Video: Nils Frahm (La Blogotheque & Water Sessions)

Nils Frahm is incredibly talented.  A pianist/composer from Germany, Frahm has been playing the piano since he was a child where he was taught by a former student of Tschaikowski.   He began putting out small releases years ago, but since moving to Erased Tapes Records has released a string of beautiful entrancing full length albums & EP's, including his latest Felt.  He heavily pads the piano hammers to muffle the sound and while recording buries microphones deep inside the piano and around his face to capture every scrape, breath, floorboard creak and reverberation.

His music is repetitive and extremely hypnotic, often at times feeling electronically trance like.  The following are 2 very well produced concert series featuring Frahm in which he mostly improvising.  The first is from the French site La Blogotheque, which we have featured on our page numerous times.

 The latter is from the Waterfront Sessions, a UK based site that has been releasing a number of interesting and beautifully shot shorts on their Youtube page.

 

Be sure to listen to a stream of Nils Frahm's latest album, Felt... thanks to The Hype Machine.  Highly Recommended.

Video: Childish Gambino débuts Four New Songs At The Switch

Last night, rapper/funny man Childish Gambino performed a secret show in LA as a part of “The Switch,” the latest live component of La Blogotheque. Included in his set were four new, untitled, songs that will presumably appear on his upcoming mixtape tentatively entitled Royalty. You can check out videos of each of the cuts below, note that the names of these songs are unconfirmed and any labels are purely speculative.

Sunday Matinee - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip - Kurt Vile

I feel like we have been slacking on some good live performances and skipped a couple "Sunday Matinee's" but we are back with a good one courtesy of the great French music blog, La Blogotheque, specially their ongoing series of videos, the Take Away Show.

This week is a completely relaxed and earthy version of "Baby's Arms" by Kurt Vile filmed last summer in Paris while on tour for his latest album, Smoke Rings for my Halo (Matador Records). You can catch him now if you are lucky touring with Thurston Moore.