Erased Tapes Records

PETER BRODERICK – OLD TIME / SOLACE IN GALAThe release of Music...

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:01:15 +0000

PETER BRODERICK – OLD TIME / SOLACE IN GALA

The release of Music For Confluence will be preceded by the double A-side single Old Time / Solace In Gala on November 7th and includes an exclusive digital 14-track bonus score entitled Music For Grace And Mercy – a film of Haitians helping Haitians.

You can get it on Vinyl/Download here:
erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP035

And you can PRE-ORDER the album on CD/Download here:
erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP036

MUSIC FOR CONFLUENCE – Score by Peter Broderick

Following on from his contemporary dance scores Music For Falling From Trees and Music For Congregation, November 28th, 2011 will see Broderick return with a brand new work released on Erased Tapes Records, entitled Music For Confluence. Created for documentary filmmakers Jennifer Anderson and Vernon Lott, the soundtrack takes the listener through waves of stark emotions.

‘I had been asked to make the score for a documentary film called Confluence. The film is based in the Lewiston, Idaho area, not too far from where I grew up in the USA, and it chronicles several mysterious cases of young girls found murdered or gone missing around 1980, all of which seem to lead back to one man who for a variety of reasons has not been able to be charged with these crimes.

I set out to create some textural soundscapes which could compliment the building tension of the story without being too intrusive or suggestive. Days and nights, snowed in and experimenting with layers and layers of whichever instruments I had around, finding a murky atmosphere that fit with the uneasy feeling which the film gave to me. On New Year’s Eve I was inside, recording the final notes for the score. I had finished everything except the piece for the credits. After speaking with one of the directors of the film, Vernon Lott, we decided the song for the credits should be different from the rest of the score. So while the fireworks were exploding outside my window, I was recording Old Time, a song which for me felt like a breath-of-fresh-air after story which can only leave you wondering…’
– Peter Broderick

The official Confluence trailer can be watched here: vimeo.com/erasedtapes/confluence

The official Grace And Mercy trailer can be watched here: vimeo.com/13145302

NILS FRAHM – FELT TOUR In case you haven’t heard, Nils...

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:08:00 +0000

NILS FRAHM – FELT TOUR

In case you haven’t heard, Nils Frahm is currently on his Felt Tour throughout Europe with plenty of new merchandise (cds, vinyl, the first batch of t-shirts and a special tour surprise) in the boot of his Volkswagen. So make sure you pay him a visit and leave some love on his Facebook page. I’m sure he will love that!

We’re especially proud to present him and his label mates A Winged Victory For The Sullen at one of Berlin’s greatest concert halls: Radialsystem V on November 21st.

03.11. Nijmegen (NL) – Lux Theater
04.11. Groningen (NL) – De Oosterpoort
05.11. Den Haag (NL) – Rewire Festival / De Kerk
06.11. Gent (BE) – Sint Elisabethkerk
07.11. Liverpool (UK) – Scandinavian Church
08.11. Manchester (UK) – Band On The Wall
09.11. Reading (UK) – Reading Minster
11.11. Brighton (UK) – Green Room
12.11. London (UK) – Café Oto › tickets
13.11. Paris (FR) – Montreuil › tickets
14.11. Dijon(FR) – Sabotage @ Concert en Appartment
15.11. Zürich (CH) – Stall6 / Theater Gessnerallee
16.11. Luzern (CH) – Südpol
19.11. Bari (IT) – Timezones Festival
21.11. Berlin (DE) – Radialsystem V › tickets
26.11. Leeuwarden (NL) – Explore The North
21.01. Cologne (DE) – E’de Cologne / Basilika St. Aposteln
26.05. Den Haag (NL) – Dag In De Branding / Paard Van Troje

Hope to see some of you at our big night at Radialsystem V Berlin on November 21.

We cannot wait.

Thank you all for listening.

codesclouds: OCTOBER BLOG Hello everyone, it’s October! So we...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:09:00 +0100

codesclouds:

OCTOBER BLOG

Hello everyone, it’s October!

