{"id":6218,"date":"2021-03-03T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T10:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/less-records.de\/?page_id=6218"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:41:29","slug":"tom-blankenberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.less-records.de\/de\/tom-blankenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Blankenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Blankenberg<\/h1>
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\u201eMusic to listen to when one is alone.
\nI listen to a lot of this \u2026 Music to listen to when one is alone. And one can confide in.\u201c<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>
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Tom is currently recording his next album to be released Spring\/Summer 2026 and working on his first full length documentary.
\nFor his work as a director visit Less Films<\/a><\/p>\n

His latest album “et” was released 2021.
\nSince then he was touring, writing and composing, releasing compilation tracks and shot some short films and music videos.
\nThere\u00b4s much to come.<\/p>\n

Read about “et” here:
\nIt’s March 2020 and the sudden silence of spring that year changes the entire world and shifts perception.
\nThe D\u00fcsseldorf-based composer Tom Blankenberg had just finished recording his second album.
\nBut the situation at hand had however made the recordings sound unfitting to the times \u2026
\n“There was too much in it …”
\n<\/em>Blankenberg continues to write, rearranges and condenses
\nthe silent presence of these months down to an essence.
\nShortstories, utilizing a vocabulary from classical, jazz, avant-garde and ambient.
\nThey tell of a new day-to-day life, of rediscovered places and suddenly audible ambient sounds.
\nThey are about the first warm summer nights
\nand the writing of a letter that has long wanted to be written.
\nAnd also a little about sorrow.
\n\u201cIt should hurt in some moments. But it’s a sweet pain, it\u2019s bearable.\u201d
\n<\/em>These ambivalent simultaneous emotions pervade the whole album.
\nMelancholy and wellbeing, lightness and severity resound at the same moment.
\nAmbiguity dissolves.<\/p>\n

The results are 9 wonderful piano monologues that want to whisper something different into the ear of each listener and that become a sincere companion for the moment you listen.
\nBlankenberg’s second album is called “et”.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Links\/Contact:
\nEmail to tom@tomblankenberg.de<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cet\u201d was released on April 16, 2021 on the D\u00fcsseldorf label Less Records as vinyl, CD and download as well as on all popular streaming portals.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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\u201eGenre bending!… as if Ryuichi Sakamoto would play a catchy John Coltrane piece…” 10\/10<\/h3>\n

PrettyInNoise
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\u201eet <\/em>is a nighttime masterpiece… we only harm ourselves if we ignore it. This is an essential album, it needs to be heard\u2026\u201d<\/h3>\n

piano and coffee co
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\u201eSoundtrack f\u00fcr den gegl\u00fcckten Tag. Muss man h\u00f6ren.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Rheinische Post
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\u201e… ich k\u00f6nnte immer noch heulen ob so viel Sch\u00f6nheit. Ber\u00fchrend und stark!\u201d<\/h3>\n

Nadine Sole
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\u201e…as if Bill Evans were communing with Arvo P\u00e4rt.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Misfit City
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“This is one of the best contemplative and reflective piano albums I\u2019ve heard. I love it!”<\/h3>\n

Pianodao
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\u201eExceptional, minimal solo piano… a new breeze in the neoclassical genre\u201d<\/h3>\n

Mellow Structures
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\u201eThere is an intimacy in the pieces, that comes across in the style of an honest conversation.\u201d<\/h3>\n

DRIFTING, ALMOST FALLING.
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Album Of The Month<\/h3>\n

Coolibri, print magazine<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

\u201e… plays with all the figures of silence to suspend time and beautify the notes played.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Flabbergast
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\u201eet\u00a0f\u00fcllt den Raum mit etwas, das nur mit dem Wort \u201eSch\u00f6nheit\u201c umschrieben werden kann.\u201d<\/h3>\n

D-dorf Pop Day
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\u201eIf the scene in Edward Hopper\u2019s \u201cNighthawks\u201d came to life, this album could easily become the soundtrack.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Stationary Travels
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