The warm vibes of a fiery piano.

Today, the Australian music blog Indie30, wrote some poetic lines about The Fiery Piano. 


"...With hardly a ivory laden tinkle within earshot, Montelius prefers guitar and electronic apparati to drive his sound while eschewing either a drum machine or a traditional drum kit for field recordings and chopped up samples as the vehicles for percussion. The Fiery Piano creates elements of old and new to create a warm, almost pastoral feel..."


Read the whole post by pressing your finger ON the computer screen, literarily, HERE!

I also discovered that someone have uploaded the tracks from the EP on youtube, with some color-changes on the album artwork. It's a strange world we live in.

Have a great weekend!

Pigeons and Planes about The Fiery Piano!

Hello again, brothers and sisters.

I don't want to be crude with all this posting, but since the majority of life-style bloggers writes several times a day, I guess I can't be accused for spamming. After all, you can choose to not continue reading.
Enough! To the point;

What I wanted to tell you was that the music blog Pigeons & Planes wrote about me in a post they made yesterday. Read yourself onwards, and click your way cross the universe HERE.

See you.

Blog posts from Largehearted boy and Faronheit + Upcoming Stufffff.

Good evening, fellow listeners and friends.

Today, the great people at the noteworthy music blog Largehearted boy included Sirens EP in their "Daily Downloads" post, alongside tracks from great bands like The Antlers and Okkervil River. Check out the blog, and view the post HERE.

I also forgot to tell you that the Chicago-based blogger Faronheit did a similar thing last week, only they call their section "Pick your poison". If you want to read more about that, push THIS big button.

This is great news for me, since it's kind of hard reaching out to people without big bucks and major labels backing you up. Fortunately there are nice people out there who write about music that isn't all about generating a cash flow.

Lastly, I would like to take the opportunity, seize the moment (poetry side: ON), or whatever, to announce that we're going to shoot some video footage with the band, hopefully resulting in some series with live versions of TFP songs you have or have not heard, starting next week.
More info about that later.

That's it. Go on. Surf yourself onwards!

/Gustaf

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to conquer the world (wide web).

Good evening, dear listeners and followers!

I've simply got two things I'd like to tell you;

I've started rehearsing with a band of three great musicians and friends, taking baby steps towards our premiere gig which will happen sometime this summer. I'll let you know when, where and how later on, when we're getting closer. So, stay tuned for that.

Until then, not to sound like a TV commercial, Sirens EP is now on Spotify, as well as on iTunes and several other places in the outer space. It would be stupid to download it from iTunes, though, because the EP is actually still free of charge HERE.
If you still just can't refuse that strong urge to download it from iTunes, I would be more than thankful for the donation. It's like four bucks (=36 SEK) for the whole thing.

Sleep carefully, drive well.

/Gustaf

Featured in the music blog Swedesplease.net!

Hello hello hello!

It''s been two days since the release of Sirens EP. I hope you've been enjoying it so far, but would also like to take the opportunity to encourage you to listen to the songs more than just once. There are lots of cool things to discover in them, sounds to explore, lyrics to decode etc.

Anyways;

In their latest entry, the music blog Swedesplease wrote a short notice about me. If you like to, you can read it HERE.

Have a great day!

/Gustaf

EXTRA EXTRA: Download Sirens EP, my first release, for FREE!

Good evening!

I am very proud, a little scared, but mostly happy, to present to you my debut release as The Fiery Piano. It's called Sirens EP and is a four-track album about growing up, be the last one to die, mental illness and so on.. It's all in there, the lyrics speak for themselves, and the sounds sound like they should.

All instruments on the EP I play myself. The vocals are sung by me solely, except on the fourth and last track, "A Murderous Consequence", where Tove Fröberg contributes with her magnificent voice.
I've mixed everything myself, but got lots of professional input by Wallentin Richardson, who also mastered the EP at Discrete Motion Recordings in Malmö.
The idea for the cover artwork was Tove's, I created it, and Philip Blomqvist extended a helping hand.

I would like to shout out some special thankyou's to everyone who have supported me during the months I've been working on the recordings(in no particular order):
Tove Fröberg (for coping with recording sessions and late night mixing)
Oscar Montelius (for helping out with basically everything on this EP, even when it was just a thought)
Daniel Nilsson (my Feldt-mate, friend and inspiration)


To download Sirens EP for FREE, in the best possible quality, just click HERE!
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Love!

/Gustaf Montelius, The Fiery Piano

Almost there.

Ok, I'm getting closer. The songs are finished, as in written, recorded and mixed. The last songs are send to the mastering studio, and if things work out as they should I will have all of them mastered and ready this very weekend.
I've decided to call the EP "Sirens", and it will be released for free as a digital download on my homepage as soon as the cover artwork is done. I'll let you know.

/Gustaf