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To have a muse, in person or in spirit, is an artist's greatest yet most fickle gift. This closes the loop, completing a set of 3. 

The Muse: http://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse
The Muse II: http://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse-ii

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Support Artist

The Muse III

I feel very thankful and fortunate to have had a truly amazing summer in 2014.  I visited no fewer than seven counties between July and August.  I witnessed so many amazing things in Romania, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, and Iceland. I spent quality time, working, playing, and planning for the future with close friends and colleagues. I met and befriended many new and truly wonderful people whom I now consider close friends.

I was asked many times both by friends and family in the US, as well as the local people in the various cities I was in, what I thought about all the various political instability in the world today.  The questions invariably centered around something to the effect of "Aren't you worried/concerned/afraid to be traveling at the moment?"

My standard answer, which I became quite practiced in reciting, was:  I think that if some alien species which did not speak any human language came to Earth and visited New York, Washington DC, Bucharest, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallinn, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik it would have a very hard time telling us all apart.  Despite our small cultural differences, people everywhere generally want the same things.  We all look quite similar when we smile and laugh as well as when we cry.

It is said,  everybody loves something, is afraid of something, has lost something, and is looking to find something.  Which will you focus on?  Will you give love unconditionally, or will you help create fear in effort to mask your own?  Will you help yourself and others get lost, or will you try your best to find something of true value and meaning?  Will you focus on artificial divisions and all the reasons why you think you can not do something, or will you open the borders of your heart to new experiences and opportunities for growth? The choice is yours.  It is all of ours.



A deep and humble thanks to everyone in Romania, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, and Iceland for sharing part of your lives and wonderful culture with me.  The memories will last a lifetime and have already become a formative experience to my creative process.  Thank you!

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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 -- Without Borders

collaboration with the lovely https://soundcloud.com/pascal-lengagne 

Page Through Time

Quarto Tempo

Oceano

I took some time away to write a short collection of piano and string pieces named 'Of Sleep and Time'. This is the opening piece.

Of Sleep and Time is available for free download at https://levipatel.bandcamp.com/

I have recently released an alternate version 'As she passes (nocturne)', included on my album A Shifting Lightness https://levipatel.bandcamp.com/album/a-shifting-lightness

Of Sleep and Time

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As she passes

Music for solo piano.

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Vision

Sierra

Remixed by Cyrus Reynolds 
https://soundcloud.com/cyrusreynolds

Cello: Mike Kaufman 
Viola: Virginia Rockwell 

Track taken from 'Adrift Reworks', released on Injazero Records.
https://injazerorecords.bandcamp.com/album/adrift-reworks

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Steve Gibbs - Patterns (Cyrus Reynolds Remix)

We Move Lightly

Tambour - Chapitre I | mr002

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.: The Nude And The Quiet :.
Composed and produced by Simon P. Castonguay

Recorded by Benoît Parent
Mixed by Pierre Duchesne
Mastering by Pierre Duchesne

Piano/Tonal percussions - Simon P. Castonguay
Violon I - Rose Frappier
Violon II - Audrée Leduc
Alto - Mélanie Venditti
Cello - Eugénie Lalonde

Tambour - The Nude And The Quiet

This album brings together a vibrant and heartfelt selection of classical, folk, and popular melodies that span cultures, emotions, and eras. From the timeless beauty of Andante Cantabile, Nimrod, and Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending to the fiery passion of Czardas and the Latin flair of La Isla Bonita and Livin’ La Vida Loca, each track tells its own story while contributing to a rich musical journey.

Beloved operatic style gems like O Mio Babbino Caro, and Salut d’Amour sit alongside moving theatrical and cinematic moments such as The Music of the Night, Theme from The Godfather, and If I Were a Rich Man. The album also embraces the intimacy of Vienna in the beautiful 'Love Unspoken' and 'You Are My Heart’s Delight', offering moments of tenderness and reflection.

Blending classical elegance with popular charm, this collection celebrates the universality of music—uplifting, romantic, and timeless. It is an invitation to savour melodies that have captivated hearts across generations.

Czardas

From the album '' Jacob David - omkuld '' released by Moderna Records.

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Jacob David - Intet Forbi 

composed by Jacob David

piano : Jacob David

violins & tenor violin : Kristian Jørgensen

cello : Line Felding

mixed & mastered by Morten Bue 

Jacob David - Intet Forbi

Official Music Video :
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All music composed, performed and recorded by: Piotr Wiese

You Are...

Piotr Wiese - You Are... (Piano Solo) follow me on Spotify

Music by Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi

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Ten directions is a Eastern cosmogony’s term that means "in all directions throughout the space." These directions are the eight of the compass: east, south-east, south, southwest, west, north-west, north, north-east, plus the Nadir – to the down - and Zenit - at the top.  These "Ten directions" are often matched to past, present and future to describe the set of all places – Ten Directions - and times - Three Times.
 At any time and in any place existed a sound that awakens and resonates at a specific emotional state. A call that is heard and collected by those who were looking for it for a long time and in any direction.
 
While playing or composing, I take refuge into myself, directing the sound through the ten directions of space. Then, I let my thoughts meander both in the internal direction, the innerself, and in the outer, the discovery and the meeting. The union of these two states arouses emotion, subtle matter that can be felt by those who are listening and are on the same frequency and in tune.

 The launch of the thought starts from the silence, and then, one key after another, starts moving and traveling through the air like an arrow into space. The sound is without obstacles, in the ten directions, and resonates through the invisible world of vibrations. Announces itself and enters the inner space. It comes to ears, the hearing organ, and shakes all the other senses. It kidnaps, touch the nerve centre and pervades us. It meets and joins up with something that is already there, and is welcomed as it was expected all along.

 The sound is clear, it radiates and spreads everywhere, and comes back, in a two-way process, creating contact points and unexplained bridges. Is a dimension that affects and charms because we recognize it, surprised and excited at the same time. As a light, it illuminates hidden areas through the mind and the heart, and reaches the deepest part of our inner. The listener and the player finds themselves alive in a sensitive state, and this sharing creates the communion, the union of sound and spirit, music and noise away from fiction, which dwells always and everywhere in the ten directions.

Philip Wesley - Dark Night Of The Soul

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