A classically-trained pianist, a multi-instrumentalist, a collector of eclectic vintage acoustic and analogue instruments, a piano designer and a sound engineer at heart, Berlin-based musician Nils Frahm is a trendsetter of sorts, leading the way and pointing many young musicians towards new sonic territories. Following on from an improvised solo piano album recorded on a […]
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Evgeny Grinko: Tiny Mouse Tales
Born on the outskirts of Moscow, Evgeny Grinko is an independent pianist, guitarist and composer who started his musical career playing percussion with avant-garde and noise rock bands. But in 2010, while on break from touring, the musician penned a little waltz on the piano which changed the course of his career. Since then, Evgeny […]
Francesco Turrisi: Northern Migrations
For a musician, whatever his background, improvisation is the most direct form of communication with the listener […] The music we use to express our emotions is the mirror of our soul. Christina Pluhar Franceso Turrisi is an Italian-born and Dublin-based pianist, percussionist and composer constantly hovering between the two seemingly disparate worlds of early […]
Tambour: Chapitres
Based in Montréal, Simon Piché-Castonguay is a modern classical pianist and composer working for theatre and cinema. The musician is also the creative force behind the Tambour musical project whose understated and cinematic style has already proven very influential among his contemporary peers. Featuring piano, glockenspiel, a string quartet, clarinet, French horn and minimal use […]
Otto A Totland: The Lost
The only thing for certain is that everything changes. The rate of change increases. If you want to hang on you better speed up. That is the message of today […] In order to master changes, we have to recover slowness, reflection and togetherness. There we will find real renewal. Guttorm Fløistad Perhaps better known […]
Sternlumen: Nørrebro Nights
Born in Germany but now based in Copenhagen, Thomas Kudela aka Sternlumen is a modern classical composer who by his own admission took a seven-year-long break from the piano a few years ago. An impressive self-titled début in 2016 somewhat opened the emotional floodgates for the musician when he returned to face the instrument, triggering […]
