Co-Composed with Nicolas Laget:

https://soundcloud.com/nicolaslaget

All things have hope. With patience and caring hands, even the delicate and vulnerable can survive winter and grow into maturity with strong roots and branches. With time and unconditional love, our tree may one day blossom and bear fruit in the joy of spring. We must remain patient.

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 & Nicolas Laget -- Solstice

It was seemingly a late Autumn season this year and the leaves held on to their branches a little longer than average this turn of the wheel. I watched as the final remaining members of the deciduous resistance proudly held their ground and clung to their branches, while the wind tried to seduce them to give up their futile attempt at immortality and surrender to the inevitable.  In bold defiance they refused and proudly flew their colorful flags of deep crimson, rust orange, and a shade of yellow so ineffably deep it does not even bare a name. They danced gallantly and gracefully with the wind as they moved in asymmetrical rhythms and flowing tempos - the mathematics of which seemingly beyond human intelligence, boarding on the divine. The eb and flow of the motion together with the beams of sunlight that would burst through the branches and cast a glimmering shimmer onto everything was truly an epically cinematic sight to behold! If I were a cinematographer this is what I would film.  As I am only a composer, I did the best I could with the tools available to my disposal...  I hope you may enjoy it...

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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 Wind Whispers To The Trees

"What  would  you read  me - honey ?" asks Kate. " Just  read  me  something out  of  your  soul !" answers Bastian.

The thriller  movie "The Reader"  with Kate Winslet who won an academy  award  for  that role, used  the soundtrack of Ludovico Einaudi and  his  piece  "Primavera"  interpreted  by Bastian Lee Jones.  
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Cinematic Piano of Ludovico Einaudi

Primavera (movie: "The Reader")

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Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera (movie: "The Reader")

Yann Tiersen  wrote  a brilliant soundtrack  to the  movie "Amelie".
Bastian Lee Jones  interprets  his  piece "Le Banquet"

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Le Banquet (movie: "Amélie")

Yann Tiersen - Le Banquet (movie: "Amélie")

The Jane Campion Film "The PIANO"  got  its  soundtrack  by  the  minimal music  composer  Michael Nyman, who created an exceptional soundtrack to the  very  spheric  and  dense  movie.
The  major cast  was  Holly Hunter  and  Harvey  Keitel besides  Sam Neill.
Bastian Lee Jones   chose the piece "The Heart Asks Pleasure First", which is his 14th recording of 2015.
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The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from: "The Piano")

Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from: "The Piano")

Ludovico Einaudi´s piano work "Fly" is  an exceptional  composition, done for the  movie "The Intouchables" (Les Intouchables, Ziemlich Beste Freunde)directed  by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, interpreted  by Bastian Lee Jones
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Fly (movie: "The Intouchables")

Ludovico Einaudi - Fly (movie: "The Intouchables")

This is a track from Brandon Therialt we help promote because we find it pleasant!
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Aspirations

A track i wrote this morning - hope you enjoy listening :)

Photo by Cyra Morgan.

Wednesday

Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire

Up! is the last of 7 pieces from the EP "Viva". To the magic of Flying...

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Bastian Lee Jones, performer, singer songwriter, pianoplayer, photographer,  PR consultant, coach, presenter.

Loves to  entertain with  songs and  pieces  that comes  from the  soul, the  heart  for  your  hearts  and  souls  and  feet !