{"product_id":"nils-frahm-felt","title":"Nils Frahm - Felt","description":"Nils Frahm recorded Felt at night, in a Berlin apartment where he couldn't risk disturbing the neighbours, so he laid felt over the piano's hammers to mute it, then mic'd up the mechanics themselves — the pedals, the hammers, the wood of the instrument's own frame. Released on Erased Tapes in October 2011, it's the record that set the template for a decade of quiet, intimate piano records that followed, his own included.\n\nThe muting doesn't make it a quiet listen so much as an unusually close one — you can hear Frahm breathing, the piano creaking, the room itself. It builds from spare solo pieces into something far more orchestral by the record's end, and remains the best place to start with him. If you already know it, it rewards another listen: it's only grown in stature since 2011.\n\nFFO: Ólafur Arnalds, Hania Rani, Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson","brand":"Erased Tapes","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":62023673741580,"sku":"12B-01790","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4459\/3932\/files\/nils-frahm-felt-vinyl-lp-12-bar.jpg?v=1786207044","url":"https:\/\/12-bar.com\/products\/nils-frahm-felt","provider":"12 Bar Music and Social","version":"1.0","type":"link"}