The wonderful Anna Phoebe remixed my track Look Up.  @pianodayofficial

Look Up Re Imagined

French composer and pianist Casual Melancholia debuts on piano and coffee records with Daylight, an enchanting collection of pieces for organ recorded in «Saint Pierre Le Jeune», one of the most important church buildings of the city of Strasbourg, France. 

Intimately captured with a strategic microphone placement and recorded directly into tape, the pieces in Daylight are rich and varied in timbre, often relentless and passionate —as we can hear on the first single Final Light and on Night— contrasted by moments of calmness and meditative, slow-paced chords —such as the opening track Dawn. While these three compositions allow us into the most intimate corners of Casual Melancholia’s musical universe, it is the other two pieces on this record, Dusk and Zenith, that reveal his admiration for Johann Sebastian Bach’s works, which unfolded his interest in the magnificent instrument that makes this project. Overall, this EP gives us a glimpse of Casual Melancholia’s virtuosity and mark his first attempt at creating contemporary sacred music. 

Conceptually, this release is a tribute —a prayer— to the hours of sunlight given to us every day. “My eyes were so accustomed to darkness that, when I was pushing the front door to leave the church, I had to humbly lower my head, blinded”, the composer comments, “this moment made me aware of the warmth, purity, and eternal hope that daylight shares”. 

Daylight is set to release on the 29th of October on digital format, featuring artwork by Spanish graphic designer Celia Fernández González.

Purchase

Casual Melancholia - Final Light

siren summons

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

Echo

Echo Pt2

Buy ECHO

Recorded for Nils Frahm's Piano Day on 29th March 2019

Download of "Golden Heart" plus three bonus tracks @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/golden-heart-ep

Bandcamp

Polaroid Notes - Golden Heart

#pianoday2020 special. 

Be safe. 
Much of love, 
Oskar

Hope To See You Soon

Most Things Are Beautiful (Piano Day 2020)

Japanese pianist @daigohanada lends his subtle felted playing and beautiful textured arrangements to this rework of 'Last to Let Go' by @richard_luke. Close your eyes and immerse yourself in this intimate and soulful piece for piano.

stream on your favourite platform : https://orcd.co/last-to-let-go
download : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/last-to-let-go-daigo-hanada-rework

Glass Island (Reworked)

Last to Let Go (Daigo Hanada Rework)

Spotify ⊜

Richard Luke - Last to Let Go (Daigo Hanada Rework)

Part of 1631 Recordings' Piano Clouds volume five.
As it is a solo piano piece, it's listed under my own name, not OUTER.

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2J23RJN
Spotify: http://bit.ly/dcmbr29

Tom Paul Soetaert - December 29th

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com

#PianoDay2020

Anne Lovett - Sur Un Fil

this melody came to me 2 weeks ago, i whistled it into my phone, started up the una corda virtual piano (thank you nils frahm and klavins piano), and i chose to include that whistle in the recording.  

image: type 55 polaroid taken in milan, italy by me, of a model called marta.

enjoy!

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Casual Melancholia - Final Light

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