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"Starlight" is an ethereal journey through the cosmos, captured in the delicate notes of instrumental music. As the listener embarks on this celestial voyage, they are enveloped in a shimmering aura of tranquility and wonder. The gentle melodies, like twinkling stars, dance gracefully across the expanse of the musical canvas, painting vivid images of distant galaxies and celestial landscapes.

Starlight

Something I recorded at the beginning of the year at home.. warts and all

Disquiet Improv

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Jacob Pavek - Seasons

RED VEIL

This track is a rework I did for the track Dualisms by Illuminine.

Available on Tape on the label Dauw.(http://dauwlabel.tumblr.com/)
Digital: https://dauw.bandcamp.com/

Sebastian Plano's rework of 'Dualisms' by Illuminine

Taken from their forthcoming mini-album 'Ellis' out July 8 on Erased Tapes.

Pre-order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP086
or from iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/ellis

For the first half of the twentieth century, Ellis Island stood as the gateway to America. For some twelve million people, it was their first encounter with the land they hoped to call home. 

Directed by acclaimed artist JR, ELLIS tells the story of one such migrant. Starring Robert De Niro, the film winds its way through the crumbling hallways of the abandoned Ellis Island hospital complex, now home to JR’s Unframed art installation. It’s a place that reverberates with the hopes and fears of those who passed through it, the echoes especially resonant today.

Entwined with the narrative is a score composed by Woodkid, performed and co-written by Nils Frahm. The delicate piano motifs of Winter Morning I culminate in a crescendo of strings, while the harmonium swells on the B-side are the foundation for De Niro’s narration: an encomium for those who shaped modern America. 

There’s perhaps never been a more fitting time for this story, with all the proceeds going to the Sea Watch initiative, a non-profit charity dedicated to the protection and rescue of civilian refugees. 

Following a screening as part of Nils’s Barbican Weekender, the ELLIS score will be out July 8th, the same week as America’s great federal holiday. It will be available via Erased Tapes as a mini album on CD, vinyl and in digital format containing a 12-page picture booklet.


IN THE ARTISTS’ OWN WORDS:

Nils Frahm: ‘The opportunity to work on JR´s fantastic short film ELLIS came through my good friend Yoann aka Woodkid. We agreed on recording the piano parts in my studio in Berlin and so it happened that JR and Woodkid were guests at Durton studio on a wonderful late summer day in 2015. We managed to record all the crucial elements that day. The music fell in our laps and melted with the images: a wonderful experience. The film has stuck in my head ever since; it moved my heart and changed my soul.

A couple of weeks later I had to cancel a trip to Brussels because of a terror warning; all events got cancelled and I stayed home, having an unexpected day off. I felt rather depressed that day, thinking that the Europe I knew was already gone. I sat down at the harmonium, listened to Robert De Niro’s voice and played for the rest of the day. The result is ‘Winter Morning II,’ the B-side of the ELLIS soundtrack release.

Robert says it all in 17 minutes. We are not facing a refugee crisis. We are facing a crisis because we do not embrace, we do not sympathise and we cannot give up fear. Art can encourage so I hope this project will help fight the fear in all of us.’

Yoann Lemoine, aka Woodkid:  ‘Ellis is my second collaboration with JR after the New York City Ballet piece for Les Bosquets. I initially wanted this piece to sound like it was recorded on an old piano that we found in the ruins of Ellis Island, in the restricted area that is not open to the public, where JR pasted the pictures on the walls for the film Ellis.

I had worked with Nils before and I wanted him to create a sound for this piano part that I composed that was extremely gentle and organic. I wanted the listener to hear the mechanisms, the breathing of the instrument. I wanted it to be imperfect, to sound like a ruin, a trace, an echo, the way the pastings on the walls seem to be ghosts, almost imperceptible.

After a few rehearsals, Nils stripped down my piano parts and we removed almost all orchestration around the piano. He then worked on the extended version that is his interpretation of my piece, with Robert de Niro’s vocals.

