Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Otto A. Totland - 2 piano pieces
1) Solêr 00:00
2) North Way 02:40
I already uploaded these 2 pieces a few days ago, but yesterday I got my hands on a Steinway D-274 and played them again just out of curiosity
*Solêr and North Way are solo piano pieces by Norwegian composer and pianist Otto A. Totland, featured on his debut album Pinô, which was recorded at Nils Frahm's Durton Studio and released on January 31, 2014. These tracks exemplify Totland's minimalist and emotive style, characterized by delicate melodies and intimate atmospheres.
Solêr was also featured in the 2021 Norwegian film The Worst Person in the World.
**Otto Andreas Totland (born in Porsgrunn, Norway 1979) is a Norwegian self-taught pianist and electronic musician also performing under the Nest moniker or as half of the Deaf Center electronic duo with Erik K Skodvin.
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#SoloPiano #MinimalPiano #NeoClassical #ModernClassical #AmbientPiano
Otto A. Totland - 2 piano pieces
1) Solêr 00:00
2) North Way 02:40
I already uploaded these 2 pieces a few days ago, but yesterday I got my hands on a Steinway D-274 and played them again just out of curiosity
*Solêr and North Way are solo piano pieces by Norwegian composer and pianist Otto A. Totland, featured on his debut album Pinô, which was recorded at Nils Frahm's Durton Studio and released on January 31, 2014. These tracks exemplify Totland's minimalist and emotive style, characterized by delicate melodies and intimate atmospheres.
Solêr was also featured in the 2021 Norwegian film The Worst Person in the World.
**Otto Andreas Totland (born in Porsgrunn, Norway 1979) is a Norwegian self-taught pianist and electronic musician also performing under the Nest moniker or as half of the Deaf Center electronic duo with Erik K Skodvin.
Coversart streamings / socials:
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#SoloPiano #MinimalPiano #NeoClassical #ModernClassical #AmbientPiano





![Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence / @coversart
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence [Reworked]
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is a 1983 instrumental piece by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto recorded for the film* (the first in his film scoring career) of the same name. The song has become a staple of Christmas music in the USA, Britain and Japan. A vocal version, Forbidden Colours, features former Japan frontman David Sylvian and charted in the top 20 of the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Chart.
*Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Japanese: 戦場のメリークリスマス, Hepburn: Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu, Merry Christmas on the Battlefield), also known in many European editions as Furyo (俘虜, Japanese for prisoner of war), is a 1983 war film co-written and directed by Nagisa Ōshima, co-written by Paul Mayersberg, and produced by Jeremy Thomas. The film is based on the experiences of Sir Laurens van der Post (portrayed by Tom Conti) as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II, as depicted in his books The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970). It stars David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano and Jack Thompson.
The film was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival in competition for the Palme dOr.
Sakamotos score won the film a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.
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#coversart #sakamoto #nordgrand #piano #rework #furyo Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence / @coversart](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bvF-cV4_L2I/mqdefault.jpg)


![Yann Tiersen - Kerber (Piano Solo) | complete / @coversart
Yann Tiersen: Kerber (Arr. for Piano Solo) | complete
1. Kerlann 00:00
2. Ar Maner Kozh 04:15
3. Kerdrall 09:48
4. Ker Yegu 15:38
5. Ker al Loch 19:31
6. Kerber 24:28
7. Poull Bojer 32:30
A couple of years ago, I secluded myself with an old vintage C. Bechstein grand piano in a small hall, aiming to record some works by Philip Glass. After several attempts, I realized that it wasnt my day. However, with time still on my side, I decided to play and record Yann Tiersens album Kerber, for which I had just received the sheet music. To be honest, this attempt felt unsuccessful. I wasn’t satisfied with my playing, the piano, or the choice and placement of microphones. In general, nothing seemed right.
I tried editing and mixing the recording without much success, so I ultimately decided to delete the project. After deleting it, I forgot about it. Just a few days ago, while cleaning my hard drive, I stumbled upon backup video and audio files. Intrigued, I listened to the preserved recording and decided to breathe new life into this version of Tiersens Kerber.
From the press release:
Named after a chapel in a small village on the island of Ushant, Kerber marks a new chapter in Tiersen’s career. A chapter still true to Tiersen’s nuanced and subtle approach but one that sets out with his most overtly electronic material to date. Beautifully textured, highly immersive, and thoughtfully constructed, Tiersen creates an electronic world, providing an environment in which the piano source exists.
A sense of place has often been a central theme in Tiersen’s work and here that is no different. Each track is tied to a place mapping out the immediate landscape that surrounds Tiersen’s home, linking back to his thoughts on the possibilities of the infinite smallness.
“I think there is a similarity between the infinite big and the infinite smallness of everything,” says Yann Tiersen. “Its the same experiment looking through a microscope as it is a telescope.”
*Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French Breton musician and composer.] His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations, and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments, primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesisers, and the violin, but he also includes instruments such as the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, piano accordion, and even a typewriter.
Tiersen is often mistaken for a soundtrack composer; as he is quoted about himself: Im not a composer and I really dont have a classical background, but his real focus is on touring and recording studio albums, which are often used for film soundtracks. Tracks taken from his first three studio albums were used for the soundtrack of the 2001 French film Amélie.
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#yanntiersen #kerber #piano #coversart #vintagepiano Yann Tiersen - Kerber (Piano Solo) | complete / @coversart](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cBuscbpfCiU/mqdefault.jpg)

![Jóhann Jóhannsson - Ruslpóstur (from Dís) Reworked / @coversart
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Ruslpóstur (from Dís) [reworked]
“Ruslpóstur” is a piece from the original soundtrack of Dís, composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969 - 2018), the visionary Icelandic composer celebrated for blending classical orchestration with electronic and experimental textures.
Written for the film directed by Silja Hauksdóttir, the Dís score moves away from traditional orchestral writing, instead embracing studio-crafted sounds and an intimate, atmospheric palette. This project marked an early chapter in Jóhannsson’s film career - years before his internationally acclaimed scores for The Theory of Everything, Sicario, and Arrival.
My interpretation remains faithful to the original structure of the piece while introducing subtle ambient noise textures and additional string lines - offering a personal perspective on its quiet intensity and fragile beauty.
*Silja Hauksdóttir (born 12 January 1976) is an Icelandic writer and film director. After studying philosophy at the University of Iceland, she pursued screenwriting, directing, and cinematography at FAMU in Prague and Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam. She co-wrote the novel Dís with Birna Anna Björnsdóttir and Oddný Sturludóttir and later directed the 2004 feature film Dís, which was nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize.
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🎧 Jóhann Jóhannsson Piano Works Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWv6irCJGAKLvp44E4yGoWyA7ar8K4C42&si=5APjzhhiCP0FhNrC
#neoclassical #ambient #piano #music #minimalism
piano for studying, neoclassical ambient, cinematic piano, modern classical mix Jóhann Jóhannsson - Ruslpóstur (from Dís) Reworked / @coversart](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cshSW_yuCa4/mqdefault.jpg)