Lyrics: Leuteris Papadopoulos
Music: Giannis Spanos
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The Sundays in Katerini
Leave with the rain
And the travelling troupes of actors
Play the Golfo alone.

And the soldiers like you
Twirl in the station
And wherever they meet with trains
Something chokes them in the throat.

Now you will be crying and you will be searching for me
And after you will be bending in the watchtower
Like the branches of the oleander
That were suffocated by the building sites.
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Οι Κυριακές στην Κατερίνη 
φεύγουν μαζί με τη βροχή
και τα μπουλούκια οι θεατρίνοι
παίζουν τη Γκόλφω μοναχοί

Και τα φαντάρια σαν κι εσένα
στριφογυρνάνε στο σταθμό
κι όπου ανταμώνουνε με τραίνα 
κάτι τους πνίγει στο λαιμό

Τώρα θα κλαις και θα με ψάχνεις 
κι απέ θα γέρνεις στη σκοπιά
σαν τα κλαδιά της πικροδάφνης 
που την επνίξαν τα γιαπιά
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Les dimanches chez Catherine
S’écoulent avec la pluie
Et les troupes de baladins
Montent seuls "Golfo"

Et les fantassins comme toi
Flânent dans la gare
Où ils rencontrent des trains
Quelque chose qui les serre à la gorge

Maintenant tu pleureras et tu me chercheras
Et ensuite tu te pencheras à la tour de guet
Comme les branches du laurier rose
Que les chantiers ont noyé
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Duminicile în Katerini
Pleacă odată cu ploaia
Şi trupele de actori ambulanţi
Joacă Golfo singure.

Şi soldaţii ca tine
Se învârt în gară
Şi oriunde se întâlnesc cu trenuri
Ceva îi sufocă în gât.

Acum vei plânge şi mă vei căuta
Şi apoi te vei apleca în turnul de pază
Ca ramurile leandrului
Pe care le-au sufocat şantierele.

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Οι Κυριακές Στην Κατερίνη (The Sundays in Katerini) - Piano Solo

Javier Navarrete - Long Long Time Ago

In existence there are ideal forms and there are imperfect manifestations of these forms.  It is a matter of philosophy which is more real to us in our experience of the world:  the perfect idealized form of an apple, or the imperfect manifestation of this form that is said to "participate in apple-ness".  In fact we don't ever see the real idealized form of an object or an idea. It is as if, as Plato said, we are prisoners of a cave, where the objective form sits outside the cave and casts shadows on the interior wall of the cave.  We see only these shadows that are subject to the limitations of our perception and influenced by the collection of our emotional beliefs and past experiences.  More abstractly, these shadows may represet a potential relationship, any of our desires or goals, our self image, or a myriad of any possible other more mundane things. We reach towards these shadows trying to understand as best we can, trying to refine them to be one step closer to perfection.  Sometimes magic happens here. Other times it does not.  Sometimes we fail to realize when it has happened.  Other times we fool ourselves into believing it has happened when it has not. The best we can hope for is to remain humble and patient, and continue to believe our perception will eventually converge with reality if we continue growing and reaching for shadows...

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"Autumn Rains" is the second installment in 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 trio represents Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may help you on your journey, as it has us...

"Autumn Rains" is music inspired by the spirit of Agape. It is an album dedicated to the concept of spiritual love and universal compassion clothed in the metaphor of transcendental natural beauty. It is an album that simultaneously expresses deep love for both the creator as well as the creation. It is said God gave us music so that we could pray without words. It could be added that nature was provided as an example of exactly how to do this effectively. In this spirit, Autumn Rains is a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the natural beauty of this world, and an expression of a sense of respect for the inescapable universal equality that nature imposes. It humbly attempts to capture deep feelings of awe, granduer, idealism, and a belief in the innate goodness of the world even when we all face exceptionally hard lessons.

Andrew Souter -- Reaching For Shadows

Life is like a river flowing in reverse. We start off our lives in the ocean, and we are immediately confronted with an infinite number of choices: should we go up the Nile, or the Amazon, or the Mississippi?  We choose one and we proceed down that path, and after a while we face another decision:  should we go up the right tributary or the left tributary? Again we make a choice and proceed. Throughout life we go through this process over and over again and our life path evolves and takes from. 

