Piano Piano Jeremiah Fraites

• 1 Departure 00:35
• 2 Chilly 06:06
• 3 Tokyo 02:28
• 4 Maggie 04:21
• 5 Nearsighted 03:14
• 6 Dreams 03:54
• 7 Possessed 04:55
• 8 An Air That Kills 03:25
• 9 Simplest of Matters 01:21
• 10 Pyromaniac 03:59
• 11 Arrival 04:41
• Total Runtime 38:59

Info for Piano Piano

Piano Piano is an achingly gorgeous set of songs, emotionally direct yet profoundly revealing. Fraites’ songwriting reaches into deeply personal spaces with moving grace and stark elegance, retaining the folk-inspired melodicism so familiar from his work in The Lumineers, transported into a more classically sophisticated setting. In addition to piano, Fraites plays nearly every instrument on the album, including guitar, drums, synths, and programming. It was co-produced and engineered by David Baron (Jade Bird, Vance Joy, Shawn Mendes) and features other collaborators such as Lumineers violinist Lauren Jacobson, cellists Rubin Kodheli and Alex Waterman, and Macedonia’s 40-piece FAME’S Orchestra.

“It’s been a lifelong dream to make an instrumental album centered around a piano,” Fraites says. “I recorded everything in my home in Denver before moving to Italy — capturing as much piano as I could late at night when the house was completely still.”

“I will never forget that time,” he adds. “These recordings are priceless to me.”

"A gorgeous, well-constructed, inspired compilation, one can predict Piano Piano could have appeal as film music. Otherwise it is a jewel of a piece that sparks the imagination, taking listeners on a stirring, beguiling journey and recharging the spirit." (theupcoming.co.uk, Catherine Sedgwick)

Jeremiah Fraites, piano
Lauren Jacobson, violin
Rubin Kodheli, cello
Alex Waterman, cello
Macedonia’s FAME’S Orchestra

Jeremiah Fraites
is the co-founder, drummer, and multi-instrumentalist of Denver folk-rock band The Lumineers. He cites Beethoven as a musical inspiration from a young age – particularly his sonatas. In 2021, Fraites released his solo debut album ‘Piano Piano’ through Dualtone Records/Mercury KX. The album is a collection of piano-centric instrumental songs that he had been working on for over a decade. It was met with critical acclaim from NPR’s Weekend Edition, Denver Post, NPR Music’s All Songs Considered, American Songwriter, and Earmilk among others

In 2019, Fraites co-wrote ‘Nightshades’, a piece originally written for the Games of Thrones series. In the same year, The Lumineers premiered a visual exploration of their album ‘III’, directed by Kevin Phillips at the Toronto International Film Festival. Fraites has also partnered with the meditation app Calm, and with music technology company Spitfire Audio, for their Originals series on a program called “Firewood Piano.” The program is based on his eccentric upright piano, nicknamed “Firewood,” on which he used to record several songs for his solo debut album.

This album contains no booklet.