Official Piano Day 2021 Playlist

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Piano Day 2021 Playlist

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“Hypnagogia" taken from Vetle Nærø’s forthcoming album ‘Introspecion', out on April 16th 2021 on 7K!

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Hypnagogia

Time Rival offers up a very personal EP reflecting on the horrific ramifications of Vertigo. Well not necessarily but it IS called 'Vertigo Sessions' and it's a very enjoyable listen. The synth is favoured over his traditional piano-work focused medium and it's sounding extremely fresh as a result. This is a delightful little collection of tunes that deserve your attention!

Light Pollution

"Struck" is a small collection of tracks prominently featuring my antique upright piano, brought together to celebrate Piano Day 2021.

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Early in 2020 I found a listing on Facebook Marketplace for a free antique upright piano. If you've ever been in the market for a secondhand piano you might notice that many people are just giving them away for free, mainly because they are cumbersome and costly to move. "Free" is a bit misleading.

So I found myself the proud owner of a genuine Cable Company of Chicago upright piano made in 1904. Shortly thereafter, a sweeping pandemic took over the world and I suddenly found myself more acquainted with this lovely antique. It has been over a year since I've picked it up, and couldn't be happier. Noisy hammers, a stuck Low A, a damper pedal that works on almost all of the notes. It has character. I'm always looking for ways to incorporate it into my music. it has changed how I compose and experience music.

I wanted to participate in Piano Day this year because I feel like I finally have something to contribute. This is my musical offering and I hope you love it. Please leave a comment!

~Michael Southard (Time Rival)

Grounded

@pope_bg's contribution to "2025: Of Dreaming Too Intensely," a new compilation from @club_paradiso to be released 28/03/21.

Mastering: Go Me
Artwork: pablito_revival_95

2025: Of Dreaming Too Intensely

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PREMIERE: maje - Sukin [Club Paradiso]

Pensieri sparsi

Grave doubts - Decisioni difficili

Written & performed by Greg Haines
Published by Erased Tapes Music

Greg Haines – 183 Times

Marionette

The Night

from the " Gulabi Gang " ep 
buy on bandcamp 
http://polychromesounds.bandcamp.com/album/gulabi-gang-ep

CUMMI FLU / t.

Weeping Willow

Shift

Inititate is a unique track. Its very organic piano playing enables to forget any technical stand point in order to focus on the feelings it conveys. This track is an attempt to translate the feeling of willpower at the genesis of everything we create: an ode to the first impulse.

Instar

Initiate

from 'APR 70' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den288
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/dictaphone]

Finally a sign of life and a new full length of the German cult trio after five years of silence. Already formed in the late nineties in Berlin, Dictaphone was born by Brussels-bred multi-instrumentalist Oliver Doerell. In 2000 Oliver Doerell found a partner in Berlin's Roger Döring, who shares Doerell's love for the Brussels-based music of the eighties. In the following years the duo and several guest musicians (e.g. Stephan Wöhrmann (SWOD) , Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) & more) released the critically highly acclaimed "m.= addiction" (2002), the "Nacht" EP (2004) and "Vertigo II" (2006) via the City Centres Offices label of Thaddeus Herrmann and Shlom Sviri (Boomkat, Modern Love). In 2009 the violin player Alex Stolze joined the band. During their two decades of existence Dictaphone played shows in more than 20 countries with festival appearances at Mutek, Transmediale, Unsound, Benicassim & more. Their latest release "Poems from a rooftop" from 2012 came as a very limited edition through the Berlin-based boutique label Sonic Pieces. The new album "APR 70" is the first Denovali release of Dictaphone. The label will also reissue the past repertoire of the trio.

The new album features the three Dictaphone core members Oliver Doerell (electronics, bass, guitar), Roger Döring (saxophone, clarinet) and Alex Stolze (violins) and has been composed and produced over the course of three years. While the vibraphone and the more easily distinguishable guitar among other things gave a certain presence to the tracks on the previous album "Poems from a rooftop", "APR 70" leaves the listener with a much more muffled impression. It feels as if each of the uncountable layers of which the intricate arrangements are made has just the right amount of contrast to be visible, but there are only very few moments where one of the elements noticeably dominates the others. The cool jazz bits, analogue flourishes, hypnotic rhythms and refined electronics feed a dark serpent-like creature meandering in ever-changing morphologies through shapeless landscapes. "APR 70" is the perfect cocoon for the hazy days and the serene nights. A new incarnation, maybe even definition, of purity.

Dictaphone never make music for the sake of it, they always want to create something which was missing before. And they did.


