On October 12, Josh Cohen will perform Radiohead for Solo Piano live at Abbotsford Convent’s Magdalen Laundry, featuring Berlin-based visual artist Mindbuffer and DJ sets by Mike Gurrieri.
“Every single version that’s ever been published has Videotape the other way, and this is the first time it’s ever been done properly … that was probably my proudest moment.” Said Josh was right, it should be done the way that he’s done it, not the way that you guys have done it’,” says Cohen. “I got an email about an hour later from my editor with the subject line ‘This will please you’, which said, ‘Just spoken to Jonny. So Faber decided to ask Radiohead lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood personally. “So I wrote it out in the way that, in my opinion, the band was feeling it,” says Cohen.įaber wanted to change it back, but Cohen held firm. Every piece of sheet music for the song instructs the pianist to play the first four chords of the song on top of the first four beats of the song, which was contrary to Cohen’s research. When arranging and transcribing his version of Videotape – the sullen but anthemic track which closes In Rainbows (2007) – he discovered an issue. Initially Faber wasn’t interested, but Cohen’s YouTube numbers sealed the deal with one condition: if this was going to be an official Radiohead release, the cover art had to come from the band’s long-time artist Stanley Donwood, who has created all of its artwork since 1994 (including the iconic album covers for OK Computer and In Rainbows).Ĭohen ran into one last problem putting together Radiohead for Solo Piano. Best of Radiohead for Piano Solo (Songbook) 2013 Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Songbook. The project eventually landed with the publisher of Radiohead’s “album-matching” songbooks, Faber Music. Radiohead Songbook Jazz Play-Along Volume 171. But getting the book to the printing press took three arduous years. With requests pouring in from around the world for the sheet music to his by-ear renditions, Cohen could see the need for a book. It now has over 71,000 subscribers, and the Radiohead covers combined have accrued almost five million views. Cohen subsequently decided to focus the channel almost exclusively on Radiohead covers. Before long it had hundreds of thousands of views. He posted his video to the small but intensely passionate Radiohead community on Reddit, which shared the video around. I struck while the iron was hot and the timing was immaculate.”
“I rocked up to the school, learned it by ear within half an hour and was the first person to put a decent cover online. “I woke up to text messages flying left, right and centre from my friends telling me that Radiohead had just released a new track,” Cohen tells Broadsheet. It was a Saturday morning in Australia when the band released the album’s second single, Daydreaming. He began uploading piano covers to his YouTube channel in 2016 to promote the school, but it was when Radiohead released its new album A Moon Shaped Pool that year that things went into overdrive. He started piano lessons at the age of seven and got his first digital piano at 13 completed music degrees in jazz and improvisation and founded his own school – ( The Josh Cohen School of Music). Other songs on Radiohead for Solo Piano hew more faithfully to the original versions, but still feel like pure Radiohead: subtly orchestral beautiful but unsettled.Ĭohen’s YouTube success was part skill and part chance. He then brings the song back for a thrilling and heartfelt close. Three minutes in, some familiar notes lull you into a false sense of security, until Cohen pulls the rug out at the eight-minute mark with a lengthy musical off-road. The song starts with a lengthy introduction that’s pleasant, but bears little resemblance to the original track – you’ll find yourself wondering if you’re even listening to a Radiohead cover.
RADIOHEAD PIANO SONGBOOK ANDROID
PARENTAL ADVISORY FOR EXPLICIT CONTENT.“Me, eight minutes into the song: ‘WTF this is the best version of Paranoid Android I’ve ever heard’.” * Street Spirit (Fade Out) * Subterranean Homesick Alien * Videotape * We Suck Young Blood * A Wolf at the Door. Titles: All I Need * Creep * Everything in Its Right Place * Exit Music (For a Film) * Fake Plastic Trees * Fog Again * High and Dry * How I Made My Millions * I Want None of This * Karma Police * Knives Out * Last Flowers to the Hospital * Life in a Glasshouse * Like Spinning Plates * Lucky * Motion Picture Soundtrack * My Iron Lung * No Surprises * Paranoid Android * A Punch Up at a Wedding * Pyramid Song * Sail to the Moon * Sit Down. Twenty-eight favorite songs drawn from a wide variety of Radiohead albums are compiled in this expansive collection, specially transcribed and arranged to be played on the piano. After more than a decade of numerous guitar-oriented Radiohead songbook releases, pianists are at last treated to a Radiohead sheet music collection that they can enjoy.
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