LateNightTales

by Nils Frahm

Overview

As with the majority of the Late Night Tales mix CDs, German composer/pianist Nils Frahm's volume isn't a beatmatched DJ mix attempting to emulate a night out at a dance club, but rather a dreamlike sound collage highlighting inspirations and favorite items in the artist's record collection. Frahm takes a more surrealist bent than other contributors to the series, throwing in selections from his 78-rpm recording collection, layering in spoken word and classical pieces, and slowing down Boards of Canada by accident, but leaving it in because it sounds even more mysterious. Frahm starts the collection by jokingly covering John Cage's eternal think piece "4'33"," but instead of four-and-a-half minutes of silence, he constructs a gentle, slowly paced piano melody, adding some delicate feedback toward the end. Dubby electronic tracks from System and Rhythm & Sound sit alongside jazz masterpieces by Miles Davis and Nina Simone, and a 1932 recording of "Flight of the Bumble Bee" (as well as a field recording of a friend's cat purring) lighten up the mood. The album ends with a chilling short story told by Irish actor Cillian Murphy, who concludes it by stating "You have been listening to Late Night Tales, music and stories worth staying up for," providing a fitting end to this immersive hour-long dream sequence. ~ Paul Simpson

Product Details

Release Date:	11/09/2015
Label:	Latenighttales
UPC:	5060391090429
Rank:	7789

Tracks

1. 4'33" [John Cage Cover Version]
2. Liquindi 2
3. Divertimento F¿¿r Tenorsaxophon und Kleines Ensemble, Pt. 4
4. 0181 [Excerpt]
5. You're the Only Star [Nils Frahm 78' Recording]
6. In a Beautiful Place out in the Country
7. It Was Willow
8. Peaks
9. The Flight of the Bumble Bee
10. Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)
11. It's the Talk of the Town [Nils Frahm's 78' Recording]
12. SK20
13. Mango Drive
14. G¿¿n¿¿rique
15. O Herr Bleibet Meine Freunde, BWV 147
16. The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man
17. Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter
18. Who Knows Where the Time Goes
19. Cleo the Cat
20. Cirkel
21. Honey Bunch
22. Them [Solo Piano Edit]
23. In the Morning

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nils Frahm   Primary Artist
Nina Simone   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
The System   Primary Artist
The Gentleman Losers   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Cillian Murphy   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra   Primary Artist
Nina Jurisch   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
The Baka Forest People of South-East Cameroon   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Carl Oesterhelt   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
System   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Victor Silvester & His Orchestra   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Vladimir Horowitz   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Gene Autry   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Dub Tractor   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Dinu Lipatti   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Johannes Enders   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Colin Stetson   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Four Tet   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Boards of Canada   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Bibio   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Dictaphone   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Penguin Cafe Orchestra   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Miles Davis   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Rhythm & Sound   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Ville Kuukka   Featured Artist
Samu Kuukka   Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Miles Davis   Composer
Roger Doring   Composer
Michael Sandison   Composer,Lyricist,Producer
Thomas Knak   Composer
Marcus Eoin   Composer,Lyricist,Producer
Moritz von Oswald   Composer
Al J. Neiburg   Composer
Colin Stetson   Composer,Producer
Oliver Doerell   Composer
Vid Cousins   Producer
Peter Ashworth   Photography
Stephan Woehrmann   Composer
Collin Green   Mixing
Alex Kozobolis   Photography
Piotr Rybkowski   Composer
The Baka Forest People of South-East Cameroon   Composer
Teo Macero   Producer
Andy Stroud   Producer
Simon Jeffes   Composer,Producer
Johann Sebastian Bach   Composer
Ian Morais   Mixing
Nils Frahm   Composer,Engineer,Liner Notes
Anders Remmer   Composer
Bill Brewster   Liner Notes
Jesper Skaaning   Composer
Ville Kuukka   Composer
Samu Kuukka   Composer
Ben Frost   Producer
Shahzad Ismaily   Producer
Colin Green   Mixing
Gene Autry   Composer
John Cage   Composer
Johannes Enders   Composer,Producer
Sandy Denny   Composer
Stephen Wilkinson   Composer
Mark Ernestus   Composer
Kieran Hebden   Composer,Producer
Cheeky Paul   Mastering
Enda Walsh   Composer
Jeffes   Arranger,Composer
Carl Oesterhelt   Composer,Producer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov   Composer
Joaquin Rodrigo   Composer
Marty Symes   Composer
Martin Cradick   Producer,Remixing