Love this rendition, but the tone feels more melancholy then the original.

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--- "Skeylja" An invented word combining the Frisian word for Terschelling, "Skylge", and the Icelandic word for island, "Eyjan" ---

Skeylja is an international multimedia project, based around the ideas of improvisational music and the coming together of musicians from different countries and musical backgrounds to create a spontaneous sonic landscape. The project started when The Alvaret Ensemble (Greg Haines, Jan & Romke Kleefstra, and Sytze Pruiksma), who you may know from their eponymous debut on Denovali in 2012, travelled to Iceland to try to find a shared music language with the Icelandic musicians Ingi Garðar Erlendsson, Kira Kira, Borgar Magnason and Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson . They were joined by the 33 1/3 Collective, a group of visual artists from the Netherlands, who began to collect footage that would later be used as source material for the visual side of the performance.

Some months later, after a successful week of traveling to beautiful locations and playing music together, the group met again, this time during the Oerol festival on the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands, for a series of nine sold-out shows in an old church, all of which were being recorded. Each artist "curated" a rough plan for one evening, which could be anything from hand-drawn images to be interpreted musically to more precise plans of structures and combinations of musicians to be explored. Never were the notes, or the content of the music itself, discussed - this was instead left up to chance and developed through listening intently to each-other, trying to create an atmosphere where each player was vital, but where everyone always worked towards the whole.

After ten intense days on the island, all that was left were the memories of the audience and, luckily, a hard-drive with over ten hours of recorded music. After everyone had had a chance to listen back to rough mixes of each night and make comments, the material was taken to Greg Haines' Electricity Works studio in Berlin, where the long process of selecting, editing and mixing began. Finally, almost two years after that first initial meeting in Reykjavik, the album is complete and ready to be released into the world. We hope you enjoy it.

Participating musicians (in alphabetical order):

Ingi Garðar Erlendsson (Tuba, Trombone, Thranophone)
Greg Haines (Piano)
Kira Kira (Voice, Electronics)
Jan Kleefstra (Voice, Poems)
Romke Kleefstra (Guitar)
Borgar Magnason (Contrabass)
Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (Trumpet, Electronics)
Sytze Pruiksma (Percussion)





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German nu jazz stalwarts Micatone return to Sonar Kollektiv after a six year hiatus with the ethereal and emotionally charged coming-of-age piece, Where Do You Belong?

The core duo of the band, Boris Meinhold on guitar and synths and Lisa Bassenge on vocals, have been making music for the label for over two decades, with five studio albums and numerous singles to date.

Where Do You Belong? was inspired by singer Lisa’s now nineteen year old daughter at a time when she was trying to find her place in the world. Lisa explains that the “song (is) about the in-between state humans find themselves in when they grow up. A phase where life seems full of possibilities, shiny and brand new but at the same time scary and somehow overwhelming.”

The track was produced during COVID lockdown with Boris using field recordings, guitars, an old organ bass pedal and choir that give the track that celestial feel. Lisa wrote the melodies and lyrics over the top and asked vocalists Lilian Bennett-Schaar, Johanna Maisel and Josephine Pritz to sing the choral parts.

Label head honcho, Oliver Glage, then had the idea of Stefan Leisering, of Jazzanova, providing the programmed drums, and the track was complete. An elegant, touching and yet somewhat intangible new offering, and the first of a little series of pieces out on the label in 2023.

Micatone - Where Do You Belong?

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It was a little over 3 years ago since I posted my first piano cover of this song, "Time" composed by Hans Zimmer from Christopher Nolan's film "Inception". It somehow continued to grow in popularity and has pretty much always been the most viewed music cover on my YouTube channel (over half a million views now!), so...much thanks and much appreciated for all of the support I've been receiving there!

In this video, I revisit this nostalgic and special piece. Special not only because it was one of my first video uploads on this channel, but also because the original soundtrack is one of my all-time favourites for contemporary film scores. Of the thousands of times I've listened to Zimmer's original track, it still doesn't get dull. Every time I sit down (or lie down) listening to this, I can't help but to contemplate. It is one of those few examples of how simplicity can be executed and displayed in such an emphatic style. It can be calming and soothing but can still be left hanging with the feeling of uncertainty, not knowing exactly what is being felt. The subtle yet intensifying crescendo of the piece can be uplifting but can also feel foreshadowing. The pallet of emotions during the experience is boundless and ultimately puts one in a state of mind that can't possibly be described by words alone. But in the end, it is still utterly pleasing to listen to. All of this happening in the piece...all those feels...and yet it only consists of 5 chords, repeated in the same alternating four chord progression from beginning to end. Simplicity at its finest.

At least, that's what I think. Just wanted to speak my mind :3

I've also titled it "Piano Improvisation #1" because I do plan on recording more improvisations of this piece further down the road. It would be interesting to look back and see/listen to the different ways I've improvised this song, sometime in the future.

Hope you all enjoy this :)

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One of ten contemporary chill piano tunes to lay back to, from the album Ambience, released 30th April 2025

A New Flow

the moments when our hearts resynchronize

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Bach: Harpsichord Concerto

Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, BWV. 1052: I. Allegro

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

Sigur Rós & Steindor Andersen - A Ferd Til Breidafjardar

Piano/instrumental music for Video game/Anime/Film OST genres.

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