Praise for Dictaphone:

"minimalistic and subliminal elegancy" (ARTE)

"timeless, unusual & beautiful" (Colin Newman)

"Dictaphones gives warmth to the concept, your thoughts a body and atmosphere to the music" (Spex)

"This is the music to fall in love with over many evenings, each subsequent rotation capturing another moment of time to be recalled in the future. Highly recommended" (Headphone Commute)

"When played from a rooftop, this music may be as quiet as a poem, but it carries the power of a manifesto." (A Closer Listen)

APR 70

Dictaphone - 105.4

Garota de Ipanema

Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm - Live in Berlin - 2011

Préludes - Avant le Jeu

2021

Prélude No. 3

@katharsislabel
Emotional material manifests itself in many different forms. Sometimes it flows like a river, rolls like a wave or pours like rain. The fluidity of emotional experience makes sense as our bodies are mostly made up of water – life's matter and matrix, mother and medium.

It is time to let go of your fear and doubts. You must learn to embrace the darkness of your soul, for it is a light beacon of hope for humanity. Your soul wants to show itself in its truest form, strength, perseverance, courage and determination of spirit. In this lifetime your soul needs to cleanse and open its feelings for katharsis. This current physical lifetime offers you a new leaf, to be able to learn to balance obsolete, distorted behaviors.

lyrics:
Free me clean me
Rinse my soul
Wash my body
Bring me to my poignant cleansing
Free me clean me
Free me clean me
My soul is damaged 
Can you heal my wounds

Free me from my self 
Free me from my pain
Free me from my darkest thoughts
My purest emotions are the best
Poignant cleansing

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premiere: jjacob - Poignant Cleansing [katharsis: The Flow of Water]

The music of kaerian is phenomenal: https://soundcloud.com/kaerian-1

The Dead Sea (feat. kaerian music)

Lake Memories

All Nightmares End

For Bukowski - the bestest Iguana a friend could have.

For Bukowski

Second single 'Dance' from Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres' debut album 2 YEARS STRANGER releasing Nov 20th 2020

All tracks written and produced by Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
Mastering | Freddie Prest
Publishing | Manners McDade
Distribution | The Orchard
Artwork | SABR Mask by Tim Hamilton

Dance

WÖLFE

When I needed space, I needed you

Piano Day 2021 sees Nils Frahm surprise the world with his Erased Tapes debut. Wait, what? How? Anyone who has seen the trail blazing sonic pioneer live will know Nils likes to deadpan a joke. Graz is in fact the first studio album he recorded for the label back in 2009, that somehow remained a secret… until now.

Stream, download & pre-order Graz now (CD & LP shipping on May 21): https://idol.lnk.to/Graz 

"A grand piano is a particular kind of beast to play, which will only sound refined and beautiful if you command a strong control over the keyboard. Each slight change in touch results in a different timbre, which will be rewarded when used wisely and will be your trapdoor when you fail to hold the horses. I remember how I had to squeeze the music out of the grand piano in the Graz sessions, and while I enjoy listening to it now, I kept these recordings secret for a good while – they sound like a much younger version of myself to me, and a lot of the musical expressions from that time would be impossible for me to replicate today. Close friends whom I had shared the record with reminded me of it once in a while, and some of the pieces got released in other versions on the album Spaces in the meantime. But somehow, any piece of music you create wants to get out there in order to find you, which is why I’m glad to share this beast with you and do hope you enjoy listening to it too!
Love, Nils"

Graz

Hammers (ft. Peter Broderick)

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Nils Frahm - Hammers (ft. Peter Broderick)

First single from @avastarr's EP "Angels In the Sand" forthcoming 05/02/21 on @slagwerk.

Mastering: @jesseosbornelanthier
Artwork: @amalcrossing

Angels In the Sand

PREMIERE: ava* - Return to Shore [SLA07]

Time Rival is the ambient music project of Illinois native Michael Southard.  At a young age, Michael became interested in music production and recording engineering, creating countless albums of esoteric, cross-genre music.  He earned a bachelor’s degree in music business from Southern Illinois University in 2007 and has continued honing his production and songwriting skills.
The music of Time Rival is ambient in nature and has been described as “music for dreaming”.  Mostly piano and synthesizers heavily effected by computer wizardry.  It’s generally warm and pleasant with tiny hints of tension.  Music to help the listener decompress and provoke deep thought in this digital age.

Michael also creates technical, beat driven electronic music under the name @SupplyFi, is one half of the duo @Amberglow-3, and collaborates regularly with @runninginslowmotion and @belial-pelegrim.  He is a co-owner @triplicaterecords,  has a monthly radio show on Threadsradio.com and curates mixes and playlists for TRIP FM
For inquiries: msouthard.music@gmail.com