Botanik goes back to the roots of Planetarium’s earlier piano-only series Chiavi Nere and provides the fifth annual tribute to the Piano Day on March 29 (the 88th day of the year). Accompanying three pieces by the curator Nils Frahm himself are new additions to the Planetarium roster Peter Sandberg and Jeff Mercel who are both more on the orchestral and euphoric spectrum of this set. This channel’s staples like Ludvig Cimbrelius, Ólafur Arnalds, Luis Miehlich and Slow Meadow are also appearing with their piano pieces from the past 12 months that I’ve been waiting to play for quite some time. This set, “Narzisse” (narcissus), collects some of the most beautiful compositions of recent weeks – focussing mostly on piano – and rings in the spring season for Planetarium.

Narzisse (piano day 2019) (Botanik Vol. 4)
01 Nils Frahm – Sweet Little Lie [Erased Tapes] {00:00}
02 Corey Fuller – A Handful of Dust [12k] {04:33}
03 Purl – Evighetsblomma {09:59}
04 Ian Hawgood – Hark [Home Normal] {12:39}
05 Ian Hawgood – 消滅 [eilean] {17:05}
06 Tony Anderson – Deep Waters (Original Sketch) {18:29}
07 Andrew Heath – Feldspar [Disco Gecko] {23:29}
08 Jamison Isaak – Pines {25:38}
09 Jacob Pavek – Moss [Unperceived] {27:42}
10 Jeff Mercel – No. 2 {31:38}
11 Luis Miehlich – Bloom 2 {36:22}
12 James Maloney – Thirds [Moderna] {43:12}
13 Nathan Shubert – Pencils [Bigo & Twigetti] {46:32}
14 Slow Meadow – Oh, the Myths We Need [Hammock] {50:02}
15 Luke Howard – I Still Dream About, Sometimes But Not Always (Piano Version) [Mercury Classics] {52:25}
16 Luca Longobardi – Narcissus [Paralleli] {56:04}
17 Nils Frahm – To Thomas [Erased Tapes] {1:00:12}
18 Ólafur Arnalds – nyepi [Decca] {1:04:04}
19 Midori Hirano – Mountains [Daisart] {1:07:46}
20 Ludvig Cimbrelius – Traces [Eternell] {1:10:33}
21 Peter Sandberg – Motion [Phases] {1:13:46}
22 Sophie Hutchings – Repose [1631] {1:16:44}
23 Alaskan Tapes – Places [Fluid] {1:19:25}
24 Nils Frahm – Frau Dehlholm [Erased Tapes] {1:22:03}
25 Julien Marchal – Insight XXXVII [Whales] {1:24:52}

16 debuted in N39 (FRISKY exclusive)

Image by : Otto Wilhelm Thomé

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p230