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Painting : Niyadbakyr by Kentaro Kanamoto

The Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival Of The Birds & Transformation (Edited)

'Some' is taken from the new album by Nils Frahm – 'Solo'. Revealed on Piano Day as a free download and available on CD/LP/DL here:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP065

iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/soloitunes
Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.net/solospotify
HDTracks: http://snip.ftpromo.net/hdtracksnf
Qobuz: http://snip.ftpromo.net/qobuznf

Recorded as an Improvisation. Single take, no overdubs.

Fans can donate to the special piano project which will enable Nils and piano builder David Klavins to create the Klavins M450, the tallest piano in the world.

Read More here: www.pianoday.org

“Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn’t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.” – Nils Frahm

HOW WILL YOU CELEBRATE PIANO DAY?

create your own piano events with friends or simply share your videos, poems, photos - anything that is piano inspired. don’t forget to tag us in your posts!

Instagram – #pianodayofficial
Twitter – twitter.com/piano__day
Facebook – facebook.com/pages/Piano-Day/382403391947996
Email – share your fun stuff with info@pianoday.org

Solo

Some

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Nils Frahm - Some

Promises

2nd piece from 59:54, an album written and recorded within one hour.

"No drafts, no studio trickery and no brainy harmony or virtuous melodies. Just a piano, a room and a portable recorder that I was placing in and around the piano". 

Download the album for free here: ivanmuela.bandcamp.com/releases

Gather

Order 7"/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP073
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/lifestoryloveandglory

Erased Tapes artists and friends Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm have separately carved out a musical career that defies genres both with their unique live shows and a loyal fan base that’s always eager to hear what their prolific output will bring. 

Their latest collaborative 2-track release ‘Life Story Love and Glory’ is a live improv affair on two pianos, recorded in 2012 at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin. Fans may wonder why they have waited until 2015 to release these tracks, but having revealed a new website www.arnaldsfrahm.com you may think this may not be the end to their musical story this year. 

“We would meet in Reykjavik or Berlin with the intention to share some days off work, hiking, swimming or eating pizza. That is great for a couple days, but after a while we would always end up back in the studio, fiddling with synths or pianos.” – Nils Frahm 
“You can hear in the beginning of ‘Life Story’ how I have already started playing the piano whilst Nils is still moving microphones around and preparing everything. It was all kept in!“ – Ólafur Arnalds 

‘Life Story Love and Glory’ will be released as a 7” on Erased Tapes – exclusively through record stores only on August 21, 2015 ahead of its digital release later on – as an ode to this classic and beloved format. 

More info: www.arnaldsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Life Story Love And Glory

Life Story

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Life Story

Pre-order 'Trance Frendz' on LP/DL: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP081
or digitally iTunes: snip.ftpromo.net/trancefrendz

Having been available exclusively as the second disc to 2015's 'Collaborative Works', Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm's improvised audio recordings 'Trance Frendz', taken from their 45-minute studio film of the same name, have been given their own vinyl release – out March 4th, 2016.

Prior to a string of collaborative Erased Tapes releases, which include 2012's 'Stare' 10” and last year’s 'Life Story Love and Glory' 7” and 'Loon' 12” – compiled on the 'Collaborative Works' 2-CD set, Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm spent many hours together in their studios across Berlin and Reykjavik. Both have carved out genre-defying musical careers and formed unique live shows, creating a fan base loyal to their prolific output.

During a session at Durton Studio in Berlin last summer, Nils and Ólafur invited Alexander Schneider and his camera to document it. The recording continued long after the first take, stretching out into the next day until, eventually, several new improvisations had been recorded in 8 hours with no overdubs or edits. The unexpected nature in which these pieces had been created was reminiscent of their first on-stage improvisation many years ago. It became immediately clear how special these songs were.

"At the end of the night we had all this music that sounded unfamiliar even to us, loudly asking to be included in this collection.”

Originally made available as a 45-minute film on their joint website (www.arnaldsfrahm.com) last September, 'Trance Frendz' will be available to own on vinyl from March 4th, 2016.

Press for their 'Collaborative Works':

'A particularly joyous wash of slinky percussion and juddering layers' (8/10) – Clash

'An enchanting listen. The bar for a Lads' Night In has just been raised a few notches' (7/10) – Drowned In Sound

‘This is music for slowing down the pace of modern life... An immersive listening experience is guaranteed, while we must hope Frahm and Arnalds go on ‘holiday’ together more in future, and don’t forget to take their musical instruments.’ ★★★★ – MusicOMH

'A collection of gorgeously intimate piano compositions and eye-opening synth pieces, each never aggressive but always powerfully poignant' (8/10) – Under The Radar

'What Collaborative Works offers is something strange: a shared world created by two mad geniuses. Long may Arnalds and Frahm tinker' (8/10) – PopMatters

'Collaborative Works further proves just how natural a fit Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm are together' – Resident Advisor

Trance Frendz

20:17

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – 20:17

Nils Frahm & Olafur Arnalds : An excerpt from Trance Frendz 1

Inge (for Piano Day 2017)

Piano solo piece composed and performed by Dominique Charpentier for the Piano Day 2017.  http://www.pianoday.org/
From my new EP "L'attente" released the 29th of March 2017: 
https://dominiquecharpentier.bandcamp.com/album/lattente-ep
© 2017 Dominique Charpentier. All rights reserved
Artwork by Anna Salzmann: www.annasalzmann.com/

L'attente

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Le Matin - PIANO DAY 2017

early morning of a piano day

To coincide with Piano Day 2017 we share a cover of an old Penguin Cafe Orchestra song by Penguin Cafe from their upcoming new album 'The Imperfect Sea' - out on Erased Tapes 5th May 2017.

