Carpe Diem Records

24/01/2025

New solo album out now! Maximilian Ehrhardt's second album on Carpe Diem Records is a unique concept album of old and new music for the rare Italian chromatic harp. 6 of the 12 pieces on the album are new compositions and world premiere recordings.

Available on Bandcamp, on all streaming platforms, and as a physical CD at your preferred record store.

https://bfan.link/diminutions

Maximilian Ehrhardt Malte Giesen Chikage Imai Kate Moore Natalia Domínguez Rangel

New release out January 24, 2025!

17/01/2025

Second single of Maximilian Ehrhardt's new solo album is out today! Beautiful contemporary harp music with electronics. Actually, the electronic sounds are being played through the harp by attaching a contact speaker to the resonant body of the instrument. So the recording is still 100% acoustic and the sound quite otherworldly.

https://bfan.link/neural-variations

Composition by Malte Giesen

New release out January 17, 2025!

10/01/2025

Find this on your favorite streaming service, it's good music!

New release out January 10, 2025!

20/12/2024

Save the date!

Eine Reise mit der Oudmit Yasamin Shahhosseini & Tristan Driessens Mit der Duettreihe Luthopia initiiert

23/11/2024

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The first solo album of Swiss double bass player Fridolin Blumer is finally out on all platforms! We recorded this album in March 24 in the beautiful Klanghaus Studio in Klein Jasedow, close to the baltic sea in north-east Germany. I feel that in this project, the music, instrument and the space for...

22/11/2024

New album out now! Listen here:
https://carpediemrecords.com/de/products/anklam

The first solo album of Swiss double bass player and composer Fridolin Blumer is an exceptional album, even for the rarity-driven catalogue of Carpe Diem Records. Acting as a stylistic counterpoint to the many Early Music solo albums on the label, “Anklam” is a solo album of entirely improvised contemporary double bass music, focusing on instantaneous musical creation in the moment, instead of reviving century-old compositions. Fridolin Blumer is a jazz musician who has dedicated his whole musical career to exploring music beyond the written score, even beyond formal musical concepts. His style is not easily determined by conventional understanding of music. His music is primarily sound that evolves and moves in time, creating structures while moving through and past them, taking the listener on an unforeseeable trip into the feeling and thinking process of the creative mind.

His music is non-descriptive, not trying to depict anything outside of itself, not telling a story other than its own. The album is called Anklam simply because that’s where it was recorded. It is split into twelve pieces just to give it a conceivable structure. The parts have numbers, as they together form a sort of larger musical structure. Any intrinsic meaning, inner beauty or musical logic remains at the listener’s disposal to be discovered, heard or felt. Fridolin Blumer opens a vast space of possibilities of understanding and insight by staying as grounded and elementary as possible. In this way, he creates a sonic artwork that is at the same time spiritual and deeply human.

“The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.”
(F. Hundertwasser)

22/07/2024

Uitzonderlijk authentieke “Ostium” door Dimitris Kountouras en Ex Silentio, op het label Carpe Diem Records. Subliem! Geplaatst op juli 16, 2024 door Michel “Ostium” (uitgang) is een selectie van 19 werken uit middeleeuwse en oosterse-mediterrane traditionele muziek, gespeeld op verschillend...

08/07/2024

Website redesign, have a look at this beauty! We made it in three languages (German/English/Japanese) so everyone can easily understand the content. Albums can be ordered as physical CDs or Downloads, worldwide.

Let me know how you like it or if you're missign something?

Thanks!
Jonas

Independent record label based in Berlin, Germany. Carpe Diem Records focuses on Early Music, Jazz, Classical Music and beyond. Here you can find all our albums as CD, MP3, WAV and FLAC High-Resolution downloads.

05/07/2024

New album out today! Check out "Ostium" by ensemble Ex Silentio with Dimitris Kountouras, flutes.

19 track album

11/05/2024

New album out! "Mélodies d'ailleurs" by und Marwn Gamper now in shops worldwide, on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.

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