"Restive is about patterns of thought: the flow of words and the stream of consciousness within our minds. There is an underlying expression of a certain amount of turmoil, but also that of optimism as we juggle between concerns, variables and positive outcomes."

@juliagjertsen on her newest piece ; it's out now as part of our Piano Day collection Splices and you can find the recording anywhere you listen to music: orcd.co/jg-restive

https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/splices

Restive

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Julia Gjertsen - Restive

''This little tune came to me on a day where I was feeling overwhelmed. Nederlag means ’defeat’ in Danish but also refers to the subconscious layers of the mind. It’s a reminder to me that there is beauty and hope to be found even in hard times, and it's a feeling I want to share with others - to see the light.''

@jacob_david on his newest piece ; it's out now as part of our Piano Day collection Splices and you can find the recording anywhere you listen to music: https://orcd.co/jd-nederlag

modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/splices

Nederlag

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All The Things We Could Know

Ben Crosland - All The Things We Could Know

A Memory Fades

A memory Fades

Jim Perkins - A Memory Fades

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.

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Jakob Lindhagen - Tomorrow

To play on a dreary day:) Washburn R305, DGDGCD,
Takamine Classic from 1968, Drop D tuning.

March Of The Melancholy

Domum

Break Away

Thessaloniki-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Manos Milonakis debuts on piano and coffee records with "The Seagull", a synopsis of his original score for Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov’s play of the same name, directed by Yiannis Paraskevopoulos for theatres of Greece and Romania.

The first musical lines of this project were drawn while in Romania, where together with the director, Milonakis travelled to prepare a show for Craiova’s National Theatre. The post-communist atmosphere, the humid streets, the sense of modern balkan darkness contrasting with incredibly vivid painted walls, strong flavors, smells, and amazingly passionate and friendly people would be decoded into music for the classic Russian play. The thirteen tracks in "The Seagull" blend melancholic piano melodies, soaring strings, gentle electronics, atmospheric haze, and evocative soundscapes. Sometimes discreet and others at the forefront of a strong narrative, each piece pours itself into the other like communicating vessels, coexisting with romantic encounters, philosophical arguments, family quarrels and a series of unanticipated arrivals and departures. Piece by piece, Milonakis masterfully introduces us into a world of frustrated lives and unrequited love.

Even though "The Seagull" was composed in 2015, a year before his previous release, "Festen", it took Milonakis significantly more time to decide it was the right moment to release it. “During these years and working in-between other projects”, he says, “I sometimes looked back in my hardrives and these recordings always resonated inside my heart. Having performed the music extensively in concerts was also revealing an urge to me: that I should probably share this stuff with the world”. This brought him to Denmark, where he had the pleasure to have some piano re-recorded and the full album freshly re-mixed by Ed Carlsen at his studio in Kongens Lyngby.

"The Seagull" releases on 13 March 2020 via piano and coffee records worldwide, and is available on limited edition CD and digital formats, with artwork by London-based illustrator Jordan Amy Lee.

Credits:

Recorded and mixed by Manos Milonakis and Ed Carlsen between Thessaloniki and Kongens Lyngby.

Mastered by Manos Milonakis at -1 Studio.

All instruments performed by Manos Milonakis except:
Violin: Christina Georgeli, David Bogorad
Cello: Thodoris Papadimitriou

Artwork by Jordan Amy Lee
Layout by Rita Silva

Big thanks to Yiannis Paraskevopoulos, T.N.M.S Craiova-Romania, all actors and contributors, Sergio, Ed, Eirini, Mihalis, Etten, The Salonico String Quartet, my friends and family.

Manos Milonakis - Treplev's Song

Pace

London based pianist and composer Mike Lazarev @headphonecommute celebrates Piano Day 2020 with this delicate offering. 
. . . 
far beyond a time-slice of the past lies a short-lived moment
in that memory, I played the piano and you listened
now all that/s left is that memento and this music
and while i/m forgetting it lives on...
 . . .
Stream on Spotify, AppleMusic : https://orcd.co/forgetting-almost

Forgetting, Almost

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Mike Lazarev - Forgetting, Almost

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"This bucolic and cyclical piece, based on electronic-organic sounds, aims to evoke the strength and purity of the tangible – the experience of hugging, touching wet soil, or getting gently wet from a fine drizzle, arms open and looking up at the sky”

“Tangible was composed towards the end of the Covid lockdown. It’s inspired by personal reflection about real and virtual experiences; society has been forced to evolve in terms of how we relate to each other, and to spend a large amount of time staring at screens. However, as the poet Pedro Salinas reminds us: “You always live in your actions. With the tips of your fingers you press the world, you tear off auroras, triumphs, colors, joys: it's your music. Life is what you touch”. 
In this way, the album aims to evoke the strength and purity of the tangible – the experience of hugging, touching wet soil, or getting gently wet from a fine drizzle, arms open and looking up at the sky” B.S


“Right from the start, Bruno Sanfilippo’s Tangible is a blissful, serene dream. The record’s songs blossom gently, like an autumn sunrise, and convey a profound sense of joy and euphoria. Combining piano, strings, and minimalist electronica, there’s real beauty here too; fragile piano lines woven with soaring strings and soft synth washes. Yet Bruno doesn’t merely evoke deep emotions – his work is playful in places, imbued with a little mischief. It’s what gives Tangible its heart and humanity. Sinking into these twelve tracks is wondrously life-affirming, and confirms Sanfilippo as one of the best, most soulful pianists and composers in the world” Derek Robertson, freelance journalist and music writer: Guardian, Independent, NME, VICE, Timeout, The Quietus, The Face.

Recorded by Bruno at Onix II Studio · Barcelona · spring 2020
Analog Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photo and layout CD by Ximena Contreras
Music Video by Aleix Font
Violin in ‘Amapola’ by Laura Masotto
Cello in ‘Amber Light’ by Antonio Cortesi
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www.bruno-sanfilippo.com

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