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Winnow

My new release 'Imprints 1 & 2' is available to buy on limited edition vinyl and CD here: https://simeonwalker.myshopify.com/

Listen: https://simeonwalker.ffm.to/music
Website: http://simeonwalker.co.uk
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/simeonwalker
Newsletter: https://simeonwalker.ffm.to/newsletter

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Imprints 1 & 2

Download: https://1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/preface
Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZbRUw7TAqrRr9RpVx7Kbh

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Preface EP - 1631 Recordings

'Mono' is Simeon Walker's new debut full length solo album and invites listeners to hunker down and hibernate away from the cold, encroaching winter nights.

With stunning artwork by Gregory Euclide, the artist behind the cover of Bon Iver's eponymous 2nd album, the record is now available to buy on vinyl, CD, download, and streaming on all major platforms.

www.simeonwalker.co.uk/shop

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Mono

Ache

Whist

Bewild

The first single from Simeon Walker's upcoming EP 'Imprints'

Gleam

Nocturne

Buy a copy of Piano Day vol. 1: 
https://store.leiter-verlag.com/products/pianoday-vol-1

Listen on all platforms here: 
https://leiter.lnk.to/PianoDay

Reverie (from the Piano Day compilation vol.1)

Weave

Captive (feat. Laura Masotto)

Seasons - Solo Piano Version

This is my first release of 2024.

Buy the sheet music here:
https://simeonwalker.myshopify.com/products/ballade-no-1-sheet-music

Read my extended thoughts on the piece and it's stylistic form:
https://simeonwalker.substack.com/p/balladeering

Ballade No. 1

Performing live to a lovely audience is as good as it gets. I'm heading back out on tour across the UK later this year in November 2024. I can't wait to see you all again, and if you'd like to come, why not check out if I'm coming near to you:

http://www.simeonwalker.co.uk/live

To celebrate, here is a live version of one my oldest pieces, 'Compline', performed live at The Pool - a former underground swimming pool, now in use as an art & exhibition space - in Düsseldorf, Germany for Piano Day in 2023.

Camera:
Tom Blankenberg 
Christoph von Chamier 
Raffael Seyfried 

Editing:
Raffael Seyfried

Sound:
Raffael Seyfried

Colour:
Max Hüttermann 

Filmed at The Pool, Düsseldorf (DE)

Compline

Compline (Live)

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To celebrate his upcoming UK Autumn Tour and mark the occasion of a new, special edition, physical-only release, Leeds-based pianist & composer Simeon Walker shares a captivating new solo piano recording of his piece ‘Saturnine’. 

Watch the stunning video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVEj3hp3jmQ

Originally released as part of the Piano & Coffee label’s ‘Realismo Mágico’ compilation in 2021, this engaging new recording of this dark, brooding, rhythmical piece was recorded on a Blüthner grand piano at Ayriel Studios, nestled high up in the stunning, isolated landscape of the North York Moors, one of the UK’s most treasured National Parks.

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Saturnine (Solo Piano)

This medieval melody, popularised predominantly in the sixteenth century, is perhaps most well-known because of the version attributed to the German composer Michael Praetorius. 

In fact, the title is often shortened to 'Quempas', a generic term for Christmas songs in a German caroling tradition. 

Numerous translations exist from the original Latin text, with the English title often a variation on 'He Whom The Shepherds Praised', although a later translation by Imogen Holst with an arrangement by John Rutter translates the title as 'Shepherds Left Their Flocks A-Straying'.

I guess it's about shepherds. 

Many years since I released my version of 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel', I felt it was time for a new Christmas tune.

Text:
Quem pastores laudavere,
Quibus angeli dixere:
Absit vobis iam timere,
Natus est Rex gloriae.

Ad quem magi[reges] ambulabant,
Aurum, thus, myrrham portabant,
Immolabant haec sincere
Leoni victoriae [ or nato Regi Gloriae].

