To mark this year’s Piano Day and as an acknowledgement to these unprecedented circumstances we find ourselves in, Nils Frahm surprised the world with a collection of eight solo piano pieces, titled Empty.
Conceived of just before Nils broke his thumb and composed the similarly intimate solo piano album Screws, Empty
is a soothing vessel of eight simple and serene pieces originally recorded as the music to a short art film he shot with his friend and film director Benoît Toulemonde. Drifting through emotions from the stark and sobering opener First Defeat
, to the gently euphoric No Step On Wing
and the contemplative but hopeful closer Black Notes
, with its poignant minute of silence, Empty
is a comforting score for these turbulent times.
