Fantasy World
by FunFant / Heikki Antero Niemela, Heikki Niemelä

Eternal Love

Ashes to the Wind - Nordic Pagan Cinematic Tribal Music

Quadrivium

#pianoday2020

This album is a collection, raw and spontaneous, and the fruit of 15 days of artistic residency in the beautiful setting of La Becque, La Tour de Peilz (CH), in partnership with Françoise Siegfried Meier Foundation and the Montreux Jazz Artist Foundation.

A setting in which I was able to express myself, on grand piano and essentially on prepared piano, with introspection and escape.


This logbook is intended to be raw, spontaneous and representative of the immersive moments I have experienced.
Some improvisations are therefore presented, such as the themes "Memories", "Serenity 1 and 2", "La Becque", or experiments ("overdrive", "rework")
The theme "Mrs. Siegfried Meier" is a tribute.

Memories is also composed for PianoDay 2019.

Sérénité 1

Douglas Dare's third and most stripped back album to date, 'Milkteeth', is out now. Produced by Mike Lindsay, founding member of Tunng and one half of LUMP with Laura Marling, the BBC 6 Music Album Of The Day sees Douglas become confident and comfortable enough with his own identity to reflect on both the joys and pains of youth. In doing so, he has established himself as a serious 21st century singer-songwriter with an enduring lyrical poise and elegant minimalist sound.

"Gorgeous compositions" 7.6 — Pitchfork
"Utterly distinctive" ★★★★ — Q Magazine
"It blows me away" — Lauren Laverne, BBC6 Music
"Such a beautiful record" — Tom Ravenscroft, BBC6 Music
"A stunningly harmonious musical journey" — DIY
"A work that exudes beauty" — Clash Magazine
"Milkteeth feels grandiose" — Loud and Quiet
"A gently heartbreaking ode" — Billboard

Milkteeth

I Am Free

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Douglas Dare - I Am Free

On October 4th 2019, Penguin Cafe released 'Handfuls of Night', the highly anticipated follow-up to their much applauded 2017 album 'The Imperfect Sea' 

Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in emotional depth.

Bookended by the atmospheric ambient piano pieces ‘Winter Sun’ and ‘Midnight Sun’, the album traverses glacial minimalism with ease, combining their signature contemporary classical panoramas, such as the melancholic yet upbeat lead track ‘At the Top of the Hill, They Stood...’ and the colossal cinematic piece ‘Chapter’, with the crystalline folktronica on ‘Pythagorus on the Line Again’ — a re-visiting and continuation of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s 1993 Union Cafe song on the principles of harmonics.

'Handfuls of Night' began life after Greenpeace commissioned Jeffes to write four pieces of music corresponding to four breeds of penguins, to help raise awareness for the endangered Antarctic seas . A fundraising evening at EartH in Hackney followed, where Penguin Cafe premiered the four songs named after their feathered counterparts to a sold out audience; the rousing contemporary folk inflected ‘Chinstrap’, the mournful and minimalistic ‘Adelie’, stoic and rhythmic ‘The Life of an Emperor’ and the wistful, string-laden ‘Gentoo Origin’.

“Such is its mastery of slowly uncoiling drama you can almost taste the salt in the breeze" ★★★★ — MOJO⠀
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"Arthur Jeffes' music has a direct clarity. Dramatic swells and sweeps showcase the jaw-dropping landscape. Most importantly, though, the music carries an environmental message, which is a critical issue for this generation" — A Closer Listen ⠀
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"One of their most impeccable moments to date" ★★★★ — Music OMH ⠀
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"Elegiac strides across epic landscapes... Arthur Jeffes is doing the legacy of his father proud" — Prog Magazine ⠀
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"Another winner from this group, with Jeffes and company mixing minimalism, folk music and classical string writing into a charming combination” ★★★★ — All About Jazz ⠀
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"A sensitive, frequently lovely follow-up to 2017’s ‘The Imperfect Sea… Handfuls of Night’ conjures pastoral panoramas and weathered vistas" — DJ Magazine⠀

Handfuls of Night

Midnight Sun

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Penguin Cafe - Midnight Sun

"Duvet" taken from Niklas Paschburg's second studio album 'Svalbard', out on February 28th 2020.

Pre-order album now: 7K.lnk.to/svalbard

Niklas Paschburg - Duvet

thesisproject.bandcamp.com/album/thesi…artyn-heyne

Ben Lukas Boysen - editing, zen garden.
Martyn Heyne - guitar, organ.

Composed, mixed, and mastered by Martyn Heyne + Ben Lukas Boysen at Lichte Studio Berlin.
Additional engineering by Matthias H. Franz Hahn. Vinyl cut by Mike Grinser.

Thank You!
Gregory Euclide, Matthias H. Franz Hahn, everyone at Manners McDade, Erased Tapes Records & Publishing, Claudia Gödke, and Karolina Zenobia Heyne.

Dedicated to Frieda and Frau Bellmann.

Thesis 16

& Martyn Heyne - June

Love you dad X
Stay safe everyone and isolate ..@pianodayofficial

For My Father during Covid Isolation (For Piano Day 2020) #pianoday2020

Singer songwriter and producer Tom Adams @oceantemple returns to his classical roots for this special number for piano day. Sweeping broken chords on the piano are interspersed with delicate and ambient electronics, coalescing toward a melodic and emotional farewell to his recent home of Berlin. 

Stream on Spotify, AppleMusic, etc : https://orcd.co/goodbye-berlin

Watch : https://youtu.be/iauYfemeJxs

Particle XIX (Goodbye Berlin)

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Tom Adams - Particle XIX (Goodbye Berlin)

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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.

Tom Adams - Particle XIX (Goodbye Berlin)

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