That's a collection of my favourite minimal, ambient or just relaxing pieces of music.
If you know some pieces which could be in the list please send a message.^^

Greetings from Berlin. :D

Ambient, Minimal and relaxing Music

9 Snow + Light

We Move Lightly

The Bells

Said and Done

Nils Frahm – Said And Done

#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

'Entanglement' is out on Erased Tapes.
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Or via iTunes: http://geni.us/entanglementitunes

“No click tracks, no headphones, and no film. Just the spontaneity of performance and the sound of musicians hearing, connecting and responding.” 

‘Entanglement’, the debut album by Michael Price fulfils his long-term desire to explore new musical territories, featuring Michael on the piano, with the addition of cello, soprano voice, string orchestra, modular synth, tape effects and electronics.

Throughout the record you will hear street sounds from 'Budapest' captured and processed on Michael’s mobile phone, as well as chamber music recorded direct to tape with vintage microphones in single takes. Album track ‘The Attachment’ was partly recorded onto a 1940s magnetic disc recorder, which immediately connected the piece back to a pre-digital musical age.

The cello and soprano vocal parts throughout the album were written specifically and directly for cellist Peter Gregson and vocalist Ashley Knight, whose expressive voice features on tracks ‘Maitri‘ and ‘The Uncertainly Principle‘. The lyrics for both songs are Japanese poetry sung in English, dealing with age, loss and the inevitable fading of beauty.

‘Entanglement’ was written over a period of two years on paper and by hand with Michael exploring oldest and newest technology at Abbey Road Studios and Snap Studios in London, before most of the recording and mixing took place at Vox-Ton in Berlin.

“I wanted to make an album that sounded like a dark, Berlin record store discovery from the 30s. Something that had timeless emotive power, and pre-digital rawness. Something that I hope would make a deeper connection in superficially networked times. I think there is a duty for artists to be honest, and vulnerable. Because then there is a possibility of real connection. Entanglement is both honest and vulnerable and to go through the two year process of writing, refining and recording an album has been more intense and more beautiful than I could have possibly imagined.

Entanglement is a very personal expression of my obsessions: music, love, physics and the inter-connectedness of things. There is structure and freedom, chaos and control, and the beauty of ancient instruments set against impassive machines." – Michael Price

ABOUT THE ARTWORK: Resembling the inter-connecting parts, the cover art for ‘Entanglement’ was created by South London artist Supermundane, with the packaging’s layout done by long-term Erased Tapes-collaborator Torsten Posselt at FELD in Berlin.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Tape Overture 2. Easter  3. Little Warm Thing 4. Budapest  5. The Attachment  6. Maitri  7. Digital Birds  8. The Uncertainty Principle 9. Entanglement

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Entanglement

The Attachment

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Michael Price – The Attachment

Recorded as an Improvisation. Single take, no overdubs.

'Wall' is taken from the new album by Nils Frahm – 'Solo'. Revealed on Piano Day as a free download and available on CD/LP/DL via www.pianoday.org

Fans can donate to the special piano project which will enable Nils and piano builder David Klavins to create the Klavins M450, the tallest piano in the world.

“Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn’t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.” – Nils Frahm

HOW WILL YOU CELEBRATE PIANO DAY?

create your own piano events with friends or simply share your videos, poems, photos - anything that is piano inspired. don’t forget to tag us in your posts!

Instagram – #pianodayofficial
Twitter – twitter.com/piano__day
Facebook – facebook.com/pages/Piano-Day/382403391947996
Email – share your fun stuff with info@pianoday.org


Solo

Wall

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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.

See more about Symphonie Cinétique here:
https://vimeo.com/70897666

TREE

Veronique Vaka's colourful & masterful EP ¨Erlendis¨ is officially available on all streaming platforms and in a fresh CD pressing with new artwork by the wonderful visual artist Bertrand Sallé.

Stream : https://orcd.co/erlendis

Order on CD : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/erlendis-reissue

.: Minning um Himinn :.

Composed and produced by Veroníque Vaka
Recorded by Paul Evans at the Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavik
Additional production and engineering by Alex Somers

Performed by:
Veroníque Vaka: cello and voices
Karl James Pestka, Anna Sóley Ásmundsdóttir
and Sólrún Gunnarsdóttir: violins
Unnur Jónsdóttir: cello
Magnús Pálsson: clarinet
Maria Jönsson: bass flute
Alex Somers: additional instruments

Mixed by Alex Somers
Mastered by Paul Evans

Buy the album : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/erlendis
Official music video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEaIZ0oZCQ

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Veroníque Vaka - Minning Um Himinn

"Woven Tide" is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new collaboration between Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, and Aaron Martin.

