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Nils Frahm, the artist in OP's video, is great. His music is a brilliant combination of electronic music with piano. Frahm uses prepared pianos — meaning piano
by atombender 8y ago
Nils Frahm, the artist in OP's video, is great. His music is a brilliant combination of electronic music with piano.
Frahm uses prepared pianos — meaning pianos that have been modified with things like paper or fabric attached to strings/hammers, and with microphones placed in strategic places to capture subtleties that normal recordings don't. (His solo piano pieces are full of lovely creaks and clicks.)
Frahm hasn't made an uninteresting album so far. His solo piano album, Screws, is great:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2EaigzcT1RHV3ILasIOfJz?si=6ixTmruCSISaKarfKiaEtw https://open.spotify.com/album/2EaigzcT1RHV3ILasIOfJz?si=6ix...
His latest, All Melody, is more electronic:
https://open.spotify.com/album/43hPjSOlltDtbjltUv24EV?si=Bg7bZxjWSnOTb-EEcopD3Q https://open.spotify.com/album/43hPjSOlltDtbjltUv24EV?si=Bg7...
I'm also a big fan of the American composer Luke Howard, who does very much the same thing:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3ruy1nBte44Ziwta8Agu27?si=7wA3w5LoRXqWL7ocVnPdxA https://open.spotify.com/album/3ruy1nBte44Ziwta8Agu27?si=7wA...
Howard is also a brilliant jazz pianist. His album Open Road with the bassist Janos Bruneel is fantastic.
Another superb prepared-piano guy is Clem Leek:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3cwtIJImhlcIcXewI73p0D?si=N6mnmYNhTECVRx0tYUseyQ https://open.spotify.com/album/3cwtIJImhlcIcXewI73p0D?si=N6m...
And then there's Dustin O'Halloran, whose name sounds like he should be a gangly, wandering folk singer, but is actually a phenomenal pianist and composer. His three piano solo albums are great. He's been doing a lot of soundtrack composition recently that mixes electronics and piano; his score for the recent film Puzzle is on rotation in my Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6TDQmJ2G8UoCyyKFsWKsq7?si=IxTTAap3QX-kfclP5UNqqA https://open.spotify.com/album/6TDQmJ2G8UoCyyKFsWKsq7?si=IxT...
O'Halloran's electronic side project, Winged Victory for the Sullen, is also superb:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6vygseD1InhHomosteUnPU?si=73xeRAotRmOQNEbs0U_LJw https://open.spotify.com/album/6vygseD1InhHomosteUnPU?si=73x...
The Norwegian pianist Otto Totland:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7uPWpTHYqHEQTpZIlgELQK?si=ddgGiXFgTla5KQ1iMd2-vw https://open.spotify.com/album/7uPWpTHYqHEQTpZIlgELQK?si=ddg...
Also check out Hauschka and Federico Albanese.