Nils Frahm releases «Day», an album of six solo piano pieces.

German composer and producer Nils Frahm released a new solo piano album entitled Day last Friday. The album was recorded in the summer of 2022 outside the Funkhaus, the studio he use to work in Berlin, and is the first of two albums the musician plans to release in 2024. Day breaks with the dominant tone of his recent works and, in contrast to the gigantism of albums such as Music for Animals – released in 2022, it was three hours long in total – he has returned to his more intimate neoclassical sound, avoiding the more experimental sounds and the complexity of instrumental and electronic equipment on stage. On Day, Frahm has returned to focusing entirely on his speciality: piano playing, and it sounds so fabulously slowed down, so close and fragile, that you feel as if you were sitting next to him on the same stool: on the album, consisting of only six pieces and lasting a total of thirty-four minutes, you can hear the piano pedals creaking and even hear him panting or the distant barking of dogs or the chirping of birds. The pieces always have an extremely meditative effect, fuelled by the silence between notes. A silence that can almost be touched.

Frahm is touring Europe in March and April, with performances in Munich (today, 4 March, at the Isarphilharmonie im Gasteig), Lucerne (Tuesday 5 March, KKL Auditorium), Dijon (Wednesday 6 March, La Vapeur), Amsterdam (Thursday 7 March, Concertgebouw), Nijmegen (Friday 8 March), Paris (Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21, Grand Salle Pierre Boulez, Cité de la musique) and Copenhaguen (19 and 20 April, VEGA).