LP: EMKLP001 - BC: 666017284712
- Vinyl 1 LP IIncludes a physical copy of the score. Shrinkwrapped and stickered
CD Tracklisting: (Vinyl is; A side: tracks 1-7, B Side: tracks 8 -13)
1) Dilo 4, 2) Dilo 5, 3) Dilo 6, 4) Dilo 7, 5) Dilo 8, 6) Dilo 9, 7) Dilo 10, 8) Dilo 11, 9) Dilo 12, 10) Dilo 13, 11) Dilo 14,
12) Dilo 15, 13) Dilo 16)
* Quotes:
"A very sweet release, I love the scores you get with the vinyl" - Wolfgang Zamastil (composer/cellist)
"Beautiful and Haunting" - Michael Hain (Hard Wax)
"I found the music mesmerizing, calming and beautiful. I could hear it as if you were talking to me" - Jiri Klobouk (writer/New York)
"A bold and brave release, this is amazing to dance to." - Kiani Del Valle (choreographer/director) Klavirni' is something that seeps gently into the soul without demanding unnecessary effort from the listener.
The album provides a personal, raw, unpolished and captivating glimpse into the pure essence of artistic endeavor.
Emika is offering an intimate look into the fundamental process that lies at the core of not just this latest body of work but of the artist as an individual. "I stayed a few weeks at my parents home in Milton Keynes in Dec13/Jan14.
My favorite piano is there from my childhood, the piano that I did all my grades on. That piano has been the most important instrument in my whole life." - Emika
A piano diary based on improvisation.
Emika Records continues on its self-chartered journey with a personal, warm, inviting and moving record from this ever creatively thriving and enduring talent.

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* 180grm White Vinyl

* Following on from the hugely popular ‘Klavirni’ (Emika’s first solo piano album in 2015) her second installment of piano solos are a magical cluster of melodies, dreamy effects, obscure production mistakes with tape echo’s and other old analog gear.

* The pieces were recorded during the time she was pregnant with her first child Silvy, to whom she has dedicated this record ‘To Silvy who heard it first from the inside’.

* The collection of ‘Dilo’s’ which means moment in Czech, were recorded ‘in a state of ultra hyped up creativity combined with a massive fear about losing my identity or creativity as an artist once I would become a mother’ - says Emika about the album process.

* A truly personal affair and in keeping with the original style of the first Klavirni, all the Dilo’s were recorded improvisations by the composer on her home piano, this time in Berlin.

* Dilo 7 from the first album has been streamed more than 15 million times on Spotify and there will also be a ‘Red Edition’ repress of the album on vinyl.

* This release marks the 5 year anniversary of Emika Records, celebrating 5 years of independence since her days with Ninja Tune.

* Dilo Variations EP (not released previously before on vinyl) will come with the anniversary releases on a cute little 10’’ with updated artwork.

* This is also the final release in her Emika Records catalog before starting a new venture in 2020 with more details to follow later in the year.

* ‘Klavirni Temna’ which means dark piano in Czech, explores the relationship between dark and light, good and evil, death and rebirth.

* ‘Music is a powerful and sometimes unexplainable force.’ - Emika

* Press / Promotion:
Promotion from Emika Records with PR partners Lucy Palmer (Trix PR) and Jon Bills (The Bills Agency).
Lucy is specializing in Electronic press and media with Jon Bills specialising in culture and style publications including UK broadsheets.
Track premiers, reviews and interviews sought with FACT, Pitchfork, RA, Dummy, Dazed, The Independent, The Guardian. All leading online electronic platforms, including those with print will be contacted about this release and offered it as news. Trix PR and Jon Bills mail outs to all contacts world wide, dedicated fan mail out to Emika Records mailing list. Targeted Facebook and Instagram ads to run during the promo period. Print Ad sought with The Wire magazine.

* Radio / Internet
Radio promo UK via Ray Verma. Nemone, and other UK BBC music shows targeted. Also Classic FM who support Emika and regional radio following on from Emika’s UK tour (Dec 2019).
Social media videos featuring the tracks will be posted by Emika Jan-Feb 2020.
Emika: FB: 46k+ / Spotify 75k+ monthly listeners / YouTube emikayoutubification: 13k+ subscribers / / Twitter 5.5k+ / Soundcloud 22k+ followers / IG 8k+ / Emika mailing list 13k+ subscribers


* Tracklisting:
1. Dilo 21 2. Dilo 22 3. Dilo 23 4. Dilo 24 5. Dilo 25 6. Dilo 26 7. Dilo 27 8. Dilo 28 9. Dilo 29 10. Dilo 30 11. Dilo 31 12. Dilo 32 13. Dilo 33 14. Dilo 34 More

* 180grm White Vinyl

* Following on from the hugely popular ‘Klavirni’ (Emika’s first solo piano album in 2015) her second installment of piano solos are a magical cluster of melodies, dreamy effects, obscure production mistakes with tape echo’s and other old analog gear.

