I myself am not a music player (though I used to play piano), I made this playlist based on how well I was inspired to write my books and make works of art, and I hope those who listen to this may get the same feeling :) I will probably keep expanding this, so if you need to calm yourself or a nice breeze of inspiration, be my guest. And also thanks to the artists in my playlist for the wonderful tracks.

Inspirational

Taken from the album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

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9/10 Drowned In Sound · 9/10 Clash · 4.5/5 Fact · 4.5/5 Resident Advisor · 9/10 Popmatters · 9/10  The Line Of Best Fit ·  8.5/10 Under The Radar · 8/10 Exclaim! ★★★★1/2 Music Omh · ★★★★ The Irish Times ·  ★★★★ Arts Desk

‘Frahm truly excels’ 9/10 Uncut 
‘Frahm works his magic’ ★★★★ Mojo
‘The infinite elasticity of sound’ 7.8 Pitchfork 
‘Improvisatory, wild, heartfelt’  Interview Magazine
‘A fantastic record’ The Guardian Album of the Week 
‘Frahm creates something mesmerising’ ★★★★ The Observer
‘My favourite new piece of music this year’ Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music

www.nilsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Spaces

Hammers

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New album "The Swans" - 12 Valses Melancoliques
The great success of my first series "Valses melancoliques encouraged me to continue this musical idea of melancholic valses, resulting in 12 new valses from C minor to B minor.

Now I am more than happy to announce that the brilliant pianist Danaë Xanthe Vlasse (https://soundcloud.com/danae-vlasse) from Los Angeles / USA has recorded the whole series! Danaë performs these works in a masterful way, bringing interpretive variety to each waltz such that each piece portrays distinct character, and all are a delight to hear!

This album is available on iTunes, AmazonMP3, Spotify and many other platforms:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stephan-beneking-swans-12/id748395369
A physical CD will be available on Amazon and on CreateSpace soon: https://www.createspace.com/2209540
As usual it is also available on BandCamp for the price of a coffee: https://beneking.bandcamp.com/album/the-swans-12-valses-m-lancoliques

The scores for this series you can find here: http://www.beneking.com/swans
The direct link to the booklet with all scores:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4v1JwJiY6oJVURybWNwbURSLUU/edit?usp=sharing
A printed booklet with all scores will be available on Amazon soon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Stephan+Beneking&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3AStephan+Beneking


Valses Melancholiques II - "The Swans" No 1 - played by Danaë Xanthe Vlasse - now on iTunes

I composed this music, thanks to this photo by Pascal Durif ( https://www.facebook.com/pascal.durif.9 ).
I recommend you check out his site to see his entire collection of fantastic photos.

This track is "As it comes". registered while composing wit no corrections. so sorry for the eventually mistakes but i prefer it in that way.:)

I hope you enjoy it.
At least the photo :)

Another Day

Promenades En Campagne (Nocturne, 22 Nov)

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Promenades En Campagne, Nocturne, 22 Nov - Piano Solo

Glimpse of Us

Latin Mass

A 10-ish minute excerpt from my forthcoming epic mix-tape featuring...

De La Soul
Common
Nate Smith
Sungazer
Tingvali Trio
Nas
Jean Michel Jarre
Billy Joel
Ice Cube
John Zorn and Naked City

De La Soul // The Bizness -- sneak preview from upcoming Mix-Tape!!

Nosferatu (Vamp)

FUNK COVER: INXS New Sensation

More funky covers of beloved '80's tunes. Can you dig it?

FUNK COVER The Human League (Keep Feeling) Fascination

This is a crazy one. I wanted to cover this Thompson Twins song that I've loved since I was a kid, but put a unique spin on it so I decided to try to channel the band Secret Chiefs 3 and in the process wound up changing the time signature and taking a hard turn into Flamenco. 

The vocals on this one are still scratch until I can find someone to do an original performance that sounds something like this. Wish me luck!

COVER: Thompson Twins "The Gap" featuring Israel Fernandez

DEMO. Still looking for the right singer to do the first verse.

The Gap DEMO

joji - rain on me

BALLADS 1

SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK

I make all of my music using primarily a Kurzweil PC88 full-size keyboard (with weighted keys), an M-Audio interface and Garage Band software (with all of the Jam Packs) on my IMac.

I regard every track (so far) as evolving concepts to be subtracted from or added to whenever possible or needed.

Runaway Train

I make music using a Kurzweil PC88 full-size keyboard (weighted keys) with a simple M-Audio Fast Track Pro interface that talks to all of the Garage Band software (all of the Jam Packs) on my IMac. Sometimes I'll record drums, harmonica, acoustic guitar and vocals using a Blue Snowball stereo microphone. I'd say most of what I have on file (over 100 songs) are unfinished or evolving demo-type tracks, indicators of what could or might be. It would be nice to plug what I do into some sort of multi-media package, but at this point I lack any direction musically beyond a desire just to create.

Runaway Train

stephenspeckman

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