Nils Frahm

I'm listening to the new album, Spaces, now. Very pretty piano and electronics somewhere between neo-classical and IDM I guess.

Not sure if sometimes I find it all a bit too pretty and wouldn't mind a little more riskiness. All the same haven't seen much talk of this composer producer here yet.

it's pleasant but i just lose interesting about 25 minutes in and switch to something else.

This guy is amazing live.

timely thread. I don't know if he's getting a push or what but I've also just discovered this guy and a live performance of 'says' made me well up at a piece of music for the first time in ages.

He makes the occasional appearance on this thread:
The "classical" music you buy from Boomkat (2010): a thread to discuss Sylvain Chauveau, Johann Johannsson, Peter Broderick, Olafur Arnalds and others

Crikey:

Today the Barbican announces an exciting new concert date for autumn 2014: Nils Frahm will be performing in the Barbican Hall on 29 October 2014 following his new album release Spaces (now out on Erased Tapes).

Nils Frahm
Wednesday 29 October 2014 / 19:30, Barbican Hall
Tickets £15/£17.50/£20

Yeah I really like him but then I really like stuff like this, I don't ask for a hell of a lot from music anymore I've become an unapologetic vibesist

"says" kinda ruling my comedown atm, the rest of the new one also to a lesser extent, just great for when you're emotionally fragile

Nils! A friend of mine and a genius fiftyfold.

He's also a truly incredible mixing engineer, and I highly recommend the following 2013 records that he worked on -

Rauelsson - Vora
Greg Haines - Where We Were

discovered this guy by wandering into one of his live performances during Big Ears a few weeks ago and was absolutely floored; the first thing I did when I got back home was order every record of his that I could find. "For - Peter - Toilet Brushes - More" is absolute godhead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQwrQETH-nw

shame that Spaces isn't on Spotify in its entirety because I want to force everyone I know who likes long composition stuff like this to listen to all of it

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2273

pretty amazing

thanking u, love those

second one is brilliant, very delia & gavin

saw him this weekend, it was astounding. weird mix of baby boomers shepherded there by the local orchestra (saw a lady plugging her ears) and then like hipstery kids. strange venue too. anyway, am never gonna miss a show of his, at times it was the quietest show i've ever seen and at others the most enveloping.

Did you see the Chicago show last night or a different one? (I wanted to see it but couldn't.)

it was at a bar in st paul mn. it was weird. but great. hopefully he'll make a trek back around here!

he has toured the west coast like three times in the past year ... i keep missing him :(

but i imagine he'll be back sooner than later!

Heard an interview with him recently that actually said this would be his last US tour for a while.

ha. well ... there you go.

Dawn of Midi opened for him at least some of the shows. What a bill that is.

http://www.pianoday.org/

Solo sounds beautiful laying here drifting off on a Sunday night

Enjoying Solo quite a bit.

Nils Frahm has written his first score for one-take feature film Victoria with the soundtrack being released on London-based contemporary classical label Erased Tapes Records:
http://link.bleep.com/nils-frahm-music-for-the-motion-picture-victoria
Filmed in Berlin, Victoria is centred around a runaway party girl who joins a group of friendly men on a night out, but the night takes a dramatic turn as their night turns from a party, into a bank robbery – and the music reflects this change as it changes from techno – from DJ Koze – to sombre piano sounds.

just started listening to this, the koze track is great. Film sounds like some 90s bullshit tho

Am loving this Victoria score.

Ooh, is it scored by Nils Frahm? I am now even more excited to watch it.

anyone been listening to the late night tales? it is really brilliant.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5SW5Cfm1Py2tt8cwN8DqKj

I keep meaning to but I haven't really found the right moment for it yet. His performance at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this year was brilliant, really want it to be released in its entirety.

Yeah, the late night tales is lovely.

I'm enjoying the Frahm/Arnalds compilation.

I generally prefer him when he is "just playing the piano" but I actually like the other stuff on this, too.

By him, I meant Frahm.

But, anyway, this sounded incredible/fitting driving along country lanes in the fog tonight.

his LNT mix is good but Jon Hopkins does the same thing several orders of magnitude better IMO, do check it out

also Spaces (Frahm's best record ever by a considerable distance) now seems to be streamable in full on US Spotify, anybody who hasn't heard it bc it hasn't been immediately available is out of excuses

^ I much prefer Wintermusik and The Bells.

yeah Spaces is amazing. was a little disappointed to listen to some of his records after seeing his incredible show but that record definitely captures the vibe. there was nothing wrong with the other ones but they were a little less... immense? or something

Nils Frahm has written his first score for one-take feature film Victoria with the soundtrack being released on London-based contemporary classical label Erased Tapes Records:
http://link.bleep.com/nils-frahm-music-for-the-motion-picture-victoria
Filmed in Berlin, Victoria is centred around a runaway party girl who joins a group of friendly men on a night out, but the night takes a dramatic turn as their night turns from a party, into a bank robbery – and the music reflects this change as it changes from techno – from DJ Koze – to sombre piano sounds.

― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, June 14, 2015 2:48 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just started listening to this, the koze track is great. Film sounds like some 90s bullshit tho

― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, June 14, 2015 2:51 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in fairness this film was not the clubbing heist one night of madness shit I thought it would be & is actually pretty decent

I was looking for this in Fopp the other day, hoping to find it for £3.

