Official Piano Day 2019 Playlist

Happy Piano Day!

Artwork by Skrew Studio.

Piano Day 2019 Playlist

Jesse Marantz - www.jessemarantz.com

- Piano Day -

As Featured on -

VISA - small win
FNB (First National Bank) - TVC. 
GOOD DESIGN AWARDS

Contact -
Alison Minogue
ali.minogue@gmail.com

Jesse Marantz
jesse.marantz@gmail.com

In Harmony (Romantic Piano) - Jesse Marantz

Listen here to the EP Time - https://ampl.ink/bKlmm

One Day

One Day - Debut EP available now on Spotify

From the Still Life EP, available on Bandcamp at: https://thebirdscompanion.bandcamp.com/album/still-life-ep

Twelve Sunflowers

Philadelphia Morning - Rocky OST - Piano Cover by Antonio Contest
All the rights are to Bill Conti


#PianoDay

Philadelphia Morning (Rocky OST) - Piano Cover #PianoDay

'Last Minute Change Of Heart' Out Now -
AHOT / Stream / Download: https://jamesheather.lnk.to/lmcohSO
 #pianoday

Taken from 'Stories from Far Away on Piano' released 18th August 2017 via Ahead Of Our Time.

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Last Minute Change Of Heart

Usually I do a million takes when I record a new song. This time I stopped around take 10 to prevent perfectionism taking over.. 
So, it’s not super precise, but hey! I finished something! 
I hope you enjoy it. 

*Alice

Unverzagt

Canopus, the second brightest star in the night-time sky.

A piece written for Piano Day 2018.

Composed: HAMU
Produced & Mixed: Patrick Jonsson (http://patrickjonsson.com/)

www.facebook.com/hamumusic/
Check out my debut EP; 
hamu.bandcamp.com/releases
open.spotify.com/album/6GfmsZ395BIThxu86iDX4K
itunes.apple.com/gb/album/introve…on-ep/1315805632

Touch Canopus

FLOAT proudly welcomes their second artist into the fold. UK electronic artist and Szun Waves band member Luke Abbott, presents a special 10-track album to celebrate Piano Day 2019 – an international event series initiated by Nils Frahm which acts as a platform for piano-related projects. 

“It's a very self-contained body of work, I haven't ever made music with this kind of sound pallet before” – Luke Abbott 

Pre Order LP/LTD ETD: www.wearefloat.co.uk/luke-abbott-music-from-the-edge-of-an-island
Pre Order Digital: http://radi.al/LukeAbbottMftEoaI
Buy Show Tickets March 29th at Earth, Hackney: www.wearefloat.co.uk/piano-day-2019

‘Music for the Edge of an Island’ sees Abbott divert from his typically experimental electronic style to explore a more compositional approach centred around VST instruments. Rather than the usual themes of synthesis and improvisation, the album is lead by piano motifs, structured around emotive melodies and sparkling arrangements. The record began as a part of a soundtrack commission by producer / actor Jessica Hynes for her film ‘The Fight’ and ultimately became a fully-realised album. The film script had a coastal setting that created the record’s thematic idea: “I had this idea about being on the edge of England, almost ready to fall off a cliff into the sea but keeping your balance on the edge.”

Luke Abbott - Tree

A piano piece which reflects the emotions I feel these days. Please enjoy this intimate piano song.

A song written for Piano Day 2019!

Reflection

Track 11 on my forthcoming album A Place that Exists. Thanks to the wonderful Bess Cavendish from the band We are AYA (who happens to be my daughter!) for the vocals.

Album

The Call #pianoday

From Glasgow-based composer and producer Richard Luke's LP 'Glass Island' out now.

CD/DL : https://orcd.co/glass-island
Spotify : http://bit.ly/EverythingaReason

Watch official videoclip : http://bit.ly/EaR-MusicVideo

Music by Richard Luke and Amira Bedrush-McDonald  
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering  
Artwork by Mio Tsuchiya (cineca)

Glass Island

Everything a Reason

Stream/Buy (Album)

Richard Luke - Everything A Reason

We made a video for this track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Uoe8tfsbI
While working on my new album, I began to try to write a track which encapsulated in its sound the feeling of something new and being full of hope with #pianoday approaching. Around the same time I discovered this beautiful old word in a twitter feed from Susie Dent, and it was perfect for the emotion in this track being created. 'Respair' means fresh hope and a recovery from despair.  The Piano is very much celebrated in this piece by it's background role as a continuous, percussive-like sound, providing a platform for the other instruments to dance upon. I also wanted to use the Piano to somehow gently lead the piece through its chord changes, establishing the mood, as an ode to the way I like to work with piano in my music. 

