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