Name: Twelve Sunflowers by The Bird's Companion in Piano Day 2019 Playlist
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Description: From the Still Life EP, available on Bandcamp at: https://thebirdscompanion.bandcamp.com/album/still-life-ep

Official Piano Day 2019 Playlist

Happy Piano Day!

Artwork by Skrew Studio.

Piano Day 2019 Playlist

Filling our cups for the day or adventure ahead, this uplifting & energetic number swept in from the fjords of Iceland instantly sets the mind to a bright outlook on life. Throughout this colour-filled journey, composer @stefan-hafsteinsson deftly pairs the playful rhythmic patterns of his piano with the affirmations of a melodic string section and warm electronics.

From Stefán Hafsteinsson's debut EP Heima : orcd.co/heima

Heima

Haltu

Download

Stefán Hafsteinsson - Haltu

A Memory Fades

A memory Fades

Jim Perkins - A Memory Fades

141029 Improvisation (shimmer)

Enjoy

No Replay, No Rewind

So it turns out I only went and wrote and recorded an album on my recent visit to California (I was there for much more important non-musical reasons).
The place and the company are very inspiring. 

The album, entitled The Village, will be released on double CD and download in December. Until then, you'll have to make do with this part of this track and the ridiculous photograph I actually took of the actual sunset. We don't get sunsets quite like that in Manchester!

Jigsaw Pieces

From the Still Life EP, available on Bandcamp at: https://thebirdscompanion.bandcamp.com/album/still-life-ep

Twelve Sunflowers

Inspired by "Another Kind of Girl" by Khaldiya.
www.anotherkindofgirl.com

Watch the music video by Jules Gill here: https://youtu.be/KKLBATO3l9c

Khaldiya

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

Jacob David - Loft

Björk is the second track in Klangriket's solo EP 'Tjärn'. 

Free download: https://pianoandcoffeerecords.bandcamp.com/album/tj-rn-reworked

Composed by Klangriket. 
Recomposed by Jakob Lindhagen and Vargkvint.

Klangriket - Björk (Jakob Lindhagen & Vargkvint Rework)

FLOAT proudly welcomes their second artist into the fold. UK electronic artist and Szun Waves band member Luke Abbott, presents a special 10-track album to celebrate Piano Day 2019 – an international event series initiated by Nils Frahm which acts as a platform for piano-related projects. 

“It's a very self-contained body of work, I haven't ever made music with this kind of sound pallet before” – Luke Abbott 

Pre Order LP/LTD ETD: www.wearefloat.co.uk/luke-abbott-music-from-the-edge-of-an-island
Pre Order Digital: http://radi.al/LukeAbbottMftEoaI
Buy Show Tickets March 29th at Earth, Hackney: www.wearefloat.co.uk/piano-day-2019

‘Music for the Edge of an Island’ sees Abbott divert from his typically experimental electronic style to explore a more compositional approach centred around VST instruments. Rather than the usual themes of synthesis and improvisation, the album is lead by piano motifs, structured around emotive melodies and sparkling arrangements. The record began as a part of a soundtrack commission by producer / actor Jessica Hynes for her film ‘The Fight’ and ultimately became a fully-realised album. The film script had a coastal setting that created the record’s thematic idea: “I had this idea about being on the edge of England, almost ready to fall off a cliff into the sea but keeping your balance on the edge.”

Luke Abbott - Tree

In Silentio

On The First Day

This June 7th, we're releasing Tom Adams' LP 'Particles' - a series of explorations for piano & electronics. 

▶ CD/DL pre-order + stream the lead single : https://orcd.co/tomadamsparticles

The Berlin based producer and songwriter originally did a small 'soundcloud only' self-release of the record in 2014, and we were stunned by the singular vision and voice present in each of the album's explorations. We're very pleased to be giving this record a worldwide release in CD format and on all digital platforms, with a new master by fellow Berliner / sound artist Martyn Heyne.

Particles

Particle VI

buy/stream 'Particles'

Tom Adams - Particle VI (Shadow & Light)

"I think I am the same as an artist and as a person. Music is my way of communication and I see the art, the music as a whole thing, with no borders, divisions, or even genres." - https://soundcloud.com/haniarani

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik, and released an album with her Polish group tęskno last year. She has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in Europe - from the National Philharmony in Warsaw, to Funkhaus in Berlin, to The Roundhouse in London (where she made her debut at the Gondwana 10thanniversary festival last October) and at festivals such as Open'er, Scope Festival and Eurosonic. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.

'Esja' is her debut solo album and for Rani it is her first, real, personal statement as an artist. "No hiding behind the "collaborations" or "projects" anymore. For the very first time, finally - just me, as I am".

Recorded at Rani's apartment in Warsaw (the piano room has a beautiful reverb and the space has become part art studio and part sound laboratory for Rani) and at her friend Bergur Þórisson'sstudio in Reykjavik, Esja is a series of beautiful melodic vignettes. Sensual, sensitive, rhythmic, atmospheric, free but harmonious, beguiling and hypnotic, collectively they project a sense of unlimited space and time.

Esja

Hawaii Oslo

Hania Rani - Hawaii Oslo (Piano Day 2019)

Nightports w/Matthew Bourne - You Would Say That

Following on from last year's acclaimed debut with Erased Tapes The Transition — named #17 album of the year by The Sunday Times — Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with 'The Cell', released on June 14th. Listen to lead track 'Nature's Course', released especially for Piano Day.

“Nature’s Course is a feeling pertaining to the way our subjective human experience is subconsciously directly related to the slow steady pace of nature and our ability to cope with our inner struggles accordingly” explains David.

The Cell further cements David’s place among the American songwriting tradition, from the slow methodical spacey instrumental Mandatory Soul to the poetic solo piano number Family and the dense and continuous Lexington Hills. With each piece we are transported to David’s unusual but rich and textured little world.

Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon – David worked as a sound engineer and session musician, featuring on multiple recordings by the likes of Birger Olsen, Brigid Mae Power, Brumes, The Beacon Sound Choir, Chantal Acda, Heather Woods Broderick, Jung Body, Masayoshi Fujita, and many more. He quickly found himself touring Europe with Peter Broderick, culminating in a Royal Festival Hall performance, and contributing the arresting voice and double bass piece Ahoy to the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary box set 1+1=X.

David will return to Europe with more dates to be announced soon. 

· pre-order 'The Cell' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/thecell

· order 'The Transition' on LP/CD/DL: https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp114-david-allred-the-transition

The Cell

Nature's Course

Buy LP/CD/DL

David Allred - Nature's Course

Download: https://tristaneckerson.bandcamp.com/

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/24LGVKHzsrVV7oo94nlNE1

Listen on Apple Music: itunes.apple.com/us/artist/trista…erson/1243764726

Patreon: www.patreon.com/tristaneckerson

Hendelse

As love
that is
each day upon the twig
which may die
So springs your love
fresh up
lusty for the sun
the bird's companion—

More info: www.nilsfrahm.com

Management: 
felix(at)agentur-grimm(dot)com


Twelve Sunflowers

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