Spaces

by Nils Frahm

Spaces cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 November 2013
  • Label: Erased Tapes
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:16:10
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Compiled from various field recordings and live performances, this project treats the piano and synthesizers as physical components of the room's acoustic space. The recording documents Frahm's ability to transition between delicate, neoclassical piano melodies and complex, arpeggiated electronic sequences, emphasizing the spontaneous atmosphere of his stage shows.

Genres

Descriptors: Instrumental, instrumental, atmospheric, repetitive, minimalistic

Tracklist

  1. An Aborted Beginning (1:34)
  2. Says (8:18)
  3. Said and Done (9:38)
  4. Went Missing (4:59)
  5. Familiar (5:38)
  6. Improvisation for Coughs and a Cell Phone (6:44)
  7. Hammers (3:48)
  8. For – Peter – Toilet Brushes – More (16:49)
  9. Over There, It's Raining (3:07)
  10. Unter – Tristana – Ambre (11:42)
  11. Ross's Harmonium (3:51)

Credits

  • Feld - artwork
  • Nils Frahm - primary artist, liner notes, mixed by, written-by, performer
  • Stuart Bailes - lighting [light design], photography by
  • Mandy Parnell - mastered by
  • Alexander Schneider - photography by
  • Tracy Morter - photography by
  • Martyn Heyne - recorded by [recording engineers]
  • Matthias H. Franz Hahn - recorded by [recording engineers]
  • Terence Goodchild - recorded by [recording engineers]

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