the gentle distortion here is really adding a nice level of depth!

Softly Touching Ground

This year, piano and coffee turns five, and to celebrate, we are releasing our first compilation: Realismo Mágico — a conceptual project featuring unconventional works by new and old friends we have made along the way.

Inspired by magical realism, an artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy, this special release presents unheard material by twelve exceptional musicians — from experimental sound artist Martyna Basta to award-winning film composer Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, and from poly-instrumental duo Brueder Selke to prolific pianist and producer John Hayes.

Each artist has contributed with a new track that invites the listeners to submerge into their very own musical universes, which, at the same time, have been re-shaped by their interpretation of magical realism. We start off on our journey with the delicate nostalgia of Tim Linghaus, passing through Jakob Lindhagen and Vargkvint’s modern take on the story of a Norse mythological creature, followed by the harmonic ambiguity in Simeon Walker’s pleasingly strong dialogue between felted piano and drums. Later on, John Hayes shares with us a chaotic composition born out of samples from an old clock in his parents’ garage and saturated voices, which precedes Lucy Claire’s processed hydrophone recordings of seaweeds and starfishes in Australian waters. Ondes Martenot, pump organ, zither, analogue synthesizers, vocal processing, musical saw, and bowed gongs are some of the unusual elements to be found on this eclectic yet coherently unified record.

Realismo Mágico has been conceptually crafted and musically curated by Peruvian composer Sergio Díaz De Rojas, and beautifully depicted by illustrator Jordan Amy Lee and graphic designer Celia Fernández González.

Lucy Claire - Kelp

Hiding (Reworks) is a unique collection of recompositions highlighting the talents of several exciting musicians, centering around a track that pianist and composer Garreth Broke wrote for solo piano called Hiding.

Hiding was first released as part of a collaboration with artist Anna Salzmann titled Healing, which explored the healing process in all its complexities. Whenever Garreth returned to the piece or played it in concerts, he kept having new ideas for it, as if the piece itself were telling him that it wanted to grow. This prompted him to invite a group of musicians whose work he admires to create a series of reworks of this composition, encouraging them to be as adventurous as they liked — a task that they really embraced, leading to some mesmerising results.

The result is this EP, in which Hiding is presented in six different forms. First, you’ll hear the original piece re-recorded on a gorgeous felted C. Bechstein upright piano, then reinterpreted by the fantastic ondes Martenot player and multi-instrumentalist Josh Semans from the UK. The wonderful Australian clarinetist and looper Ruby Lulham, aka Clariloops, offers up the gorgeous third track, which is followed by an exhilerating rework by Sweden-based Vargkvint and Jakob Lindhagen featuring wordless vocals, kantele, zither, harmonium, electric organ and synthesizers. In the fifth track, the piece is reworked into an atmospheric piano-led song sung by Vargkvint with lyrics by artist Anna Salzmann, who created the paintings that first inspired the project. Finally, Josh Semans closes out the collection with a brief but beautiful reprise.

This collection of recompositions shines a light on the unique talents of its contributors and, like a kaleidoscope, fragments of the original piece are ever-present but always shown in a new light. Hiding (Reworks) comes out on the 3rd of March, featuring artwork by Anna Salzmann and graphic design by Celia Bayo.

Purchase

Garreth Broke - Hiding (Felted Piano Rework)

grainy reverie

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Passat

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Written and produced by Chris Bartels, as an off-shoot project of @elskavon.

Fairfield

Porya Hatami | Aaron Martin | Roberto Attanasio ​ - 'Sallaw' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-58
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ Wooden box special edition CD (ltd. 50)/ DL
Release date: March 1st, 2019
Pre-orders start February 15th

“Sallaw” is a Kurdish word that expresses the passing of time, and on this new album the three sound artists have found a way of expressing that notion in music. Four tracks of slowly unfolding ambience make up this collection, each piece named after different months, again in Kurdish. The four sections represent the different seasons and their movement through time.

Mastered by Fraser McGowan
Artwork by Hawar Amini

Buy CD / DL

PORYA HATAMI | AARON MARTIN | ROBERTO ATTANASIO - Sallaw (Album sampler)

To celebrate Piano Day 2019 Here is the title track from my upcoming release of piano works.  Happy Piano day! #pianoday
Recorded at Bakermoon Studios in Berlin.
Mix/Mastered by Francesco Berta.

