NILS FRAHM has announced he will fulfil last year’s promise to follow up Day, the collection of solo piano music he released last March. Night, which is containing five new tracks, will be released on May 9, 2025, on vinyl as well as via all digital platforms.

A CD version, Night & Day, including all eleven tracks from both Day and Night, will also be made available at the same time. These follow Frahm’s latest live album, Paris, which was released in December last year. In the meantime, Frahm will continue as he has for almost three years, with his world tour finally concluding this spring with shows in Australia, America and Canada.

Frahm recorded the pieces on Night on the Klavins M450 piano, installed in his studio at the renowned Funkhaus complex in Berlin. It was built by German-Latvian piano maker David Klavins for the first Piano Day in 2015, a celebration that will mark its 10th anniversary this March.

At 4.5 meters tall and weighing over a ton, the model was the largest upright piano in the world at the time.

The record is a reminder that, though he’s since become celebrated for the complex, intricately arranged approach of his most commercially successful, multi-instrumental albums, Frahm first made his name with similarly meditative piano compositions on albums like 2009’s The Bells, 2011’s Felt and 2012’s Screws.

Night, like Day, confirms that Frahm remains a prolific master of affecting simplicity, tenderness and romance, and as capable as Pop / International 09/05/2025 15.20 EUR ever of unforgettable, epigrammatic succinctness.