Exin

Otto A. Totland shares a new full-length album via Nils Frahm’s label Leiter. The sixteen-track collection by the Norwegian composer and self-taught pianist, who also performs as one half of cult ambient-classical-drone duo Deaf Center, and is available on limited edition viny. It was co-produced and mixed by Frahm at his studio in the German capital’s famed Funkhaus complex. Exin follows 2021’s Companion, the final part of a trilogy of solo piano records that began with 2014’s Pinô and continued with 2019’s The Lost. Given their intimate, subtle nature, many of these compositions have accumulated remarkable streaming figures, but Totland’s musical miniatures are as emotionally eloquent as they are technically elegant, with this latest set proving no exception.