* The pieces were recorded during the time she was pregnant with her first child Silvy, to whom she has dedicated this record ‘To Silvy who heard it first from the inside’.

* The collection of ‘Dilo’s’ which means moment in Czech, were recorded ‘in a state of ultra hyped up creativity combined with a massive fear about losing my identity or creativity as an artist once I would become a mother’ - says Emika about the album process.

* A truly personal affair and in keeping with the original style of the first Klavirni, all the Dilo’s were recorded improvisations by the composer on her home piano, this time in Berlin.

* Dilo 7 from the first album has been streamed more than 15 million times on Spotify and there will also be a ‘Red Edition’ repress of the album on vinyl.

* This release marks the 5 year anniversary of Emika Records, celebrating 5 years of independence since her days with Ninja Tune.

* Dilo Variations EP (not released previously before on vinyl) will come with the anniversary releases on a cute little 10’’ with updated artwork.

* This is also the final release in her Emika Records catalog before starting a new venture in 2020 with more details to follow later in the year.

* ‘Klavirni Temna’ which means dark piano in Czech, explores the relationship between dark and light, good and evil, death and rebirth.

* ‘Music is a powerful and sometimes unexplainable force.’ - Emika

* Press / Promotion:
Promotion from Emika Records with PR partners Lucy Palmer (Trix PR) and Jon Bills (The Bills Agency).
Lucy is specializing in Electronic press and media with Jon Bills specialising in culture and style publications including UK broadsheets.
Track premiers, reviews and interviews sought with FACT, Pitchfork, RA, Dummy, Dazed, The Independent, The Guardian. All leading online electronic platforms, including those with print will be contacted about this release and offered it as news. Trix PR and Jon Bills mail outs to all contacts world wide, dedicated fan mail out to Emika Records mailing list. Targeted Facebook and Instagram ads to run during the promo period. Print Ad sought with The Wire magazine.

* Radio / Internet
Radio promo UK via Ray Verma. Nemone, and other UK BBC music shows targeted. Also Classic FM who support Emika and regional radio following on from Emika’s UK tour (Dec 2019).
Social media videos featuring the tracks will be posted by Emika Jan-Feb 2020.
Emika: FB: 46k+ / Spotify 75k+ monthly listeners / YouTube emikayoutubification: 13k+ subscribers / / Twitter 5.5k+ / Soundcloud 22k+ followers / IG 8k+ / Emika mailing list 13k+ subscribers


* Tracklisting:
1. Dilo 21 2. Dilo 22 3. Dilo 23 4. Dilo 24 5. Dilo 25 6. Dilo 26 7. Dilo 27 8. Dilo 28 9. Dilo 29 10. Dilo 30 11. Dilo 31 12. Dilo 32 13. Dilo 33 14. Dilo 34 More

* Tracklist:
1. Wash It All Away, 2. Could This Be, 3. Run, 4. Close, 5. Promises, 6. Killers, 7. Falling (Reprise), 8. Falling In Love With Sadness, 9. Escape, 10. Eternity

To be released on World Mental Health Day, part of the album's proceeds will be donated to a UK-based mental health charity. "I often wonder how sadness moves through people," Emika says, "through time, through stories and history, and if it's something that becomes us rather than coming from us."
% of album sales will be donated to charity Help Musicians UK
emikarecords.com Invites fans to anonymously share their experiences of depression and create a waterfall of comments inspired by the song Wash It All Away
Studio video promoting the album via Soundcloud, Autumn
Live / DJ video, promoting the album with Beatport, Autumn
Live streaming of the album from Emika's studio via FB, Insta, YT, September.
Bookings by Christopher at Melt Bookings. Team chose to give fans time to listen to the album first, shows starting early 2019, special album show with live band and dome visuals planned in the Berlin Planetarium Feb 2019. A few promo shows summer / fall 2018.
Boiler Room live show as part of Open Dance Floor series tbc
* Given its years of manifestation behind the scenes of other projects, Falling In Love With Sadness reflects a renewed understanding of Emika's own genealogy, kindred lineage and its connection to modernity. Marking a drastic departure from the menacing, stripped-down qualities of albums past, Dva and Drei, Emika has surfaced with a new upwelling of sound gracing the bittersweet, melancholic and sanguine.

* With the interplay of myriad genres both rhythmically and melodically intertwining between spacey, dub tinged Promises, lush synth pop hooks on Escape and the title track's soulful electro, a full spectrum of musicology remains primary to the ever-evolving chroma of Emika's umbrous sound.

* Further characterised by the breathy sibilance and sultry tones of Emika's noirish, vocal aesthetic, the album navigates through the morose and trappings of misanthropy by illuminating a narrative of emotional resilience and recovery.

