Since childhood Kristian Taus has been modding electronics and instruments, something that went on to play a major role in use for his musical creations. He has since then moved on to detuning and altering pianos and stringed instruments, in order to get them to fit the certain mood and enviroment of his tracks, something which is clearly heard in the soundscape and feel of his music. Recording is a slow process due to the countless hours that go into engineering pianos before recording, but over time a collection begin to take form.

Born in the Danish countryside in 1978, Kristian grew up with his parents and two sisters, and began early on to show an interest in music. Sharing a interest for New Age and Neo Classical music with his father, he was heavily inspired by the likes of Brian Eno, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Harold Budd, Pierre Henry and the like, he took an early direction of recording and assembling sounds on tape cassette players and Amiga 500 computer using the recorded sound of everything from rolling pencils to recordings of the one stringed decorative guitar from the wall in his parents bedroom and creating manual multi track recordings by using several tape cassette players wired together while tapping on the needle of a record player with a broken motor, to make a beat. He also began developing an interest in computers and electronics, and the very structure of sound. An interest that grew over the years and started embracing "real" instruments and in the process search for the limits of how a given instrument could sound.

As a musical background, Kristian has spend most of his life composing music in countless genres and subgenres of the electronical music scene, and has released numerous singles, EP's and albums, as well as taken part in various projects over the years. Better known for his electronical compositions in aliases such as stilk, dunkelfelt, ukendt and heshan and kork, the albums available through Magnatune are his debut release within the minimalistic solo piano genre.

The mood and feel of the tracks range from the darkest despair to glimmers of hope, from solo piano pieces to pseudo ensemble compositions, from the raw sound of dark modded pianos to reverb covered guitars.

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