So beautiful, thank you for the peaceful tune

In a sonic world which currently appears to be saturated with meditative and reflective music, it seems too hard to meditate and then reflect upon the meaning of this saturation. Is it the fact that we’re all receding into quietude and need a bit more space for all our mental health, or is it simply the machinery behind the scenes that works like a suggestive algorithm to feed us more of what we want? I suspect the truth lies somewhere in between because it’s a little bit of both. Thankfully, I think I can see right through the latter, and bring you closer to the former because there are a few artists, and more importantly, record labels, that really focus on aesthetics, delivering music that connects every listener, and not just dilutes them with more of the same. In this particular case, I am speaking, of course, of Moderna, which since 2015, has been offering us beautiful gems. With their latest release, this Montreal-based imprint is introducing us to a Polish composer and pianist, Piotr Wiese. Building upon a successful string of film soundtracks, singles and albums, Wiese is currently working on a new LP for the label, but today we can get a sneak preview into his world with a charming title track, taken from his upcoming EP in September. “Coming Home” is a lovingly executed solo piano piece, with roots in European romanticism and newly-born branches in contemporary classical and reductionist minimalism genres – exactly how I like it. It’s a poetic melody that comforts and quilts, reminding me so much of those meditative and reflective pieces that I love so much to console in, even if they come from a turbulent mind of my own.

"Coming Home is all about a journey – the one you undertake to get to know your true self. Sometimes a lot of time has to pass to get to the place where you live your own life, rather than the lives of others. And then when you get to that place it feels like ‘coming home’ from a long journey. There can nonetheless be sadness because there are people, often loved ones, you have to leave behind to live in peace with yourself amidst the joy of the return to self."

Coming Home

TRACK PREMIERE : Piotr Wiese - Coming Home

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

this evening's light  - 4:23:24, 6.38 PM

S.O.L Best of Album is out 16.3.2018 !
finally, physical CD and digital release is availabe in all major stores

I am so happy to announce that finally you can get and order my physical Best of CD in all major german stores. Even better, many markets already have them on stock. Here is the list:

Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann Berlin
Media Markt Berlin
Saturn Braunschweig
Saturn Bremen
Saturn Frankfurt
Saturn Hamburg
Saturn Köln
Saturn Magdeburg
Hot Rats Magdeburg
Media Markt Ulm
JPC

For all my fans outside Germany you can of course get your copy on my website (dirkmaassen.com)or on amazon. Also the album is ready to stream and to download on all digital stores around like spotify, deezer, apple music, amazon, google play, and many more.

Skin on Skin // Dirk Maassen

Piano Day 2018 release with @igor-khabarov

Watch the video here:
https://youtu.be/eII-BYNlLZ0

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Soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/igor-khabarov
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29.03.18 Igor Khabarov & Aron Bergen – Equinox (live on Piano Day 2018)

HIOR CHRONIK – “BLIND HEAVEN”

Worldwide Release date: November 8th, 2019
On 7K! – LP – CD - Digital – Streaming

Seductive drone and post cinematic soundscapes between ambient, indie-neoclassical music. These are the best words to describe the vibes of the new album by the Greek/Berliner composer Hior Chronik, entitled “Blind Heaven” out on November 8th via 7K! - !K7.


There is a dark and cinematic atmosphere that chases throughout the new album by the Greek composer and producer Hior Chronik, a natural sequel to "Out Of The Dust", released on 7K! in 2017. While retaining an ambient and modern-classic dimension, "Blind Heaven" goes in search of new territories to observe and interpret. Sound landscapes made of synthesizers, electronics, strings, woodwinds and above all magical touches of the piano, so minimal as they are brilliant in their being perfectly integrated into the sonic trajectories traced by the Athens-born artist who has lived in Berlin for several years.

“The meaning of everything I do is to share with people something that maybe
will need to listen and make them feel more emotional in their life.
This album is another part of me. It’s my personal demonstration and voice to everything that hurts nature and weak people.”