So we have a very special treat for you…a BRAND NEW BLOG!
None of these words have ever been used in previous blogs before!
A blog of 100% new content!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So apparently there’s going to be new episodes of Arrested Development and a movie. That’s probably the most exciting thing anyone can hear this month. Regardless, this blog shall go on for at least one or two more paragraphs!

So we’re back on the road in a few days and we’re very excited! The tour is being billed as Codes in the Clouds vs Rival Consoles. Our aim is to take both ourselves and Rival Consoles out of our comfort zones when it comes to writing music and collaborating together whilst on the road, writing in the tour bus, wherever we find ourselves sleeping, during soundcheck, basically whenever we can. At some point during the show, along side both our normal sets, we’ll play whatever we’ve come up with…it could be great, it could be a disaster! We’ll soon find out!

We also have some new material of our own to play at the upcoming shows! It’s our first EU tour as a 6-piece, we can’t wait for everyone to hear the new songs and give our new member a nice warm welcome.

The Codes in the Clouds vs Rival Consoles tour looks like this:

10th - Nijmegen, Netherlands - Meryln
11th - Gent, Belgium - Charlatan
12th - Hamburg, Germany - Prinzenbar
13th - Copenhagen, Denmark - PH-Caféen
14th - Berlin, Germany - Comet
16th - Warsaw, Poland - Progresja
17th - Łódź, Poland - Luka
18th - Poznań, Poland - Fabrika
19th - Nürnberg, Germany - MUZ
21st - Innsbruck, Austria - PMK
22nd - Offenbach, Germany - Hafen

See you on the road! If you’re coming to our shows we’ll give you a special treat!*
Love, CiTC

*treats are musical, therefore subjective. Thusly, treats are not a guarantee

http://www.facebook.com/codesintheclouds

olafurarnalds: “Near Light” The second song of Ólafur Arnald’s...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:49:05 +0100

olafurarnalds:

“Near Light”

The second song of Ólafur Arnald’s “Living Room Songs”.
FREE MP3 at http://livingroomsongs.olafurarnalds.com

The second installment in my Living Room Songs series. This time i tried adding some electronics. My mother and sister came by for a visit so I made them play some synths as well.

Violins: Roland Hartwell and Margrét Soffía Einarsdóttir
Viola: Arndís Hulda Auðunsdóttir
Cello: Karl Jóhann Bjarnason

Juno 106 and drum loop operation: Fríða Ósk Arnalds
Korg MS-10: Guðrún Pálmadóttir

Piano, electronics programming, recording, mixing and mastering by Ólafur Arnalds

Shot and edited by Gunnar Guðbjörnsson and Bowen Staines

codesclouds: Here it is! It’s what you’ve all been waiting...

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:32:30 +0100

codesclouds:

Here it is! It’s what you’ve all been waiting for*! The August edition of the AWARD WINNING** blog from Codes In The Clouds!

First off, thanks to all who came along to our night at The Macbeth in London the other week, it was a fun night and both Black Market Karma and Rival Consoles were great! That night was also the first time we have played as a 6 piece, the wonderfully talented Oliver Glosby is the 6th Code and he’s a swell guy. If you see him in the street be sure to give him a big kiss.

So we’re flying back out to Germany tomorrow for Haldern Pop 2011 and we’re very excited! If you’re going to be there this year be sure to come and say hey! To get festival goers in the mood, check out this free playlist from Erased Tapes which includes 2 of our songs as well as Rival Consoles, Nils Frahm and Anne Muller.
http://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/haldern-pop-festival-2011/

There are other things I could mention but I think I’d just be repeating myself from the last blog. However, for those who are interested, Slipknot didn’t get in touch regarding any sort of beef with us, so I think we can now safely assume that we’re on good terms and can resume our relationship with them as normal.

Much love
x

*No one has been waiting for or looking forward to this blog
**Imaginary awards may not count

(Picture on the wall at the Haldern Pop Bar, Haldern, Germany - taken during our European Tour in Jan ‘11)

A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:34:28 +0100

A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears:

richhughes:

A taster from the forthcoming album by A Winged Victory for the Sullen which is the collaborative project between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran. Featuring some additional musicians, the album is a neo-classical masterpiece, invocative pieces of…

ERASED TAPES NEWS ISSUE 07-11 We have a brand new newsletter...

