Rocking with the new Deerhunter record is fun but I hate wearing out a record too early so I started digging thru some Atlas Sound and pulled out this gem of an early EP.
Arp has some light synth work that takes some time to grow but that growing time is where you want spend your time listening, soo relaxing.
For those who bought the Matthew Dear album on CD you didn’t get this digital bonus from Matt. Its a new spectrum of that circular sound he does that grabs me.
I’ve noticed i’ve been looking for more tasteful piano music, Eluvium and Peter Broderick have been my go to’s, any more suggestions? I know its a huge can of worms to bust open, I don’t need any BS like Radiohead piano covers or dumb shite like that.
GOLDMUND & NILS FRAHM
They are the best.
And Peter recorded Nils’ most recent record btw.
Enjoy!
for softer stuff with lots of quiet piano melodies (and interesting clicks+cuts), I enjoy putting on Edith Progue’s “Timeline” album. Cheers!
Jakub – try “Goldmund” which is the quiet-piano alter ego of Helios, if you are familiar with that project. Goldmund’s latest album, “Famous Places” is really terrific if you enjoy that sort of thing. Would love to know what you think of it.
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Max Richter’s piano stuff is amazing.
i wanna live in the house in that picture for 7 months and make an ambient album.
Listen to The Ghost Orchid, they have only one album. They had always reminded me to the songs style of The Sims game 😛
The gnossienes and gymnopedies of Erik Satie are the epitome of beautiful piano music to me.
Oh yes, and Royal Wood has an Eluvium with vocals kind of feel.
Does anyone know where exactly the house in the picture was built (which country/region)?
@Peter
The house is on the island of Elliðaey, Iceland. (I discovered this using Tineye’s reverse image search and digging around some of the results) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elli%C3%B0aey
@Iain
Thank you!
You should definitely try Hauschka, Craig Armstrong’s piano work, Ludovico Einaudi, Nils Frahm, Anna Rose, Sakamoto, Chris Abraham’s solo piano work…
radicalfashion
Dustin O’Halloran
and also I’m sure you’ve heard of:
Ólafur Arnalds
I enjoy Max Richter, Dustin O’Halloran.
Stars of the Lid’s last two albums have had some truly beautiful piano pieces among other things. Two of my favorite ambient albums, definitely something you’ll be able to dig your teeth into.
Rafael Anton Irisarri, Sven Weisemann, Tiago Sousa,
Forgot Takahira Kido. Great stuff.
I second Jamie on Rafael Anton Irisarri. Everything that guy puts out is pure gold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Phbk146kSQ
Rafael Anton Irisarri is definitely incredible.
He remixed a song called “Harm and Boon” by a band called Balmorhea from Austin, TX. Both Balmorhea’s and Irisarri’s versions are wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhvfraGkiw
Balmorhea has some amazing piano music as well. Western Vinyl has been putting out some amazing stuff lately.
Ryuichi Sakamotos recent works are very beautiful, including his score for the excellent film Tony Takitani
Also check out David Moore – Neighborhood Shifts on bandcamp, beautiful sparse piano
Ludovico Einaudi is one I like, I originally heard the music in the film ‘This Is England’ then as part of an interactive sculpture in Berlin.
I need to know where that house in the picture is.
Thanks in advance.
Dustin O´halloran!
he is amazing!
The swedish ambient project Porn Sword Tobacco, although the piano do have company with a few other instruments.
Wes Willenbring. He lives and works in SF and is on the Hidden Shoal label with another one of my favorites, Sankt Otten.
Here’s a great write up that Aquarius did for his first album:
“…gorgeous wet windshield smears, sparkling with muted colors, glistening and glimmering, it’s the music of light reflecting off wet pavement, the sound of trees heavy with snow and ice, of home movies of long car trips, of out of focus landscapes from the past. Melodies that creep and drift, gradually growing heavier and heavier, the clouds gathering, until it’s a slow drive through thick fog, shapes and sounds barely visible…. Imbued with warmth, emotion, hidden melody, dark secrets, the songs may end up adrift on a glimmering black sea, but they began on the shore, within site of home and family, gradually moving farther and farther away, the familiar fading away, slipping slowly into the unknown. Absolutely gorgeous…”
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/weswillenbring#ixzz12pK5M6Va
http://music.hiddenshoal.com/artists/wes-willenbring/
http://www.weswillenbring.com/
TL;DR – Wes Willenbring is awesome if you like Eluvium. Download it!
Apparently that’s Bjork’s house?
http://thechive.com/2010/02/11/amazing-house-on-an-island/
Gonzales album ‘Solo Piano’ is a soon to be classic.
I love many of the piano musicians listed so far, here’s a few others
Fabrizio Paterlini
Sophie Hutchings
Andrei Machado
Bosques de mi Mente
Dakota Suite’s more recent album The End of Trying
Ben Woods
The Tumbled Sea
Some have some ambient/string stuff too, but piano is the main component.
Check also Ryota Nozaki, both “Piece of Mind” and “Bird of Passage’.