"This piece by my father has always been a favourite of mine and when we were playing in the studio last year with making rocks resonate through the soundboard of the piano, the drone on F# made me think of it immediately. The transition between free-form and structure allows for space and some more expressionist moments and then the simple yet rather beautiful melody creates a sort of profound optimism I think." — Arthur Jeffes

Pre-order 'The Imperfect Sea' on Vinyl, CD and DL here: phonofile.link/the-imperfect-sea

The iconic Penguin Cafe join the Erased Tapes family and open a brand new chapter to their unique world with new album The Imperfect Sea.

A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes’ journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe have evolved into something of their own at the hands of Arthur who started the band in 2009 with the continuation and homage to his father’s legacy, to the late Simon Jeffes’ Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Now, their upcoming album echoes reminiscent sounds that embrace the new.

The album title refers to a saying by his father that “we wade in a sea of imperfections…”, reflecting upon the idea that beauty can be found amongst the chaos. “If there is a narrative to the album it’s coming to the acceptance of the imperfections in all aspects of life; moreover, the recognition that these imperfections and tiny randomnesses are in fact what make up the best parts”, Arthur explains. This has also been highlighted by the striking cover artwork designed by FELD under the art direction of label founder Robert Raths, resembling a lone figure adapting to and accepting its surrounding environment.

Predominantly self-composed, the new album also features covers of electronic works by Simian Mobile Disco and Kraftwerk, along with a re-working of Simon's 'Now Nothing'. Arthur has developed from the traditional folk and jazz heritage Penguin Cafe Orchestra is known for into another realm of blissful ambience and dance music, recreated using strictly acoustic elements.

“For this album I wanted to effect a departure from where we’d been up to now. The idea was to create a musical world that would feel familiar to an audience more used to dance records but stay true to our own values. So we replaced electronic layers with real instruments: pads with real string sections, synths with heavily-effected pianos, and atmospheric analogue drones with real feedback loops ringing through a stone and a piano soundboard.”

On the day of release, the band will play a headline show at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, commencing the beginning of this new adventure for Penguin Cafe.

The Imperfect Sea

Penguin Cafe - Now Nothing (Rock Music)

SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY

ॐ Mystic Flight (Visionary Shamanics Records)

#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

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.

Mme Siegfried Meier (Rework)

Purl & protoU - 'Sub Life' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-60
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ DL
Release date: June 7th, 2019

“Sub Life" grows out of a blend of nature inducted ambiances as the artists conduct an emotional exploration of the natural world. The album draws its energy from primal forces constantly moving, around us and within us. Lush field recordings combined with human voices and instruments evolve into an immersive journey for dreamy minds.'

Mastered by Tobias Hellkvist
Original photo by Magda Kozuba

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Purl & protoU - Sub Life

Dear music lover, this is the first album since the "Inch" released that has an open story, instead of it, I want to help you to create your own reality while listening.
It combines orchestral sounds with house beats, a felted piano with a pinch of calm.

Wisdom 1:11

Wisdom 1:11 #pianoday2020

“I've been making electronic music for around a decade, but it only became my main focus about 3 years ago. I'd been laboring at making academic acoustic (modern classical and avant-garde) music for years, with a lot of frustration along the way. At that time a good friend was dealing with cancer, and he passed after a few months. Experiencing that, and talking with him about his experience of it, made me question my priorities. I decided to ignore external pressures for a while and just make the music that I thought would be fun to make and listen to...time is short! What came out was much more emotional, vulnerable, patient music than I'd made before” - BlankFor.ms

BlankFor.ms' maiden release with bitbird is out now!

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Side A Feelings

White Beach Red Ocean

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BlankFor.ms - White Beach Red Ocean

“I've been making electronic music for around a decade, but it only became my main focus about 3 years ago. I'd been laboring at making academic acoustic (modern classical and avant-garde) music for years, with a lot of frustration along the way. At that time a good friend was dealing with cancer, and he passed after a few months. Experiencing that, and talking with him about his experience of it, made me question my priorities. I decided to ignore external pressures for a while and just make the music that I thought would be fun to make and listen to...time is short! What came out was much more emotional, vulnerable, patient music than I'd made before” - BlankFor.ms

BlankFor.ms' maiden release with bitbird is out now!

follow BlankFor.ms
https://blankfor.ms/
https://twitter.com/Blank_For
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https://facebook.com/BlankFormsMusic/
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#BlankForms #HalfOfYou #bitbird #bitbirdfam

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Half Of You

BlankFor.ms - Half Of You

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NY)
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
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