Empty

Description

To mark International Piano Day in 2020 and given the unprecedented context in which we find ourselves, Nils Frahm surprised his fans with a collection of eight solo piano pieces, titled Empty, available digitally on March 28. The highly anticipated physical editions since that date are finally arriving thanks to Erased Tapes. Conceived just before Nils broke his thumb and composed the equally intimate solo piano album "Screws", "Empty" is a soothing vessel of eight simple and serene pieces originally recorded as the music for a short film he shot with his friend and director Benoît Toulemonde. Drifting through the emotions of the austere and sober opening "First Defeat'', to the gently euphoric "No Step On Wing'' and the contemplative yet hopeful "Black Notes'', with its poignant minute of silence, Empty is a comforting score for these turbulent times.