Nils Frahm - The Bells

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5...according to our Brett on Wed 09 May, 2012.

That last CD by Nils Frahm on Sonic Pieces was a rip-roaring success and Kning Disk will be hoping The Bells is able to to repeat the trick. Essentially it's more of the same neoclassical solo piano improvisation but that's not a criticism at all, the guy's obviously hugely skilled and always a pleasure to listen to. It's helping bring an atmosphere of reflective, emotionally aware calm into the stress of our wartorn bunker.. Well it's doing more than anything else has to that end anyway. And look how happy he is on the cover, he should have a speech bubble coming out of his mouth saying "I got the magik fingers yo, all you other pianists is dead".

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“when I was getting in bed at the hotel, I pulled out my discman and popped in a disc of his that was labeled »Tonalagia: Piano Improvisations«. I laid back and pressed play, thinking I would fall asleep to the sound of some nice piano music. But the sound I heard was more than just nice. It was absolutely breathtaking, and it kept me awake staring at the ceiling until the cd was finished. Then I pressed play again. I had to hear it again. I think I managed to drift off at some point in the middle of the second listen, but I remember thinking to myself as I lay there stunned, that I could spend ten years trying to write an amazing piece of piano music, and still it would never be half as good as these improvisations! The next day I wrote to Nils and told him that very thought, and proposed the idea of him contributing to the solo piano series on Kning Disk” - PETER BRODERICK

Tracklisting: 01. in the sky and on the ground 02. i would like to think 03. said and done 04. dedication, loyalty 05. down down 06. over there, it's raining 07. small me 08. my things 09. peter is dead in the piano 10. it was really, really grey 11. somewhere nearby

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