Nils Frahm

German composer, producer and musician with classical training, Nils Frahm works on sound matter through an acoustic and electronic approach. Born in Hamburg on September 20, 1982, he studied piano and took an interest in the history of classical music, right through to contemporary composers of the electronic or minimalist school. After eight years as a pupil of Nahum Brodski, himself trained by a disciple of Pyortr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nils Frahm moved to Berlin. He recorded two self-produced albums, Streichelfisch (2005) and Electric Piano (2008), followed by Wintermusik (2009), The Bells (2009) and Felt (2011), a work for prepared piano published by Erased Tapes. He soon began collaborating with other musicians from the electronic sphere, such as F. S. Blumm (Frank Schültge), Machinefabriek, Peter Broderick, Anne Müller and Ólafur Arnalds, while some of his pieces, such as Juno, were remixed. After the minimalist album Screws (2012), followed four years later by the remixes of Screws Reworked (2016), Nils Frahm composed the music for the film Victoria (2015), then that of Ellis (2016) with Woodkid. The same year, he collaborated on two albums by experimental electronic trio Nonkeen (2016). A lover of analog instruments, he produced the synthesizer-based album All Melody (2018), from which the three EPs in the Encore series are taken. The compositions on Empty, recorded in 2012, are released for World Piano Day in 2020, and seven years after his first live album Spaces (2013), Tripping with Nils Frahm reports on his recent world tour. In 2021 his first recording for the Erased Tapes label, Graz, is unveiled, followed by his collaboration with F. S. Blumm on 2x1=4. After setting up the Leiter Verlag label in 2020, Nils Frahm released Old Friends New Friends two years later, bringing Durton's compositions out of the archives. The same year, he worked on the long tracks of Music for Animals, followed by its successor Day (2024), a more classical collection. The latter gave rise to a series of concerts from which the live album Paris was taken, featuring recent and older pieces.

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