I’m a sucker for beautiful piano – I should be as that’s the kind of piano I like to write and play. Ludovico Einaudi is a genius and this track with its 29+ million streams is a good example of why.
Propellers. I don’t know why, but it’s all I can think about with this piece. Like an old biplane – or even a world war II fighter, like a spitfire or a hurricane.
It’s the tone of the piano that grabs me here – big and dark and and faintly foreboding – kinda like the steel tube you’re sitting in.
I love this – it feels like the start of a new day – full of hope – full of build – full of light and love and support and just – damn – it’s everything you want in a beautifully uplifting piece of music.
Yann Tiersen is one of my favorite pianist / composers – what he did with the score of Amelie was amazing – one instrument – a myriad of emotions – sheer genius.
As an artist you never know what tracks are going to resonate with the public – of sure, you can be part of a Nashville songwriting team and construct a track for an audience but even, you’ve no real idea whether it’ll “fly” or not.
So you want a cascading piano to paint every bit of sadness in your soul? Yet you also want it to have an element of hope?
Originally written for the music to grieve to playlist – it’s kinda disturbing that it should arrive on this playlist too!
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I love it when you think you know a track only to have your expectations exceeded as the composer take you in a completely unexpected direction.
A collaboration between two people, two pianists which produces an effortlessly light, floaty, safe space.
This track was the original inspiration for the entire playlist. Actually the original idea had been kicked around a few years back and I had worked up a theme at the time but when i came back to it it didn’t really resonate.
Short, simple and super sweet – it’s the kind of thing I might have written. Simple arpeggiated bass line with this uncomplicated meandering melody that reminds you of how it feels when you’re wondering, lost after your loved one has gone.