#pianoday2022 special. 

Stand with the brave people of Ukraine.

Piano Day 2022

Gentle Spirit

MASTERS VERSION 1V.
Recorded In NMSS Studios Guadalajara, MX - January 2022
On a Yamaha C3 Grand Piano
Fender Rhodes Mark I 73
Roland JX10
MiniMoog

Everything on this Album was spontaniously Improvised within two days of recording in the brand new high end Studio of Mexico, America.

B3 - ARRIVINTERVAL PT. I (MIDTRO)

Having a lot of happiness as per the recording and sharing of this 3rd Edition of the Minimal Deep Tech & Tech House Series Project as always said, for the joy of each listener. ❤️
 
Always promoted by those who always support, thanks to you all,

Enjoy the ride!

#Costa_Rica
#House
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#Minimal_Deep_Tech
#Tech_House
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Minimal Deep Tech & Tech House Series 3rd Edition - Josue Cervantes

Minimal Deep Tech & Tech House Series 3rd Edition - Josue Cervantes (CR)

Written, recorded and mixed by Janek Sprachta at Einraum Studio.
Mastered by Nils Frahm at Durton Studio.

Echo

Echo Pt2

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Happy Piano Day! 
Enjoy!

Vocals (choir): Marcus G. Kyed
Mix & Master: Marcus G. Kyed
Cover art: Marcus G. Kyed

EH - Piano Day 2018

Released on March 29 in celebration of Piano Day 2018.
Pre-order the album 'Persona' here: http://phonofile.link/rivalconsoles-persona

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Be Kind

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Rival Consoles - Be Kind

This tune originally featured on Piano day 2017, theme here is  re-worked for a full band.

From the "Bruise EP" which you can hear here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3N1APp7dQLmuKAN9CSbFiQ?si=c1Aze2FeTAyWdv6nf_2Skg
Hannah Boulton: Vocals, James Purvis: Drums, Nick Gibson: Sax, Richard Brincklow: Piano/ synth. 



Its about the importance of finding space.

And Breathe Reprise

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

Traveling 77.5 light-years away to our Sun from the Northern Multi-Planetary System of the Star Reguluss, one of the Regarded Four Royal Guardians of the Sky; as the Aldebaran Star watches the East, Antares Star watches the West and Fomalhaut watches the South


. . . in 1905

. .. from the Dawn of Time . ..


#wecame

Reguluss *

“Wolfgang 1” – Single
Composed for the piano by Doug Thomas
Performed and recorded by Affan
Mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k Mastering)
LSPD01 (Lonely Swallow Piano Day)

Wolfgang 1 – Single

Wolfgang 1 – Doug Thomas / Affan

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

. . . exploring the Cosmic Realms of the Sound Spectrum

Contact: AerotropicBookings@gmail.com

Reguluss *

onda Skillet

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