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Official Piano Day 2018 Playlist

Happy Piano Day!

Piano Day 2018 Playlist

weird tranquility

New Free Tune. 

Thanks for the support !!

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Cloud City

Title track off of Deru's upcoming "1979" album, being released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector. June 17th on Friends of Friends. 

http://shop.1979.la <---- To pre-order the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery
http://fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- For vinyl

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Memory is one of our greatest gifts; it gives us access to time, to identity, to dreams. Guided by the wisdom of Jackson Sonnanfeld-Arden, discoverer of the Nine Pure Tones, I created 1979 as a concept album through which I could share his brilliant theory, and my life-long infatuation with memory. 
        
Before music was such an easily traded commodity, it was often an experience to which people gave their full attention. Let’s bring that experience back. Let’s respect what music is worth. 

Yours in the waves,
- Deru

1979

Bach - Cello suite No.1 Prelude in G - Major

North End Nightlife.

Second track off of "1979", released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector on Friends of Friends Records.

fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- To buy digital/vinyl
http://shop.1979.la <---- To order the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery

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Memory is one of our greatest gifts; it gives us access to time, to identity, to dreams. Guided by the wisdom of Jackson Sonnanfeld-Arden, discoverer of the Nine Pure Tones, I created 1979 as a concept album through which I could share his brilliant theory, and my life-long infatuation with memory.

Before music was such an easily traded commodity, it was often an experience to which people gave their full attention. Let’s bring that experience back. Let’s respect what music is worth.

Yours in the waves,
- Deru

Let The Silence Float

I have been listening to alot of R&B / Jazz lately. 
Started this while I was on tour. 
https://instagram.com/headphone_activist/


also as of this week I am signed over with Waveform Agency. 
●Bookings
hpabooking@gmail.com
●Management 
frank@waveformagency.com
jonathan@waveformagency.com


Thanks for the support !

Silent Flo.

Tracklist + Download: http://runthetrap.com/2015/10/07/too-future-guest-mix-047-headphone-activist/

RSVP for Too Future. Series Vol. 15 with Penthouse Penthouse, Headphone Activist + Harris Cole b2b Ian Ewing here: https://www.facebook.com/events/426353564220615/

Headphone Activist
https://soundcloud.com/headphoneactivist
https://www.facebook.com/HPABeats
https://twitter.com/HPABeats

Too Future
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Too Future. Guest Mix 047:  Headphone Activist

آواز ابوعطا
پاییز ۱۳۹۴

ضبط صدا: آریا محافظ

Avaz-e Abu Ataa
Fall 2015

که گویی از خاطرم هیچ نمی گذرد

Watch Official Video -
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqykMgi8g4

 Upcoming Tour Dates!!!

Sunday 24 Jan
Iron Horse Music Hall - Northhampton, MA

Wed 27 Jan
U Street Music Hall - Washington, DC

Th 28 Jan
The Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY

Fri 29 January
Rough Trade NYC - Brooklyn, NY

Sat 30 Jan
Boot & Saddle - Philadelphia, PA

Mon 1 Feb
The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA

Tue 2 Feb
Le Ritz R.d.b. - Montreal, QC, Canada

Wed 3 Feb
The Garrison - Toronto, ON, Canada

Fri 5 Feb
Schuba’s Tavern- Chicago, IL

Sat 6 Feb
7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN

Tue 9 Feb
Barboza- Seattle, WA

Wed 10 Feb
Biltmore Cabaret - Vancouver, BC

Fri 12 Feb
Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR

Sun 14 Feb
The Independent - San Francisco, CA

Mon 15 Feb
Lyric Theatre - Los Angeles, CA

Tue 16 Feb
The Echo - Los Angeles, CA


photo: Emmanuel Olunkwa

Kelsey Lu Morning After Coffee

See you guys @ SXSW in a few weeks !!

➥ Headphone Activist 
►@headphoneactivist
►www.facebook.com/HPABeats
►twitter.com/HPABeats
►https://www.instagram.com/headphone_activist

➥ Morzfeen
►https://soundcloud.com/morz
►https://www.facebook.com/morzfeen
►https://www.instagram.com/morzfeen/
►http://morzfeen.bandcamp.com/

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Headphone Activist x Morzfeen - Midnight Strike.

From "1979: Remixed", on Friends of Friends, released April 29th.

Digital and vinyl restock available here: 
deru.bandcamp.com/album/1979-remixed

All other digital and streaming services here:
https://fofmusic.lnk.to/1979Remixed

1979 - Remixed

1979 (On a Snowy February Day)

Happy Piano Day 2018!

Middle Names is original released by Devendra Banhart on his 2016 record "Ape In Pink Marble" (Nonesuch Records).

Middle Names (rework by Nils Frahm)

From "A Forward-Facing Review".
Composed, performed, recorded and produced by Philipp Rumsch between February and July 2017.
Mastered by Markus @ Abendroth Mastering.

„A Forward-Facing Review“ is one of his works resulting from a one-year study period at „Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium“ in Copenhagen. In contrast to his previous work, Rumsch is responsible for both composition and sound design / mixing. Inspired by composers like Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi and Elaine Radique and by the music of William Basinski, Tim Hecker, Brian Eno and Ben Frost, Rumsch draws up concepts to approach electro-acoustic music with pianistic elements. By only using acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments like piano, fender rhodes and various synthesizers, Rumsch first created the sounds for his composition in order to manipulate and edit them on the computer.

"A Forward-Facing Review" is a twenty-minute long concept composition with two parts exploring in two different ways a various amount of sounds as well as their gradual modulation. "Part II" is the more minimalistic chapter of this composition. An almost constant number of elements creates a sonic composition, which rests in itself. Thus development emerges through a gradual modulation of a few parameters. Philipp Rumsch invites the listener to accept subtle developments and offers the possibility to immerse into a difficile and diverse soundscape. 

Danish artists Anders Bach and August Rosenbaum as well as Icelandic composer, sound designer and multiinstrumentalist Valgeir Sigurðsson supported Rumsch in producing „A Forward-Facing Review“.

A Forward-Facing Review - Part II

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

Philipp Rumsch, born in 1994, is a composer, pianist, and sound designer based in Leipzig, Germany. Between 2013 and 2020 Philipp Rumsch has studied jazz piano under the aegis of Michael Wollny and Richie Beirach at the Academy of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig. In 2016 and 2017 he has refined his sound design and composition capabilities at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen with, among others, Niels-Lyhne Løkkegard, August Rosenbaum and Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Philipp is working both as a pianist, composer and arranger with artists, bands and ensembles from different genres. He has written music for theater and performances. His work is influenced by Avant-pop, electroacoustic, contemporary classical and improvised music. Philipp releases his music on the renowned record label Denovali. In 2018 he received the Leipzig award for young jazz musicians, funded by Marion Ermer foundation (Leipziger Jazznachwuchspreis der Marion-Ermer-Stiftung).