Hania Rani | Sentimental Value
Recorded between the iconic Abbey Road and Polish Radio studios, Hania Rani’s original music for Joachim Trier’s Cannes winning, Golden Globe nominated Sentimental Value is a deeply intuitive collaboration, composed before a single frame was edited. Intriguingly Hania worked on the score for Sentimental Value without an edit in hand; instead, she was given a […]
Sophia Jani | Six Pieces for Solo Violin
Contemporary classical composer Sophia Jani and violinist Teresa Allgaier announce their new collaborative work Six Pieces for Solo Violin on Squama Recordings. Characterized by its calmness and poise, each movement focuses on a particular technical aspect, bending the boundaries of the instrument while maintaining the illusion of simplicity. “Sometimes the most complicated thing anyone can […]
Joshua Van Tassel | The Recently Beautiful
The ambient music upon which Joshua Van Tassel has built his reputation has often been pushed by large concepts: the life cycle of a giant squid, a sci-fi folk tale, a custom score for craniosacral therapy. Those compositions lean long, psychedelic, grandiose—music for the sonic intellectual. For the follow-up to 2020’s Dance Music Volume II, […]
Aus | Everis
Tokyo-born composer and producer aus has announced the release of a brand new album via London independent label Lo Recordings x FLAU. Everis features 10 songs performed on piano, strings, clarinet, flute, voice and electronics that encompass ideas plucked from disparate genres such as classical, spiritual jazz, indie, avant-garde and folk. Vibrations of everyday life […]
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson | Les Jardins Mystiques
14 years in the making, “Les Jardins Mystiques Vol.1” comprises 52 tracks / 3.5 hours of music composed, arranged and produced by Miguel with contributions from 50+ friends including Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, DOMi & JD Beck, Jeff Parker, Carlos Niño, Austin Peralta, Bennie Maupin, Gabe Noel, Jamael Dean, Jamire Williams, Burniss Travis II, Deantoni Parks, […]
Anne Müller | Heliopause
A solo record in every sense of the word, Müller wrote, recorded, arranged and produced Heliopause. The album is named after the boundary where the sun’s wind ceases to have influence. It is ultimately, the border of our solar system. The name struck a chord with Müller since the two voyagers sent on an exploratory mission […]
Dustin O’Halloran | Sundoor
Deutsche Grammophon have announced the signing of Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning, pianist and composer Dustin O’Halloran. He will release a new EP, Sundoor, on vinyl and digitally, on 8 November 2019. Dustin O’Halloran’s Sundoor will feature a single 20-minute piece entitled ‘196 Hz’, adapted from a 2017 site-specific composition for cross-disciplinary American artist Slater Bradley’s Sundoor At […]
eleven into fifteen | 130701
Home to Max Richter, Hauschka, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran, Sylvain Chauveau and more, FatCat Records’ 130701 imprint has played a peerless role in redefining the modern classical scene. The label will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary this year with the release of “Eleven into Fifteen”, a compilation of eleven unreleased tracks – one from each of the […]
esmerine | lost voices
Montréal chamber rock ensemble Esmerine return with the new full-length album “Lost Voices”, the most dynamic and incendiary record of the group’s career, following its highly-acclaimed and Juno award-winning 2013 release “Dalmak”. Led by co-founders Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) on various mallet instruments and Rebecca Foon (Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Saltland) on cello, […]
max richter | sleep
British composer Max Richter and neuroscientist David Eagleman has composed the eight-hour lullaby entitled “Sleep”. The album is released on Deutsche Grammophon, available digital on iTunes or direct. Stream the song “Dream 13 (minus even)”, directed by Yulia Mahr below. “We spend a third of our lives asleep – it’s one of the most important things we all do”. – Max Richter
nils frahm | solo
The new album by Nils Frahm ‘Solo’. revealed on Piano Day 14 days ago as a free download (www.pianoday.org). Available now on CD/LP/DL at Erased Tapes or iTunes. Listen below …
chilly gonzales | chambers
Chilly Gonzales, Canadian pianist and entertainer, returns with his much anticipated follow-up to Solo Piano II (live in Munich 2012). Listen below to ‘Cello Gonzales’, one of Chilly Gonzales’s new songs, from the Huw Stephens Piano Session on his BBC Radio 1 show last Thursday. “Chambers” will be out this march!
all your life, you walk
Carlos Cipa is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Munich. He has been classically trained on the piano and currently studies contemporary classical composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. During his teenage years he started playing drums and gained experience as a member of various bands. Experimenting with different styles […]
quartetto fantastico
Quartetto Fantastico is a LA based string quartet consisting of Chris Woods (Violin), Paul Cartwright (Violin), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (Viola) and Peter Jacobson (Cello). The quartett is comprised of four musicians that think and play outside the box, covering a wide range of repertoire in various styles, from Classical to Jazz to Hip-Hop to Modern, including original compositions from […]
feathers
Poppy Ackroyd is a composer from the United Kingdom, she studied piano and composition at Edinburgh University before completing a masters degree in Piano Performance. A long-term collaborator with Hidden Orchestra, she also works with other musicians and artists, creating soundtracks for film, dance, physical theatre and radio. Her debut album in 2012 ‘Escapement‘ (Denovali […]
classical selections vol. 1
For your summer chill’axing, official FM are pleased to present Chilly Gonzales’ Classical Selection – Volume I – “Piano Music”. Volume II “Chamber Music” and Volume III “Orchestra Music” will drop in due course. Free Download here. Full tracklist below. Support: official.fm | Chilly Gonzales | Facebook | Soundcloud
solo piano live
After his tour around the world and in celebration of all amazing shows, Chilly Gonzales now offers a full 65 minute concert of his Solo Piano II. Recorded by Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, November 2012. Purchase the album on iTunes. Support: Official | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Bayerischer Rundfunk
the rain is a handsome animal
San Francisco-based quartet Tin Hat released their sixth studio album, “the rain is a handsome animal” on New Amsterdam Records. The 17-track song cycle is based on the visionary modernist poetry of American poet E.E. Cummings and, for the first time in the band’s history, centers largely around the remarkable singing of Tin Hat violinist Carla Kihlstedt. Each of the group’s members […]