{ "ok" : true, "artist" : { "name" : "Kristian Taus", "page" : "kristian_taus", "description" : "Collections of melancholic and minimalistic soundscapes", "location" : "Frederikssund, Denmark", "bio" : "What started of as a project on the side, creating scores and background music for numerous TV programs, videos, movies and documentaries, was over the years getting more and more time and effort dedicated to it, until the emotional reflective portrait of the world around him had become his main project, and his electronical compositions was getting created on the sideline.\n\nSince 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.\n\nBorn 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nThe 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.", "photo" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/img/kristian_taus.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/kristian_taus/", "albums" : [{ "sku" : "kristiantaus-movements", "name" : "Movements", "artist" : { "name" : "Kristian Taus", "page" : "kristian_taus" }, "release_date" : "2013-09-25", "genres" : ["New Age","Neoclassical","Instrumental New Age"], "vocals" : "instrumental", "moods" : ["melancholic","hopeful","reflective","peaceful","dreamy","meditative"], "uses" : ["documentary","emotional storytelling","meditation or yoga","spa or massage","study or focus","podcast background"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["contemporary piano","minimalistic ensemble","melancholic soundscapes","cinematic textures"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "A melancholic yet hopeful collection of minimalistic, cinematic piano-based soundscapes ideal for reflective, calm, or emotionally resonant media projects.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Kristian%20Taus/Movements/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/kristiantaus-movements/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/kristiantaus-movements", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=kristiantaus-movements" },{ "sku" : "kristiantaus-lights", "name" : "Lights", "artist" : { "name" : "Kristian Taus", "page" : "kristian_taus" }, "release_date" : "2013-07-29", "genres" : ["New Age","Neoclassical","Ambient","Instrumental New Age"], "vocals" : "instrumental", "moods" : ["melancholic","reflective","peaceful","dreamy","meditative","nostalgic"], "uses" : ["emotional storytelling","documentary","meditation or yoga","spa or massage","study or focus","podcast background"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["modded pianos","string sections","glockenspiels","accordions","altered string instruments"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "A melancholic, minimalistic ambient album with modded pianos and strings, ideal for emotional storytelling, documentaries, and calm background use.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Kristian%20Taus/Lights/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/kristiantaus-lights/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/kristiantaus-lights", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=kristiantaus-lights" },{ "sku" : "kristiantaus-clouds", "name" : "Clouds", "artist" : { "name" : "Kristian Taus", "page" : "kristian_taus" }, "release_date" : "2013-06-04", "genres" : ["New Age","Ambient","Neoclassical","Instrumental New Age"], "vocals" : "instrumental", "moods" : ["melancholic","calm","reflective","nostalgic","peaceful","dreamy"], "uses" : ["nature documentary","emotional storytelling","meditation or yoga","podcast background","slideshow or memories","film score"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["solo piano"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "A calm, melancholic solo piano album evoking childhood memories and quiet moments in nature; ideal for emotional storytelling, meditation, or film scoring.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Kristian%20Taus/Clouds/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/kristiantaus-clouds/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/kristiantaus-clouds", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=kristiantaus-clouds" }] }, "license" : { "music_license" : "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)", "music_license_url" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/", "listening" : "Stream the free previews, or buy an album for $8 to download it in MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, OGG or WAV. 100% of the price goes to the musician.", "non_commercial" : "Non-commercial projects may use the music under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0: credit the artist and Magnatune, and share alike.", "projects" : "Magnatune members may use any Magnatune music in their projects, commercial or not (videos, films, podcasts, games, apps, websites, adverts), including work for clients, under the Magnatune Project Licence. Projects released while a member stay licensed for good; new projects need an active membership. Credit is required. TV or radio broadcast, cinema, and background music in shops, restaurants or on-hold lines are not included: license those from the musician. Membership: $10/month, $99/year or $299 lifetime; agents can buy one themselves with MPP at /api/member-pass ($10 month, $99 year, $299 lifetime, one-off).", "projects_status" : "available", "projects_signup" : "https://magnatune.com/member/signup", "royalty_free" : "Membership is royalty-free licensing: no per-video, per-download or per-view fees, for every project created and released while a member.", "youtube" : "YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, podcasts: members may use the clean songs in monetized videos. Members register their YouTube channel (the set_youtube_channel MCP tool, or their account page) so YouTube's Content ID doesn't claim their videos. The free versions carry a spoken Magnatune voice and are non-commercial (CC BY-NC-SA), so they're not for monetized channels or client work.", "details" : "https://magnatune.com/info/licensing", "how_to_credit" : "Name the artist and \"Magnatune\", with a link to the album's web_url." } }