Nils Frahm - All Melody (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

For the past two years, Nils Frahm has been building a brand new studio in Berlin to make his 7th studio album titled All Melody, this is in the warm up to his first world tour since 2015. His previous albums have often been accompanied with a story, such as Felt (2011) where he placed felt upon the hammers of the piano out of courtesy to his neighbours when recording late at night in his old bedroom studio, and the following album Screws (2012) when injuring his thumb forced him to play with only nine fingers. His new album is born out of the freedom that his new environment provided, allowing Nils to explore without any restrictions and to keep it All about the Melody.

„In the process of completion, any album not only reveals what it has become but, maybe more importantly, what it hasn't become. All Melody was imagined to be so many things over time and it has been a whole lot, but never exactly what I planned it to be. I wanted to hear beautiful drums, drums I've never seen or heard before, accompanied by human voices, girls, and boys. They would sing a song from this very world and it would sound like it was from a different space. I heard a synthesiser which sounds like a harmonium playing the All Melody, melting together with a line of a harmonium sounding like a synthesiser. My pipe organ would turn into a drum machine, while my drum machine would sound like an orchestra of breathy flutes. I would turn my piano into my very voice, and any voice into a ringing string. The music I hear inside me will never end up on a record, as it seems I can only play it for myself. This record includes what I think sticks out and describes my recent musical discoveries in the best possible way I could imagine.” (Nils Frahm)

„Ultimately, All Melody feels like a slight misnomer for such an ambitious and unclassifiable album. While undoubtedly boasting its share of earworm tunes, it's as much a showcase for the sheer plasticity of recorded sound as a vehicle for mellifluous expression.“ (Mojo Magazine)

„Merging musical approaches - jazz, house and dub flavours orbit the classically-influenced core - it sustains suspense and surprise over 12 emotionally-impactful tracks.“ (Q Magazine)

Tracklist:
01. The Whole Universe Wants to Be Touched
02. Sunson
03. A Place
04. My Friend the Forest
05. Human Range
07. All Melody
08. #2
06. Forever Changeless
09. Momentum
10. Fundamental Values
11. Kaleidoscope
12. Harm Hymn

Personnel:
Nils Frahm, all instruments