A selection of tracks released for Piano Day 2019

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Piano Day 2019 Selections

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Winterton

Nathan Shubert - Winterton - Piano Day 2019

Released in celebration of #PianoDay2019, Fyr is the second single from 'Hav', the debut full-length album by Swedish artist Vargkvint, due April 5 on limited edition vinyl and digital.

Pre-order: http://bit.ly/2UcILML

Grown up in a small coastal city in Sweden, the sea has always been a core element in the life and inspiration of now Stockholm-based multi-artist Sofia Nystrand, also knows as Vargkvint, and therefore a natural theme for her first full-length album, Hav. 

”The sea has played such a huge part for us, in how societies have formed and grown, it has connected us with each other and given us life, and is the base behind much of our mythology. But at the same time, it has been a really cruel mistress – its storms, tsunamis and rising sea levels have been devastating to both individual lives, whole societies and now humanity as a whole. It’s in that conflict – its beauty and its menace, its life-giving and its life-taking, this concept-album was created”, Nystrand says. 

Echoing its theme, the music on Hav is equal parts sweet and menacing, where piano and vocals are accompanied by musical saw, harmonium, zither, bowed glockenspiel, a male choir, synthesizers, and field recordings, landing somewhere between the definitions of folk, modern-classical, pop and experimental music. Old and new narratives connected to the sea – folklore, migration and the way of nature – are tied together both musically and lyrically.

Vargkvint - Fyr (Piano Day 2019)

New EP 'In Moonlight', Akira Kosemura composed four piano pieces with the inspirations of the several female images. 'In Moonlight, Op. 1 & 2', the series take you to the quiet place, put yourself in the moonlight, a moonbeam breaks then shakes the shadow of you. 'Minerva', bearing the name of Roman mythical goddess Minerva, it makes you symbolize a wise and beautiful woman. 'Trace', we can image the feeling of her who stands the branch point of life, her past and future. This album shows us the various expressions however, there are the fragile beauty and close protective calmness of all songs, and it's everything you expect from Akira Kosemura.

//Bio//
Born in Tokyo in 1985, Japanese composer Akira Kosemura debuted his first solo album, “It’s On Everything”, on an Australian label in 2007 while he was still in school. That same year, he founded his own label, Schole Records, and garnered good reviews by releasing various albums of crossover genre music featuring the sounds of piano, strings, winds, synthesizers, and field recordings. Akira has composed music for film, stage, and commercials, including the OWN series Love Is__ produced by Mara Brock Akil, TBS series Chugakusei Nikki, a contemporary ballet piece MANON choreographed by Kimiho Hulbert, and Japan Pavilion in Milano EXPO. In recent years, he has worked collaboratively with international brands such as TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist. MAISON DE REEFUR, Nikon, Rado, IKEA and KINFOLK. Also Akira featured Devendra Banhart on a single titled Someday. His works have received high acclaim from media outlets around the world, including Pitchfork in the US.

Akira Kosemura - In Moonlight, Op. 2

A little experiment - an attempt to make pop music with nothing but sounds from the piano. The track is a single and was written for Piano day 2019, March 29th.

Brev 29 (Piano Day 2019)

Dedicated to Chopin, one of my favorite composers, and released in celebration of this year's #PianoDay.

Artwork by Camille De Cussac.

Fryderyk (Piano Day 2019)

Transmutation (noun)
uk ​ /ˌtrænz.mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/ us ​ /ˌtræns.mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/
​the act or process of changing something completely, especially into something different

NOVA is my special track for #PianoDay 2019.

live recorded on February 14th during one of my house concert

mixed and mastered by Iacopo Sinigaglia at Pepperpot

piano: Scholze upright (1985)

mics: Oktava MK-012 (modded, cardioid capsule)

synths and electronic gears:

_ Dave Smith Prophet 6
_ Moog Mother 32
_ IK Multimedia UNO Synth
_ Keith McMillan Softstep
_ Strymon Big Sky

artwork: NOVA by luca longobardi

NOVA (Piano Day 2019)

We are delighted to share with you this compilation to join in the celebrations for this year's Piano Day. With contributions by @memotone, @themountainhowl, @michaelred, @philipdanielpiano, @brooksi-1, @liu_erd and Alejandro Bento as @axel-toben. 

All of these individual tunes were created exclusively for this year's Piano Day by friends and frequent collaborators of Subtempo. Coming from different musical backgrounds and levels of technique, each of these artists share their own touch and relationship to this quintessential instrument. 

Thank you to all the artists involved, thank you for loving this beautiful instrument so much too and in such different and unique ways each one of you and thank you to all the piano lovers out there. 

Join in, download it and share it with your friends. Find out more about this inspiring event started by Nils Frahm on pianoday.org 

Happy 2019 Piano Day!

More info: https://subtempo.com/releases/semitone/

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Cameron Brooks - Train Windows (Piano Day 2019 Exclusive)

Leftovers (Piano Day 2019)

13th & Hope - For Piano Day 2019

Happy piano day 2019 - recorded in Seattle, WA.

Ambergris (Piano Day 2019)

To celebrate Piano Day 2019 Here is the title track from my upcoming release of piano works.  Happy Piano day! #pianoday
Recorded at Bakermoon Studios in Berlin.
Mix/Mastered by Francesco Berta.

Saffron for PIANO DAY 2019 #pianoday

I always push myself to release a track for piano day. This year was particularly difficult to finish on time, but it seems like I made it! 
This one is called Onni. Enjoy!
- R

Onni (Piano Day 2019 edit)

Released for Piano Day as a part of Recollections, Vol.  2 by Sonder House.

Recollections, Vol 2

Cantabile

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Cantabile (Piano Day 2019)

koorinosei - Piano Day 2019

Everytime You Leave

Everytime You Leave (pianoday 2019)

a sonic space of piano drones and feathers on charango strings for Piano Day 2019.

photo by Zoltan Tasi

Close To The Morning

New Era (Piano Day 2019)

Margarette II 

composed, performed, produced by: Manos Milonakis

A pianistic venture based on "Margarette" (a track for Piano Day 2018, part of "Intervals" compilation by Moderna Records: download/buy: modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intervals)

www.manosmilonakismusic.com
www.pianoday.org

Margarette II

Margarette II (Piano Day 2019)

Piano loop and improvisation recorded on an old cassete.

Remembering (Piano Day 2019)

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