Erased Tapes
Nils Frahm - Graz
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Erased
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debut.
Wait,
what?
How?
Anyone
who
has
seenthe
trail
blazing
sonic
pioneer
live
will
know
Nils
likes
todeadpan
a
joke.
Graz
is
in
fact
the
first
studio
album
herecorded
for
the
label
back
in
2009,
that
somehow
remained
asecret…
until
now.Nils
Frahm
has
quietly
changed
the
musical
landscape,reincarnating
the
centuries
old
figure
of
a
pianist-composer
for
anew
generation
of
music
fans.
As
Nils’
word-of-mouth
popularitygrew
and
grew,
so
did
the
pop-culture
profile
of
his
instrument.
Hefounded
Piano
Day
with
a
team
of
like-minded
friends
in
2015
tohelp
that
process,
some
years
releasing
an
album
of
pianorecordings
to
celebrate
one
of
humankind’s
greatest
inventions.Graz
is
one
such
record;
an
unheard
snapshot
of
a
young
Nilsrecorded
at
Mumuth,
the
University
of
Music
and
Performing
ArtsGraz,
in
2009
as
part
of
the
thesis
Conversations
for
Piano
andRoom
produced
by
Thomas
Geiger,
which
received
an
award
inthe
Classical
Surround
Recording
category
at
the
127th
AESConvention
in
New
York.Whilst
at
the
time
it
was
decided
to
keep
the
grand
pianorecordings
from
the
Graz
sessions
locked
away
and
instead
focuson
his
close
mic’ed,
dampened
piano
explorations
which
wouldbecome
his
acclaimed
studio
album
Felt
in
2011,
two
of
the
pieces—
most
notably
Hammers
—
lived
on
as
part
of
his
live
set,
andwere
expanded
on
and
re-recorded
as
part
of
his
breakthrough2013
record
Spaces
(a
collage
of
field
recordings
from
concertswhich
broke
the
Fourth
Wall
and
included
audience
coughs).
Overhis
mercurial
career,
Nils
has
pushed
and
pulled
at
the
boundariesand
parameters
of
his
prolific
work
like
that.
He’s
physicallychanged
his
piano
(the
softened
prepared
strings
of
Felt)
playedwith
a
modified
body
(Screws
recorded
with
9
fingers
and
a
brokenthumb)
played
with
scale
(Solo
recorded
on
the
3.7
metre
highKlavins
M370)
and
with
the
different
layers
of
formats
(last
year’sTripping
with
Nils
Frahm
nested
his
studio
setup
inside
a
liveperformance,
concert
film
and
live
album).
Now
with
Graz
he
hasfound
the
final
frontier
for
play:
time
itself
and
his
own
discography.Graz
is
a
moment
of
time
at
the
very
beginning
of
Nils’
quietrevolution.
The
essential
genius
is
already
evident;
the
harmoniclanguage
of
classical,
and
the
immediacy
of
jazz.
Nils
seems
topull
down
each
idea
moment
by
moment,
gently,
to
not
scare
awaythe
muse.
He
describes:
“sometimes
when
you
hear
a
piano,
youmight
think
it’s
a
conversation
between
a
woman
and
a
man.
Atthe
same
time,
it
can
hint
at
shapes
of
the
universe
and
describehow
a
black
hole
looks.
You
can
make
sounds
that
have
no
relationto
anything
we
can
measure.”
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