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https://soundcloud.com/ascoltadi

L'originale. https://soundcloud.com/ascoltadi/dirk-maassen-wish

Was fun working on this piece by my SC friend D. Maassen,,,, the pianist with the long last name :)

Hope you enjoy it 

Dirk Maassen - Wish  (Stein Thor arrangement)

Tiny piano solo improvisation for you. 
So nighty. 

Painting by Stefanie Fuenfrocken.

Middle-Summer tiny song

Friends.... 

back on the piano, inspired by a wonderful vacation at the baltic sea and with some fresh music... Anmut will be the title track of the new album I am working on and planning to release in 2014. As per usual I am releasing all songs here on soundcloud before....

Thanks a lot to "Mirko Costantini" for his permission to use his awesome photo for my cover art for the upcoming album. 

Checkout his wonderful pictures at: 

http://www.mirkocostantini.it

Dirk Maassen - Anmut (www.facebook.com/Dirk.Maassen.Music)

Killing time in the train, I wrote this piece on a journey using musescore.... the first time I started a composition with a score and not in front of the piano... However the final composition required some real piano sessions after all ;-)

http://open.spotify.com/artist/758yIKdhJhWL6oTuTSFVV6

www.maassen-music.com

Dirk Maassen - Un Voyage.... pls. support and share my music on spotify :)

when I released the open collab for East I did not expect that so many different and unique versions of this song would grow in short time.... I fell in love with each of them. For sure some of these will be included on my next collaboration album but I think I am going to include this one on my next solo piano album, cause I really love the ethereal feel in it...

also check the Imaginal Space here....

https://soundcloud.com/an-imaginal-space

East (feat. An Imaginal Space)

thanks for supporting my music @ spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/758yIKdhJhWL6oTuTSFVV6

Finished all the mastering, artwork and lineup on "Anmut" and will sent it to the stores... 

Thanks to Kayll Frappier, Vicente Bueso, Pessoaz, Luliby, Koen Janssen for the great collabs ! 

Thanks to Stefano Barzan for the wonderful mastering, it was an honour to work with you !

And last not least I thank Dirk Mallwitz for mastering Un Voyage, White, Scent of Rain, De Toujours, This Moment. Especially for keeping calm in every situation and for being a patient mastering engineer always open minded and ready to produce the perfect sound. -> www.soundset.de

Thanks Nick for the awesome photo, it matches 100% with what I see when listening to the music !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leeneek/

Dirk Maassen - Afterglow (with PessoaZ) (out on spotify, iTunes, amazon...)

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Some of you may think that it's too daring on my side to re-interpret this classical piece, but to me it is a pure sentimental thing, a tribute to two Masters... The first one is the author of the original, of course, I bet you have heard of him.. and his story... and another Master - my mom. She wasn't playing or singing herself, but she surely inspired my dad and me to keep playing no matter what. And I used to dare and hoped that she is listening and loves my playing and my daring. Every time I hear the original composition, I think of her.

Enjoy the free download!

Not Für Elise - Tribute to two Masters (read description) - by Milana

Erased Tapes Collection I

Ólafur Arnalds – Fok

It's what we don't see, when everything else is illuminated. 

Enjoy your summer, folks. 

Artwork: http://www.sxc.hu/profile/porah

Darkness is not the opposite of light

My piano, the clouds

These summer nights brought me a new sound. Woods, felted notes and resonance are now part of the music. 

And yes, they will be part of my new album, too. 

Fabrizio Paterlini - Summer nights (working on the new album)

While I was working on strings for the new album, this night-song came to find me. So I decided to record, upload, and free it this night, immediately. 

This music is floating from my windows to yours. 

Have a goodnight. 

Picture credit by Matt Benson

Empty Room

Conversation with myself

This is the previously unreleased track included in the benefit compilation "... and darkness came", curated by Headphone Commute for helping people affected by Hurricane Sandy. All the income generated from this release will be donated to Doctors without Borders and The Humane Society. 

You can buy it and contribute to the cause by checking:
www.headphonecommute.bandcamp.com

Fabrizio plays the piano.

Silvia Dal Paos: Cello
Chiara Spagnolo: Violin

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There's a light we might see

Zbigniew Preisner - Life After Life

A short story for you.
Taken from a series of piano and strings tiny sketches. 


Unrequited #4

While I was soundchecking in Hasselt, before the Piano Anders #3 concert, this melody came to find me. 
When I came home I immediately recorded it and tonight I finished mixing and mastering it. 
And now it's here. 

Enjoy. 



Somehow familiar

Violin and chill.

For reaching 7000 followers on here, and 2000 on youtube! :)

Show some loving:
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Stepping Stones

Ilya Beshevli - The Pursuit of Happiness

Another FREE track taken from my live straming session of my latest "Now" album - enjoy and share! 

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