this just showed up my feed and I'm glad it did....wonderful and beautiful...bravo

n ice re-working - vocal track really shines

I like this piano sound ... Something ghostly. A story of mists and mystery.

Wow! Wonderful work! I felt like i was guided by ghosts to this beach in the picture... They were showing me something wonderful. As if all the beauty of the world was contained in a detail that no one could notice.

A lovely track from the album Stadsbilder, to be released by Time Released Sound on August 6th, 2021.

Stadsbilder

Jakob Lindhagen & Dag Rosenqvist, "Stadsbilder"... Längs Husen

Unrequited

Bathe

Introducing "Traditions & Traitors."
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A few weeks ago, I sat down at the piano with the intention of simply... writing. Running my own business with all sorts of music projects, there's a lot more that happens than just creating. There's emails, files, networking, spreadsheets, research, social media, repairs, practice, finances, on and on... and don't get me wrong - I genuinely enjoy it all, or at least learning and developing different skills. But sometimes the ROOT of what I do and the goals I'm pursuing get lost, and I forget to sit down... and create.

On that day that I sat down at the piano, I ended up writing and recording four songs. I started and finished the entire project in one long sitting. I went back to the root. It was refreshing, and restorative.

This is 'Traditions & Traitors.'

I hope it can be special to you, as well, as you navigate life and its busy seasons. I hope you can sit down for a few minutes and just.... be.

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Quiet Assumptions

This song reflects peaceful confidence in knowing Someone is always there for you.  The song flow emanates that peace and leaves listeners resting in that peace. A perfect track for any Piano Day (or any day) playlist!

You Are There

A delicate exploration of the intricacy and fragility of life, nature and the surrounding world. It is love...mortality...the sublime...a personal mantra...every thing.

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Blair Coron: Piano / Keyboard / Synth / Nintendo DS / Acoustic Guitar 

Lesley Barr: Violin 
Roo Geddes: Violin 
Robyn Harris: Violin 
Rhona Macfarlane: Violin 
Kirsty McIntyre: Viola 
Catriona Mulholland: Cello 

Nicole Stapinski: Flute 

Scott Morrison: Harp 

Scott Glanville: Mandolin 
Callum Elks: Guitar 

All: Vocals 

Recorded and Mixed by Paul McInally at 45 A-Side Studios 
Mastered by Ed Woods

Et Dieu...Créa La Femme

My conbribution to Piano Day 2019. A track from my latest album "River Tales" which has been released in November 2018 by col legno.

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Panta Rhei #pianoday 2019

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

This album is a collection, raw and spontaneous, and the fruit of 15 days of artistic residency in the beautiful setting of La Becque, La Tour de Peilz (CH), in partnership with Françoise Siegfried Meier Foundation and the Montreux Jazz Artist Foundation.

A setting in which I was able to express myself, on grand piano and essentially on prepared piano, with introspection and escape.


This logbook is intended to be raw, spontaneous and representative of the immersive moments I have experienced.
Some improvisations are therefore presented, such as the themes "Memories", "Serenity 1 and 2", "La Becque", or experiments ("overdrive", "rework")
The theme "Mrs. Siegfried Meier" is a tribute.

Memories is also composed for PianoDay 2019.

Memories (Rework)

To shed some light about how the piece was created, Will has shared some insight into how he went about approaching the concept of Scale.

'Throughout my career I've almost exclusively relied upon my ability to perform and record all the elements of my arrangements through multi-tracking as the means for realizing my compositions.

Because of this I am all too familiar with having to wrangle with proximity effect (how close an instrument or sound source is to the diaphragm of the microphone) and how can either aid or negatively impact a compositions sense of space and convincing ensemble qualities.

When Jim Perkins approached me about contributing to this compilation and mentioned the overarching theme was "scale" I immediately thought of how I might use proximity effect as a guiding identity for a composition.

For this project I decided to disassemble a few music boxes and experiment with using some of my larger instruments (my harp, Concert bass and kettle drum) as resonators for the boxes and mic'ing them at a good distance away from the attack of the tines giving these tiny little instruments a sound far more resonant than they would've had in there original cases. I pitted these ideas against the sound of the highest register of several larger instruments (Harp, Contrabass, cristal bichet and piano) playing the very highest register they could muster, mic'd them extremely close with small diaphragm mics to emphasize the attack and smallest minutiae of performative gestures. I continued to build on this inversion of physical size and pitch relationship for all the subsequent overdubs and arrangement (bass clarinet playing super high multi-phonics, the viola being tuned down a whole fifth and playing two octaves below the basses artificial harmonics etc etc)

It was a joyful little exercise and the tonality and spirit of the peace represents that enjoyment, I think!

Scale

William Ryan Fritch - Disproportionate Joys

Lumina (2020)
for orchestra (2222.4331.3perc.harp.pno.strings)

Performed by the USC Thornton Symphony (Donald Crockett, conductor)

Program note:

"Lumina" explores the spectrum of light and dark and the murkiness in between. Using swift contrasts between bright, sharp timbres and cloudy textures and dense harmonies, the piece captures sudden bursts of radiance amongst the eeriness of shadows.

Lumina

Ploughing a furrow somewhere between Jazz, Post Rock and Trip Hop, we are making a Lynchian journey contemplating the Universe, our place in it, mortality, spirituality all that stuff. 
Released on April 28th 2022, Not My Will is the new single from Bledig from the album Universe Arrangements which will be released later this year.

Bledig have played supports
with Mammal Hands, Melt
Yourself Down and
Sleep Token.
They released their EP, Bruise
in early 2019 garnering
multiple plays on BBC 6 Music
and other specialist shows.

Contact bledig.band@gmail.com

And Breathe Reprise

Bledig

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