"Out of the charred embers of dusk 'Woven Tide' emerges with an incandescent glow. Each glimmer cast by the sustained notes of ebony keys, the taut strings of the cello, and the rampant buzz of guitar lights our way, gives us hope, brings us into the dawn of a new day. As From The Mouth of the Sun, the duo act as our torchbearers, scrawling messages along the walls of an elongated cave, toiling through the decayed remnants of fetid matter to create eight illuminating pieces. The listener, who has wiled away the hours, will find a door; 'Woven Tide' will be the light out of the darkness." - Michael Vitrano / Desire Path Recordings

Pieces from "Woven Tide" as well as solo work by Aaron Martin accompanies the new documentary film by Lost Hill Picture's Ross McDonnell and Carter Gunn for Fastnet Films, Remember Me, My Ghost, which is currently touring the film festival circuit.?McDonnell and Carter are most recently known for their award winning documentary film Colony which documents the unexplainable phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that has left landscapes of empty beehives all across America, and also features music by Aaron Martin.? An upcoming short film by McDonnell and Carter featuring Color Loss from Woven Tide will be included on an upcoming Wholpin DVD magazine published by McSweeney's.

Since 2005 Gothenburg, Sweden based musician Dag Rosenqvist's work has graced imprints including Miasmah, Fang Bomb, Under The Spire, Lampse, Lidar, Slaapwel, Kning Disk, Dead Pilot Records, Lowpoint, and Rural Colors.

Since 2006 Topeka, Kansas based composer Aaron Martin's work has found its rightful home on labels such as Preservation, Mobeer, Experimedia, Type, Under The Spire, and Sonic Meditations. Aaron's most recent solo album, Worried About The Fire, is also available from Experimedia.

The Crossing
Pools of Rust
Color Loss
My Skin Drinks Light That Has Passed through Leaves
Sitting in a Roofless Room
Like Shadows in an Empty Cathedral
A Season in Waters
Snow Burial (While Blue Skies Gather)

All music recorded and mixed in Gothenburg, SE and Topeka, KS by Dag Rosenqvist and Aaron Martin June - December 2010.

Cover artwork & layout by Chris Koelle.
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.

http://label.experimedia.net/021/

Sitting in a Roofless Room

Like Shadows in an Empty Cathedral

Coming soon...

Somewhere between now and the future, a hunt begins in the blue neon space before darkness. The near dark.

Gideon Wolf’s new album lives in the headlights on that empty road, sweeping the distant violence at high speed. A soundtrack to the escape from a Ballardian dystopia.

‘Near Dark’ sees the duelling elements of Tristan Shorr’s musical output merge into one; prophetic ambience driving headlong into rhythm and distortion.  

Think Ben Frost and Max Richter colliding in a futuristic urban landscape – “a vertical Kubrick event horizon that is equal parts Nils Frahm and Oren Ambarchi” (Cyclic Defrost).

Mastered with precision by James Plotkin, the album will be limited to 200 copies, for release in September 2015, with packaging in the customary Fluid Audio style.

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Gideon Wolf - Hunger

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Into The Well' released through Fluid Audio, October 2015...

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- Music and arrangements by Dag Rosenqvist and Aaron Martin
- Vocals arranged and performed by Dawn Smithson and Jerker Lund 
- Horns performed by Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone) and Jenny Olsson (French horn)
- Recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden and Topeka, Kansas
- Mixed by Dag Rosenqvist at The 63rd Link in Gothenburg
- Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K Mastering

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Aaron Martin:
Cello, bass, roll up piano, voice, vinyl, singing bowls, banjo, lap steel

Dag Rosenqvist:
Piano, pump organ, Fender Rhodes, various organs and synthesizers, acoustic and electric guitars, glockenspiel, voice and field recordings

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From The Mouth Of The Sun -  Into The Well

Shift

Two Places

The Ends

Common Ground

The Map Is Not The Territory

August

Like everything, 'In The Lens' has been shaped by its past, the music recovered from the garbled intestines of a decades-old hard drive and previously lost emails that were, over the years, left to wallow in discontinued, withering accounts. Forlorn and forgotten samples that were recorded on cassette dictaphones shed a gentle light on Solo Andata’s musical lineage, but in this new era fresh elements appear alongside these re-worked sounds. As a result, the music has both a contemporary and a lightly dated feel to it, like memories shrouded in orbs of present moment dust...

Full review:

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2016/05/solo-andata-in-the-lens/

Pre-Order:

https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-lens


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