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Gregory Paul Mineeff, Kerensa Stephens – A New Gesture – Ghost Forests Version (Spotify)
Gregory Paul Mineeff reworked the track Gesture giving a fresh direction and a sweet, gentle performance. This performance inspired Kerensa Stephens to write the "Ghost Forests" lyrics, singing with her signature warm voice.
Pierre Oberkampf – Les derniers feux, Pt. 1 (Spotify)
This piece is part of the original music for the film "les derniers feux", directed by Benjamin Busnel, shot one year ago during the Cannes Film Festival
Ben Osborn – Psalm 22 – Instrumental (Spotify)
Psalm 22 is a new instrumental from Ben Osborn: a British songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist based between Berlin, Germany and Bristol, UK. The track is due for release on 8th February 2019 on Nonostar Records, the label founded by German experimental violinist and producer Alex Stolze. The track is a taster for Ben’s debut album, Letters From The Border, due for release via Nonostar in Spring 2019, and follows recent debut single Fast Awake (November 2018). Letters From The Border was produced and composed by Ben with Alex during a residency at Alex’s remote, custom-built studio on the German/Polish border in Summer 2018.
An instrumental B-side to new single A Bridge of Starlings, Psalm 22 showcases the unique prepared piano sound Alex and Ben have crafted in the Nonostar studio. The composition has a bittersweet simplicity reminiscent of Schuhmann’s Kinderszenen, its stark minimal texture decorated with lush washes of synthesiser harmonies.
Matt Stewart-Evans – Linger (Spotify)
LINGER is a short piano piece with subtle electronic textures, and is the single from my 5th solo release with Swedish modern classical label 1631 Recordings. The single is coming 17th April, with album COLOURS / SHADES out one week later on 24h April.
Prof. Lacasse – Lost and Found (Spotify)
In addition to his academic career, Prof. Lacasse is a composer, a producer and a musician. His artistic mission is to create “Piano Music to Bring Something Beautiful out of You.” Much like tracing or walking a labyrinth, his music is a vehicle to help listeners experience their inner feelings and allow them to emerge.
Per Störby Jutbring – The Lynx, The Fawn, The Squirrel (Spotify)
On The Thief Bunny Society out 4/24 on Hoob Records, Swedish composer Per Störby Jutbring's palette consists of piano, string quartet, cello, clarinet and electronics. "Braids" is perhaps the most impressive piece from the album, putting its fusing of subtle synths with orchestrated strings on full display. The album breaks free of the sometimes weighty confines of the neo-classical genre, as it's really an album about the world of being a kid.
The album's orchestrated layers, loops, arpeggios, synths and electronic elements compliment the Swedish Malva Quartet, cellists Linnea Olsson and Johanna Dahl, and clarinetist Nils Berg, while Per plays grand and upright piano, electronics, organ, celesta and synths.
In the new single/new video for "The Lynx, The Fawn, The Squirrel", Per and his string quartet are seen packed in tight into what is actually his ”Las Palmas” studio in Stockholm, but actually looks more like a real kid's room. The various pieces and kid room decorations (E.T. phone home!) that subtly become visible throughout juxtapose with the gentle and introspective modern-classical vibe of the piece.
Slowburner – Everything Will Be Ok (Spotify)
This song was recorded especially for Piano Day 2020 (March 28th 2020). At uncertain times like we're living currently, it doesn't seem right to bring something else to the world other than hope. Everything will be ok. We have to believe that. And we have to force ourselves to do what needs to be done to make sure that everything will be ok.
Kaleidoscope of Colours – Mimosa (Spotify)
Mimosa is the 5th piece of the upcoming EP The Birth of Colours of synesthete composer Kaleidoscope of Colours. After Almond (Mother Earth), Porcelain (Glaciers), Moon Rock (Mountains) and Cedar (Forest), the beautiful, sensitive piano solo melody represents the next element, threatened by climate change: the flowers, which show an alarming decrease in the blooming. And because the Mimosa is one of the most sensitive flowers on earth the piece is also related to the composers highly sensitive nature.
A part of the EP´s revenue will be donated to selected climate protection programs.
Freigefyhl – Nostalgia (Spotify)
Nostalgia is a solo piano song inspired by minimal pianists like Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma and Yann Tiersen. The piece tells aboout the melancholic looking back on past experiences, situations and atmospheres.
Laura Christie Wall – Someday (Spotify)
At a time of uncertainty, this uplifting piano piece is a reflection of positivity and hopefulness for a brighter future in a troubled world.