Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo 

sort of mykola

Devendra Banhart - Woman

Lars Danielsson & Mathias Eick - Duos From Liberetto II - II Blå

John Zorn - Dance Exotique

A very long time ago, my mum dedicated a poem to me, beginning:

Мой мальчик извлекает звуки
из старенького пианино.
Нанизывает их на нитку слуха
и связывает воедино.

My boy draws sounds
from a dear old piano.
He strings them on the thread of hearing
and binds them into one.

This image of a thread – of sound, and as something that connects us – became the starting point for the piece, which is dedicated to my mum.

"Thread" for two violins was premiered by Anne Yin Han and Amalia Young at New Music for Two Violins and/or Two Pianos on 20 September 2025.

Thread

Airelle Besson/Nelson Veras - 'Neige' (Airelle Besson)

Veteran Erased Tapes recording artist Peter Broderick set to release new studio album 'Partners' on 19th August 2016.

Order it on LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP088

In an email to Robert on February 3rd 2016: 

Dear Robert.

There’s a lot I’d love to tell you about this music.

The inspiration really came when I decided to learn to play John Cage’s In A Landscape on the piano . . . I listened to a recording I had over and over again, five seconds or so at a time, picking out every single note. Then cross referencing what I’d learned with other versions of the piece as well as the original score. The feeling of playing this piece really brought me close to the piano again, and brought new life to my own piano songs.

Beyond Cage’s music, his life and practice have interested me more and more, after having read about his love for foraging wild foods and using chance operations to compose music, in a sense taking his ‘self’ out of the music. I love his so-called ‘mesostics’ and began to write several poems using that method, around this phrase:

I    
N

A

L
A
N
D
S
C
A
P
E

When it came time to record in the studio, I rolled two dice to decide how many poems to read. I rolled 5. Then I assigned a number to each poem and rolled the dice to see which five poems would be read and in which order. That’s the first track Partners, which is also the last word of the last poem I selected through this chance-based process. Track two is my version of In A Landscape. I love playing that piece so much. Carried  is a piece I wrote in Berlin which I’ve played live from time to time. There was a soft vocal loop playing out through an amplifier in the room while I played the piano.

Under The Bridge is my first ever chance-based composition, written by assigning different numbers to different notes and then rolling dice to decide in which order to play those notes. Conspiraling is another piece I’ve been playing for a while. Actually a version of this was recorded in the session that became ‘How They Are’, but it didn’t quite feel right. I like to pretend my voice is like a synthesizer in this song. Then there’s Up Niek Mountain which is a piece I finished composing while in residence at a farm in the Netherlands back in 2010, and is named after one of the family farmers there, Niek, who passed away shorty after I was there. We miss you Niek. The last song is a cover of Brigid’s Sometimes. Brigid to whom I dedicate this recording.

And then there’s Tucker, Mr. Martine, who agreed to record this album without me ever hearing the mixes. We talked about all the sounds and he set up several devices with which to manipulate the sound live, as it was being recorded and mixed down to tape. Francesco also agreed to master the record without me hearing it. I like to imagine maybe one day, five or ten years from now, I’ll walk into a café or roadside diner and hear it for the first time, playing as background music while people eat.

OK surely that’s enough for now! Sorry for blabbing, Robert. Your support has really meant a lot to me. I’ve loved having you in mind while working on this project, knowing it could very well have a home on your sweeeeeet label. Hope all is well.

With love,
Peter

Partners

Sometimes

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Peter Broderick - Sometimes

Tindersticks - My Autumn's Done Come

In a unique world premiere Efterklang and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthew Coorey performed the songs from Piramida - Efterklang´s 4th album - live in Sydney Opera House for the VIVID Live Festival 2012.

Piramida will be released in it´s studio album version on September 24th on 4AD
and Efterklang will go on tour with The Piramida Concert and perform with orchestras in Europe and NYC fall winter 2012.

For more info, pre-order, ticket links please visit WWW.EFTERKLANG.NET

The Ghost is written by Efterklang and arranged for orchestra by Missy Mazzoli.

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Efterklang & Sydney Symphony - The Ghost (live from Sydney Opera House)

KAREV YOM

Tindersticks - Running Wild [Extended Instrumental]

Homeland

Laurie Anderson - "Flow"

Tindersticks - Harmony Around My Table

Unreleased track from ROPE - HAVE YOU MET MISS BATES?
(El Gallo Rojo Records) c+p 2005
Fabrizio Puglisi piano - Stefano Senni bass - Zeno De Rossi drums

Lilin (John Zorn)

From Zohn Zorn's soundtrack for the 1987 film 'She Must Be Seeing Things'  by Sheila McLaughlin. The vocals are sung by Shelly Hirsch.

Laurie Anderson - "Flow"

Nonesuch Records

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