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 sort of a gloomy day weather-wise yesterday, so I took an excursion into pure minimalism.  :)

Thoughts?

Andrew Souter -- Missing You

Cello courtesy of Deryn Cullen (@thecellocompanion); flute courtesy of Hannah Grayson at Session Solutions (@sessionsolutions). Mix by Steve Brookfield(@steve-brookfield).

Glaciers (feat. Hannah Grayson,  Deryn Cullen)

My favorite Piano Concerto..youtube.com/watch?v=Y1tkY_FmWDA

Concerto for Piano #9

Summer without Trauma.wav

Composed and produced by Oliver Sadie 
Live piano recorded at Red Room One Studio
© 2015 Oliver Sadie
--
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

~ The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Elusive

For those who saw their lives truncated, for those left by society, for those who had no chance, ... For The Forgotten Ones.

Image by Gamel (tribute for Adam Martinakis)

For The Forgotten Ones

When The Fires Go Out

Dirk Maassen composes wonderful short piano pieces inspired by contemporary composers such as Yann Tiersen and Ludovico Einaudi. 

I took on his invitation to record any of his piano pieces, and told him I would record 'Addio'... just to find out that there was no score! ... So after working directly with him the score was created and here is my take on it.

Reflections

Dirk Maassen: Addio

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After I travelled down so many roads the last couple of years I finally met this girl. 
To me she is beauty, she is inspiration, she is hope, she is love. She calls herself butterfly and since she fell in love with that song I dedicate it to her. So, this song is for you my butterfly, may you sit on my heart for a long and never forget how to fly !  


homepage: http://www.maassen-music.com

facebook: www.facebook.com/Dirk.Maassen.Music

youtube: www.youtube.com/user/ascoltadi?feature

Dirk Maassen - To The Sky (follow @dirk_maassen on instagram)

Classically trained pianist. I enjoy playing not only the traditional repertoire but also pieces from unusual composers.

Dirk Maassen: Addio

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