Old Friends New Friends Nils Frahm SKU: 4050538759686 Barcode: 4050538759686 33.00 £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Records Released Date: 3rd December 2021 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Old Friends New Friends 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.” One can only guess how difficult it may initially have been to narrow down candidates for public consumption from the wealth of choices, because even selecting highlights from Old Friends New Friends is a challenge. Nonetheless, among its almost 80 minutes of music are the fluid ‘Rain Take’, in which his instrument’s glistening ripples are married with the distant sound of a deluge outside; ‘Wedding Walzer’, a Satie-esque piece so intimate Frahm’s pedal-work threatens to overshadow its delicate melody; the unexpectedly touching ‘Then Patterns’, the exquisitely graceful ‘Acting’, and the redemptive, radiant ‘The Chords Broken Down’. Clearly, these are much more than outtakes, something Frahm has no trouble explaining. “Often tracks that don’t make it onto an album are the ones with the most boldness and bravery.” Frahm has other reasons to release this record, too, among them a craving to protect his legacy in an era where ‘bonus material’ is in constant demand. “The nature of the mind – and a hard drive – is that you forget a lot of stuff,” he says, “and I hate the idea that somebody might browse through my things trying to find something I’d forgotten. I’ll probably burn everything before I go, but these are pieces I wanted to put out. So this is an original ‘Nils Frahm’, so to speak, not somebody curating a leftover meal.” Furthermore, Frahm felt an urge to clean the slate before making his next move. His debut, Streichelfisch, was released 16 years ago, and not only has his solo output since then been prolific but he’s also engaged in large amounts of collaborative work with friends like Ólafur Arnalds, Peter Broderick, F.S. Blumm, Library Tapes and Anne Müller. “My intuition,” he says, “is that it’s easier for me to start over if the body of work from the last ten years or so is organised enough that I never need worry about it again. It’s time to forget about the past, but in order to never think about it again I have to address it first.” Whether or not it’s prudent to add to the significant amount of music he’s released in recent years, Frahm’s unconcerned. “History tells us people sometimes pick up on records years later and still like them, so hopefully my music isn’t bound to any specific date. If people hear this for the first time in, say, 20 years, they won’t worry about when it came out, or whether something else also came out the same year. And anyway: who knows? Maybe at some point down the line I won’t release any albums for five years!” As for how he feels letting the music loose into the world, Frahm simply chuckles. “It’s like if your kids finally move out when they’re 23, and you realise, ‘Shit, this could have happened years ago!’” Artist Nils Frahm Genre Rock And Pop Label BMG Records Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings LP1 4:33 (A Tribute to John Cage) Late Berduxa Rain Take Todo Nada Weddinger Walzer In the Making Further in the Making All Numbers End The Idea Machine Then Patterns Corn New Friend LP2 Nils Has a New Piano Acting As a Reminder Iced Wood Strickleiter The Chords The Chords Broken Down Forgetmenot Restive Old Friend Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Nils Frahm View Product Quick View Nils Frahm Day Rock And Pop | Leiter | 1LP Released 1st March 2024 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm Day £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Leiter SKU: LTR036 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Frahm Music For Animals Rock And Pop | Leiter | 4LP Released 23rd September 2022 £58.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm Music For Animals £58.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Leiter SKU: 4050538819397 Formats: 4LP Released Date: 23rd September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Frahm Streichelfisch Rock And Pop | Warner Music | 1LP Released 22nd April 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm Streichelfisch £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Music SKU: 4050538771251 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Frahm Durton Rock And Pop | Warner Music | 1LP Released 22nd April 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm Durton £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Music SKU: 4050538771213 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Frahm Electric Piano Rock And Pop | Warner Music | 1LP Released 22nd April 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm Electric Piano £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Music SKU: 4050538771282 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Frahm Graz Rock And Pop | Erased Tapes | 1LP Released 21st May 2021 £23.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Nils Frahm Graz £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Erased Tapes SKU: ERATP143LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st May 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Nils Frahm Tripping with Nils Frahm Rock And Pop | Erased Tapes | 2LP Released 29th January 2021 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm Tripping with Nils Frahm £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Erased Tapes SKU: ERATP136LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 29th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Frahm Empty Rock And Pop | Erased Tapes | 1LP Released 23rd October 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm Empty £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Erased Tapes SKU: ERATP134LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Frahm All Encores Rock And Pop | Erased Tapes | 3LP Released 3rd April 2020 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm All Encores £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Erased Tapes SKU: ERATP126LP Formats: 3LP Released Date: 3rd April 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Frahm Encores 3 Classical | Erased Tapes | 1LP Released 20th September 2019 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Frahm Encores 3 £14.00 Genre: Classical Label: Erased Tapes SKU: ERATP125LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more from Nils Frahm Start again More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Big Thief Vampire Empire/Born For Loving You Rock And Pop | 4AD | 7", Coloured Vinyl Released 20th October 2023 £9.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Big Thief Vampire Empire/Born For Loving You £9.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 4AD SKU: 4AD0656S Formats: 7", Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Galen & Paul Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day? 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