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0100

ERASED TAPES NEWS ISSUE 07-11

We have a brand new newsletter featuring the latest on Ólafur Arnalds // Rival Consoles // Nils Frahm // Codes In The Clouds and the new Erased Tapes signings: World’s end girlfriend // A Winged Victory For The Sullen.

› Sign up here to receive our monthly newsflash

Top Story:

AN EVENING WITH… ÓLAFUR ARNALDS

The distance between performer and listener will not only be bridged, but completely eradicated next month, as Ólafur Arnalds embarks on his first ever solo tour. Several of these unique and intimate shows will see him improvise alongside some of his fellow composers, label mates and friends including Peter Broderick and Anne Müller.

› Watch a video explanation by Ólafur and Buy tickets for his first ever solo tour plus festival shows. | Facebook

› Read more here

Thanks for listening.

Robert

ERASED TAPES COLLECTION III – Dazed Digital Interview Erased...

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0100

ERASED TAPES COLLECTION III – Dazed Digital Interview

Erased Tapes’ founder Robert Raths talks with Dazed Digital about timeless music, DIY music ethos and the new compilation album Erased Tapes Collection III.

› Read the full interview.

Erased Tapes Collection III feat. Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Anne Müller, Peter Broderick, Rival Consoles, World’s End Girlfriend, Codes In The Clouds, The B.E.F.

› Listen | Free download

RIVAL CONSOLES – KID VELO THE NEW ALBUM. RELEASED TRACK BY...

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:09:00 +0100

RIVAL CONSOLES – KID VELO

THE NEW ALBUM. RELEASED TRACK BY TRACK. WEEK AFTER WEEK. 11.4.-27.6. 2011

CD/DL now available for PRE-ORDER via the Erased Tapes Online Store: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP031 Be early!

London-based purveyor of intelligent dance music Ryan L. West aka RIVAL CONSOLES returns with his sophomore album KID VELO, released track by track over the course of 11 weeks. Every Monday will see a new album track being streamed exclusively from just one online portal connected to one exclusive online store, before going global on Fridays.

‘With brains supposedly adapting to online networks and attention spans reduced to 140 characters at a time, this is bite-sized music for a bite-sized world’, Erased Tapes label founder Robert Raths explains. The campaign will kick off on April 11 and cumulate in the official album release on June 27, 2011.

After a short promo stint to Berlin, Rival Consoles will return to London for an album launch show at The Nest in Dalston on June 23.

Erased Tapes, Noble Fur & Bunce Booking proudly...

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:59:00 +0100

Erased Tapes, Noble Fur & Bunce Booking proudly present:

Nils Frahm & Greg Haines: North American Performances 2011.

These two Berliners will be traveling through New England and Ontario for a short exclusive spell.

Weaving their tender hymns like gossamer through the hills and dales.
Please join them if you are close.

Dates and links below:

May 6th Princeton, NJ – Terrace Club (Princeton University)

May 7th Oberlin, OH – Fairchild Chapel (Oberlin College)

May 8th Ann Arbor, MI – Canterbury House

May 9th Toronto, ON – Somewhere There

May 10th Ottawa, ON – Freiman Hall (Ottawa University)

May 11th Burlington, VT – Parima

May 12th Cambridge, MA – Lily Pad

May 13th Hudson, NY – Hudson Opera House

May 15th Brooklyn, NY – Galapagos

Nils Frahm
Greg Haines

Spread the word, and remember: If you aren’t here, then go somewhere else! ;)

zero-inch: Rival Consoles - S.P.K.R.S. (Erased...

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:08:39 +0100

zero-inch:

Rival Consoles - S.P.K.R.S. (Erased Tapes)

Listing both Autechre and Deadmau5 as influences, London’s Rival Consoles combine hard hitting electro beats with lush layers of electronica for quite a unique sound. ‘S.P.K.R.S.’ is a zero” exclusive track announcing the impending arrival of sophomore album ‘Kid Velo’, out this June. Check!

