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Niklas Paschburg - Insight

'The Journey' is a compilation album with the best music composed by Joel D. Hitos. It included 3 unreleased tracks: 'Rainfall', 'Tempestas' and 'Fallen Empire'.

Fallen Empire

This piece is a stream of conciseness and recorded in 1 take. I have a piano piece on every album. 

Somewhere In The Middle

from 'Landscapes of the Unfinished' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den251
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/pianointerrupted]

Recorded partly in Senegal with local musicians playing traditional instruments, "Landscapes Of The Unfinished" is Piano Interrupted's 3rd album for German experimental label Denovali.

This album sees pianist Tom Hodge and “electronician” Franz Kirmann explore a more introspective approach to their sound. The sonorities and recordings the pair brought back from West Africa are deconstructed, mangled and texturised, turned into a pointillist landscape until only a faint and distant souvenir remains.

These beds of pulsating soundscapes and earthy textures serve as base for Hodge’s delicate piano phrases and intricate compositions, interlaced with long-time collaborator Tim Fairhall's fluid double bass playing.

Harsher territories are also visited during the 9 tracks that compose the LP; fuzzy Senegalese radio voices and the distant memory of African percussion collide with distorted bass and buzzing drones or screaming textures battle with screeching double bass sounds and tortured piano strings.

The overall tone of the album reflects the duo’s desire to musically translate the experience of the Dakar trip (where Franz Kirmann grew up), but also to break away from the first two albums' intricate programming and editing and instead go towards a writing and recording experience directly inspired by their live experience. Hodge’s clarinet, an important facet of the Piano Interrupted live show, is captured on record for the first time. 

This surge towards documenting a moment, leaving a trace or examining something concrete is further reflected in the choice of titles (all named after the musicians who took part in the recordings) and also the design, which is for the first time a photograph. Taken by filmmaker Cath Elliott, who travelled with the pair to Dakar to document the process, the album artwork captures one of the numerous half-built structures, infinite and abandoned, surrounding the studio in the suburbs of Dakar, and provides both an unfinished urban landscape and yet when viewed as a single moment in time, one of many compellingly complete landscapes of the unfinished.

Landscapes of the Unfinished

Piano Interrupted - Vieux

Bonus Track from the album 'The Journey Tapes' (Moderna Records, 2016).

Written by Ed Carlsen for Piano Day 2016

Hundrede Træer (Piano Day 2016)

Beneath A Blanket (with Niklas Paschburg)

original music: luca longobardi
piano, loop, synth: luca Longobardi

link for the album: http://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/album/apparatus

Opalina

published for Piano Day 2017
of the upcoming album 'Chameleon'

www.lisa-morgenstern.com
produced by Sebastian Plano
mastered by Martyn Heyne
photo by Miguel Murrieta Vásquez

Codex

Allure

US based pianists / keyboardists extraordinaire Jacob Pavek & Philip Daniel have teamed up on the new collaborative project BLOMMA. Their eponymous debut LP is fun and fresh from start to finish, with tunes built on a layering of rhythmic pianos, synths and electronics. We're very stoked to be releasing this luminous piece of music with them to warm this North American winter.

The record drops on February 28th, but the first taste is out now! You can listen to the lead single 'Morrow' in all digital outlets and pre-order the record from our Bandcamp store : https://orcd.co/blomma-morrow

All Music Composed by Philip Daniel and Jacob Pavek
Mixed by Philip Zach
Mastered by Bruce Templeton
Strings by Laurels String Quartet

BLOMMA

Morrow

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BLOMMA - Morrow

Berlin-based composer and producer Artur Sommerfeld – aka SOMMERFELD – is busy carving out a niche in the German capital, but not in the most obvious way. Forging his own path beyond the city’s well-trodden techno trails, his reduced style cross-steps ambient, experimental and even the cinematic.

Having had his intrigue in music sparked at an early age, the first instrument he set out to learn was the piano. Without doubt, all other instruments the young producer has mastered since centre on pianism, it’s the pole around which everything else circles. As his portfolio demonstrates, SOMMERFELD’s sound effortlessly scales a multitude of genres.

His improvisational approach takes you on a melodic voyage that spans everything from neoclassical to trip-hop. 
But no matter what, it always starts with the keys.