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The Hope album!
My single King have been out for a couple of weeks, but now the full album is out!
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New track: No Feelings
Today is the release day for a brand new track of mine!
Enjoy!
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The Hope album: Johan Eckman – King
2020 was a difficult year for all people; a raging pandemic that killed 2.3 million people, unprecedented wildfires in California and Australia, a huge blast in Beirut that destroyed half the city, and racial tensions everywhere. The Hope piano compilation album was born of the idea to bring together 12 well-established pianists from across the globe and spread a message of hope through music, each in his own way. – Jean-Paul Zoghbi
So, I will not introduce you to myself. But I am part of the Hope album, and I always post a little something when I have a new song out so I don’t feel bad at all about it!
This track was written in the end of a three week total Corona isolation. I got it first, my wife got it next and then the kids. None of us got very sick and barely had any symptoms at all. But right when I was about to sit down to make this track I kind of felt like a king. The Eckman family won against Corona! For me – that is hope!
This is also my first release using my real name Johan Eckman as the main artist. Sleepy Songs is now officially retired.
Agape was released as a single on March 5th, an is also a part of the album “HOPE”.
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New track!
Today is the premiere of my new Deep/Melodic House project JEGELA. The first single is called All of the time. It’s not solo piano music, but the piano is indeed there!
Please check it out!
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Thank you, 2020!
It’s New Years eve, and also my 35th birthday. It time to give you a short summary of the year!
With this post I want thank all of the readers on this blog and listeners of my music. The year 2020 was, for most people, a shitty year in life. But for piano music (and especially streaming wise), it was a good year (at least for me). Since more people have been working from home; I guess with piano music in the background, the stats have been crazy and I’ve broken record after record. I’ll thank you for choosing to listening to my music, with hope that it got the work done!
And to top of the piano year; my song Early Christmas morning was added to the biggest Apple Music editorial list with 10.000+ plays daily. Insane!
And since most piano players and composers have been on some kind of lockdown/quarantine and haven’t been able to perform live, they have composed like never before; which also has made the blog to grow and the submission basked have been full most of the time.
Earlier I had a much broader spectra with what kind of music I posted about here, but since I’ve gotten more submission than ever since Corona break out I have focused on pure piano music. It’s been hard sometimes to decline great track, but to not be overwhelmed with work, I had to.
To end this post; lets hope 2021 will be equally good piano wise and much better Corona-wise.
Happy new year everyone!
The picture for this post was taken exactly one year ago when I was recording the ep Sinclair at my sisters house in Arvika, Värmland.
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New EP: Birds
Today it’s release day of my collaboration EP which is made with my uncle Per Gustavsson. Enjoy it on Spotify here!
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Pre-save my Christmas song!
For the first time I have tried to create something Christmas-y! It will be released on the 27th of November, but you can pre-save it by following this link:
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New track: Northern
Today It’s the premiere of the first piano track written by the Swedish author and illustrator Per Gustavsson, played by me!
Enjoy!
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New track: Barnens värld
Today I have a new track out! It’s a double single with a solo piano version of the song Barnens värld which were written by me and my buddies Anton and Sebastian and also with our boss at work Gezim Isufi!
Enjoy!
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New track: Elder
Today it’s release time for my latest track Elder which I have made with fellow piano player composer and friend Rikard Mathisson (which I have worked with many times before).
Enjoy!
