the healing piano

After the attacks in Paris on November 13th, NPR music did a show about music for healing.  You can find it here... http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/11/17/456343231/music-for-healing

Two cuts on their playlist are from two of my favorite albums this year, Goldmund - Sometimes and Nils Frahm - Solo.

As I listened to those two tracks over & over I started to think about the piano as a healing instrument.  The right song & circumstances can make just about any instrument a healing instrument.  But somehow the piano seems ideally suited for that role.

Most of the tunes used here are new.  In addition to the Goldmund & Frahm cuts another 2015 favorite album included in the mix is Chris Walla - Tape Loops.  Walla is the drummer for Death Cab for Cutie and he has put together a nice collection that reminds me of Music for Airports & Music for Films.

I hope this mix can act as a musical balm, soothing our psyches in these turbulent times.

Enjoy.

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 Goldmund - Sometimes
• 02:40 Chris Walla - Goodbye
• 08:00 Nils Frahm - Ode
• 12:10 Hior Chronik & Mikael Delta - Everything We Want to Feel
• 15:00 Max Richter - Cumulonimbus
• 20:20 Moon ate the dark - If Vanishing
• 24:25 Ocean in a Bottle - Circling Winter
• 25:50 Eskmo - Tamara
• 27:48 Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts II
• 30:55 Nils Frahm - 4'33"
• 32:40 Mette Henriette - .oOo.
• 35:55 Aphex Twin - Aisatsana
• 40:55 Chris Walla - flytoget
• 49:28 A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atmos III
• 53:27 Stars of the Lid - Humectez La Mouture
• 57:45 Nils Frahm - merry
• 61:45 end