Posts Tagged: piano

Pavel Milyakov, Lucas Dupuy ~ Heal

It’s interesting when music with limited activity ends. The breaks between songs on an ambient album seem more jarring. There is often so little there to begin with. It’s too easy to let your mind wander. To lose track of

Pavel Milyakov, Lucas Dupuy ~ Heal

It’s interesting when music with limited activity ends. The breaks between songs on an ambient album seem more jarring. There is often so little there to begin with. It’s too easy to let your mind wander. To lose track of

The Necks ~ Bleed

Bleed begins with just a piano, four notes, and a lot of silence. Each note left to run its natural course. Their decay lingering, before being repeated, for the first few drawn out minutes of the record. When individual keys

The Necks ~ Bleed

Bleed begins with just a piano, four notes, and a lot of silence. Each note left to run its natural course. Their decay lingering, before being repeated, for the first few drawn out minutes of the record. When individual keys

Sakamoto Opus

Ryuichi Sakamoto ~ Opus

No-one can do simplicity as beautifully as Ryuichi Sakamoto. Over the course of his career he crafted countless melodies that managed to sound timeless and wholly original at once. His gift for creating music is lovingly documented on Opus, the

Sakamoto Opus

Ryuichi Sakamoto ~ Opus

No-one can do simplicity as beautifully as Ryuichi Sakamoto. Over the course of his career he crafted countless melodies that managed to sound timeless and wholly original at once. His gift for creating music is lovingly documented on Opus, the

Wild Up ~ Julius Eastman Vol. 4 The Holy Presence

Wild Up, the Los Angeles band/new music ensemble, has been releasing recordings of their performances of the work of Julius Eastman for going on five years now. It is as much a work of archival recovery as a creative endeavor

Wild Up ~ Julius Eastman Vol. 4 The Holy Presence

Wild Up, the Los Angeles band/new music ensemble, has been releasing recordings of their performances of the work of Julius Eastman for going on five years now. It is as much a work of archival recovery as a creative endeavor

Michael Price presents ‘Sundays & Raindays’ [mix]

Some listeners may remember Entanglement, Michael Price‘s 2015 debut album on Erased Tapes Records. Price has been busy since then writing music for piano, orchestra, and soundtrack, much of which is sure to fall in the sweet spot for readers

Michael Price presents ‘Sundays & Raindays’ [mix]

Some listeners may remember Entanglement, Michael Price‘s 2015 debut album on Erased Tapes Records. Price has been busy since then writing music for piano, orchestra, and soundtrack, much of which is sure to fall in the sweet spot for readers

Dmitry Evgrafov presents “The Comforting One” [mix]

And we’re back with a mix from Dmitry Evgrafov, a self-taught pianist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Based in Moscow, where Evgrafov studied Sound Design, his work deploys electronic means to augment his intimate piano playing  with lush string arrangements, drawing comparisons

Dmitry Evgrafov presents “The Comforting One” [mix]

And we’re back with a mix from Dmitry Evgrafov, a self-taught pianist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Based in Moscow, where Evgrafov studied Sound Design, his work deploys electronic means to augment his intimate piano playing  with lush string arrangements, drawing comparisons

Premiere: Nick Schofield & Stefan Christoff – “Generation I”

ACL is pleased to present this exclusive track from rêves sonores à Montréal, an upcoming duet project by Nick Schofield on electronics & Stefan Christoff on piano to be released by the Howl Arts collective. A collaboration between  Nick Schofield

Premiere: Nick Schofield & Stefan Christoff – “Generation I”

ACL is pleased to present this exclusive track from rêves sonores à Montréal, an upcoming duet project by Nick Schofield on electronics & Stefan Christoff on piano to be released by the Howl Arts collective. A collaboration between  Nick Schofield

Stefan Christoff + David Parker ~ Wire Tones EP

Listen to “Shifting Skies,” the first track off the Wire Tones EP, a collaboration  between David Parker on contrabass and Stefan Christoff on piano recently released by the Howl Arts collective. As with all of Christoff’s projects, Wire Tones is conceptually driven by

Stefan Christoff + David Parker ~ Wire Tones EP

Listen to “Shifting Skies,” the first track off the Wire Tones EP, a collaboration  between David Parker on contrabass and Stefan Christoff on piano recently released by the Howl Arts collective. As with all of Christoff’s projects, Wire Tones is conceptually driven by