Laura Masotto - Dark Horse

"Halcyon" is a felted piano composition that invites listeners into a world of tranquillity and reflection. With gentle dynamics and subtle fluctuations, the piece weaves an intimate sonic landscape, evoking a deep sense of peace, nostalgia, and timelessness. Through its quiet, introspective tones, "Halcyon" creates space for listeners to contemplate and connect with their inner thoughts, inspiring a feeling of quiet longing.
Steve describes the track as, "a soothing sonic journey that inspires a sense of contentment and yearning, allowing listeners to reflect and find solace in its simplicity." The evocative atmosphere of "Halcyon" continues Steve’s tradition of creating intimate, reflective piano pieces that resonate deeply with the modern classical genre.

Halcyon

Sunrise

Alegria

Falling For - Southland Session

This is the 15th track and a sentimental piano song which Yuki put her feelings for the summer past, included in '24 Piano Sketches' that is a new solo album from Yuki Murata, the Tokyo-based pianist/composer and member of the cinematic instrumental music band, Anoice, and its side projects, RiLF and Films.

As the name suggests, '24 Piano Sketches' includes 24 piano songs which Yuki Murata plays improvisations on her own grand and upright pianos. This long project is going to add 2 songs every month and ultimately 24 songs in one year, allowing the listeners to feel the changing of the season in real-time via the beautiful, warm, and sometimes melancholic piano sounds.

This time, she purposely selected a cassette tape recorder, a MiniDisc player, and an early generation of iPhone as the recording equipments for each song, unlike studio albums from her own bands such as Anoice. These retro and simplistic recording devices were able to capture not only a creaking noise coming from the piano and the environmental sounds outside the window, but also a noise occurred by cheap microphones, which make this album so impressive. Its nostalgic soundscape may remind her listeners of her first solo album 'Films' and second solo album 'Home'.

The photos taken by her bandmate of Anoice, Takahiro Kido, on his Polaroid camera every season, are adopted as the cover images of each single, and they will added together with the songs to the following BandCamp page every time a single is released.
https://riccolabel.bandcamp.com/album/24-piano-sketches

You should feel the changing of the seasons with the beautiful piano melodies.

24 Piano Sketches

BandCamp

radiatus (Anoice / Yuki Murata '24 Piano Sketches')

Recorded Improvisation 12/27/25. A few notes were subsequently edited. I used logic and MIDI to make the recording. Hope you enjoy. :)

Heart of the Woods

Smiling Faces

Opus 28

As of yet unreleased track.
Photo by Hollie Kenniff

Goldmund - Illume

Pace

Two years after the release of his acclaimed Erased Tapes debut, ‘The Transition’, Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with a solo piano perspective on the album, aptly titled Felt The Transition — out December 18.

"Felt The Transition is a new minimalist solo piano perspective on my experimental chamber folk album previously released in 2018, called The Transition. This music is reinterpreted on my 114 year old upright piano which was very kindly donated to me by my friend Adam Selzer who previously ran a recording studio in Portland called Type Foundry. This piano is very sentimental to me as it was used by a handful of my favorite musicians on their albums over the past 20 years, namely Peter Broderick’s ‘How They Are‘ and ‘Two Balloons’.” — David Allred

Felt The Transition

Poet Tree (Solo Piano)

Stream & order LP · DL

David Allred - Poet Tree (Solo Piano)

I am an award winning musician and composer for film,TV, corporate and interactive media. I am a member of the music Writers committee of The Musicans Union and founder of the Guild Of Northern Media Composers.

Halcyon

steve luck