Nils Frahm’s double album 'Old Friends New Friends' gathers together 23 solo piano tracks recorded between 2009 and 2021, almost all hitherto unreleased but omitted from previous albums and projects for one reason or another.

The album 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.”

The CDs are cased in a cardboard wallet and cardboard inner sleeves.

Tracklist:

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
NILS HAS A NEW PIANO
ACTING
AS A REMINDER
ICED WOOD
STRICKLEITER
THE CHORDS
THE CHORDS BROKEN DOWN
FORGETMENOT
RESTIVE
OLD FRIEND

UPC: 4050538759693
Label: Bmg Rights Managemen
Release Date: 12.17.21
Format: CD

Nils Frahm - Old Friends New Friends (2CD)