* Co-produced with Robert Witschakowski of The Exaltics, and continuing her collaboration with guitarist Chris Lockington (as heard on Drei and Dva), Falling In Love With Sadness provides a fifth solo album for Emika, but moreover, defines itself as an overture for her future works.
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Fans donated €25,000 to Emika for the Electronic & Neo Classical Project , Emika hired double the amount of bass players in a normal orchestra
Emika created a new seating plan for the orchestra, to sound more like a wide stereo pop album with a 50 piece symphony orchestra , Silver-toned soprano Michaela Srumova
Composed in Berlin & Recorded in Prague at Czech Radio Studios.

* Tracklist:
1. Grief (Prelude), 2. The Miracle (Movement 1), 3. Letting Go (Movement 2), 4. Love (Movement 3), 5. Destiny (Movement 4), 6. Finally Free (Coda)

* The crossover between electronic music and classical composition has never been in more vibrant and dynamic health. Multifarious musician Emika explores this fertile ground on her ambitious new opus 'Melanfonie': her first orchestral composition, some four years in the making.

* Funded by a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign that exceeded its target by an impressive €25,000.
* While many rebel from their classical training never to return to it explicitly, Emika has always been attracted to the potential and freedoms offered by the symphony form.

* As well as taking inspiration from her electronic music background in composing the music itself, Emika also applied some of production and playback principles from that realm to create a piece whose every element has been carefully considered.

* Emika is on a quest to try and change what we mean when we talk about 'classical music'. For her, the magic of the 'genre' is about the instruments themselves and more importantly the people who play them; not the restricting traditions and conventions of the classical world itself.

* I want to change the face of classical music and give it a more honest and real image. It is time we had something other than pomp and circumstance and avant-garde squeaks and pops."




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Emikas´s new Album Channels electroclash era rapid-fire bass and syncopated beats amidst soaring synths A songwriter who wears her heart on her sleeve, with deeply personal sentiments imbuing her brooding, expansive soundscapes throughout this record The intricate, deft production flourishes that flow through the album and the breadth of moods showcased point illustrate a fully-fledged artist. Pitches her voice down on the vampish Miracles to duet with herself in haunting fashion
"'DREI' is ultimately about freedom. Coping with freedom. Limitations vs Freedom. The shock of a miracle. The madness of being alone. Ambitions and insecurities. The perils of a limitless creative mind. And without a doubt, my desire to produce fat hard beats without needing anyone - complete with a fresh sound." - Emika
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Emikas´s new Album Channels electroclash era rapid-fire bass and syncopated beats amidst soaring synths A songwriter who wears her heart on her sleeve, with deeply personal sentiments imbuing her brooding, expansive soundscapes throughout this record The intricate, deft production flourishes that flow through the album and the breadth of moods showcased point illustrate a fully-fledged artist. Pitches her voice down on the vampish Miracles to duet with herself in haunting fashion
"'DREI' is ultimately about freedom. Coping with freedom. Limitations vs Freedom. The shock of a miracle. The madness of being alone. Ambitions and insecurities. The perils of a limitless creative mind. And without a doubt, my desire to produce fat hard beats without needing anyone - complete with a fresh sound." - Emika More

Ltd album format (300 copies) includes laser cut slip mat, FIRM SALE ONLY !
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CD EMKCD01 BC: 666017284729
- CD artwork Includes email address for purchasers to mail label for a free copy of the score.
* Quotes:
"A very sweet release, I love the scores you get with the vinyl" - Wolfgang Zamastil (composer/cellist)
"Beautiful and Haunting" - Michael Hain (Hard Wax)
"I found the music mesmerizing, calming and beautiful. I could hear it as if you were talking to me" - Jiri Klobouk (writer/New York)
"A bold and brave release, this is amazing to dance to." - Kiani Del Valle (choreographer/director) Klavirni' is something that seeps gently into the soul without demanding unnecessary effort from the listener.
The album provides a personal, raw, unpolished and captivating glimpse into the pure essence of artistic endeavor.
Emika is offering an intimate look into the fundamental process that lies at the core of not just this latest body of work but of the artist as an individual. "I stayed a few weeks at my parents home in Milton Keynes in Dec13/Jan14.
My favorite piano is there from my childhood, the piano that I did all my grades on. That piano has been the most important instrument in my whole life." - Emika
A piano diary based on improvisation.
Emika Records continues on its self-chartered journey with a personal, warm, inviting and moving record from this ever creatively thriving and enduring talent.


* CD Tracklisting: (Vinyl is; A side: tracks 1-7, B Side: tracks 8 -13) 1) Dilo 4, 2) Dilo 5, 3) Dilo 6, 4) Dilo 7, 5) Dilo 8, 6) Dilo 9, 7) Dilo 10, 8) Dilo 11, 9) Dilo 12, 10) Dilo 13, 11) Dilo 14, 12) Dilo 15, 13) Dilo 16)
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