Album and single tracks now available for download (MP3 / 320 kb/s)

Shyscapes (feat. Nils Frahm – Tristana) This is a mesmerizing...

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:08:00 +0100

Shyscapes (feat. Nils Frahm – Tristana)

This is a mesmerizing short motion graphics fine art video from Misha Shyukin’s Bachelor graduate project.

Misha requests viewers watch the video with eyes half closed and not view it in full screen mode, otherwise if you watch the video with your eyes half closed but in full screen mode, its likely that you will get drowsy.

The accompanying music track is ‘Tristana’ by Nils Frahm, courtesy of Erased Tapes Records and taken from his debut ‘Wintermusik’ available at: erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP018

Nils and me enjoy Misha’s animation art so much, we asked him to produce a video for his upcoming new album.

You can check out Misha’s work at: shyukin.com

Ólafur Arnalds – Gleypa okkur (Live with full orchestra at...

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:26:00 +0000

Ólafur Arnalds – Gleypa okkur (Live with full orchestra at Bridgewater Hall)

Last year Ólafur Arnalds re-arranged his entire new album ‘…And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness’ for a full orchestra, and performed it live in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, joined by 60 musicians and our conductor friend André de Ridder.

The whole concert was filmed for a documentary called Press Pause Play (presspauseplay.com) which talks about the changes in creative industries in the digital world.

The studio version of ‘Gleypa okkur’ is available on Ólafur’s second album ‘…And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness’ out now on Erased Tapes.
erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP022

Enjoy!

7fingers out now in Europe! // Condolences & Wishes for...

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:32:00 +0000

Nils Frahm & Anne Müller - 7fingers

7fingers out now in Europe! // Condolences & Wishes for Japan // Nils Frahm & Peter Broderick - Japanese Tour 2011

I was forced to watch the entire first series of The Walking Dead till 5 am and thought I was still watching it when I saw the news about Japan this morning… How terrible!

I’m glad to hear that our distribution team at P*Dis in Tokyo are all fine. World’s End Girlfriend is OK too! Maeda-san just emailed me saying he only lost a vase in the earthquake, but it might have been because he’s pracitsing the guitar…

We will keep everyone updated about Nils Frahm & Peter Broderick’s Japanese Tour!

Hopefully they will still be able to visit all you lovely people and play for you in April:

I’m sending my blessings to everyone out there, their families and friends.

May they all find shelter!

__________

Today is the EU release of 7fingers by Nils Frahm & Anne Müller!

The flashy vinyls just arrived at our Berlin office and look absolutely amazing!!!

You can order them here: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP028

I’m very thrilled to see it even hit the front page of iTunes Germany, sitting rather comfortably between The Beatles, The Social Network soundtrack and… Bambi! Hurray!

That’s almost as surreal as being recommended in the Bleep.com staff chart:

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=dynamic&module=staffCharts

And highly recommended on Zero”:

‘A new collaboration from the talented pianist and composer Nils Frahm with performer and cellist Anne Müller sees a beautiful symbiotic relationship form. String and piano arrangements, sculpted with pulses, rhythms, loops and field recordings make for a boldly unique album. Highly recommended’

Mojo Magazine gave it 4 stars:

‘The combined talents of wunderkind pianist Frahm and Anne Müller here produce a subtle, seductive chamber music sporadically interleaved with electronic glitches’ ****

The Line Of Best Fit made the title track their Track Of The Day:

‘An album that sees headphone electronica, modern classical, and soundtrack music all converge to beautiful, intelligent, often terrifying effect’

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2011/03/sotd-2012-nils-frahm-anne-muller-7fingers/

RadioEins in Berlin made it their Lounge-CD Of The Week - whatever that means, I guess it’s good.

So yeah.

Congrats to Nils and Anne!

Can’t wait to see them perform 7fingers live this summer…

Dead proud.

Much love,

Robert

NILS FRAHMlive at Haldern Pop Festival 2010 This is a little...

