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Sep 18, 2015With this record, Frahm reminds us that music--whatever it's genre, origin, form or status--holds a power like no other medium to represent our shared, human emotional experiences.
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Oct 1, 2015Where this CD really starts to take shape and fit the mood of the series is during the last third of the tracklisting that starts with a gentle lullaby from The Penguin Cafe Orchestra and lands softly with the hands of Frahm himself playing a solo piano version of his song “Them.”
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Nov 18, 2015Frahm, in his curating and crafting, has made something that demands to be listened to as a full album, because it is a buoyant, graceful capsule untethered by time.
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Sep 18, 2015The balance of the old and the truly new in instrumentation and song writing style is the bedrock of the composer’s own work and many of the artists on the albums track listing.
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Sep 18, 2015The one flaw is that at times Frahm allows the songs to continue for too long, losing the flow of the album--particularly between tracks 9 through 11, but later as well--but that's a small concern. Otherwise, Frahm's Late Night Tales curation is a blissful, satisfying experience.
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Sep 18, 2015When Nils Frahm curates a Late Night Tales installment, expectations are high. Does he deliver? Of course he does.
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Sep 30, 2015[An] immersive hour-long dream sequence.