Field Journal: Piano Day 2021

Since Nils Frahm launched the first Piano Day on the 88th day of 2016, the event has seemingly been embraced more joyously with each passing year. Even under the dispiriting constraints of a long-running pandemic, artists and fans around the world found a way to connect through this beloved instrument. Here are just some of…

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Travelogue 2017.06.17: A Spring Quartet

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke A brief survey of an exquisite quartet of modern classical albums for the Spring season by Christoph Berg & Henning Schmiedt on Flau, Tambour on Moderna Records, Julian Marchal on the newly launched Whales Records, and Moinho…

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Aaron Martin – Comet’s Coma [Eilean Rec.]

Topeka, Kansas based artist Aaron Martin follows up his split with Christoph Berg, Day Has Ended  (one of my favorite albums of 2013) and his solo live album Chapel Floor with another stunning release, Comet’s Coma, this one on the enigmatic Eilean Records. The label itself is based on a map of an imaginary place with 100 points, each point…

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