Just reposting some of my early compositions and recordings from time to time and hope that you enjoy listening again or for the first time.... more to be found on facebook.

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Dirk Maassen - Eagle 2012 Reupload (www.facebook.com/Dirk.Maassen.Music)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)

ALBUM INFO:

"The Idea Of You" is the first of a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may it help you on your journey, as it has us...

The Idea Of You Cover Art "The Idea Of You" is music inspired by the spirit of Eros and all of its blessings as well as its tribulations. It explores the vicissitudes of romantic love, the delicate seasons and contour of life, and all the lessons learned along the way. Themes of desire, passion, limerence, romantic love, idolatry, jealousy, envy, loss, regret, forgiveness, acknowledgment, appreciation, acceptance, and eventually glimpses of true understanding permeate the work. It attempts to communicate that which so many of us can never quite communicate properly with words. It is an open apology for the clumsy mistakes we all make when coming to maturity in learning how to care selflessly for another human being. It is a gentle reminder as to what is most important in life, as well as an invocation to continuously seek self-improvement regarding our understanding of such matters.

Andrew Souter -- Next Door (Part)

In response to an open collaboration invitation from Dirk Maassen I could not resist the opportunity to add some guitar swells and drones to accompany Dirk's beautiful piano performance and composition. 

It was an absolute pleasure for me working on this collaboration. Thank you Dirk....

To hear more of Dirk's wonderful compositions visit @ascoltadi

For a video of some time-lapse cloud imagery accompanying this track please visit: http://t.co/iDXY0dJYMv


East by Dirk Maassen feat. An Imaginal Space

You can download the sheet music for free: http://bit.ly/1OIFvOc

Huge thanks to Lukas, who put the notes on the paper for me. Check out his music here: http://bit.ly/1JrNW4s

Ich trank Tee mit einer englischen Dame

A solo piano journey through Mike Oldfield’s The Songs of Distant Earth.

This interpretation weaves Let There Be Light, Supernova, and Magellan into a single performance — a quiet tribute to both Oldfield’s music and Arthur C. Clarke’s vision of our planet as one small, fragile home against the backdrop of the stars.

"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."
— Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth

— Bastien DiArgos

Let There Be Light - Supernova - Magellan (Radio Edit)

Classical Music - Relaxing and Study Music

Peace and Love - Classical Music (15)

Bandcamp: derekhunterwilson.bandcamp.com/album/abstraktes-vol-1
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7xtTdQZlcEdkBKCO8Rg2D7
iTunes: music.apple.com/us/album/abstraktes-vol-1-ep/1503041634
Amazon: amazon.com/Abstraktes-Vol-Derek-Hunter-Wilson/dp/B085ZCKCVR

Recorded in celebration of Nils Frahm's #PianoDay. This is part of an EP of improvised pieces recorded during a recording session in Feb '16 at Type Foundry Studios in Portland, OR by Jason Powers who also mixed and mastered these recordings. 

Read more about Piano Day: www.pianoday.org/

Abstraktes #5

“Sallaw” is a Kurdish word that expresses the passing of time, and on this new album the three sound artists have found a way of expressing that notion in music. Four tracks of slowly unfolding ambience make up this collection, each piece named after different months, again in Kurdish. The four sections represent the different seasons and their movement through time.

Sallaw

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PORYA HATAMI | AARON MARTIN | ROBERTO ATTANASIO - Xakelêwe

an improvisation I did tonight. if you happen to be awake, wherever you are in the world, this can be a lullaby goodnight. hope it brings you a sense of calm and peace.

this image is of Pismo Beach in California, taken by my wife on our honeymoon up highway 1.

goodnight

Jay Chakravorty - Alexia, Berlin

hi! this is alice & her piano. 

here you'll find music inspired by compassion - and its absence.


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compassion hurts. when you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. and you cannot turn away.
your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. you must either learn to carry the universe or be crushed by it. you must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. -andrew boyd

title picture by Jacob David

Ich trank Tee mit einer englischen Dame

Alice Baldwin