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Machinic Phylum EP - 2012 | VBR

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Cicada NEW!

Pieces LP - 2011 | 320kbs

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Nils Frahm NEW!

Gentle, soft and fragile... Gorgeous sounds.

Felt LP - 2011 | 320kbs

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Brasstronaut

Brasstronaut are six people who (as it is claimed on lastfm) spend most of their time in a van. With a core lineup of trumpet, flugelhorn, piano and voice, this Vancouver band doesn't exactly arrive with a surfeit of referents. For people who love experimental jazz in some soft and gentle arrangement.

Old World Lies EP - 2008 | VBR
Mt. Chimaera LP - 2010 | 320kbs

Ben Woods

Ben Woods was a full time student at the University of Plymouth UK, where all of his music was written and recorded. His music is written to audibly represent recent emotions and feelings with regard to situation, experience and circumstance.
His latest work is predominantly piano based but Ben is always working on the newest approach he discovers. He has been working on a series of acoustic guitar lead soundscapes and has also been experimenting with turning written acoustic songs into beautifully layered drones.’

A Collection of Thoughts - 2008 | 320 kbps

Liaise In Silence EP - 2008 | 320 kbps

Nymh Realms Of Detachment - 2008 | 320 kbps

Moments - 2009 | 320 kbps

Things Weren't Always This Way EP - 2009 | 320 kbps

Years Of Rice And Salt

Years of Rice and Salt is a 6-piece instrumental post rock band based in London, United Kingdom. They were formed in Summer 2008 and released their debut EP entitled Service Bell EP in January 2009, which was a themed collection of songs navigating the timeline of a shipwreck through music. Their first full-length recording, entitled Nothing Of Cities, was released in April 2011. The new albums shows sense of beauty which band owns. 8 tracks, really charming and sophisticated.

Service Bell EP - 2009 | VBR
Nothing Of Cities LP - 2011 | 320kbs

Circadian Eyes

Circadian Eyes is a solo music project of Bryan Collins from Saratoga Springs, New York. His music is piano-based with strings, ambience, and post-rock elements as well. As an influences he mentions some artists like Ólafur Arnalds or Sigur Rós. Gentle and soft sounds perfect to calm down and dreaming.

Rain EP - 2010 | 320kbs
Circadian Eyes EP - 2010 | 320kbs
Who We Were LP - 2011| 320kbs

Braveyoung

Braveyoung consists of four constant individuals and a collection of others donating their input. Started in 2005 in North Carolina, United States under the moniker Giant, and in in late 2008 began to function under the name Braveyoung. As Giant they were heavier, played more post metal music. Their second face presents something more calm, ambientic, soft and post rock sounds - so atmospheric.

Bloom EP - 2009 | 320kbs
We Are Lonely Animals - 2011 | 320kbs

Dustin O'Halloran

Dustin O’Halloran is an American pianist, who has done work with Sara Lov for Devics and has also been featured on the soundtrack for the Sofia Coppola’s film “Marie Antoinette” (2006).

He first began classical training on the instrument at age 7. Six years of lessons were abruptly interrupted when he relocated to live with his father. O’Halloran would not touch the piano again for over a decade.

His reunion with the instrument began after meeting Sara Lov, a dynamic musician in her own right and one half of the creative force behind the Devics. Through writing music together with Lov, O’Halloran found his interest in piano reignited and his passion for the instrument slowly found its way into their songs.

Piano Solos Vol.1 -  2004 | VBR

Piano Solos Vol.2 - 2006 | 320kbps

Vorleben - 2010 | 320 kbps

Luigi Rubino

This is the first splendid album of Ashram’s pianist solo. Crystal notes of piano, nostalgia of violin, grace of Cello brings one into a very intense feeling of emotion, moving & intimist. Like an original soundtrack, the music draws the most peaceful & celestial timeless landscapes one can imagine. Luigi Rubino started playing and studying piano and liturgical organ when he was 10, with both Italian and foreign teachers.

A Theme For The Moon LP - 2009 | VBR

Evan Abeele

Evan Abeele is definately specyfic artist. His music is a minimalistic mixture of samples and looped ambient tones with some monotonic piano sounds. As his myspace bio says: “Blending elements of modern classical, ambient, and minimalism into a style that evokes the sounds of Arvo Pärt by way of Boards of Canada. The compositions feature a microscopic focus on texture that emphasizes the relationship between the human organization of noise and sound. Deriving inspiration from the musique concrete movement of 1960’s France, the compositions forgo conventional classical aesthetics in favor of haunting, strangely familiar sounds.” Beautiful ambient music! Taste it!