Christo regi, Deo nato
Per Mariam nobis dato
Merito resonet vere
Laus, honor et gloria.

- - -

Thou whom shepherds worshipped, hearing
Angels tell their tidings cheering,
‘Sirs, away with doubt and fearing!
Christ the King is born for all;’

Thou to whom came wise men faring,
Gold and myrrh and incense bearing,
Heartfelt homage thus declaring
To the King that’s born for all:

Bending low in adoration
Thee we greet, for our salvation
Given by wondrous incarnation,
King of Glory born for all.

Quem pastores laudavere

Awake

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvcY85y8t98

January

Eulogy

Fugle - The Keybird Compilation

Düssel (Keybird Version)

Blossom

A number of people asked to be able to download this version of the famous Christmas carol that I recorded last year. I'm now making it available for download, for free, or for a donation of your choosing. 

All money raised from this will be donated to the Leeds-based homeless charity Simon On The Streets. Read more about their work here: 

http://simononthestreets.co.uk  

Download the song:

https://simeonwalkermusic.bandcamp.com

Happy Christmas x

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Valentine

Compline is a monastic practice where monks gather to reflect & mark the completion of the working day.

There's no religious significance as such for me, but the concept of reflecting on the day's events right at it's very end, is an interesting and fascinating idea. Feel free to listen to this song in this way, and maybe with headphones.

I recorded this song for Piano Day 2016, held on 28th March. I hope you enjoy it! www.pianoday.org 

Compline (Piano Day 2016)

Download free sheet music: http://bit.ly/Drift_sheetmusic

Find this song amongst many amazing pieces of music on the Official Piano Day Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/nils_frahm/sets/piano-day-2017

Stream/Download elsewhere:
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2nLg24n
Apple Music: http://apple.co/2ngoPHq
SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/2mPddQJ
YouTube: https://youtu.be/YmDnkxrN0HI

http://www.pianoday.org

Drift (Piano Day 2017)

Froze

Letters

Drift

Lull

The first song from 'Mono' - Simeon Walker's new full length album - 'Hush' invites and welcomes listeners to hunker down and hibernate away from the stresses and strains of the world. 

With stunning artwork by Gregory Euclide, the album is now available to pre-order both digitally and on limited edition vinyl or CD. 

Head to www.simeonwalker.co.uk/shop for more information

Hush

The second song from 'Mono' - Simeon Walker's new full length album - 'Turn' invites and welcomes listeners to hunker down and hibernate away from the stresses and strains of the world.

With stunning artwork by Gregory Euclide, the album is now available to pre-order both digitally (on all major streaming services) and on limited edition vinyl and CD.

Head to www.simeonwalker.co.uk/shop for more information

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Turn

Breathe (Luca Longobardi Rework)

Drift (CEEYS Rework)

Taken from 1631 Recordings' Piano Cloud 5 series.

Listen on Spotify: https://lnkfi.re/SW-Absolution

Follow on Instagram: @simeonwalkermusic

Absolution

Unravel

Unravelling

Speak pt. 1

Seasons

Haze

Captive

This long-form piece, in which impressionist piano intertwines with sympathetic field recordings and found sounds, makes reference to and is influenced by an experience I had at the Suffolk coast in late-February 2019.

The UK was experiencing especially unseasonably calm and warm weather, and on an early-morning visit to the beach, I encountered a set of circumstances so magical, I had to bring them to life in a musical way.

The unique atmospheric conditions created a panorama, which, combined with the other-worldly landscape of Shingle Street, is hard to convey how special and beautiful it was. I have never seen the sea so still, with barely a lap at the shore. Every sound: the gaps between the shingle filled by the gently-gurgling, placid sea; hordes of gulls, terns - possibly a gannet - grazing on Orford Ness, their squawks echoing shrilly across the glass-still inlet; and the faint tolling of the bell buoy, a mile out to sea, carried across on the gentle breeze.

Four Suffolk Sea Scenes (Mastered)

Pianist • Composer | Leeds, UK

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