Yes, I have already premiered two tracks this week (see Plïnkï Plønkï and Resina), and yes, this is another premiere of a track, and yet it is immensely needed, wanted, and necessary during these somewhat anxious times. “Rjóður” comes from the Icelandic composer Snorri Hallgrímsson, whom I’ve profiled on many occasions before (see also his In the Studio with… feature), as well as celebrated for his film music, which has been backed by the wonderful Moderna Records (home to many fantastic modern classical and solo piano composers, such as Jacob David, Ed Carlsen, Tim Linghaus, Tambour, and even yours truly). This particular piece appears on Hallgrímsson’s second EP titled Landbrot II – the first having been released last November with five pieces, and now, a year later, with five more. “The collection takes its name from the location of Hallgrímsson’s family cabin in rural Iceland, which he describes as his ‘happy place’. Landbrot translates to erosion or ‘land fractures’, and from this, we can imagine the search for inner calm and acceptance amongst the many obstacles of daily life.”

Read more about this release here: https://hcdi.gs/Landbrot

Landbrot II

Rjóður

TRACK PREMIERE : Snorri Hallgrímsson - Rjóður

It is an absolute delight to announce @daigohanada's new LP Satori, which we'll release in March of next year. It's hard not to overstate how special Daigo is as a person and musician ; his care and thoughtfulness shine through every interaction and every note chosen on the piano, synth or organ. He's been writing material for Satori over the last couple years and the collection of 13 pieces is an intimate invitation into his world, infused with hopeful melodies and a soulful vulnerability. We'll be telling you lots more about it over the coming months, and you can discover the album track 'Emi' now right here: https://idol.lnk.to/dh-emi

Big thanks to Andrea Diotallevi for the lovely artwork and to Martyn Heyne for the tasteful master. With such great audiovisual collaborators we've prepared beautiful pressings of the LP in vinyl & CD format - which we'll share with you early in the new year!

Satori

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Daigo Hanada - Emi

Listen / Watch / Pre-Order LP, In Breath: 
https://fanlink.to/inbreath

My debut album called In Breath will be released on the 11th February 2022. Dawn Chorus is the first single. It was written and recorded at 4am, whilst birds began to sing at first light. That night was truly a meditation, connecting to the transition of light and the sense of peace I felt with it. 

Artwork by Dadu Shin for the artwork
Mixed & Mastered by Martyn Heyne, Lichte Studio

In Breath

Dawn Chorus

BABY YOU ARE MINES

'Undan Hulu' is a song by Ólafur Arnalds from the album '…And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness' originally released on Erased Tapes Records.

Reworked and performed by CEEYS (Brueder Selke).
Recorded and mixed by Sebastian and Daniel Selke at Klingenthal Studio, Potsdam.
Mastered by Michael Schwabe at Monoposto, Dusseldorf.

This rework is part of a collection of pieces by contemporary composers,
reworked and performed by CEEYS (Brueder Selke).

Ólafur Arnalds - Undan Hulu (CEEYS Rework)

Touch

Shift

[For a better experience, please use your headphones]

© Ô Lake 2016
Composed, recorded & mixed by Ô Lake

Picture © Gregory Bodenes @Aesthetic_cabinet

Portrait Of Solitude [Demo]

Classically trained pianist and composer Carlos Cipa returns with Sculptures, a piano-solo mini-album, right in time for some calm and quiet winter days.
Most of 2017, Carlos has been working on his next full-length album, a colourful record combining piano and other key instruments with a variety of orchestral instruments and electronically processed soundscapes, which will see the light of day in 2018. In between writing scores for musicians and long recording sessions, he often found himself sitting on his upright piano late at night, messing around with simple melodies or patterns as a distraction.
Recorded in his very own Beatschuppen Studio over a couple of days in November, Sculptures brings a few of these raw, intimate song fractures to life and places them alongside three brand mark pieces of Carlos Cipa’s second album, re-recorded on his peculiar Upright piano for the first time.

Fragile Window

Full stream and free download of the opening track from the album 'Charcoal' by Brambles. The extended edition was released March 1st, 2014. 

For more information visit:

https://www.serein.co.uk/releases/brambles-charcoal-special-edition

Charcoal

In The Androgynous Dark

10 Waltzes

Life After Lockdown

Ben Crosland - Life After Lockdown

[NeoClassical Music]

After playing at some of the biggest French festivals (Les Trans Musicales, Les Vieilles Charrues, Le Printemps de Bourges, etc) with his band Fragments (Post-rock), Sylvain Texier created Ô Lake in 2017, a neoclassical project with pop influences, as romantic as the poetry from Lamartine which inspired him.

Portrait Of Solitude [Demo]

Ô Lake

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