It's as if waiting for a train, alone perhaps. So beautiful!

I don't know.... sorry, but in my composition class professor would say: "And when do you think start a developing of this pretty interesting material?..."

حیات 🫠🍃

This piece began its life in Nat Bartsch's soundtrack for the Australian documentary ‘Whatever Scares You’. The coming-of-age film centers around a young protagonist named Breanna who discovers she is neurodivergent. In a scene Breanna joins Nat at the piano and learns of Nat’s own experiences of neurodiversity. The piece seeks to capture Breanna’s vibrancy, determination, naiveté and vulnerability, qualities Nat also sees in herself. We hear Nat's jazz influences on the piano, infused with ethereal and minimalist textures.

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Canadian minimalist instrumental label Moderna Records presents their annual piano day collection featuring twelve pieces from composers and pianists around the world. Their 2023 compilation 'Fractals' is centred around the upright piano, with a curation focused on the label’s signature melodic minimalism. The contributions were selected with great care, while showcasing each pianist’s unique flair on the instrument. Fractals includes pieces from Akira Kosemura (JP), Hiroco.M (JP), Jacob David (DK), Eik Octobre (DK), Ole-Bjørn Talstad (NO), Julia Gjertsen (NO), Sten Erland Hermundstad (NO), Mike Lazarev (UK), Pêtr Aleksänder (UK), Jozef De Schutter (CH), Felix Rösch (DE) and Nat Bartsch (AU). The series is mastered by Tom Adams in the UK and set to artwork by UK designer Iain Perry.

Fractals

Breanna

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Nat Bartsch - Breanna

UK composer, producer and singer-songwriter Tom Adams' new instrumental record Golden Waves arrives later this month - it features a set of 10 tracks blending Adams' delicate piano playing with a simple yet stunning layering of aetherial instrumentation including his unique falsetto vocals, subtle electronics, electric guitar and percussion. The result is a wash of sound influenced equally by modern-classical piano playing and post-rock / ambient groups such as Sigur Rós and A Winged Victory for the Sullen. With Golden Waves, Adams shows that he continues to be one of the most innovative voices in the scene. 

You can pre-order the album in digital and CD formats over at our Bandcamp store : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/golden-waves

And stream the 2nd single ‘First Wave’ on your favorite platform : moderna.ampl.ink/firstwave

'First Wave' is built around a harmonic progression of falling major and minor thirds that gives the music at once a sense of tonal identity and yet a centre that is constantly changing. As a result there is no real feeling of beginning and end, just a constant flow of music. I found this to be evocative of sitting on a beach and listening to the arrival of the waves, each somehow being the same yet also unique from the one before it...'' - Tom Adams

Golden Waves

First Wave

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Tom Adams - First Wave

Confrontations

Tambour - Chapitre I | mr002

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.: The Nude And The Quiet :.
Composed and produced by Simon P. Castonguay

Recorded by Benoît Parent
Mixed by Pierre Duchesne
Mastering by Pierre Duchesne

Piano/Tonal percussions - Simon P. Castonguay
Violon I - Rose Frappier
Violon II - Audrée Leduc
Alto - Mélanie Venditti
Cello - Eugénie Lalonde

Tambour - The Nude And The Quiet

Music from the Seiko film, The Gift of Time directed by Paula Chowles.

Kanto Earthquake

From the album '' Jacob David - omkuld '' released by Moderna Records.

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Jacob David - Intet Forbi 

composed by Jacob David

piano : Jacob David

violins & tenor violin : Kristian Jørgensen

cello : Line Felding

mixed & mastered by Morten Bue 

Jacob David - Intet Forbi

A faint light filters through hidden chambers where silence breathes like understanding. Each reflection merges with another, tracing the serene grace of unspoken awareness. The world vibrates in secret symmetry: fragile, infinite, and strangely gentle. In the silence between thought and instinct, wisdom curls like smoke, observing everything and needing nothing.

The Ivory Wind

Wrote this seven years ago. It's actually my very first music piece (: It's really simple and ordinary but I still somehow like the melody. 

Picture taken by my father, must haven been around 1996.



Unberührt

Another very early piece from 2008, when I just started to play my own music.
I'm sorry, it's not very catchy, difficult to understand and has some very awkward parts. I think my approach to music was a bit different that time.. 
But if you give it a careful listen, it has some worthwile stories to tell. 


Original title: Mollgau
Picture taken at Klavins Piano Manufaktur

Moll

Sometimes when I´m locked, not feeling the music I like to take a fixed something and just play around it. Thats what this improv is, right hand just keeping the beat (mostly fixed but some errors there :) ), and the left hand just doing melodic and harmonic stuff around it. 

Not my best work but kind of liked to do something tonight.

Center

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written and recorded by daigo hanada 
mastered by emil thomsen (et mastering)

Ichiru

Daigo Hanada - Solitude

from 'Intervals' (Piano Day 2018 compilation)

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Composed & produced by Ed Carlsen
Ed Carlsen: piano
Matias Emil Fyhn: cello

Intervals

Bliss

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Ed Carlsen - Bliss

First Light, a frozen ambient soundscape.
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First Light

Lead single from Julia Gjertsen's upcoming release 'Fragile'
Pre-order the album: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/fragile 

Stream the single on digital platforms: https://orcd.co/the-fountain 

All music written, recorded and mixed by Julia Gjertsen
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K Mastering
Artwork by Carsten Daub

Fragile

The Fountain

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Julia Gjertsen - The Fountain

Here is my very first release under my real name. 

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Autumn Rains

Charly Martin - Autumn Rains

The Hypnotist - end credits. 
Performed and composed by Oscar Fogelström and Niki & the Dove. 
Strings arranged by Matt Dunkley and Tony Blondal and performed by London Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Alastair King. Strings recorded by Geoff Foster at British Grove Studios.

Lyrics:
If I look at you with pure essence - pure as the first snow
If you take a look at me - like you didn’t know me
You wanna know my name - write it in the palm of your hand
We’ll see it through won’t we
We’ll see it through won’t we

We made the town red, remember
Ball and chain, remember
We’ll see this through

We made the town red, remember
Ball and chain, remember
We’ll see this through

18. Ball and chain - Featuring Niki & The Dove - The Hypnotist OST

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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.

قلب ِ کوچکی که به حیات دُچار ست ... 🫀🪷

Ed Carlsen - Bliss

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