Track after track "Blind Heaven" reveals itself by involving the listener in a particularly evocative and immersive multi-stage sound journey: Nocturne, crepuscular, foggy, the record moves in neighboring territories without delineating a precise and static form: the sound moves magmatic, it is discovered, it hides, it explodes, it shrinks and once again it frees itself to cross extremely natural and peaceful landscapes, as well as darker, industrial, apocalyptic, noisy and powerful worlds. Storm, then quiet again, but a stillness crossed by splinters and flashes clearly visible in the distance.

“Blind Heaven is the illusion of everyone that live his myth in his own bubble 
without seeing what’s really going on outside.”  

Created between the autumn and winter of 2019 in Berlin, mixed and mastered in Athens by John Valasis (already at the mix for the previous "Out Of The Dust"), "Blind Heaven" confirms Hior Chronik as one of the main names of the scene poised between the electronic-ambient world and that of modern classic minimalism. Proof of this are the prestigious feature of the album: from the Japanese by Erased Tapes, Masayoshi Fujita (vibraphone in "Blanket"), to the Polish pianist Hania Rani, who for a long time accompanied Hior Chronik on tour and whom we see here on the piano in "Words Are Gone", the producer and sound engineer Francesco Donadello, to the modular synths in "One Eternity At The Time", up to the New York artist Amber Ortolano, voice in "Beneath".


CAT Number: 7K016

1.Imitation of life
2.Beneath (feat. Amber Ortolano)
3.Don’t mess with my heart
4.Blanket (feat. Masayoshi Fujita)
5.Words are gone (feat. Hania Rani)
6.One eternity at a time (feat. Francesco Donatello)
7.Through the path
8.Smash and grab  
9.Intimacy of the unknown 
10.Elixir

Trumpet across the album by Christian Grothe

2* Amber Ortolano - vocals
4* Masayoshi Fujita - Vibraphone Arrangement 
5* Hania Rani - Piano
6* Francesco Donatello - Modular Synths

All songs are composed by Hior Chronik
Lyrics on track 2 by Amber Ortolano
Masayoshi Fujita appears courtesy of Erased Tapes
Hania Rani appears courtesy of Gondwana Records

Mixed & mastered by John Valasis
www.johnvalasis.com
Front cover by Narges Aqamiri
https://www.instagram.com/nargesaqamiri/
Back/Inside cover by Hior Chronik.
Layout by Paolo Proserpio
A&R at 7K! Carlo “Jarno” Garrè - www.7k.k7.com

Blind Heaven

The Words Are Gone Feat. Hania Rani

Audioslave

W.a.y no: 2

Where 2

Artist: YES IT'S ANANIAS (CH)
Record: 'PIANO DAY MMXIX - Kasheme Live'
Mix & Master: Nicolas Streichenberg & Laurenz Fregnan aka
https://soundcloud.com/modolo-basilea
__________

"This is the Second half of my never-been-released-before Live-Concert at Zurich's finest Jazzbar "KASHEME". This B-Side is formerly released only on Vinyl through a limited run of handmade Records by Royal Mint Records in Finland.
It's transporting a on spot invented and improvised trip of several emotions like loss, eternety, motionless harms and strong hearable pain. It was my medicine, I hope it's yours too. Enjoy and reach out to me if you have questions about the pictures I painted in your head with this performance. I'm here for you."
Sincerely, Nicolas Streichenberg 
(@nstreichenberg) - instagram.

Piano Day MMXIX Kasheme Live

GEORGE AND THE FISHERMAN (Live on #PianoDay 2019 in Zurich)

The uplifting and reflective closing track from the documentary 'Chasing the Present'. 

Scored by Icelandic composer @snorrihallgrimsson, this intimate piece for piano and cello gently pulls the listener from the stresses of everyday life, immersing them for a moment in a peaceful, dream-like world. 

Stream the full album OST : https://orcd.co/chasing-the-present

Chasing the Present

Acceptance

Download

Snorri Hallgrímsson - Acceptance

For Piano Day 2020

This, I think, is the first song I ever wrote. At the time (sometime between 2012 and 2014), I didn’t have a piano or ever played one; I wrote this piece on my laptop keyboard. It’s the gist of what I’ve been through during my first years after emigration.

Blue Years

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com

#PianoDay2020

Anne Lovett - Sur Un Fil

say hello / licensing / demos 
modernarecords@gmail.com

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

Snorri Hallgrímsson - Acceptance

Moderna Records

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