Nils Frahm

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.