Nils Frahm (born 20 September 1982) is a German musician, composer and reco… Read Full Bio ↴Nils Frahm (born 20 September 1982) is a German musician, composer and record producer based in Berlin. He is known for combining classical and electronic music and for an unconventional approach to the piano in which he mixes a grand piano, upright piano, Roland Juno-60, Rhodes piano, drum machines, and Moog Taurus.
As well as his solo work, Frahm has released collaborations with such notable performers as Anne Müller, Ólafur Arnalds, F. S. Blumm and Woodkid. Together with Frederic Gmeiner and Sebastian Singwald he records and performs as Nonkeen.
Frahm had an early introduction to music. His father, Klaus Frahm, was a photographer who also designed covers for ECM Records. He grew up near Hamburg, where he learned the styles of the classical pianists as well as contemporary composers. At school he used mixing boards and was very interested in the quality of recorded sound
Frahm's earlier solo piano works Wintermusik (2009) and The Bells (2009) gained him attention, but it was his 2011 release Felt that was met with critical acclaim. It was his first studio album on Erased Tapes, which has been releasing his music since. The album was followed by the solo synthesiser EP Juno and by Screws (2012), recorded while Frahm was recovering from a thumb injury, and offered as a free download to fans on his birthday. His follow-up to Juno, titled Juno Reworked (2013), featured guest reworks by Luke Abbott and Chris Clark.
Frahm's album, Spaces (2013), was made of live recordings from various venues spanning over two years.
In December 2013, Frahm released his first music book, Sheets Eins, published by Manners McDade. In 2016 the follow-up Sheets Zwei was released.
In 2014, Frahm announced his new piano "Una Corda", specially designed and made for him by David Klavins. The piano weighs under 100 kg and has one string per key, rather than the commonly used three strings.[8]
His album Solo (2015), an improvisation single take without any overdubs, was later recorded on the "Modell 370", a 370cm high vertical piano also made by David Klavins. It was one of the 19 records nominated for the IMPALA Album of the Year Award.
A condensed version of his single "More" was featured in the Assassin's Creed Unity gamescom trailer.
In 2015 Frahm composed his first original score for the German film "Victoria" which is a 140-minute continuous take directed by Sebastian Schipper.
Nils Frahm also collaborated with Woodkid on the critically acclaimed short film ELLIS directed by JR which was released in October 2015.
In the same year Nils Frahm created the "Piano Day" which is celebrated at the 88th day of the year (due to the 88 keys of a standard piano) The first project was the construction of the "Modell 450" together with David Klavins. It is the successor of the "Modell 370".
In February 2016 Frahm released The Gamble, followed by its companion release Oddments of the Gamble in August 2016. Pitchfork.com described the album "as charmingly patched together and messy as it is well-paced and dynamic". The material was recorded over eight years while the artwork was produced by Frahm's father.
Frahm has said "I’m interested in how human beings react in certain situations, and what music does to people’s emotions. How we can change people’s attitudes with tones. After I’ve played a good concert, people leave the room happy. This is something we can give back to the world. When people feel down and like it’s all going to shit, at least we can give them some music and change their attitude so people don’t think it’s all shit.... That’s my religion."
As well as his solo work, Frahm has released collaborations with such notable performers as Anne Müller, Ólafur Arnalds, F. S. Blumm and Woodkid. Together with Frederic Gmeiner and Sebastian Singwald he records and performs as Nonkeen.
Frahm had an early introduction to music. His father, Klaus Frahm, was a photographer who also designed covers for ECM Records. He grew up near Hamburg, where he learned the styles of the classical pianists as well as contemporary composers. At school he used mixing boards and was very interested in the quality of recorded sound
Frahm's earlier solo piano works Wintermusik (2009) and The Bells (2009) gained him attention, but it was his 2011 release Felt that was met with critical acclaim. It was his first studio album on Erased Tapes, which has been releasing his music since. The album was followed by the solo synthesiser EP Juno and by Screws (2012), recorded while Frahm was recovering from a thumb injury, and offered as a free download to fans on his birthday. His follow-up to Juno, titled Juno Reworked (2013), featured guest reworks by Luke Abbott and Chris Clark.
