Self Discovery

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

Once Upon A Time..

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Einklang (CD1) Track #02 ... hope you enjoy.

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Drifting Consciousness

RED VEIL

MATHILDE

Christmas Meditative Instrumental Musik (12)

Links to artists, label and stores can be found at the bottom of the description!

The album: TIME
Release date: 28/07/2017 on Legacy of Thought label:

"The perception of being alive is bound to the notion and experience of TIME as the past, the present and the future. This Album is illustrating some of the aspects of life and TIME as we know it. The human perception of TIME and our will to be able to control the uncontrolable... TIME travel as the mean to change the unchangable... Listen to TIME and take a break from being caught up in TIME..."


The tracks:

1. Time Machine
2. Another Time
3. A Place in Time - ft. Niclas Olsson on trumpet
4. Time to Remember - ft. Irene Makri on vocals
5. Over The Mountain Top - ft Niclas Olsson on trumpet
6. Autumn Memories - Original Mix
7. Out of Time
8. Meandering Souls
9. Floating Relaxation
10. SpaceBend
11. Stay Some More
12. Autumn Memories - ft. Niclas Olsson on trumpet


The artwork:
Mike Winkelmann: https://www.facebook.com/beeple

Music & Mastering:
Anders Birr: https://soundcloud.com/andawan


The links:
https://www.facebook.com/legacyofthought
https://twitter.com/legacyofthought
https://play.spotify.com/user/21uctd3lr4p7ayim7pcfqwfyi/playlist/2gUTsBD0UHwYJhUeZd8wJu
http://play.qobuz.com/playlist/1394344
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMxdVM6Yc5lMao_kVGYODw
https://www.beatport.com/label/legacy-of-thought/56466
http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Legacy+Of+Thought/releases/
https://soundcloud.com/legacy-of-thought
Also on itunes and amazon

Andawan: https://soundcloud.com/andawan
Irene Makri: https://soundcloud.com/eirini-makri
Niclas Olsson: https://soundcloud.com/nics_escapades
Beeple a.k.a. Mike Winkelmann www.beeple-crap.com
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TIME

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Autumn Memories (Original)

Through sound, emotion seeks new dimensions, not as an escape from reality but rather in a search for the image of a new reality. Music that creates emotion, is like a wind that purifies, rendering visible all the obstacles and divisions. It is rather like a piercing arrow that alerts the parts of our mind we do not normally go to, in our daily lives. It opens up unknown and obscure landscapes, like a ray of light that filtering into a dark room, banishes the darkness and leaves nothing to hinder vision. 
”Canone degli Spazi” is about the sound that journeys in all directions, the sound that travels through endless space - through the outer world and the inner space - through the unconscious and the senses. 
When I play with precision and with specific intent, the emotion that rises inside of me is the mirror of the one that arises in the person who is listening - it provokes a sense of union and communion with those sharing the same moment. Music becomes a vehicle of an objective feeling, which is almost the same for most people. Similarly, if I am not One with the sound and my intention is not clear, the same notes played carelessly are empty - they lose their power and their intensity. The level of clarity of my expression depends on what I can make arise inside of me. When that happens, the inner nature of the melodies that are being played spreads out into space, into the air, into the earth and out to the whole atmosphere. A real spell takes place between the performer and his public, creating a magical aura of deep harmony and sharing. This is the wonder of a sound that has come from a long time ago, through myths and mythology, and returns us to the essence of Music, that most supreme of Arts. 
I composed “Canone degli Spazi” around essential elements - the harmony of the triads, the melodic repetition and the cycles that follow the orbits of the planets and the structure of harmonics - the very same fundamental rules that Pythagoras followed to make the laws of the Universe coincide. Sound can help us to realize that our inner space is as vast as our outer space and that in reality there is no difference between them. Sound travels through walls - the walls of the mind too – transcending both time and space. 

Canone degli spazi - Michael

My latest single 'Beautiful Girl' - strings recorded at Angel Studios in London :)

Listen here: https://ampl.ink/ob2lK

Hope you enjoy.

Love x

Beautiful Girl - Strings Version

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