Credits:
Artwork - Pure Romance by TB Ward (2017 oil on linen)
Piano, electric organ, xylophone - Joel Pike
Violin, Viola - Faith Brackenbury
Written, recorded and produced by Joel Pike.
Mastered by Stavros Kokkinos.

Respair

Liquid / no more

This June 7th, we're releasing Tom Adams' LP 'Particles' - a series of explorations for piano & electronics. 

▶ CD/DL pre-order + stream the lead single : https://orcd.co/tomadamsparticles

The Berlin based producer and songwriter originally did a small 'soundcloud only' self-release of the record in 2014, and we were stunned by the singular vision and voice present in each of the album's explorations. We're very pleased to be giving this record a worldwide release in CD format and on all digital platforms, with a new master by fellow Berliner / sound artist Martyn Heyne.

Particles

Particle VI

buy/stream 'Particles'

Tom Adams - Particle VI (Shadow & Light)

"I think I am the same as an artist and as a person. Music is my way of communication and I see the art, the music as a whole thing, with no borders, divisions, or even genres." - https://soundcloud.com/haniarani

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik, and released an album with her Polish group tęskno last year. She has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in Europe - from the National Philharmony in Warsaw, to Funkhaus in Berlin, to The Roundhouse in London (where she made her debut at the Gondwana 10thanniversary festival last October) and at festivals such as Open'er, Scope Festival and Eurosonic. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.

'Esja' is her debut solo album and for Rani it is her first, real, personal statement as an artist. "No hiding behind the "collaborations" or "projects" anymore. For the very first time, finally - just me, as I am".

Recorded at Rani's apartment in Warsaw (the piano room has a beautiful reverb and the space has become part art studio and part sound laboratory for Rani) and at her friend Bergur Þórisson'sstudio in Reykjavik, Esja is a series of beautiful melodic vignettes. Sensual, sensitive, rhythmic, atmospheric, free but harmonious, beguiling and hypnotic, collectively they project a sense of unlimited space and time.

Esja

Hawaii Oslo

Hania Rani - Hawaii Oslo (Piano Day 2019)

Nightports w/Matthew Bourne - You Would Say That

https://open.spotify.com/album/6AYbkvJXtYCTIG9ql4ueON
https://hiorchronik.bandcamp.com/album/neuk-lln-2

Hior - Neukölln (Piano Version) Ki Records

Following on from last year's acclaimed debut with Erased Tapes The Transition — named #17 album of the year by The Sunday Times — Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with 'The Cell', released on June 14th. Listen to lead track 'Nature's Course', released especially for Piano Day.

“Nature’s Course is a feeling pertaining to the way our subjective human experience is subconsciously directly related to the slow steady pace of nature and our ability to cope with our inner struggles accordingly” explains David.

The Cell further cements David’s place among the American songwriting tradition, from the slow methodical spacey instrumental Mandatory Soul to the poetic solo piano number Family and the dense and continuous Lexington Hills. With each piece we are transported to David’s unusual but rich and textured little world.

Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon – David worked as a sound engineer and session musician, featuring on multiple recordings by the likes of Birger Olsen, Brigid Mae Power, Brumes, The Beacon Sound Choir, Chantal Acda, Heather Woods Broderick, Jung Body, Masayoshi Fujita, and many more. He quickly found himself touring Europe with Peter Broderick, culminating in a Royal Festival Hall performance, and contributing the arresting voice and double bass piece Ahoy to the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary box set 1+1=X.

David will return to Europe with more dates to be announced soon. 

· pre-order 'The Cell' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/thecell

· order 'The Transition' on LP/CD/DL: https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp114-david-allred-the-transition

The Cell

Nature's Course

Buy LP/CD/DL

David Allred - Nature's Course

Watch the video here: youtu.be/qIow6ZMmNFU

LAVALU on 'Dull Mistake':
"When you've made a mistake so many times.
It becomes like a dull knife.
But was it a mistake to begin with?"

Recorded at Klavins Piano Manufaktúra especially for Piano Day 2019.
The song is from my upcoming album Midair, that will see the light of day on October 11th, 2019.

Album van Marielle Woltring

Dull Mistake - live at Klavins Piano Manufaktúra Kft. - Piano Day 2019

happy piano day! is it possible not to love the piano? an instrument that is so versatile, so deep and so full of different dimensions... so accessible and still so mysterious... so easy to play and such a special  instrument to master fully... also when you cross into more abstract soundscape and different textures of sound I think the piano is so open to improvisation, experimentation and exploration... also is an instrument that has such a long history of being expressed in so many differnt ways and yet today we hear a new and fresh exploration of it and that's AMAZING!

Sebastian Mullaert - One Lake Eye / Piano Day 2019

More info: www.nilsfrahm.com

Management: 
felix(at)agentur-grimm(dot)com