Because this film and this recording is historically meaningful, it was important for us to create this piece as an echo to the immigration situation in Europe, and decided to release it in support of Sea Watch.’

Ellis

Winter Morning I

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Woodkid & Nils Frahm - Winter Morning I

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Watch Live Video Session at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9zsb2wy9I

Sebastian Plano - 'Indie' - Funkhaus Live Session

Moderna Records is celebrating Record Store Day 2017 with the release of its very first vinyl in partnership with Return To Analog : Montreal neo-classical composer TAMBOUR’s Chapitres. 

BUY / 12" VINYL : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chapitres-vinyl-edition

This collection presents a selection of tracks from TAMBOUR (aka Simon P. Castonguay)’s acclaimed EPs Chapitre I (2015) and Chapitre II (2016), here reunited under a single banner and pressed on limited-edition high quality vinyl with brand new artwork by Marie-Pier Meilleur. 

--
The Nude & The Quiet
from Chapitre I EP [2015] 
Composed and produced by Simon P. Castonguay 

Recorded by Benoît Parent 
Mixed by Pierre Duchesne 
Mastering by Pierre Duchesne 

Piano/Tonal percussions - Simon P. Castonguay 
Violon I - Rose Frappier 
Violon II - Audrée Leduc 
Alto - Mélanie Venditti 
Cello - Eugénie Lalonde

Chapitres

BUY / 12" VINYL

Tambour - The Nude & The Quiet (Vinyl Edition)

First track from Plume, my new album on vinyl.

Pre-order availble on Bandcamp: http://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/album/plume

Bloom (vinyl cut)

I wrote Warming Playing in November 2011. At that time, we used to talk every day on the phone, about the flood in Genova, about our future, about your cancer.
In these busy days of new projects, works and ideas, you are stocking in my head more than usual.
I understood then it was time to write it again. 
Full video at:

Warming Playing (2018 Edit)

Happy Piano Day 2018!

Middle Names is original released by Devendra Banhart on his 2016 record "Ape In Pink Marble" (Nonesuch Records).

Middle Names (rework by Nils Frahm)

Piano Works is the second installment of Lucy Claire’s ‘Works’ series. It is an eclectic take on what piano music can be. Featuring cellist Ren Ford (Keaton Henson’s Romantic Works) and violinist Marie Schreer (The Royal Northern Sinfonia) and surrounded in atmospheric binaural soundscapes, the piano is far from lonely. The work features a collection of pianos from grands and uprights, to electric keyboards, toy and thumb pianos. It is grounded in the real world but hints strongly at the magical and supernatural, it absorbs, transports, then delivers you back to reality with new perspective.

Sage Ft. Ren Ford

A rework of Eskmo's track "Afterlife", composed using only the Spitfire Labs Soft Piano library & the original track by Eskmo.
Picture by Jeremy Yap: https://unsplash.com/@jeremyyappy

Afterlife - Eskmo [Rework] // #labscollabs

02 Sunlight Zone

'‘Paelistin’ is not just a political statement, it is the deep running river of anxiety for a region plagued by war. The resolution amounts to running in circles when we are faced with the futility of war.

The paper burns the careful, clean hand-writing:“The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most honourable place, but in time of war the right hand. Those sharp weapons are instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior man”'

http://vimeo.com/71766228
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/09/lucy-claire/

John Garner - violin
Marie Schreer - violin
Tim Gill - viola
Lily Thornton - cello

Recorded by Josh Green
Mastered by David Lawrie

All music composed and produced by Lucy Claire



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LUCY CLAIRE - Paelistin

Unperceived Records is an independent boutique label focusing on unexpected, inconspicuous and detailed tones in varied genres such as modern classical, ambient, electro acoustic & more.
We value individuality as well as quality and texture in sound and everything around it. With our „handmade" mindset we strive to make each release a unique experience.

Jacob Pavek - Seasons

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