new piano album by me
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 19 posts since 14 Feb, 2005 from Sweden
Hi,
Today I'm releasing a 10-track piano album on CDR!
"Music with less electricity" is a collection of piano compositions that were originally never meant to be recorded or performed. Most of them served more as some kind of therapy, being composed during a hard period of my life when the piano was my only bright spot. However, later my girlfriend asked me to record the songs for her, which I did, most of them in December 2004. The cottage of Mossebo was so cold that it was absolutely necessary to keep the fire burning - you can't play the piano with freezing fingers - so on some tracks you can hear the sparkling of the fire.
The title of the album was chosen since this album is less electronic than the rest of the music that I compose. The track "Less electricity" was composed during the storm Gudrun, when Mossebo was out of electricity for three days. A few months later, a friend of mine convinced me to release the album. After having polished some of the recordings and added background strings etc. to some tracks (making it "less electric" rather than completely acoustic), this is now happening.
One-minute samples, three free downloads:
1. Song in c minor (free download)
2. Rosa Luxemburg
3. The fox, the rat and the pig
4. Folk music-ish
5. Song in g minor (free download)
6. 8ths (free download)
7. Less electricity
8. Song II in c minor
9. Fragments of a cathedral (Acoustic version)
10. Universal love
Price: 5.50 euro plus p&p (Sweden 11 SEK, Europe 2 euro, rest of the world 3 euro)
Payment: Cash or PayPal
/Johan.
Today I'm releasing a 10-track piano album on CDR!
"Music with less electricity" is a collection of piano compositions that were originally never meant to be recorded or performed. Most of them served more as some kind of therapy, being composed during a hard period of my life when the piano was my only bright spot. However, later my girlfriend asked me to record the songs for her, which I did, most of them in December 2004. The cottage of Mossebo was so cold that it was absolutely necessary to keep the fire burning - you can't play the piano with freezing fingers - so on some tracks you can hear the sparkling of the fire.
The title of the album was chosen since this album is less electronic than the rest of the music that I compose. The track "Less electricity" was composed during the storm Gudrun, when Mossebo was out of electricity for three days. A few months later, a friend of mine convinced me to release the album. After having polished some of the recordings and added background strings etc. to some tracks (making it "less electric" rather than completely acoustic), this is now happening.
One-minute samples, three free downloads:
1. Song in c minor (free download)
2. Rosa Luxemburg
3. The fox, the rat and the pig
4. Folk music-ish
5. Song in g minor (free download)
6. 8ths (free download)
7. Less electricity
8. Song II in c minor
9. Fragments of a cathedral (Acoustic version)
10. Universal love
Price: 5.50 euro plus p&p (Sweden 11 SEK, Europe 2 euro, rest of the world 3 euro)
Payment: Cash or PayPal
/Johan.
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- KVRAF
- 3002 posts since 24 Nov, 2003 from Heidelberg&Hamburg
Surely a nice way of warming your hands . Melancholic, nice pieces of music. I like to contrast KVR-songs from time to time, so listened to this with Shamann's post quite different "chiptune". After listening to chiptune, your piano starts to dance when listened second time.
(This might be obviously nonsense to you, but it's the way I listen to your music this moment )
Thanks for sharing those short passages and the free songs.
(This might be obviously nonsense to you, but it's the way I listen to your music this moment )
Thanks for sharing those short passages and the free songs.
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- KVRer
- 9 posts since 14 May, 2001 from sydney australia
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 19 posts since 14 Feb, 2005 from Sweden
Thanks for the comments!
I need to check out that chiptune track.
I need to check out that chiptune track.
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- KVRist
- 234 posts since 7 Feb, 2006
I've listened to a number of your songs. Obviously, you're a very talented composer. I liked them a lot. Thanks.
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- KVRian
- 868 posts since 2 Jan, 2003 from In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
Nice. Congratulations on finishing an album of work. there much to be said for that and I like your "Music with less electricity" theme.
Here's something to think about the next time around if you decide to do it again.
-watch the missed notes. I noticed 3 or 4 occassions in the first song where there was a key played in error. (I'll never forget my piano teacher saying: "Practice, practice, practice!)
-use sustain a little less as your chording progresses. I heard some muddiness in parts.
-accompanying strings do not always have to be played in the same octave. (this could add to the muddiness as the frequencies are similar)
-the piano fell off behind the strings in parts and I kind of had to strain to follow the melody. I think when any instrument is supposed to be the highlight instrument, it should remain near the front of the mix.
hey, good job. Just some things there that I noticed...
dano
Here's something to think about the next time around if you decide to do it again.
-watch the missed notes. I noticed 3 or 4 occassions in the first song where there was a key played in error. (I'll never forget my piano teacher saying: "Practice, practice, practice!)
-use sustain a little less as your chording progresses. I heard some muddiness in parts.
-accompanying strings do not always have to be played in the same octave. (this could add to the muddiness as the frequencies are similar)
-the piano fell off behind the strings in parts and I kind of had to strain to follow the melody. I think when any instrument is supposed to be the highlight instrument, it should remain near the front of the mix.
hey, good job. Just some things there that I noticed...
dano
"In a sky full of people, only some want to fly,
Isn’t that crazy?"
Isn’t that crazy?"
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- KVRian
- 868 posts since 2 Jan, 2003 from In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
forgot to mention, #10 is my favorite.
dano
dano
"In a sky full of people, only some want to fly,
Isn’t that crazy?"
Isn’t that crazy?"
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 19 posts since 14 Feb, 2005 from Sweden
Thanks again folks!
/Johan.
You're right... I'm no perfect player...that's why I tend to prefer the computer when I make music! But these tracks sounded better in an acoustic shape...danielmm wrote:Here's something to think about the next time around if you decide to do it again.
-watch the missed notes. I noticed 3 or 4 occassions in the first song where there was a key played in error. (I'll never forget my piano teacher saying: "Practice, practice, practice!)
Yeah it was difficult, I changed the levels of the strings back and forth! Sometimes I thought the piano fell off (like you), sometimes that they didn't add enough warmth because of being too much in the background...tricky!danielmm wrote: -the piano fell off behind the strings in parts and I kind of had to strain to follow the melody. I think when any instrument is supposed to be the highlight instrument, it should remain near the front of the mix.
Thanks for your comments!danielmm wrote:hey, good job. Just some things there that I noticed...
/Johan.
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- KVRian
- 1443 posts since 27 Dec, 2003