20/08/2013.

10 months since I met my brother.
That's the result.

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Got Together Again (5/8) - Piano Solo

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)

@daigohanada's new record Satori arrives in three weeks, and it's a pleasure to share with you a heartwarming set of 'sister' pieces entitled Reflections I & II ahead of the release. "These two tracks were originally one piece that evolved into two. Both of them capture the reflections in our eyes of the world today and how it feels, the new world with new habits which we are not so used to yet."

You can listen now wherever you find your music: IDOL.lnk.to/dh-reflections

Satori

Reflection II

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Daigo Hanada - Reflection II

Second collaborative album with https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik : 
"Petits rêves bizarres XIII-XXIV" - a combination of my "pure piano" neoclassical pieces and Milana´s amazing improvisations on the themes.

Please support our music - buy an Album! Thank you!

The full album with 12 tracks is available for purchase both digitally and on CD here:
http://itunes.apple.com/album/petits-reves-bizarres-xiii/id695284812
http://www.amazon.com/Petits-Reves-Bizarres-XIII-XXIV-Milana/dp/B00FFKCBH0
http://milana.bandcamp.com/album/petits-reves-bizarres-xiii-xxiv

The first album with the "Petits rêves bizarres I-XII" you find here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/petits-reves-bizarres-i-xii/id626880279
http://www.amazon.com/Petits-Reves-Bizarres-I-XII-Milana/dp/B00CAEM6V0

You can also listen to all Albums on Spotify in this 5 hour playlist of pure neoclassical piano music here:
https://play.spotify.com/user/1155850710/playlist/754hMzwRzbXaVixnFYdcO1

The booklet with all scores / sheetmusic of this series you find for free download here:
http://www.beneking.com/booklets

Petit rêve bizarre XX -  Improvisation by Milana - Album on iTunes

Taken from the album "Riverscape", out Oct 6th, 2023

Riverscape

Water has memories

"Novemberzauber" is a dreamy and melancholic piano piece.
This track is my contribution to the "FOUR CHORD CHALLENGE" from The Piano Cloud. 
It was big fun to create a piece with only the four chords G minor, D minor, Eb major and F major (in that order).








Novemberzauber (TPC Four Chord Challenge 2014)

I am thrilled to take part in Milana's latest open collaboration project. I hope you enjoy the track. Thanks, as always, for taking the time to listen and for your support :-)

What awaits in the darkness? Sadness, mystery,mischievous fun? Everyone sees the moonlit shadows differently - what do you see?

You can find Milana's original track and the rest of her wonderful music here: https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik


Darkness Awaits - Milana open collaboration

Daydream Vol 5

just some spawns off of my original sequence

Calm

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

I am pleased to announce that a specially commissioned VR version of my composition 'Shy Dancer No.2' will be presented during the Medientage Munich (24-30 October 2020). For this purpose I have completely revised and re-recorded the piece. By the acoustic and virtual separation of the instrumentation the visitor gets the opportunity to generate his own moods out of the composition by locating himself where the music appeals to him.
You can simply try it out, free Expo tickets are available at:
https://tickets.medientage.de/ 
(And yes, you don't need an extra VR Head Set, a Smartphone will do :-)

Special thanks to Silke Schmidt (Head of XR HUB Bavaria) and Tim Deussen (Head of XR Marketing) !!

Spotify & Co.

The Shy Dancer Experience

I create things.  Musical things...  Technological things...

Production of my third solo piano album to complete the trilogy is underway now! Stay tuned...

If you enjoy the music please support via Apple Music, Spotify, or other streaming/download service. My music is also available directly from my company web-store in uncompressed WAV format as well if you prefer:

http://www.designersound.com/

My other job is co-founder and primary algorithm designer of 2CAudio.  We make some pretty cool stuff for the pro audio software community including some of the best reverbs on the planet, which you are hearing in all of my personal work here too of course.

http://www.2caudio.com
http://galbanum.com/about/people/

Thanks for all of your kind words and support!