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grains is a curated home for deep listening. At the heart of the grains store you will find records, stories and artists moving between piano miniatures, quiet drones, subtle electronics and cinematic sound worlds. The platform brings together collectors, casual listeners and anyone who likes to slow down with music that rewards attention and creates space in the day.

A Curated Online Music Store for Deep Listening

grains is an online music store built around selection rather than sheer volume. Instead of listing every release, grains focuses on neoclassical music and neighboring sounds, carefully picking titles that feel honest and enduring.

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EUNIKE TANZIL RELEASES NEW EP 'DREAMSCAPES'

Eunike Tanzil

Eunike Tanzil has released 'Dreamscapes', a six-track EP that follows the Indonesian composer, pianist and producer's 2025 debut album, 'The First of Everything', and reunites her with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and conductor Anna Handler.

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ROGER ENO RELEASES NEW ALBUM 'WITHOUT WIND / WITHOUT AIR: RARITIES'

Roger Eno

Roger Eno has released 'Without Wind / Without Air: Rarities', a new companion EP to his acclaimed Deutsche Grammophon album 'Without Wind / Without Air'.

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Interview

SNORRI HALLGRÍMSSON: THE NOWHERE SESSIONS

Snorri Hallgrímsson

One of Iceland’s most talented neoclassical and film composers talks about his latest project - live reinterpretations of some of his back catalogue recorded in a cabin infused with personal history…

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Experimental

[RE:DISCOVER] #8 AT THE GROUND ZERO OF AVANT-GARDE MUSIC

Sonic anarchism, instrumental theatre and pentagonal  sound gardens: we revisited three works by three defining voices of the avant-garde, that are as demanding as they are rewarding, and still laying the groundwork for the music of today…

 

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Interview

Through The Liminal Looking Glass with Joep Beving

Joep Beving

grains speaks to Dutch pianist and composer Joep Beving about his new album, Liminal, whose vulnerability and uncertainty make it an album for our times…

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Interview

Inside the Cloud: Alice Sara Ott Reimagines Jóhann Jóhannsson

Jóhann Jóhannsson

An interview with German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott about her new project, which reimagines some of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s most famous works for solo piano.

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Music for Explorers

Across the grains store you will find modern classical music that blends acoustic instruments with electronics, alongside textural works that sit between sound art and songwriting. Many releases embrace repetition, slow development and silence, making them well suited to reading, creative work or focused listening. These are records that reveal their depth over time, showing how minimal music can still feel emotionally rich and precise.

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ARTICLES

FOOD FOR RESTLESS MINDS

News

Ludovico Einaudi Releases 'The Summer Portraits Live'

Ludovico Einaudi has released The Summer Portraits Live, a new live album capturing performances from his 2025 concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

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Hildur Guðnadóttir Announces New Album 'This Will Be Us'

Hildur Guðnadóttir has announced This Will Be Us, a new album that revisits and reimagines music from across her early catalogue.

Hildur Guðnadóttir
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Floating Points shares new track 'Falling to Earth'

Composer-producer-musician-DJ Floating Points, aka Sam Shepherd, presents Mere Mortals, his first full-length ballet score. Commissioned and directed by the San Francisco Ballet’s Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, with choreography by Aszure Barton and design and visuals by Hamill Industries, the ballet reimagines the story of Pandora in a fusion of myth, music and movement.

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artists

Meet those who sow the grains

Hildur Guðnadóttir

Hildur Guðnadóttir

"Whenever you create something, an idea comes from thin air... moving from where it begins to where it ends"

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Hildur Guðnadóttir

Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi

"I don’t consider the piano as a job. It’s very connected to my inner feelings.”

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Ludovico Einaudi

Max Richter

Max Richter

"I like the idea of a piece of music as a place to think, and it is clear we all have some thinking to do at the moment."

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Max Richter

Jóhann Jóhannsson

Jóhann Jóhannsson

“I try to make music that doesn’t need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.”

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Jóhann Jóhannsson
videos
unseen meets the unheard
Ólafur Arnalds – Sunrise Session III with Sandrayati, RAKEL & Salóme Katrín

Sunrise Session III with Sandrayati, RAKEL & Salóme Katrín

Ólafur Arnalds

To celebrate the winter solstice Ólafur Arnalds gathered a few friends and family members at his home in Reykjavík. Sunrise Session III features Sandrayati, RAKEL and Salóme Katrín on vocals and 4 incredible string players, performing a few choice songs they felt fit the occasion. On this shortest day of the year, this is their tribute to brighter days ahead.

Vinyl and Special Editions

In the grains music store, physical formats play a central role. You will find carefully pressed LPs, limited color editions and thoughtfully designed sleeves that make every record feel special. From heavyweight vinyl to printed inserts and booklets, the details are chosen to match the character of the music. CDs and other formats sit alongside these albums so you can choose what fits your setup at home, whether you are building a focused collection or adding a single striking release to your shelf.

Stories That Connect You With the Music

grains combines shop and editorial in one place. Alongside many albums, you can dive into features that give context to the music, from background pieces to short notes on specific tracks. Interviews with composers and producers open a window into their working process, showing how sounds took shape, which instruments were used and what emotional world they had in mind. This editorial layer turns browsing into a form of quiet discovery and helps you understand why a particular record might speak to you.

Film Music and Cinematic Moods

Many of the records available here are driven by narrative and imagery. You will encounter original scores, concept albums and works by composers who often write for cinema, series or games. Carefully selected soundtracks sit alongside studio projects that feel like scores for imagined films, blurring the lines between composition and sound design. These releases work beautifully beyond the screen as well, ideal for reading, late-evening focus or visual projects where you want music to set a mood without taking over the room.

If you want to experience these sounds with a visual dimension, explore our curated music videos and live sessions on the videos page.

Explore grains and Find Your Next Favorite Record

grains is designed for exploration. You can browse by artist, format or feeling and move between detailed stories and the shop itself. One moment you might lose yourself in a feature, the next you are discovering something new to add to your cart or wishlist. However you listen, the grains music storeshop invites you to stay a little longer and find recordings that will accompany you for years rather than weeks.

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