with Wayne MacGregor and Julian Opie for The Royal Ballet, London. The Ballet was the subject of a BBC 'making of' documentary.

Max was named 2008 European Composer Of The Year for his score to Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir, for which he was also nominated for the Prix France Musique.

Circles From The Rue Simon – Crubellier

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