It didn't help that I couldn't remember what it was called, mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PTj1qIqcWM

" Nils Frahm's 'All Melody' is out on January 26th 2018. Order the album here: http://phonofile.link/all-melody "

tracklist & more info https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp106-nils-frahm-all-melody

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/22/578573392/first-listen-nils-frahm-all-melody

yes! thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv2nmefHc9Y

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

been finding this so soothing today, very nice.

I like it when he goes electronic

Fuck me, this is great.

lovely sense of space and silence in his work. minimalism is often overlooked in our noisy times! i find a lot of modern composers, neoclassical, avant-tronic (whatever!) void of much emotion... but frahms music doesn't feel cold or empty. i love Colleen for the same reasons

been enjoying this but the bits with vocals grate on me

been enjoying this but the bits with vocals grate on me

― global tetrahedron, Thursday, February 1, 2018 8:08 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well I'm still going to his show

I don't like most of the stuff i have heard from him. It is too polished, too minimal and too easy listening for my ears. Boring mainstream piano. Hauschka on the other hand seems much more adventurous and exciting.

The studio stuff may be hit and miss before now, but he's great live. Check out the montreux jazz or boiler room shows on youtube.

been enjoying this but the bits with vocals grate on me

― global tetrahedron, Thursday, February 1, 2018 2:08 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the instrumentals definitely stand out among the more experimental tracks, which sound to me like Nicolas Jaar demos. title track is beautifully paced. he does dynamics better than most - tracks that feel light and minimal can suddenly swell and engulf you like waves.

Forget the youtube videos, they don't prepare you for seeing him play live in person & at full volume. Saw him in Brussels on Friday and he really is amazing.

agreed- that's why 'spaces' is by far my favorite of his

It took an Oslo audience to break my 'I've never seen a fight at a @nilsfrahm show' duck last night. Congratulations, my Viking friends!

— Wyndham Wallace (@WyndhamWallace) February 15, 2018

I don’t speak Norwegian, but my onsite translator said s.o. was upset when asked to stop talking, so threatened to kill the complainant with a knife. It was nothing a good piano solo couldn’t eventually stop, though...

— Wyndham Wallace (@WyndhamWallace) February 15, 2018

All my favorite parts of this album remind me of Loscil.

Barbican show last night was great. I had no idea he was so funny and self-deprecating, a very likeable stage presence.

I'm so resistant to this kind of stuff almost on principle - the virtuoso genius surrounded by literally hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of gear on stage, the absolute tastefulness of it (it's Windham Hill techno - you don't get to like this and hate on Liz Story) - but I'm always bludgeoned into submission by how much I like the music in the end.

The minimalistic Encores 1 EP that was originally the exclusive vinyl with the Rough Trade edition is now out digitally and could be the first of a series (since he had more than a hundred songs/ideas for the album)

ok, 60 then

https://www.erasedtapes.com/news/2018-06-01/nils-frahm-releases-the-extended-5-track-player-encores-1

✔️

encores 2 is great too btw

I have tickets to see Nils Frahm at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles this Saturday.

Shit and I thought I just saw him in a killer theater

He's amazing live pretty much anywhere though

i saw him in an old church in L.A.

Does Nils actually own The Funkhaus in Berlin? Or ... no?

not quite but he has a recording studio there:
https://saal-3.com/

"Tripping With Nils Frahm" - live album & video out this week

https://www.nilsfrahm.com/tripping-news/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOh73eWIk4Q

just for reference and because the evolution into what it has become live is so staggering: this is the album version of that same song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6PH9lt4Ye0

imho, it sounds great but overall it's a rather toned down + subtle affair (especially without the visuals) & not at all as exciting as the concert I saw in 2018 :-/

Quite the leap. Real Keith Jarrett vibe to the piano section 3:00-6:00 ish.

Well just saw the film and well, dang, that was something. I find myself having a lot of his albums but never really consciously giving a close ear but based on the performance and the film, reading all the reports earlier in the thread about West Coast dates in the past really is triggering retroactive FOMO.

Some cognitive dissonance at hearing a dub album by Nils Frahm within a week of Lee Scratch Perry's death... but also the new Nils Frahm/FS Blumm collaboration is pretty good!

I got talking to him briefly after his show in Luxembourg a couple of years ago. I told him I was a fan of dub and that, among other things, I really liked the dubbier elements of his work.

Rereleasing a trio of early stuff:

https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/album/streichelfisch

https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/album/durton

https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/album/electric-piano

I'll listen to anyone play electric piano, so I'm curious to hear that one

new album "Music For Animals" coming (very?) soon

https://amp.smh.com.au/culture/music/nils-frahm-s-music-a-mind-altering-beat-or-a-mind-calming-tone-20220616-p5au5v.html

could be tomorrow already

https://old.reddit.com/r/NilsFrahm/comments/vcuyi6/saw_nils_tonight_new_album_in_two_days/

oh - the announcement was today, not the release. That's September 23rd.

https://www.nilsfrahm.com/music-for-animals/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahafKUn3JyE

New album = 10 tracks, 3 hours long

I'm going to a show in October but I hope he doesn't play three 30 minute ambient songs from this album :-/

Getting a Stars of the Lid vibe from "Seagull Scene"

Antwerp: he played 6 long pieces that weren't necessarily recogniseable from his albums (except the encore) but the point is to see him build the journey on stage - masterful.