As we make these choices our future options become limited in a fashion by the choices we make today, for while we can certainly always go back down the river to test another path, it requires an increasingly greater effort to make these kind of changes once we are already far down one particular path. Eventually as our life nears competition we approach a tiny spring on a mountaintop and we have no more choices. The path is complete and the journey is over.

I believe that there is an ideal path for everyone as an individual, and that this path can perhaps be called fate or destiny. I believe that it likely preexists before and outside our lives and is perhaps created by God or the universe or whatever your particular persuasion would like to call it. 

I believe that this ideal path is the one that will bring us the most completeness and satisfaction in our lives as individuals, and at the same time, this is the path that will greatest fulfill an even larger plan or path towards a universal fate or destiny for humanity. All of our individual paths function like threads in a cosmic tapestry which represents a larger, universal plan that unfolds upon itself over the sea of time.

The interesting thing however, is that it is up to us as individuals to earnestly seek out our own ideal path, and as a consequence, our contribution to the larger tapestry. It is not something we are forced into; it is an active decision we must make and it requires effort. We must have the strength to follow it. I do not believe in "apathetic fatalism", as I would call it - "if it is meant to be, it will be". I believe it is up to us to honestly and truthfully search our hearts for our own ideal path, and then diligently go after it with vigor and passion and make it happen.

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"Autumn Rains" is the second installment in 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 trio represents Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may help you on your journey, as it has us...

"Autumn Rains" is music inspired by the spirit of Agape. It is an album dedicated to the concept of spiritual love and universal compassion clothed in the metaphor of transcendental natural beauty. It is an album that simultaneously expresses deep love for both the creator as well as the creation. It is said God gave us music so that we could pray without words. It could be added that nature was provided as an example of exactly how to do this effectively. In this spirit, Autumn Rains is a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the natural beauty of this world, and an expression of a sense of respect for the inescapable universal equality that nature imposes. It humbly attempts to capture deep feelings of awe, granduer, idealism, and a belief in the innate goodness of the world even when we all face exceptionally hard lessons.

Andrew Souter -- The River

To The Moon Overture

I created this piano track after a visit of the wonderful city Zürich/ Switzerland in October 2015. I walked with a couple of friends along the lake promenade in the afternoon and found myself getting really relaxed despite all rainy, cold and foogy weather there. Now autumn completely took in my heart...<3
Hope you enjoy this calm and relaxing piece of music.

You like what you hear and want to buy some of my music? Visit my profile on Bandcamp: 
www.macrima.bandcamp.com

Grauer Tag am See

Be careful to sow wisely the good seed, for one day you may have to eat its fruit.  Perhaps grace is not demanding to receive everything that we think we are entitled to by our own merit or position, but rather to instead give thanks for not receiving everything we may deserve for our failures and folly. Let us be diligent year round to do the best we can to nurture our crop. Let us be humbly content to accept result of these efforts, whatever it may be, at the time of the harvest.

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"Autumn Rains" is the second installment in 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 trio represents Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may help you on your journey, as it has us...

"Autumn Rains" is music inspired by the spirit of Agape. It is an album dedicated to the concept of spiritual love and universal compassion clothed in the metaphor of transcendental natural beauty. It is an album that simultaneously expresses deep love for both the creator as well as the creation. It is said God gave us music so that we could pray without words. It could be added that nature was provided as an example of exactly how to do this effectively. In this spirit, Autumn Rains is a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the natural beauty of this world, and an expression of a sense of respect for the inescapable universal equality that nature imposes. It humbly attempts to capture deep feelings of awe, granduer, idealism, and a belief in the innate goodness of the world even when we all face exceptionally hard lessons.

Andrew Souter -- The Harvest

Serenity

Recorded in the quiet of the night with practice felt on my upright piano> A gentle, reflective piece.

'Nightsongs' - Album out now on iTunes, Spotify & more

iTunes: geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/night…mt=1&app=music

Nightsongs

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Fade

This track is from the album Ritual and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/adamhurst6

Wellspring

Between your fingers

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

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

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