All Melody, by Nils Frahm

All Melody

by Nils Frahm

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justplainscott It's like the soundtrack to a beautifully shot dystopian future movie that you didn't know you needed. Favorite track: My Friend the Forest.

Catherine Santana Das was aus dir herauskommt ist wundervoll. Ich danke dir so sehr dafür!
Wenn ich deine Musik höre oder tanze, ist es als möchte etwas Größeres aus mir raus und sprengte meine Materie.

the_big_stewart69 this album is so good that i have peacefully fallen asleep to it everytime. i will admit that i have listened to it over 30 times and never gotten past human range.

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1.	The Whole Universe Wants to Be Touched 01:57	info	buy track
2.	Sunson 09:10	info	buy track
3.	A Place 07:01	info	buy track
4.	My Friend the Forest 05:16	info	buy track
5.	Human Range 06:59	info	buy track
6.	Forever Changeless 02:47	info	buy track
7.	All Melody 09:30	info	buy track
8.	#2 09:40	info	buy track
9.	Momentum 05:20	info	buy track
10.	Fundamental Values 03:50	info	buy track
11.	Kaleidoscope 08:16	info	buy track
12.	Harm Hymn 04:10	info	buy track

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For the past two years, Nils Frahm has been building a brand new studio in Berlin to make his 7th studio
album titled All Melody, which will be released on January 26th, 2018 via Erased Tapes, before Nils embarks on his first world tour since 2015.

Since the day Nils first encountered the impressive studio of a family friend, he had envisioned to create one of his own at such a large scale. Fast forward to the present day and Nils is now the proud host of Saal 3, part of the historical 1950s East German Funkhaus building beside the River Spree. It is here where he has spent most of his time deconstructing and reconstructing the entire space from the cabling and electricity to the woodwork, before moving on to the finer elements; building a pipe organ and creating a mixing desk all from scratch with the help of his friends. This is somewhere music can be nurtured and not neglected, and where he can somewhat fulfil his pursuit of presenting music to the world as close to his imagination as possible.

His previous albums have often been accompanied with a story, such as Felt (2011) where he placed felt upon the hammers of the piano out of courtesy to his neighbours when recording late at night in his old bedroom studio, and the following album Screws (2012) when injuring his thumb forced him to play with only nine fingers. His new album is born out of the freedom that his new environment provided, allowing Nils to explore without any restrictions and to keep it All about the Melody.

Despite being confined within the majestic four walls of the Funkhaus, buried deep in its reverb chambers, or in an old dry well in Mallorca, All Melody is, in fact, proof that music is limitless, timeless, and reflects that of Nils’ own capabilities. From a boy’s dream to resetting the parameters of music itself.

Words from Nils, October 2017:
“In the process of completion, any album not only reveals what it has become but, maybe more importantly, what it hasn't become. All Melody was imagined to be so many things over time and it has been a whole lot, but never exactly what I planned it to be. I wanted to hear beautiful drums, drums I've never seen or heard before, accompanied by human voices, girls, and boys. They would sing a song from this very world and it would sound like it was from a different space. I heard a synthesiser which sounds like a harmonium playing the All Melody, melting together with a line of a harmonium sounding like a synthesiser. My pipe organ would turn into a drum machine, while my drum machine would sound like an orchestra of breathy flutes. I would turn my piano into my very voice, and any voice into a ringing string. The music I hear inside me will never end up on a record, as it seems I can only play it for myself. This record includes what I think sticks out and describes my recent musical discoveries in the best possible way I could imagine.”

The cover art was taken by photographer Lia Darjes in Nils’ new studio and designed by Torsten Posselt at FELD. A series of these in-studio photos will be included in a booklet with a copy of All Melody.

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released January 26, 2018

2018 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.

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Nils Frahm Berlin, Germany

Berlin-based contemporary composer Nils Frahm has built a steady reputation for his intimate, poignant piano recordings, yet they so far only showed a fragment of what to expect from a Nils Frahm concert. Frahm’s heart lies in improvisation, in the magic of a moment where, inspired by the space and the audience, his fingers can create new compositions loosely based around his familiar melodies ... more

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Jun 23

Odeon of Herodes Atticus / Ωδείο Ηρώδου Αττικού

Athens, Greece
Jul 05

Gent Jazz

Ghent, Belgium
Jul 06

Anfiteatro del Vittoriale

Gardone Riviera, Italy
Jul 07

Kasemattenbühne

Graz, Austria
Aug 28

Kölner Philharmonie

Cologne, Germany
Sep 13

Landesmuseum

Zürich, Switzerland
Sep 14

Muziekgebouw Eindhoven

Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nov 14

Le Colisée - Théâtre de Roubaix

Roubaix, France
Nov 15

Cité des Congrès

Nantes, France
Nov 16

Le Pin Galant

Mérignac, France
Nov 17

Auditorium-Orchestre National de Lyon

Lyon, France
Nov 18

Halle Aux Grains

Toulouse, France
Nov 20

Teatro Coliseum

Madrid, Spain
Nov 23

Auditorio Abanca

Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Nov 25

Escenario Santander

Cantabria, Spain
Nov 26

L'Auditori de Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain
Mar 03

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast Dresden

Dresden, Germany
Mar 04

Isarphilharmonie im Gasteig HP8

Munich, Germany
Jul 11

Barbican Centre

London, UK
Jul 12

Barbican Centre

London, UK
Jul 13

Barbican Centre

London, UK
Jul 14

Barbican Centre

London, UK

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