Lineage EP - 2011 | 320kbs

Andrei Machado

Andrei Machado is a self-taught brazilian composer. His influences are neo-classical music and minimalist artists like Petel Broderick, Bosques De Mi Mente, Max Michta, Goldmund and Michael Andrews. With a soft touch and a mix of elegancy, Andrei Machado blends beautiful soundscapes with heartbreaking melodies, giving you, at the same time, the feeling of freedom and anxiety. And it’s deffinelly something a human being should experience.

Lacuna LP - 2008 | 320kbs
Étant LP - 2009 | 320kbs

F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm

And there is a similiar situation as in post below. A blend of styles and kinds of music makes me decide to put this album apart from 'Nils Frahm' post. A collaboration between the Berliners F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm create the improvisational and jazz-tinged digital album Music For Lovers Music Versus Time, contained beside neoclassical tones, also full of experimental sounds from life for example falling ping-pong ball, sounds of steps on stairs etc... So complicated, not easy-listening, but also so interested and intrigued.

Music For Lovers Music Versus Time LP - 2010 | 320kbs

Nils Frahm & Anne Müller

I've considered if add this album to the 'Nils Frahm' post, but finally I decided to set it apart. Reason? The music which is presented by this two people is completly different than this in his solo albums. Unknown for everybody Anne Müller add to the Nils' neo-classical music some kind of magic hidden in electronic sounds. For me it's the one of the best albums of the year and their mixtures of classical music and electronic sometimes are even better than masterpieces of Ólafur Arnalds!

7fingers LP - 2010 | 320kbs

Nils Frahm

Nils Frahm, born in 1982, had an early introduction to music. During his childhood he was taught to play piano by Nahum Brodski – a student of the last scholar of Tschaikowski. It was through this that Nils began to immerse himself in the styles of the classical pianists before him as well as contemporary composers. Today Nils Frahm works as an accomplished composer and producer in Berlin. For me, actually he is the one of the best modern yong artists from that genre.

The Bells LP - 2008 | 320kbs
Wintermusic EP - 2009 | 320kbs
Machinefarbiek & Nils Frahm - Perform 'Dauw' EP - 2009 | 320kbs
[video: Machinefarbiek - Dauw]
Unter | Über EP - 2010 | 320kbs

点と線 (Ten To Sen / Dots And Lines)

点と線 / ten to sen (in english - Dots And Lines) is a side-project from two Spangle Call Lilli Line’s members: Ken Fujieda and Kiyoaki Sasahara. Their music is a mixture of soft and sensual sonuds of many instruments for example: violin, cello, piano, flute, guitar (elecric and acoustic), rattles, tambourine and I don't even know what else... Worth to check!

Ten To Sen LP - 2009 | 320kbs

Cicada

Cicada is a young instrumental band from Taiwan. Their music is a piece of composition contain acoustic guitar, cello, 2 violins and piano (1 guy and 4 girls). This fusion of classical instruments and their origin makes them sound intriguing, absorbing, magnetic and a little bit oriental. Their only release is this handmade EP (DIY?;) ). This is probably only one band from Taiwan I know, but for sure one of my favorite, even if the new one will appear. You can check them here and here (videos probably from some rehersals).

Over The Sea/Under The Water EP - 2010 | 320kbs

Hummingbird

Hummingbird (not to be confused with the 70’s band of the same name) is the nom de plume of an otherwise well known composer behind the album “Our Fearful Symmetry”, which defines elements within the modern classical genre. It includes subtle string arrangements mixed with echoes of piano notes, fused with hallmarks of the electro-acoustic genre – waves of static, white noise and field recordings tangle with layers of fragmented texture that create both the foreground and background.

Our Fearful Symmetry LP - 2010 | VBR

Kashiwa Daisuke

I strongly recommend to check Program Music I at first. So awesome!

April.#02 LP - 2006 | VBR
April.#07 [April.#02 Remixes] - 2007 | 192kbs
Program Music I LP - 2007 | VBR
5 Dec. LP - 2009 | VBR

Balmorhea

Balmorhea - 2007 | 320 kbps

River Arms - 2008 | 320 kbps

All Is Wild All Is Silent - 2009 | 320 kbps