Posts Tagged ‘piano’
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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Tags: modern classical, piano
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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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
Keith Kenniff is back on Type Records with his second full length album under Goldmund alias, titled The Malady Of Elegance. A previous EP, Two Point Discrimination (Western Vinyl, 2007), hit the streets on the heels of Kenniff’s much anticipated Helios release, Ayres (Type, 2007). Whether Kenniff flips between his more ambient and acoustic electronica [...]
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All the recent sounds from Hauschka, Max Richter, Peter Broderick, and Eluvium literally guide me towards the latest album from David Wenngren, who is now the single member of Library Tapes (previously joined by Per Jardsell). Well, that’s not actually true. On the latest album titled, A Summer Beneath the Trees, released on Make Mine [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical, piano
Hauschka – Ferndorf (130701)
When I’m in the mood for classical piano and chamber music, I usually turn to a bottomless repertoire of Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Chopin, Stravinsky and Beethoven. For a more edgier, experimental, and contemporary feel, I queue up modern classical composers like Arvo Pärt, Phillip Glass, Nico Muhly and Max Richter. I’m definitely adding Hauschka to the [...]
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Tags: classical, modern classical, piano
Peter Broderick – Float (Type)
Perhaps it’s possible to stop comparing some contemporary classical musicians to Max Richter, and instead begin comparing them to Peter Broderick. After a release of a 7″ single on John Twells’ (Xela) Type Records, Portland based Peter Broderick emerges with a full length album, Float. For this release, Broderick borrows his friends Amanda Lawrence for [...]
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Tags: modern classical, neo classical, piano
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