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:44:00 +0000

NILS FRAHM
live at Haldern Pop Festival 2010

This is a little treat for everyone who’s been following us throughout the last 4 years. One of my personal highlights. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I do. Love, Robert

Erased Tapes & Haldern Pop Televisions
present

A film by
SpringerParker

All music written and performed by
Nils Frahm

Camera
Stefan Daub & Ivo Fuchs

Edited by
SpringerParker

Sound recorded by
KD Keusgen at Keusgen Studio
with Brauner Microphones

Sound mastered by
Nils Frahm at Durton Studio

Produced by
Haldern Pop Televisions & Expanded Cinema

Organised with the help of
Robert Raths at Erased Tapes
Felix Grimm at Toutpartout
Steven Kruijff at Haldern Pop
Stefan Reichmann at Haldern Pop

Thank you.

© 2010 Erased Tapes Records. All rights reserved.

The song ‘Said And Done’ is available as part of Nils Frahm’s second solo piano work ‘The Bells’.

You can order it here: erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP021

Dear Londoners – friends of the Erased Tapes collective. This...

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:25:00 +0000

4th Erased Tapes Anniversary

As The Spirit Wanes album launch

Codes In The Clouds (live)

Rival Consoles (live)

Dear Londoners – friends of the Erased Tapes collective.

This Tuesday night (1.2.11) we will have three reasons to celebrate.

And therefore three reasons to invite you:

1: Codes In The Clouds’ album launch of As The Spirit Wanes

2: Rival Consoles will premiere his upcoming killer album Kid Velo live.

3: Erased Tapes Records has its 4th Anniversary.

So basically: this party will be triple as wild as every other party!

Where? The Macbeth in Hoxton.

For directions, go here: http://www.themacbethuk.co.uk/

When? Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011.

Doors: 7:30pm

Live on stage will be:

RIVAL CONSOLES – 10:15pm

CODES IN THE CLOUDS – 9:30pm

IAN SMITH (comedian) – 9:10pm

PIANO INTERRUPTED (Tom Hodge & Franz Kirmann) – 8:20pm

TOM TOAL (comedian) – 8:00pm

Curfew: 12am.

Guestlist? Nope.

We decided to skip this guestlist nonsense and made it a FREE event for everyone!

The good news is: you can have as many plusses as you want to.

The bad news is: you’ve got to be early enough to get in.

Hope to have you there with us.

Counting on y’all!

Love.

Robert

THE SUNDAY TIMES The Big Story Classically strained. Using...

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:36:00 +0000

The Sunday Times - Culture Magazine

World premiere of Nils Frahm live video

Ólafur Arnalds 'Ljósið' video feature

Dustin O'Halloran

Nico Muhly

THE SUNDAY TIMES

The Big Story

Classically strained.

Using classical music as a starting point, a new breed of composers brought up on pop and rock is carving out a fresh genre

Wyndham Wallace

Published: 23 January 2011

The internet, we’re constantly reminded, has changed the way people listen to music. Downloading makes it instantly accessible, allowing us to stockpile releases and explore further than previous generations could ever have afforded. The internet has also, we’re advised, changed the way people make music. It’s no longer necessary to be in the same studio, or even the same country, to collaborate on compositions. Less acknowledged, although equally important, is that the internet has changed the way we define music. With the growth of online sites catering to every niche interest, and the ability to blend and disperse new styles rapidly, musicians and labels are, for perhaps the first time, free to think beyond the constraints of genres, unrestricted by retail and the media’s need to tidily pigeonhole “product”.

Perhaps the most interesting result of this cross-pollination is the slow reclamation of classical music by a new generation of composers who have grown up with pop and rock. Classical music’s relationship with its popular counterpart has long been oppositional: when they have overlapped, it’s been for the sake of novelty — the disco-meets-classical medleys of Hooked On Classics, the Moog experimentation of Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach — or to emphasise the earnest artistic endeavours of the music’s proponents, whether it be Yes’s symphonic prog-rock, Apocalyptica’s interpretations of Metallica or Sting’s po-faced lute revivalism. What’s happening now, however, would have been unthinkable to generations who grew up annoying their Mozart-loving parents by playing rock’n’roll loud. Rather than turning to the classics to embellish their work, contemporary composers such as Olafur Arnalds and Nico Muhly are employing its structures and instrumentation while refusing to confine themselves to its traditions. And they’re being marketed to people who may never have heard a Deutsche Grammophon recording in their life.

