" Nils Frahm's 'All Melody' is out on January 26th 2018. Order the album here: http://phonofile.link/all-melody "
― StanM, Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
tracklist & more info https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp106-nils-frahm-all-melody
― StanM, Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/22/578573392/first-listen-nils-frahm-all-melody
― StanM, Monday, 22 January 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
yes! thank you
― Dinsdale, Monday, 22 January 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv2nmefHc9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_RKVUMaPek
― StanM, Friday, 26 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
been finding this so soothing today, very nice.
― calzino, Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
I like it when he goes electronic
― i know kore-eda (or something), Saturday, 27 January 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
Fuck me, this is great.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 28 January 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
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
― meaulnes, Sunday, 28 January 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
been enjoying this but the bits with vocals grate on me
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 1 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
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― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 1 February 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
well I'm still going to his show
― StanM, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
― 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.
― Indexed, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Sunday, 11 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
agreed- that's why 'spaces' is by far my favorite of his
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Thursday, 15 February 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
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
― StanM, Thursday, 15 February 2018 11:52 (six years ago) link
All my favorite parts of this album remind me of Loscil.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 16 February 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― bamboohouses, Thursday, 22 February 2018 10:13 (six years ago) link
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)
― StanM, Saturday, 2 June 2018 06:47 (six years ago) link
ok, 60 then
https://www.erasedtapes.com/news/2018-06-01/nils-frahm-releases-the-extended-5-track-player-encores-1
― StanM, Saturday, 2 June 2018 06:50 (six years ago) link
✔️
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 06:13 (five years ago) link
encores 2 is great too btw
― StanM, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 07:03 (five years ago) link
I have tickets to see Nils Frahm at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles this Saturday.
― DT, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 07:10 (five years ago) link
Shit and I thought I just saw him in a killer theater
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
He's amazing live pretty much anywhere though
― StanM, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
i saw him in an old church in L.A.
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
Does Nils actually own The Funkhaus in Berlin? Or ... no?
― alpine static, Friday, 24 January 2020 08:54 (four years ago) link
not quite but he has a recording studio there:https://saal-3.com/
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 25 January 2020 06:48 (four years ago) link
"Tripping With Nils Frahm" - live album & video out this week
https://www.nilsfrahm.com/tripping-news/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOh73eWIk4Q
― StanM, Monday, 30 November 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
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
― StanM, Monday, 30 November 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
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 :-/
― StanM, Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
Quite the leap. Real Keith Jarrett vibe to the piano section 3:00-6:00 ish.
― Indexed, Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 December 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
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!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
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.
― giraffe, Monday, 13 September 2021 06:40 (two years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 April 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
I'll listen to anyone play electric piano, so I'm curious to hear that one
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 7 April 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
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
― StanM, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
could be tomorrow already
https://old.reddit.com/r/NilsFrahm/comments/vcuyi6/saw_nils_tonight_new_album_in_two_days/
― StanM, Thursday, 16 June 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
oh - the announcement was today, not the release. That's September 23rd.
https://www.nilsfrahm.com/music-for-animals/
― StanM, Friday, 17 June 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahafKUn3JyE
― StanM, Friday, 17 June 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
New album = 10 tracks, 3 hours long
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 25 September 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
I'm going to a show in October but I hope he doesn't play three 30 minute ambient songs from this album :-/
― StanM, Sunday, 25 September 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Getting a Stars of the Lid vibe from "Seagull Scene"
― death generator (lukas), Thursday, 29 September 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
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.
― StanM, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link