Saffron for PIANO DAY 2019 #pianoday

For this Exclusive Track Premiere, I'm actually inversing on my roles: instead of being the announcer, I am the featured artist, along with Uwe Zahn, for our collaborative album, title "Aeon" released on Eilean Rec. today.

During our private conversation through music, Uwe and I explored the most mysterious of mediums, dimensions and philosophies - that of "time". Time is what allows sound to exist, by carrying the pressure levels through its mythic axis. Timelessness is unbeknown to man, and concepts like "forever" and "eternity" are captured in a Latin word of "aeon". The German word "unendlich" describes the notion of infinity on which philosophers have puzzled over "ages". And as "finality" is easier to grasp, since all things come onto an end, we're left with "endlich" of ourselves and of our music.

Uwe and I sincerely hope that you connect with our studies and deconstructions thereof, inasmuch as you simply enjoy the beautiful music that we wanted to share, beyond all theories... beyond all thought... beyond all time...

Mike + Uwe
Unendlich, Endlich
Aeon, 8/8/2019

Aeon

Unendlich, Endlich

TRACK PREMIERE : Arovane & Mike Lazarev - Unendlich, Endlich

Interval is taken from Bigo & twigetti's 'Perceptions' series which explores different approaches to creating music for piano. The series features pieces written for solo piano which capture a performance, tracks which combine piano performance with subtle splashes of effects such as delay or granular synthesis and those which are constructed from recordings which have been transformed through layering, effects processing, binaural/3D recording techniques and arranged to create an immersive listening experience. Interval is a simple, harmonically static piece that creates a soothing hypnotic effect through subtle use of touch, dynamics and space to explore the resonant and mechanical sounds of the piano.

Perceptions

Interval

Jim Perkins - Interval

Released on Whitelabrecs: whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/home-diaries-030
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4IvuA0FpdQRNYE4PdTWU49?si=x_Z7Ds-jSsWayA_ILqZmiQ
More streaming sites/stores: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/luismiehlich/home-diaries-030

Words by the label:

Home Diaries is an invitation to artists and musicians to create an album or EP to document their personal experience during the lockdown or social distancing conditions that are upon us, due to the coronavirus outbreak. The series reflects a range of sounds, styles and ideas, as each artist portrays their own reflections uniquely. Each release is digital only for now, as we hope to raise what we can to help keep our label ticking over at this time. The releases feature a recurring polaroid image of a small lonely house, with a coloured filter chosen by the artist for each respective release. We interview each artist and this is included as a bonus PDF with the download. You can also check out the Home Diaries series on Spotify if you prefer, which will be available to stream in due course.

Our final Home Diaries sees the return of Luis Miehlich whose album Timecuts was released by us last year. Luis has also been active with self-released works as well as the beautiful 'Silences' on Archives in 2018. He is a music student and pianist and the pandemic resulted in the cancellation of a performance he'd written music for. Whilst the lockdown in Heidelberg, Germany was less stringent than many other countries, Luis spent his time at home and the endless repetition of days gave him a sense of time running away at pace.

Luis' Home Diaries is an expansive, almost hour-long collection of piano improvisations, which he created to counter his perception of time, to slow the world down. He used subtle delay effects to force him to have an awareness of the past and future as he played. The gentlest of electronics and guitar is used to accompany the piano at times and the result is something we feel is the perfect way to end the journey that has been this Home Diaries series.

Home Diaries 030

Waves Of... | Taken from 'Home Diaries 030' (Whitelabrecs)

Live: 2023/08/31 @ hako gallery (tokyo) 
2023/09/16 @ space eauuu (kobe)
Airy ambient music from southern Germany.
Releases on Archives, Whitelabrecs, Inner Space Travels and Kage Recordings, featured on Eilean, Dronarivm, EL Muelle Records, Grenzwellen and other places around the internet.

contact: woolookologie@gmail.com

Waves Of... | Taken from 'Home Diaries 030' (Whitelabrecs)

Luis Miehlich

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