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Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch is an award-winning French pianist/ composer currently living in London. Spanning film score, bespoke composition and sound design, her work is connected by both its high quality and evocative, meticulous craft - a common sensibility of elegant, instinctual composition. Signed by FatCat’s post-classical imprint 130701 following receipt of a stunning demo in 2014, Levienaise-Farrouch’s first album, ‘Like Water Through the Sand’ is set for a November 2015 release, and – alongside Dmitry Evgrafov’s debut for the imprint - marks an invigorating injection of fresh blood for 130701, introducing a striking new voice to the genre.

A collection of new compositions written primarily for piano, string quartet and electronics, ‘Like Water Through the Sand’ is equal parts graceful as it is dark; powerful as it is subtle. A wide-ranging yet cohesive collection, there’s an immediately evident sense of class in the quality of the instrumental playing and the beautifully nuanced sound design, marshalled masterfully throughout by its creator.

A gorgeously detailed and hugely impressive debut, ‘Like Water Through The Sand’ manages to sound at once fresh and familiar. It nestles comfortably within the contemporary cannon of post-classical producers/ composers which 130701 played a formative part in helping establish (the adventurous modern landscape of Max Richter, Johann Johansson, Dustin O’Halloran, Hauschka, Nils Frahm, et al), and reveals a brilliant new voice to add to the firmament.

Like Water Through The Sand

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Emilie Levienaise - Farrouch - Strelka

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Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch - Scale Of Volatility

This is the first track from my second collaborations collection (Out 11th March) and features the amazing Yuri Kono.  

I have many talented friends and I love to work with people. After a few years I found I had a small collection of music that I wanted to share so started this Collaborations series. I am very lucky to work with such talented people. 


LUCY CLAIRE - Kawaita Tsuki / The Barren Moon Ft. Yuri Kono

Alcalá

Mourners Matinée

Points of Light (for Piano Day 2018)

from 'Intervals' (Piano Day 2018 compilation)

Download/Buy: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intervals

Composition and production: Jacob David

Violins: Madeleine Rygner Holm & Zerlina Rigmor Rygner
Viola: Marianne Rygner
Cello: Nicolaus Tamino Rygner
Piano: Jacob David 

Mix: Thomas Haahr

Loft

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Jacob David - Loft

Approaching Spring

from 'Intervals' (Piano Day 2018 compilation)

Download/Buy: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intervals

Composed & produced by Ed Carlsen
Ed Carlsen: piano
Matias Emil Fyhn: cello

Intervals

Bliss

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Ed Carlsen - Bliss

Moss

from compilation 'Intervals' (Piano Day 2018)

download/buy: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intervals

Composed & Produced by James Maloney
Piano: James Maloney

Thirds

James Maloney - Thirds

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com
www.pianoday.org

Tim Linghaus -  We Will Never Come Back Here Again (Lament)

Improv

Brume 
Nouvelle version (Remix 2020).

Composition et piano : Pascal Lengagne

Brume

from 'Intervals' (Piano Day 2018 compilation)

Download/Purchase: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intervals

Composed & produced by Snorri Hallgrímsson
Piano: Snorri Hallgrímsson

…og minning þín rís hægt

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Snorri Hallgrímsson - …og minning þín rís hægt

from 'Intervals' (Piano Day 2018 Compilation)

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Composed & Produced by Daigo Hanada
Piano: Daigo Hanada

Futari

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Daigo Hanada - Futari

Piano Works is the second installment of Lucy Claire’s ‘Works’ series. It is an eclectic take on what piano music can be. Featuring cellist Ren Ford (Keaton Henson’s Romantic Works) and violinist Marie Schreer (The Royal Northern Sinfonia) and surrounded in atmospheric binaural soundscapes, the piano is far from lonely. The work features a collection of pianos from grands and uprights, to electric keyboards, toy and thumb pianos. It is grounded in the real world but hints strongly at the magical and supernatural, it absorbs, transports, then delivers you back to reality with new perspective.

Sage Ft. Ren Ford

French pianist / composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch returns with the stunning 'Époques', her sophomore album for FatCat's pioneering 130701 imprint. Witnessing an increased assurance and dynamism in both Emilie's playing and composing, 'Époques' marks a big step forward for the London-based artist. A bold and adventurous album that alternates between passages of emotive, sinuous solo piano; stirring compositions for viola and cello and some beautifully sprawling electronics, it has been masterfully pieced together to further reveal a unique and intelligent sense of artistry, and a composer who really does deserve your full attention.

'Époques' is a deep, forceful, at times difficult, listen - a true shifting through the various registers of emotion, from dark to light. Whilst fans of artists like Max Richter, Dustin O'Halloran and Jóhann's Jóhannsson ought to surely find much to love in this album, and parallels may be found to a progressive new breed of female peers like Claire M Singer, Lucy Railton and labelmate Resina, it is a record that genuinely sees its maker finding her own space, fully formed and conclusively set aside from peers and influences. No mere background listen, 'Époques' is a proper journey of an album – a record to immerse yourself into; that stands up to and rewards repeat listening, revealing itself more and more over time.

Époques

02 The Only Water - Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch

Singles Series # 5
'Footsteps', a collaborative track between IDM artist Arovane and pianist Mike Lazarev.

Download: http://bit.ly/2KxlbEN
Stream: spoti.fi/2nkJCwg

Composed by Mike Lazarev and Uwe Zahn 
Mastered by Porya Hatami

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