“The foundations of this old dividing line have already begun to crumble,” says Robert Raths, self-styled “initiator” of Erased Tapes Records, one of a number of independent labels trading in both indie and more classically structured and arranged music. His roster includes Arnalds’s mingling of orchestral and electronic, Nils Frahm’s solo piano improvisations and Peter Broderick, who also records for the über-hip Bella Union label. “When I first heard their music, I didn’t think of them as classical,” Raths says. “I thought of them as composers who speak the same language, using a different palette of instruments. Bear in mind that Olafur used to be the drummer in a hardcore band, Nils used to make mainly electronic music and Peter used to be a studio musician before they decided to explore more delicate musical arrangements.”

Dave Howell, who co-founded the 130701 imprint of Fat Cat Records (originally home to Sigur Ros), agrees that the borders are disappearing. Last year, the label released Max Richter’s Infra, a Royal Ballet commission that blurs the boundaries between chamber, ambient and electronic music. It is also home to Hauschka, whose treated piano solos are adorned with grand orchestral arrangements on his recent Foreign Landscapes album. “It didn’t seem that distant from a lot of the other music we were putting out,” Howell says, “We’ve always been excited to explore and release great-quality music, regardless of the genre. I don’t find that it’s a big distance from Sigur Ros to Max Richter.”

Whether these artists are practitioners of classical music is open to question.

Certainly, few of them embrace the tag. “Classical music is from a different time,” Hauschka suggests. “I would name it maybe contemporary music.” Nils Frahm, meanwhile, opts for “modern classical”.

“My music has roots in classical music, but also in all kinds of modern music, since I listened to all sorts of pop or electronic and club music all my life.” Arnalds chooses “post-classical” or “neoclassical”: “I don’t think it fits into the classical genre much, apart from me using classical instruments.”

Dustin O’Halloran, a member of Devics, who contributed to the score for Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and who, with two albums of piano solos behind him, releases a new, fully orchestrated album in February, wonders if the term is even relevant any more. “What is ‘classical music’ now?” he asks. “Is it only music that is accepted by the classical community? The classical world doesn’t seem to take much notice of a lot of contemporary composers.”

Whatever it is, the decision to distance themselves from the classical world when searching for an audience is a shrewd one: according to the BPI, the form’s record sales declined by 17.6% in 2009. Younger fans no longer need to browse classical racks, as they can explore online instead. As Arnalds points out, “with the digital age… it’s much easier for us to reach the general public. Previously, music like mine could only be accessed through speciality music shops”. Admirers of Sigur Ros might be led to releases by their sometime string section, Amiina, while followers of Björk might stumble upon solo releases by her former collaborator Valgeir Sigurosson, who runs the Bedroom Community label, an outlet for artists such as Nico Muhly, currently working on an opera for ENO and arranger du jour for acts such as Grizzly Bear and Antony & the Johnsons. Together, they have cultivated their own scene: late last year, Frahm opened for Arnalds on a number of live dates, Bedroom Community’s roster performed under the umbrella The Whale Watching Tour and O’Halloran employed the Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson to produce his forthcoming album.

Whether they will find a significant audience remains to be seen. Howell agrees that such music is becoming increasingly popular while conceding: “I don’t think this will be limitless. This kind of music is more likely to be given a platform by cultural institutions such as the South Bank and the Barbican.” Ironically, many people gravitate to this music as a reaction to the mass commodification and homogenisation of pop. “Music has become so normalised into everything we do that many of the songs we consume on the radio, on our TV or computer screens, have somehow become sanitised,” Raths says. “You listen to them, perhaps even get them stuck in your head, but they lack visceral appeal and imagination. So I guess people have started searching for a quiet place that allows them to reflect and dream, something thought-provoking, rather than bombarding.”

