Nils Frahm’s double album 'Old Friends New Friends' gathers together 23 solo piano tracks
recorded between 2009 and 2021, almost all hitherto unreleased but omitted from previous
albums and projects for one reason or another.
The album was pieced together during the pandemic as Frahm used the time to arrange his
archives, conscious of the sheer number of recordings he’d accumulated. Having selected his
favourites, he realised how, when he listened to them together, they offered “a different
spectrum of freedom for me. I forgot that some tracks are ten years old, some two, and
they’re all played on different pianos. Instead I remembered how, as a fan, I love albums like
this. With a lot of my records there’s a point where you feel, ‘This is the centrepiece,’ but
here I wasn’t really worrying about that. It still feels like my universe, though, and I’m proud
that all these things which I never found a way to unite before now work together. It’s like I
tossed flowers indiscriminately into a vase and then realised it looked exactly right.”
The 140g vinyl records come housed in a single-pocket cardboard jacket, and protected by
premium anti-static inner sleeves.
Out of stock? Get notified when this item is restocked.
Nils Frahm’s double album 'Old Friends New Friends' gathers together 23 solo piano tracks
recorded between 2009 and 2021, almost all hitherto unreleased but omitted from previous
albums and projects for one reason or another.
The album was pieced together during the pandemic as Frahm used the time to arrange his
archives, conscious of the sheer number of recordings he’d accumulated. Having selected his
favourites, he realised how, when he listened to them together, they offered “a different
spectrum of freedom for me. I forgot that some tracks are ten years old, some two, and
they’re all played on different pianos. Instead I remembered how, as a fan, I love albums like
this. With a lot of my records there’s a point where you feel, ‘This is the centrepiece,’ but
here I wasn’t really worrying about that. It still feels like my universe, though, and I’m proud
that all these things which I never found a way to unite before now work together. It’s like I
tossed flowers indiscriminately into a vase and then realised it looked exactly right.”
The 140g vinyl records come housed in a single-pocket cardboard jacket, and protected by
premium anti-static inner sleeves.
Out of stock? Get notified when this item is restocked.