{"product_id":"lecho-de-bretagne","title":"L'Ècho De Bretagne","description":"\u003cp\u003eA century-old grand piano, a secluded house surrounded by the greenery of Brittany, no internet connection, and a reel-to-reel recorder. \u003cem\u003eL'Écho de Bretagne\u003c\/em\u003e is a solo piano record as essential as it is intense. An album made of silences, space, slowness. A music that doesn't chase impact, but truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf his previous work, \u003cem\u003eMexican Alps\u003c\/em\u003e (2025), marked the first time the German composer and producer created an ambient-electronic album without his instrument of choice, the piano, \u003cem\u003eL'Écho de Bretagne\u003c\/em\u003e emerges as a direct response to that absence. \"It was exactly the lack of piano that brought about the need for this new record, which instead puts that instrument, so vital to me, at the very center, stripping everything else away,\" Niklas explains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith\u003cem\u003e L'Écho de Bretagne\u003c\/em\u003e, the Hamburg-born, Berlin-based musician continues his exploration by seeking solitude in nature, much like he did onSvalbard, but this time with an even more radical choice: disconnecting completely from the internet, and switching off both computer and smartphone for a while, in order to fully immerse himself in his new music. \"I rented an old cottage in Paimpol, Brittany, where I knew there was a grand piano,\" he recounts. \"When I got there, I discovered that not only was the piano more than a hundred years old, but it was also of an unknown brand, never restored, and quite difficult to play. But that gave it a unique character, and I didn't give up. Sure, it was an instrument left to its own fate, I couldn't play anything too fast. But how fascinating was that? I'm convinced that setting limits, instead of giving yourself total freedom when composing, can become an extraordinary source of inspiration.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Niklas Paschburg","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56945370235211,"sku":"R8513-7643","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56945371185483,"sku":"R8513-0482","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cover.ki-4_ad9f8141-242e-49b4-b6c3-8c6a321195a8.jpg?v=1775223240","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/lecho-de-bretagne","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}