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Daigo Hanada & Yoko Komatsu - Ichi

Tomorrow, January 28th, Norwegian composer and pianist Julia Gjertsen is set to release her sophomore LP on the one and only Moderna imprint. I’ve covered Julia before, in particular, her collaboration with Nico Rosenberg (including the latest release on Constellation Tatsu), but for Formations, it’s nice to hear her play alone again. Besides the solo piano pieces on the album, which are entangled with reverb, some echoes and looped repetitions, the passages are processed with a rhythmic, borderline percussive brush. My favourite piece on the album, which was already released by the label as a single, is called “Falling In Keys”, and it perfectly embodies the lush atmospheres produced by the piano, drenched in sweeping delays, lightly sprinkled flutters and deep rumbling bass. The piece that I’m premiering for you today echoes the textured theme with just a touch of synth pads, delicate treatments and forefront pulsating rhythm. Here, we find Gjertsen “expertly oscillating between catchy, beat-driven hooks and slow-motion soundscapes that cause us to lose track of time.” I hope you will enjoy this and then come back for her 2019 debut, titled Fragile.

Read more about it here: http://hcdi.gs/Gjertsen

Formations

TRACK PREMIERE : Julia Gjertsen - Cause And Effect

Following the warmly-received Paces (1631 Recordings/Decca Publishing) and the collaborative Stadsbilder (Time Released Sound), Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist Jakob Lindhagen presents his second solo full-length album Memory Constructions on piano and coffee records.

Recorded together with German brother-duo Sebastian and Daniel Selke (aka CEEYS, whose collaborations also include Ólafur Arnalds and Spitfire) and longtime artistic collaborator Sofia Nystrand (Vargkvint), the album merges elements of neoclassical and ambient music, with a foundation of intimate piano works paired with violoncello and vocal synth, expanded with musical saw, kantele, bowed glockenspiel and sound experiments, recorded to analogue equipment. 

”Memories are an equally complicated as fascinating aspect of the human mind. After realizing a couple of memories from my childhood surroundings simply didn’t add up - the timeline didn’t make sense so I couldn’t have been in that place at that time, or a block of houses not being placed where they actually were - I became slightly obsessed with memory research. Our memories play such a huge part of our identities, yet they are extremely unreliable, change and fade over time, and are easily influenced and manipulated. And yet I couldn’t help myself also finding beauty in the fact that I both completely trust and distrust my own memories, that make up who I am. So digging from these slightly contradicting feelings, and from where my own memories are either constructed, fading, forgotten, rewritten, made up or completely true, this album was concieved.” 

Memory Constructions has been supported by the Swedish Arts Council, and is coming out digitally and on limited edition vinyl on the 23rd of September, featuring artwork by Sofia Nystrand and desing/layout by Celia Bayo.

Purchase

Jakob Lindhagen - Tomorrow

It's the 1st advance from my forthcoming album ‘Ver Sacrum’, out on March 10 through ad21
"Spectral and haunting, there’s an almost monastic quality to ‘Sacred Spring’, the first piece to be taken from pianist and composer Bruno Sanfilippo’s forthcoming new album ‘Ver Sacrum’. An air of quiet solitude too; poignant strings wash in and out of focus punctuated by a slow, melancholic organ line. Like all his best work, it’s emotionally resonant yet quietly captivating, a master class in mood and shadow" Derek Robertson, journalist and music writer: Guardian, Independent, NME, VICE, Timeout, The Quietus, The Face.

Vanesa Tomás (Soprano)
Mariel Aguilar (Mezzo Soprano) 
Analog mastered by Ian Hawgood, 
Cover by Javier Guglielmi 

https//www.bruno-sanfilippo.com

Ver Sacrum

Sacred Spring

AppleMusic/Spotify

i do not own this piano cover
all rights belong to Chris // CJ piano Covers on Youtube
watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCyyzYE2y-E

Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don't Care (Piano Cover) by Chris Jeager

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Price: Entanglement

The Attachment

Michael Price – The Attachment

In instrumental version of a track from my forthcoming album, "(For Now We See)Through A Glass Dimly". Set for release in March 2016, the full track features the words of Paul Morley spoken by Dutch musician Jan Van Den Broeke. The track also features electronic details by Richard Talbot (Marconi Union).

Little Emblems Of Eternity (Instrumental)

Born in Athens, Greek composer Zinovia Arvanitidi is most widely remembered as one half of the duo Pill-Oh in Vanishing Mirror as well as her debut solo The Gift of Affliction. Zinovia returns with her first solo modern classical undertaking titled Ivory, and like its precursors, further highlights her mastery in crafting piano ambiances of austere beauty and melancholia, led by mesmerizing melodies and evolving cinematic textures.

