an amazing year 2013 slowly turns towards its end which gives us time to take breath and look back.... thank you all for your encouraging comments, for liking, sharing, reposting, listening and feeling my music... YOU make the difference to me :-)

All the best and a wonderful christmas to you and your families !

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Dirk

Dirk Maassen - The little Things (pls. read description)

This is your song. I wrote the main parts of it in the first month of our relationship as we were falling in love. I've played parts of it for you before many times, but I had never finished it. I have now evolved it into its complete form. This is how I choose to remember you. I focus on the positives; I idealize and romanticize you. My idea of you remains loving and longing even if we are not meant to be. My idea of you persists and looks past challenges despite how difficult they may seem. I believe our ideas and our ideals create our own reality and therefore it is always best to imagine perfection however we may desire it to be. This song is reflection of all the love and gentleness we shared during good times. Ultimately it is a song of optimism even in the face of adversity. Its verses and chapters moves sideways like the astrological crab that you are, but there is deep beauty in it, and in the end it gets to were it wants to go and finds happiness and peace. Thank you for this song. I hope it may comfort you.


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 -- The Idea Of You (Part)

to see the clouds from above is always a special and sublime experience for me. Incredibly beautiful, completely timeless and a bit surreal.
the photo was taken above the clouds, somewhere between London & Manchester...hope you enjoy...

clouds

Sometimes in life you go through highs & lows... some people like to express their emotions through speaking the mind but I personally get the most out of channeling my inner thoughts/emotions through writing songs on the piano.

My BRAND NEW song 'Home' is here - https://soundcloud.com/joe-shepherd/home-1

Hope you enjoy listening!

Love

Joe

x

Lonely Hearts Of San Francisco

It was a struggle to do this without any knowledge of reading sheet music.
Guess it is acceptable.

First Piano Cover 

[<3]

London Grammar || Strong || Piano Cover

My solo piano arrangement of Away In A Manger

Away In A Manger

This is an acoustic piano version of my track Timeless recorded especially for Piano Day, which is taking place on 28 March 2016.

I hope you like this piece. :)

Timeless (acoustic piano version)

Brian Crain - Wind

Hi all - here's a new piano track from me, which I hope you like.  I'm creating new ideas for an album that I hope to record this year :)

Starlight

My performance of this lovely piece of David Lanz

Cristoforis Dream

Hi guys, please say hello to Three.

The penultimate Piece from this package of 8 I've been putting together, which collectively will be named : Numbers. Released a little later this year.

Across the recordings I've used different mic placements and combinations to try and aid what I had to say.. The mixes up on SC are where ever I feel settled.. to share, So it's always interesting to read your comments, thanks :)

Headphones are always a nice way to listen.. 
Hope you enjoy. 

Three - (balam - FredWhite) iTunes

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!