NILS FRAHM - 'ALL ENCORES'

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• ERATP126CD - CD

  3700551782550

• ERATP126LP - 3xLP

  3700551783014

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In celebration of the fifth Piano Day, Nils Frahm will release his acclaimed All Encores album on 3LP vinyl. Originally only available as a CD and digital download in October, All Encores encompassed the three Encores EPs as one full length featuring 80 minutes of music, following his masterful 2018 album All Melody. Whilst Encores 1 focused on an acoustic pallet of sounds with solo piano and harmonium at the core, and Encores 2 explored more ambient landscapes, now Encores 3 sees Nils expand on the percussive and electronic elements in his work. “The idea behind All Encores is one we had from before All Melody; to separate releases each with their own distinct musical style and theme, perhaps even as a triple album. But All Melody became larger than itself and took over any initial concepts. I think the idea of All Encores is like musical islands that compliment All Melody.” Moulded during All Melody but refined by his live performances, All Encores is testament to Nils’ exceptional ability to craft his art on stage. Artificially Intelligent which showcases his ‘mad professor’ organ, and All Armed which has been a live favourite for some time, appearing on set lists since 2015, are now available to hear on record for the very first time. The final track of Encores 3, as well as the whole series, Amirador, perhaps aptly nods to the Spanish word for ‘lookout’ and hints at what’s to come.

Tracks

1. The Roughest Trade
2. Ringing
3. To Thomas
4. The Dane
5. Harmonium In The Well
6. Sweet Little Lies
7. A Walking Embrace
8. Talisman
9. Spells
10. Artificially Intelligent
11. All Armed
12. Amirador

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Vinyl Factory, Resident Advisor, Clash, Under The Radar, COS, Brooklyn Vegan, XLR8..

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VARIOUS - 'SOLO PIANO'

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• ERASM006 - BOOK

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*BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED SCORE BOOK SHIPPING FOR PIANO DAY 2020* A collection of twenty newly-arranged scores published for the first time and presented alongside bespoke programme notes from Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths. From Ólafur Arnalds’ 0040 through to recent songs from ambient music duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Solo Piano offers an engaging chronological survey of the label’s first ten years.

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feat: Olafur Arnalds, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Lubomyr Melnyk and more...

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THE GONERS - 'GOOD MOURNING'

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• EZRDR117 - LP

  603111735818

• EZRDR117CD - CD

  603111735825

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Swedish quintet The Goners announce their forthcoming debut album Good Mourning due out in Spring 2020 on RidingEasy Records. The Goners feature former Salem's Pot vocalist/guitarist Nate Gone and former members of Swedish rock band Yvonne. Don't make a big deal about it. This is something new: Rock bottom. A place you have to throw yourself over the edge and burn all your bridges to reach. A place where the devil is laughing as a constant reminder of everything that went to shit. A place where you owe. As the echoes of the past get louder and the forget-me-now's no longer work, you have to pick up the remaining pieces and try to make them fit. You can only wake up in an unknown bed with aching intestines and a throbbing noise inside your skull, still craving more, so many times until you realize that your life didn't quite turn out to be what you expected it to be. The killing floor is crowded and when the smoke starts to clear you start to notice just how bad you've been letting yourself go. It's Monday. You are on your own now. And even as you start to do the right, start paying your dues and bills, doing the 9 to 5 and saying your sorries, you're still standing there like a sack of dead meat in a stinkin' world of decay where nobody cares. Gone but still aware. Ain't that something? Ain't that grand! There's no remedy, no working cure but at least you got loud guitars, thumping bass and bashing cymbals to ease the pain. And as you stumble into your thirties, scorched earth policy-style, you can at least smile at the fact that you finished first. At last you succeded in something. Now you can just lay back, back where the sun doesn't shine and ask everybody else "aren't YOU gone yet?” Don't worry, you soon will see that Gone is just a four-letter word. We're all heading south and again, no one really gives a fuck. It's Sunday. Join us.

Tracks

Are you Gone yet
High, Low and Never In Between
World of Decay
Evil (Is not Enough)
Good Ol' Death
The Sickening
Down & Out
You Better Run
The Little Blue

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THOM MORECROFT - 'THE FENG SHUI & THE SUSHI'

Formats

• NXN001CD - CD

• NXN001LP - LP

• NXN001LPW - LP (COLOURED)

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**LAST COPIES!! Deluxe: signed, numbered White vinyl with picture insert, CD & lyric sheet.**Nine x Nine Records is pleased to announce its first release, the debut album of Liverpool based Singer/Songwriter Thom Morecroft. ‘The Feng Shui and The Sushi’ is an upbeat romp layered with eccentric, cryptic lyrics yet peppered with need, bleakness and the occasional darker theme. This is an album focused on the concept of release; confessional, renouncing, wishing and always cathartic; an examination of past and the desperate attempt to make up for the unsaid. The album features a hand-picked lineup of incredible musicians recorded live in a rustic studio, lending to the immediate feel of the songs: all fantastically bookending Morecroft’s husky soulful voice and distinctive finger picked guitar. From ‘You Can Lay’ a swirling epic Anglo-Americana, to the surf-tinged indie rock of ‘Picture in the Sun’; right down to ‘I’ve Made Room’ and its melancholic, reflective shoegazing: this is a joyous, accomplished and intense debut-proper from a young artist.

Tracks

(1) You Can Lay (2) Pictures In The Sun (3) I?ve Made Room
(4) Time Will Tell (5) The Least That You Can Do (6) Moon Moon Shake It
(7) Now I?ve Opened The Door (8) Waiting ?til Now
(9) Oh Rocko (10) Haytide (11) Wrote My Dad A Song
(12) The French Girl (CD only) (13) Give Me a Why (CD Only)

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