Fully self-produced, the now France-based composer navigates through her own time-memory universe with Debussy-like impressionistic daubs, but sublimely she draws the listener into a strangely familiar landscape where the past confronts the present - it is perhaps a dimension that exists within all of us. As the chapters unfold, memories are untangled as darkness shifts into light. The minimalistic nature of the early piano pieces are then transformed, lush and ornate with orchestral strings, subtle electronic atmospheres, field recordings and airy whispers. What makes Zinovia’s musical expression exquisite would perhaps be her use of the melodica, an instrument uncommon amongst the modern classical genre, that adds a contrasting depth to her harmonic palette.

An omnipresent sense of duality lingers throughout the album, as with the ivory and ebony colours of piano keys, or the birth and decay of seasons. This is a work where the artist has grasped the essence of the quote by Albert Camus: “There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between”. The aural journey heightens, then subsides with a newfound serenity in closing, engaging the listener to invoke their own introspections on acceptance and healing.

Rooted in film and television (and represented by film composer agency Oticons among the names of Shigeru Umebayashi and Jan A.P Kaczmarek), Zinovia’s well-versed background in cinematic scoring manifests in her dexterity at veiling intricacies within each track that only unveil themselves with each subsequent listen. As a fully expanded realisation of Zinovia’s artistic voice, Ivory will resonate with fans who love Pill-Oh, and appeal to those familiar with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Dustin O’Halloran.

French photographer Aëla Labbé’s enigmatic cover art photography once again unifies with Zinovia’s soundscapes since her work for Vanishing Mirror.

Zinovia Arvanitidi releases Ivory on 29 March 2018 on Piano Day via KITCHEN. LABEL worldwide. Available on 180g white vinyl LP, CD and DL.

Pre-order:
www.kitchen-label.com/store/no-21-ivory-zinovia-arvanitidi/

KITCHEN. LABEL : www.kitchen-label.com
Zinovia Arvanitidi : www.zinoviaarvanitidi-composer.com

Ivory

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Zinovia Arvanitidi - Fluttering

B-side of the title track from the forthcoming album "NOME", releasing early 2019. Performed on a Juno 60. 

Mixed and Mastered by Harnes Kretzer.

Re: NOME

Stream, etc: https://smarturl.it/BlurstemAmongTheOaks
Bandcamp: https://blurstem.bandcamp.com/album/among-the-oaks

My wife and I were gifted an old spinet piano when we bought a house in 2015. Always slightly out of tune, a little dusty sounding, and very much imperfect, the instrument has its own character. But it wasn’t until I cut up an old sweater and taped it to the strings, so as to avoid waking up the family at night, that my love for that character really took form. While piano is certainly a part of the Elskavon sound, I was writing so many new songs on this spinet that I felt the need to start a whole new project. Blurstem was birthed. While the sound is a not-so-distant relative of Elskavon, the heart of it is a minimalist, raw, and intimate feel. 

• • • MY MUSIC
@elskavon (Bandcamp → http://elskavon.bandcamp.com)
@borayork (Bandcamp → https://blurstem.bandcamp.com)
Spotify → http://smarturl.it/anthemfalls-spotify
Apple → http://smarturl.it/anthemfalls-apple

• • • FEATURED ARTISTS
I am honored to have so many guest artists that collaborated with me on this album. These are old friends and new friends - some here in Minneapolis, and some all around the globe. I thought it an interesting juxtaposition that such calm, intimate music is crafted with such a collaborative nature. I have to say how grateful I am for all of these wonderful musicians and friends of mine - what a treat to have them be a part of this. Please check out their music as well!
• • •
Lowercase Noises: https://tinyurl.com/y5mb5utv
Hamu: https://tinyurl.com/yxrqo34h
Brique a Braq: https://tinyurl.com/y6t8kdm3
Ben Noble: https://tinyurl.com/y3lqohjn
Kyle McEvoy: https://tinyurl.com/yyfy9kad
Rosen Poem: https://tinyurl.com/y5aoapwr
Antarctic Wastelands: https://tinyurl.com/yxgc6xgj
Alex Berglund: https://tinyurl.com/yxuo3hxr

• • • CONNECT / FOLLOW
Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/chris_bartels
Twitter → https://www.twitter.com/elskavon
Facebook (Elskavon) → https://www.facebook.com/elskavon
Facebook (Bora York) → https://www.facebook.com/borayork
My website → http://anthemfallsmusic.com
Curated playlists → http://anthemfallsmusic.com/playlists
Sample packs and virtual instruments → http://anthemfallssound.com

Among The Oaks

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Blurstem - Oslo Greens (feat. Hamu)

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We're here to trace a line from electronic sound designers to classical composers, connecting them through the realms of ambient & cinematic music.

Daigo Hanada & Yoko Komatsu - Ichi

Moderna Records

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