Frahm's album, Spaces (2013), was made of live recordings from various venues spanning over two years.
In December 2013, Frahm released his first music book, Sheets Eins, published by Manners McDade. In 2016 the follow-up Sheets Zwei was released.
In 2014, Frahm announced his new piano "Una Corda", specially designed and made for him by David Klavins. The piano weighs under 100 kg and has one string per key, rather than the commonly used three strings.[8]
His album Solo (2015), an improvisation single take without any overdubs, was later recorded on the "Modell 370", a 370cm high vertical piano also made by David Klavins. It was one of the 19 records nominated for the IMPALA Album of the Year Award.
A condensed version of his single "More" was featured in the Assassin's Creed Unity gamescom trailer.
In 2015 Frahm composed his first original score for the German film "Victoria" which is a 140-minute continuous take directed by Sebastian Schipper.
Nils Frahm also collaborated with Woodkid on the critically acclaimed short film ELLIS directed by JR which was released in October 2015.
In the same year Nils Frahm created the "Piano Day" which is celebrated at the 88th day of the year (due to the 88 keys of a standard piano) The first project was the construction of the "Modell 450" together with David Klavins. It is the successor of the "Modell 370".
In February 2016 Frahm released The Gamble, followed by its companion release Oddments of the Gamble in August 2016. Pitchfork.com described the album "as charmingly patched together and messy as it is well-paced and dynamic". The material was recorded over eight years while the artwork was produced by Frahm's father.
Frahm has said "I’m interested in how human beings react in certain situations, and what music does to people’s emotions. How we can change people’s attitudes with tones. After I’ve played a good concert, people leave the room happy. This is something we can give back to the world. When people feel down and like it’s all going to shit, at least we can give them some music and change their attitude so people don’t think it’s all shit.... That’s my religion."
Hammers
Nils Frahm Lyrics
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A.WARD In the night With voices low, low, low And all the cars Are…
Alec Benjamin It's wholly subjective The thing that you see So what's your…
Charlie Barnes Still, these young hammers beat from beneath our ribs The rh…
KITCHEN - Nils Frahm I am the sinner with only socks on. They huddle around…
loski Splash and brag it or slap them cannons Bro-bro stepped with…
Sound&Shape Isn't it strange how Memory culminates? Every piece of famil…
The Holy Mountain And still we soldier on To find some grace A reason or…
Thirdsphere The thundering roar arrive The Thunder god, define our law W…
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A Place Come out, and live with a religious community in a…
Frau Dehlholm Weeping stars go flying On their way to play You'll catch a…
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country Come out, and live with a religious community in a…
It's The Talk Of The Town We were more than lovers, We were more than sweethearts, It'…
Its The Talk Of The Town We were more than lovers, We were more than sweethearts, It'…
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Nuno Vicente
This is epic. Powerful. I wish I could find more musicians handling the piano this way.
Allan McDigger
Try Branka Parlic playing Philip Glass
Silvio Pfiffner
Hahaha, I love they build up the ping pong table, as if they don't have enough other stuff to do! =)
It's impressive to see how much work it takes to build up all the stuff...
The song is amazing though! I really hope to see Nils live again somewhen in the future!
Nerved Music
It's a cool job. I couldn't do it full-time but I did quite a few gigs as a part-timer. Get to see loads of places and meet loads of people!
Aziz Adilov
So intensive and beautiful.
Kol Nidrei
Su-per-be! Quelle belle musique!
Bicccy
I was lucky enough to be at that wonderful concert in Berlin :)
mantisarg
It's normal.
One amazing piano player!
I'd like to see him...
Simon Dijkstra
Big Inspiration. Wish I can play like this one day...
TyranosaurusRekt
The intro is very similar to another of his pieces: My Things
Pretty cool how it shows two pretty different ways the same basic tune can be played.