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Piano, Ambient Piano & Piano Adjacent Music! #pianoday
Just a little 50+ track and rising playlist in appreciation of my favourite sound generating instrument, featuring some of the music/artists that inspire me to make my own musical endeavours (mine are the ones with the embarrassing amount of plays). Obviously there is so much more out there but this is what i have found on soundcloud over a very small period of time. Hope you will give it a listen & enjoy a peaceful piano day :-)

PiAnO AdJaCeNt! (Piano Day 29-03-15) #pianoday

Modern Classical Selection

-part ash (ambient)

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Damped

#1 Billboard Classical
#1 iTunes Classical Album (US)
#1 Amazon Classical

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Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, decided Chopin needed a new introduction.  Along with violinist Judy Kang (Lady Gaga, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and cellist Rubin Kodheli (Kanye West, Norah Jones), Lawson has arranged ten Chopin works into a minimalist landscape.

It's a risk editing the "poet of the piano" but one that Chopin would be proud of.  

Taking 10 Chopin works, Lawson decided to scale the works down to a minimalist setting.  "I knew even if bare-bones, Chopin's works could still be as spellbinding as the original compositions we are so familiar with." says the pianist.  

Produced by Chad Lawson & Alejandro Clavijo. Mixed by Stephen Lee Price.  Mastered by Michael Graves of Osiris Studios (Atlanta, GA).

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor-Op. 55, No 1 (Variation) Piano, Violin, Cello - Chad Lawson

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The first full track stream from Nils Frahm's new album 'FELT' which will be released worldwide via Erased Tapes on October 10, 2011.



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★★★★ – MOJO | ★★★★ – CLASH | ★★★★★ – MUSO | 9/10 – Drowned In Sound
★★★★ - ROLLING STONE (Germany) | ★★★★★ – WESTZEIT


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CONTEXT: Berlin-based pianist Nils Frahm is already a firebrand in the modern classical world, collaborating with contemporaries such as Peter Broderick, Ólafur Arnalds and Anne Müller. His unconventional approach to an age-old instrument, played contemplatively and intimately, has won him many fans around the world.

As announced by Drowned In Sound, he finally returns on October 10th 2011 with the successor to his highly acclaimed solo piano works Wintermusik and The Bells. Released on Erased Tapes Records and entitled FELT, the album will coincide with a European tour in November 2011 – a truly memorable and magical live experience.


CONTENT: Having recorded his last album live in a large, reverberant church, Nils Frahm now invites you to put on your headphones and dive into a world of microscopic and delicate sounds – so intimate that you could be sitting beside him.

Recorded late at night in the reflective solitude and silence of his studio in Berlin, Frahm uncovers a new sound and source of inspiration within these peaceful moments:

'Originally I wanted to do my neighbours a favour by damping the sound of my piano. If I want to play piano during the quiet of the night, the only respectful way is by layering thick felt in front of the strings and using very gentle fingers. It was then that I discovered that my piano sounds beautiful with the damper.’

Captivated by this sonic exposition, he placed the microphones so deep inside the piano that they were almost touching the strings. This brought a host of external sounds to the recordings which most producers would try their hardest to hide:

‘I hear myself breathing and panting, the scraping sound of the piano's action and the creaking of my wooden floorboards – all equally as loud as the music. The music becomes a contingency, a chance, an accident within all this rustling. My heart opens and I wonder what exactly it is that makes me feel so happy.’

FELT creates its own personal microcosm, offering a refuge of tender and honest beauty.

A video for the pre-release single UNTER can be watched here:
http://vimeo.com/13833500


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Press reactions to his last album THE BELLS:

'The Bells is a record of astonishing beauty' (8/10) – Drowned In Sound  

'Nils Frahm is poised to become something of a sensation' – The Economist's Intelligent Life  

 ‘Emotionally charged piano music which always errs toward the melodic side of melancholy' **** – Mojo  

 ‘If there’s any justice The Bells, along with his recently released Wintermusik set, will expose Frahm to a wider audience, a demographic with a seemingly insatiable appetite for more prime neo-classicism’ – BBC Music  