It’s far from impossible, therefore, to imagine a world that has flipped on its axis, with kids infuriating their rock-loving parents by playing classical music. “The breaking of conventions might be less obvious than the breaking of windows and two-finger salutes,” Raths says, “but nevertheless I hear a subtle notion of change, which I sense is of this time.”

Hooked on neoclassics

Amiina

Sigur Ros’s string section have two albums under their belt, Kurr and Puzzle, released last September.

Dustin O’Halloran

Piano Solos Volumes 1 & 2 are available on Bella Union, and Lumiere, produced by Johann Johannsson, is due for release by 130701 on February 28.

Hauschka

His seventh album, Foreign Landscapes, was released by 130701 last October. A new one, Salon des Amateurs, is out in April, featuring the Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn and members of Calexico and Mum.

Johann Johannsson

Viroulegu Forsetar (Touch, 2004) and IBM 1401, A User’s Manual (4AD, 2006) are arguably the highlights of his six albums to date.

Lars Horntveth

A member of the Norwegian post-rock act Jaga Jazzist, Horntveth released his second album, Kaleidoscopic (Smalltown Supersound), in 2008.

Max Richter

A classically trained former member of Piano Circus, Richter released his fifth album, Infra (130701), in 2010.

Nico Muhly

Having worked with Björk, Philip Glass and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Muhly has released three solo albums, Speaks Volumes, Mothertongue and I Drink the Air Before Me, for Bedroom Community.

Nils Frahm

A collaborative album with the cellist Anne Müller, 7fingers, was released last year on Hush Records.

• Nils Frahm and Anne Muller’s album is out on Erased Tapes (Europe only) on March 14

Olafur Arnalds

…And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness, his second album, was released last year by Erased Tapes. He plays the Tabernacle, W11, on February 7.

Valgeir Sigurosson

The programmer for Björk’s soundtrack to Lars Von Trier’s film Dancer in the Dark released his second album, Draumalandio, on his own Bedroom Community label in 2010.

Nils Frahm - Said & Done

See the composer and pianist perform a song in an exclusive video from the Haldern Pop festival in Germany (log into The Sunday Times homepage to watch this video world premiere.)

Olafur Arnalds - Ljosid

See the video for a new track from the talented Icelandic producer and multi-instrumentalist, Olafur Arnalds (log into The Sunday Times homepage to watch this video.)

Source: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/music/classical/article516535.ece

Erased Tapes Piano Octopus: Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick &...

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Erased Tapes Piano Octopus:
Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick & Ólafur Arnalds live in Brussels

Captured by Robert Raths at Autumn Falls Festival - Botanique, Brussels on November 28, 2010.

One of my personal highlights of 2010 was watching Nils, Peter and Óli play together with 6 hands on 1 piano. Luckily I had a camera on me…

ERASED TAPES ART POSTER COMMISSION This year we commissioned...

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:12:00 +0000

ERASED TAPES ART POSTER COMMISSION

This year we commissioned Berlin illustrator Herr Mueller to add his personal interpretation of our key visual for our upcoming, third collection of Erased Tapes music.

Herr Mueller is known for his controversial adhesive tape illustrations commissioned by the German culture magazine Neon, graphic designs for Melting Pop Festival and his rendition of Ernst Haeckel´s work among others. If you haven’t heard of this young talent before, then please do visit his website.

To celebrate his wonderful rendition, we printed a limited run of 250 prints 84 x 59 cm in size, which the artist cut, glued, tore, scratched, burned, melted out of paper, foil and adhesive tape.

The mountain visual that represents Erased Tapes since 2007 was originally part of a collection by the Texan artist Chris Hernandez who painted several mountain tops in oil on 10-inch discs, normally used for seismographs to measure earthquakes.

We hope you’ll enjoy discovering the many layers and details of this magnificent art piece whilst listening to some of the music we release.

You can buy your copy on current tours of Erased Tapes artists Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm and Codes In The Clouds, or online soon.

Much love and greetings from on the road with Óli and Nils.

Robert

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