Posts Tagged ‘piano’
Thanks to Dynamophone Records, back in 2008, I discovered Shunichiro Fujimoto and his lovely, glitchy, organic electronica as Fjordne – see Headphone Commute’s review of The Last 3 Days Of Time. In 2009 I closely followed Fujimoto’s move to Singapore based Kitchen label, and truly enjoyed The Setting Sun. Both of the above albums have made it on Headphone Commute’s Best [...]
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Tags: future jazz, piano
Mix : Nils Frahm – Plagiat
Before the year is officially over, we manage to squeeze out yet another mix. This is our 70th podcast! If you’re just discovering our mixes, it’s time to subscribe via iTunes and download all of our previous releases (we’re thinking of cleaning up the archives and only keeping the last year online)! For this end [...]
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Tags: modern classical, neo classical, piano
We begin our Kranky label special with one of our favorite artists on this Chicago based label – Tim Hecker. As the press release fairly warns, “this is not a new Tim Hecker album, but rather a peek behind the curtains into the working process.” Dropped Pianos is a series of sketches and outtakes from Hecker’s 2011 [...]
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Hauschka – Youyoume (Serein)
Well, excuse me, if it’s not good ol’ Volker Bertelmann making an appearance on the last installment of Serein‘s Seasons series as Hauschka! Having released Salon Des Amateurs earlier this year on FatCat‘s 130701 imprint, as well as a collaboration with Hildur Guðnadóttir, Pan Tone, on Sonic Pieces, and a two track long player with [...]
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Tags: modern classical, piano
Recent advances in technology elevated everyone to a status of a bedroom producer. Our social networking has released a torrent of music bombarding the airwaves with every possible strain. Among the endless mosaic of fragmented sound bytes I notice these gems. I hope you’ll agree… Daniel Mackenzie – Teeth Sleep Under Winking Black Eyelid (self) [...]
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Tags: ambient, piano, post-rock
Welcome back to a second entry in our Sound Bytes Label Special, covering a new California-based independent, Time Released Sound. Founded by Colin Herrick in March 2011, this small, independent, California-based label releases hand-made, limited-edition albums and EPs, with painstaking details and loving attention. “Focusing primarily on classically infused and folk based ambient and electroacoustic [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical, piano
After releasing Nils Frahm‘s previous two albums Wintermuzik (2009) and The Bells (2010), as well as an Unter | Über EP (2010) and a collaborative release with Anne Müller titled 7fingers (2010), the UK based purveyor of modern classical, IDM and post-rock, Erased Tapes Records prepares for a new installment from one of the rising [...]
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Tags: piano
So, where did this marvel come from? OK, I have heard a single track from Francesco Tristano here and there. Once on a Point Music compilation, titled XVI Reflections On Classical Music with appearances from Hauschka, Alva Noto, Gas, Murcof, Max Richter, and more… Tristano performed a magnificent piano cover of Autechre‘s Andover. So perhaps [...]
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Tags: modern classical, piano
Maybe you have missed the latest release by the prolific Keith Kenniff, but this little gem did not escape my ears. In fact, I don’t think there’s a single release from this Portland based composer that I have not fallen in love with. From his solo piano works composed under the Goldmund alias, to beautiful [...]
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Tags: cinematic, modern classical, piano
I first discovered Dustin O’Halloran when his beautiful track appeared on Explorer’s Club series, from Loaf (on which I accidentally landed after an appearance from Hauschka, Nils Frahm and Jóhann Jóhannsson). I then gravitated towards O’Halloran’s release on Sonic Pieces, titled Vorleben, and immediately fell in love with his music. His album was later featured [...]
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Tags: modern classical, piano
Your wait is over! After last week’s Part One of Headphone Commute’s Best of Modern Classical 2010, I am back with the second half of this mix. A little less strings, a little more piano this time, this selection of tracks goes perfectly with today’s Music For Watching The Snow Slowly Fall In The Moonlight. [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical, piano
It’s early on a Sunday morning and I sit down in my studio to go over the latest promos I have received. Sometimes I look around my desk, piled with unopened packages and press releases, scratch my head, and wonder how I’m going to get through all of this, let alone pick out the gems [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical, neo classical, piano
Welcome to another episode in our musical travels… I started off this journey with a promo I have received in the mail from Peter Gregson. His beautiful cello sounds revived in my mind the memories of listening to Hildur Guðnadóttir, and I decided to revisit her earlier digital release, Iridescence. That, in turn, prompted me to drift [...]
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Tags: modern classical, neo classical, piano
Mix : :papercutz – Dream Scores
This weekend we are proud to present you with another exclusive mix from one of our favorite artists – :papercutz. Bruno Miguel has appeared on these pages before, first with the Ultraviolet Rmx’s (Apegenine, 2008), his debut album, Lylac (Apegenine, 2008) and Two and a Half Questions with Bruno Miguel; then with his own Reflections [...]
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Tags: cinematic, modern classical, piano, soundtrack
It feels like David Wenngren doesn’t need an introduction. But in case you have missed his previous releases as Library Tapes, I’d recommend you pick up a few of my favorites: Feelings for Something Lost (Resonant, 2006), A Summer Beneath The Trees (Make Mine Music, 2007), and Fragment (Kning Disk, 2008). There’s also his 2009 [...]
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What’s great about this album, is that there was more than a few times when I had that “aaaah…” moment. Perhaps what drove me to write this raving review about 7fingers is that there were those moments one too many. On every single track. I first found out about this album when the new release [...]
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Tags: glitch, idm, modern classical, piano
Mix : Low Light Mixes – pno 2010
If you have enjoyed our last entry from Low Light Mixes – The Landscape Listens, then you’re in for another amazing treat! Following on the footsteps of last week’s mix, Exponents Of The Guitar it’s not a mere coincidence that today we turn towards the piano. Today’s podcast, pno 2010, is a selection of contemporary [...]
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Tags: modern classical, piano
Falling in love with Max Richter’s music is easy. Lovers of electronica, modern classical, and simple piano music alike, follow Richter’s releases, and gobble them up with their ears. The music of endless dreams and cinematic wakefulness, sprinkled with electric pulses of shortwave radio transmissions and somber tones, rises above the ground like a waterfall [...]
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Tags: modern classical, piano, soundtrack
It’s an empty Sunday, and I’m counting down the hours before another week fills its walls. I was trying to warm up its coldness with a few quiet sounds of my own. So I sat at my baby grand and played this improvised piece. Totally random, but hope you enjoy…
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Tags: piano
Mix : Shukry Adams – kw1v3r
After sharing with the commuters his previous mix, Ethereal Cinematicism, Shukry Adams returns with an edgier side of his likings. Listeners should expect to get enveloped in drone, noise, and even “douchestep”, in this slowly evolving, hour long journey. Here’s Adams, shining a little light on this darker corner of his psyche: i wanted to [...]
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Tags: dubstep, glitch, idm, piano
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