NILS FRAHM has announced the release of a new CD of solo piano music, Night & Day, to be released by LEITER, the label he runs with his manager, Felix Grimm, on May 9, 2025.

Containing all eleven tracks from both last Marchs mini-album, Day, and a second, Night – which will be released on vinyl and via all digital platforms the same day – it follows Frahms latest live album, Paris, which was released in December last year. In the meantime, he will continue with his almost three-year world tour, finally concluding this spring with shows in Australia, America and Canada.

Night & Days tracks are a reminder that, though hes since become celebrated for the intricately arranged approach of his most commercially successful, multi-instrumental albums, Frahm first made his name with similarly meditative piano compositions on collections like 2009s The Bells, 2011s Felt and 2012s Screws. Recorded in Majorca, far away from his studio in the German capitals famed Funkhaus complex, Day provides six tracks, three over the sixminute mark.

There are muffled pedal creaks on the cyclical, quietly jazzy You Name It or, during the palliative ripples of Butter Notesarpeggios, the sound of dogs barking in the streets outside. Night adds another five tracks, opening at a glacial pace with Wesen, conjuring images of Frahm, lit only by a candle, huddled over his instrument, playing for the sheer companionship that it offers.

And the album closes with Canton, its delicious airiness perhaps the records equivalent of a glimpse of dawn. Its a perfect conclusion to a typically beguiling collection that, as always, points to a musical character that is immediately, distinctively Frahms. It also highlights why the German pianist has continued throughout his career to return loyally to the piano as his first love.

After all, its notable that, even during his recent, expansive live performances, which find him leaping between multiple keyboards, synths, and even a glass harmonica, Frahm has always made space for such works. Today, he remains a prolific master of affecting simplicity, tenderness and romance, and as capable as ever of unforgettable, epigrammatic succinctness.