TRACK LISTING:       1. KEEP 2. LESS 3. FAMILIAR 4. UNTER 5. OLD THOUGHT 6. SNIPPET 7. KIND 8. PAUSE 9. MORE

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Felt

Nils Frahm - Snippet

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"For my cover version I chose this track by Yeasayer. The original is a  beautifully sad yet upbeat breakup song, strident and bright with synth lines cascading around a heartfelt vocal. I wanted to make it sound far more broken and fragile, so I re-played it on the piano, pitched it down, then mangled it quite heavily so it came out sort of wobbly and knackered sounding. I wanted to leave it quite bare, just letting that amazing melody lead the way." - Jon Hopkins

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Jon Hopkins - I Remember

The Tallest Man On Earth - 'Dark Bird Is Home' out May 12th: http://bit.ly/sagres_blog
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The Tallest Man On Earth - "Sagres"

In your eyes there’s a fire that I could use.
To see through the darkness of my life.

New single from Priest (formerly X priest X) – The Game, out February 24th.

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Priest - The Game

'Giant Peach' from Wolf Alice's debut album, 'My Love Is Cool'. 
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My Love Is Cool

Giant Peach

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Ryuichi Sakamoto Bibo No Aozora

TREE - #PianoDay

“TREE” is a part of a composition written for Simphonie Cinétique, a collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and Joachim Sauter. Re-edited and mixed for release in celebration of Nils Frahm’s #PianoDay and features Nils himself on celeste.

Composed, arranged and performed by Ólafur Arnalds
Violin: Viktor Orri Árnason
Celeste: Nils Frahm

Recorded at Durton Studio, Berlin.
Mixed at E7 Studios, Reykjavik.

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TREE

Track 4 from the IN THE WAKE OF AN AVALANCHE ep, available here :-> https://tunnelattheendofthelight.bandcamp.com/music

Ever So Slightly

That Instead of This

DEICIDE DEMO 


LYRICS 

Their kindness is charade
It's used to sedate 
They remain unashamed 
If you are being used
You should remain confused 
To keep them amused   

Flourishing the fire with embers that won't fade away
Ethics have expired
Dissolved to no one's dismay
Day of deicide
The deity will hear you pray for the final time
Lay a sympathy bouquet

Inhale their chloroform
What you're longing for   
You claim to abhor   
Against all progression 
Become a possession
Never learn your lesson 

Flourishing the fire with embers that won't fade away
Ethics have expired
Dissolved to no one's dismay
Day of deicide
The deity will hear you pray for the final time
Lay a sympathy bouquet


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Edith Frances: vocals
Alex Zelenka: engineer
Samuel Jacob: engineer
Patrick Mundy: mix
Brian Gardner: master

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written/produced by E.Kath


Deicide

This CD features Olli Mustonen with piano works by Alexander Scriabin, which have become his signature pieces in recital concerts.

The virtuoso sets of Etudes and Preludes cover a wide range of late-Romantic expressions, from heroic to religious, ecstatic to melancholic. The Sonata No. 10 is regarded as one of Scriabin's greatest works. The collection culminates with the pianistic tour-de-force of Vers la flamme, an astonishing piece famously championed by the late Vladimir Horowitz.

Olli Mustonen has been hailed by The Sunday Times as, "a living dream of pianism, having broken through an expressive barrier that other players do not know exists."

Scriabin: Etude Op. 8 No. 12 in D sharp minor (Patetico)

Scriabin Etude Op.8 No.12

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“It is only when we become aware or are reminded that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living” - Ludovico Einaudi

In A Time Lapse is the representation of the bringing together all of life’s experience and emotions into a single moment of time. Recorded in a remote monastery near Verona and written over a period of 2 years it is as Epic and emotional as Divenire and as experimental and adventurous as Nightbook

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Experience

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08 Only the Winds

For Now I Am Winter

This Place Was A Shelter

Ravel: Sonatine - I. Modéré

from my new album, For Now I am Winter. Out now!

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A Stutter (feat. Arnór Dan)

Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire - Live @ Royal Albert Hall London

Uploaded by your request! This is my personal favorite track off my first album, Eulogy for Evolution. 


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Bethoven - Piano Sonata No.17 In D Minor Op.21, No.2 Tempest

from "For Now I am Winter"
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Hands, Be Still

Ólafur Arnalds is a BAFTA-winning multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and beats crossing over from ambient/electronic to pop.