Nils Frahm has released an eight-track album called Empty for Piano Day 2020. Listen to it below via Erased Tapes. Empty was conceived before Frahm broke his thumb a few years back (the injury resulted in his 2012 record Screws).
The new album is comprised of eight solo piano pieces, originally recorded for a short film Frahm shot with director and friend Benoit Toulemonde. “When I came back from the hospital with a broken thumb and listened to the recordings,” Frahm said in a press release, “I felt they were unfinished.
I decided to put them aside and started to work on my small album, Screws.” He added: Frahm’s last studio album was 2019’s All Encores.
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