i need some pretty piano music.

here's the song i mentioned in the post up there^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJTQ1lBgH0s

Maybe Harold Budd? His stuff is pretty in a noodly ambient way. Particularly his stuff with Eno, and his "Moon and the Melodies" thing with the Cocteaus (tho not pure pianner).

Wim Mertens - Close Cover
Terry Riley - The Harp of New Albion
Kobat - s/t

Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano - John Cage

like drukqs without the beats

Akira Rabelais - Eisotrophobia

Gonzales - Solo Piano

Terry Riley - The Harp of New Albion

Ooh I'm curious about this, whats it like?

seconding Gonzales - Solo Piano and contributing Kate Bush - Cathy's Home Demos. These demos are basically Kate Bush playing piano and singing and it's the greatest thing I've heard in a while.

You might like this:

http://www.temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr66.php

i'd strongly recommend "Goldmund - Corduroy Road", really beautiful short minimalist piano stuff. theres also a 7" with 6 or so very short tracks thats even better!
hear clips here -> http://www.typerecords.com/releases/full.php?id=9#play

Lunz

Erik Satie?

moment of shame -- I sought out the song from this commercial and downloaded it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEpenoD9-Ts

and Satie's Trois Gymnopedies are good even though you said "no classical," v. sparse and accessible

Maybe Ludovico Einaudi? Marketed as classical, closer to TV theme music really. Ditto Michael Nyman's score for "The Piano" I guess.

David Sides turns current pop songs into piano pieces...and then puts them on Youtube. I love what I've heard.

Ah...his MySpace says he's releasing a comp of his favorites on Tuesday...Here's the tracklist ($8.99...I might buy one):
TRACKS
01. Ciara – Like A Boy : Piano Cover By David Sides
02. Chris Brown – Say Goodbye : Piano Cover By David Sides
03. Akon – Don’t Matter : Piano Cover By David Sides
04. T-Pain – Buy You A Drink : Piano Cover By David Sides
05. Ne-Yo – Because Of You : Piano Cover By David Sides
06. Rihanna – Umbrella : Piano Cover By David Sides
07. Bone Thug – I Try : Piano Cover By David Sides
08. Mario – How Do I Breathe : Piano Cover By David Sides
09. Omarion – Ice Box : Piano Cover By David Sides
10. Robin Thicke – Lost Without You : Piano Cover By David Sides
11. Sean Paul – We Be Burnin' : Piano Cover By David Sides
12. Marques Houston – Circle : Piano Cover By David Sides
13. Fat Joe – Make It Rain : Piano Cover By David Sides
14. Musiq Soulchild – Buddy : Piano Cover By David Sides
15. Coldplay – Clocks : Piano Cover By David Sides
16. Coldplay – The Scientist : Piano Cover By David Sides
17. Bonus Track - Nickelback - Far Away
18. Bonus Track - Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around

Craig Armstrong put out a collection I think called "Piano Works" that are piano-only interpretations of his more famous songs and film scores. Whether you like it depends very highly on whether you like Craig Armstrong. Some of it is very pretty and worth seeking, some of it is very boring.

Ditto on what Wookie Rookie said but for Mitchell Froom's solo piano album and selected Jon Brion tracks.

eno and harold budd - ambient 2
eno and harold budd - the pearl

steve reich: 18 musicians

Oskar Aichinger - Poemia
Kenneth Kirschner & Taylor Deupree - Post_Piano
Mark Springer - Nature/Music/Food/The Stars And The Planets
Bernardo Sassetti - Nocturno

getting excited about david sides!

btw FF, I know what you're talking about...I went through a pretty piano phase a few months ago...I also heard that AT track as a result of looking for Avril Lavigne songs...

Try this one: Spiegel Im Spiegel

It's Arvo Part (my favorite composer), and it's reallllllllllllly beautiful

oh, and warning: it's also really sad...I just cried when I listened to it. :(

I'm currently making a Spotify playlist that is 'serious' classical music alternating with some piano interludes by non "classical" composers (such as the afformentioned Aphex Twin, Goldmund, Gonzalez, Akira Rabelais, et al).

Need to add Radicalfashion's Odori in here because the whole album is amazing and it never gets enough love.

^ would subscribe

+ Eluvium?

Efdemin - Acid Bells (Martyn's Bittersweet Mix)

Rachel's - music for egon schiele

Vladimir Cosma - "Promenade Sentimentale" (from the movie Diva)

i might cop this record for some pretty, 'amateur' piano music:
https://soundcloud.com/1080pcollection/babe-rainbow-car-ambient-4

dustin o'halloran & his a winged victory for the sullen project w/ adam wiltzie would qualify as pretty piano music i guess...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoCweHjJWtw

http://screws.nilsfrahm.com/

speaking of winged victory for the sullen, the new one (ATOMOS) is coming out soon and it's lovely

Beata Hlavenková - Theodoros is a really nice contemporary piano record.

http://thegasman.bandcamp.com/track/aeons

^ would subscribe

― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge)

Well, here it is but it's still pretty much a work in progress as many of the 'classical' versions I want are not available in Spotify and I need to hear the different interpretations of several of those to see which ones I like the best. Also it's not arranged as a playlist right now and there's many songs I'll keep removing and adding. Follow at your own risk if you don't mind receiving notifications about it in the following weeks:

http://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/5uxIDEAndW1f3mx5OA4w6j

you need the last hauschka and nils frahm albums in there

you need the last hauschka and nils frahm albums in there

― lex pretend

Yes! I will add a couple of more songs by them in the following days, I need to balance with some other things first... check back in a week or two.

i thought there was a more recent thread for pretty minimal piano stuff but i'm not finding it. this, mirrored night by ML Wah is really lovely:

https://flowerroomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mirrored-night

you were looking for this thread i think:
beautiful solo piano (inna 20th cent. stylee) s/d

will check out ML Wah

yeah this is exceptionally nice