Each year, Piano Day is celebrated worldwide. It's the 88th day of the year, which are the amount of keys on a piano keyboard. In 2022, I want to dedicate my track to the unfortunate people of Ukraine. I've titled my piece "Empathy", as I feel the world collectively, needs to feel the pain these innocent bystanders are suffering at the moment. I hope globally, everyone can draw attention to the plight of the Ukrainians, using any means possible. In my case it's my art.

Empathy #Piano Day 2022

a little piece of music
inspired by a sunny afternoon 
when my arm fell asleep
because of you.

my arm asleep

We Ran

youtube: http://youtu.be/RZcUXopDPJc

from the final rehearsal recording I did yesterday, free download. Merry XMAS :-)

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Dirk Maassen - poco a poco // video: http://youtu.be/RZcUXopDPJc

Oh So Quiet EP out 4th May on Yucatan Records. 

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Motorcycle Journey

Artist: Rachel Grimes
Title: The Air In Time
Album: The Clearing
Release Date: May 26, 2015

Rachel Grimes is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in Kentucky – most renowned for her work in Rachel's, the groundbreaking chamber-rock ensemble that introduced an entire generation of underground rock fans to the unexpected similarities and appeal of neoclassical music. Grimes has toured the world as a solo pianist, and as a collaborator with chamber ensembles such as Portland Cello Project, astrïd, Cicada, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta trio, and Orchestra Kandinskij.

Unhurried, at times fleeting, and stretching into the sky, The Clearing is a winding path of transient moments exploring personal memory, relationships, and mystery from a deeply internal place. The music is a wide spectrum of textures in strings, harp, piano, woodwinds, and percussion. Following Book of Leaves (2009), the Marion County 1938 DVD/EP (2011), the Compound Leaves EP (2013), and an album with King’s Daughters & Sons (2011), this new full-length album reveals a broad new chapter for Rachel Grimes.

Several composed pieces evolved from improvisation, such as “In the Vapor”, “The Clearing”, and “Further Foundation”. Others include captured improvisation: album highlight “The Herald”, recorded live with Jacob Duncan on saxophone and Helen Money on cello, and “The Air at Night”, a late-night meditation at a recording session in Antwerp.

The title track, “The Clearing”, was recorded with members of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta following a series of performances for CrossLinx Festival in spring of 2013. After the joy of working together, Grimes proposed a long-distance recording session. Evolving from a single repeated piano note, “The Clearing” begins tense and dissonant with the string trio and piano eventually arriving at a moment of relief and grace – a light in the forest – and then returning again to the material of the opening.

“Transverse Plane” was designed for SITI Company of New York for an actor training stage exercise. In two sections, the piece uses a pre-existing architecture of tempo and underlying compositional structure. The first part – “Vertical” – is a driving, orchestral texture of strings, harp, piano, oboe and saxophone with Kyle Crabtree (Shipping News) on mixed percussion. The second half – “Horizontal” – unfolds from a mist of strings with slow-moving chords and features Christian Frederickson (Rachel's) in an angular and expressive viola solo.

Inspired by the wind and sky, “The Airs” feature violinist Scott Moore. Written with a single theme and mode, the suite becomes a connective tissue for the album’s various textures. In perhaps the album's most vital collaboration, Scott Morgan (aka LOSCIL) provides the delicate processing and additional depth of field that invites outsiders to enter this fluid space for their own experience.

© 2015 Temporary Residence Ltd.

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Rachel Grimes – The Air In Time

Originally composed for Thanassis Triaridis' play "Zyklon or the Destiny", this haunting score by Manos Milonakis returns with re-recorded parts, new mixing and mastering by Christos Megas, and stunning artwork by Tilman Z.

Inspired by themes of confinement, dark energy, and temporal suspension, Zyklon combines classical strings, evocative piano, music boxes, and cosmic electronic textures. Featuring Müriel Bostdorp (piano), Christina Georgeli (violin), Elisso Papastrati (violin), Thodoris Papadimitriou (cello), Björk Oskarsdottir (violin), and collaborations with Jacob David (piano) and Gregoire Blanc (theremin), the album bridges the past and present in a unique sonic narrative.

Discover Zyklon on January 24, 2025.
Presave now: https://bfan.link/zyklon

The Desperation Of Your Eyes

Du nemokami kūriniai iš naujausio J. Viewz albumo "Rivers and Homes" specialiai manoMUZIKA.lt skaitytojams!

J. Viewz - Oh, Something's Quiet

Ludovico Einaudi - Twice

This track is from my new project FRACTURE.

I hope it will be available soon.

A kiss to all my lovely friends here.

Fracture

The Rupture

The rupture

My remix for 'Phoria - Red' // free to download.
Original: http://soundcloud.com/phoriamusic/red

Original picture used for the cover art by my friend Giorgio Lamonica:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giorgiolamonica

Phoria - Red (Need a Name Remix)

Selja Sini is a Indie Folk husband/wife duo, made up of Selja Felin Engar (Helsinki, Finland) and Brett Engar (SLC, UT).

Selja's career took off after shortly touring in Finland due to participation in two national music competitions: Eurovision's Competition for New Music (UMK) placing in the top 40 and Channel Four's The Voice of Finland, making it to the top 24. And B joined the one-woman show to add an electric undertone to the already acoustically sound melodies, after playing for local SLC artists such as Emme Packer. Together these two styles create a dreamy landscape for all the lyrical memories of falling in love, untouched hopes and childhood discoveries. The band has been compared to artists such as BOY, Jonsi/Sigur Ros and Priscilla Ahn or Jenny Lewis.

"Selja Sini's music is simple and profound, warm and satisfying - a female-voiced response to Justin Vernon or a minimalist Jenny Lewis " - Craft Lake City DIY Festival, 2014

Bookings, info and collaborations:
seljasini@gmail . com