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Life Out Of Ice - Extended

Today we welcome Almira, a Polish pianist, composer, with her new release “Golden”, a piece that unfolds with poetic grace and emotional subtlety. Inspired by the radiant energy of femininity, "Golden" captures both the delicacy and strength that define the feminine spirit. Like sunlight in sound, Almira’s expressive phrasing creates an intimate space to pause, breathe, and feel. 
A luminous journey of resilience, beauty, and power, now available on all streaming platforms. ad21music.

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Golden

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Music, piano, prog. strings, mix: Vicente Bueso
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Music for piano and string quartet.

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Solstice

Hope

The Road Unseen

dear friend I never met

dear friend I never met (piano solo)

Pathfinder

Chopin’s Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 42, is no ordinary dance—it’s a waltz supreme, a dance-poem where elegance collides with daring invention. On the surface, it dazzles with Parisian brilliance: swirling gowns, aristocratic pairs, a ballroom sparkling with wit and coquetry. But under the magnifying glass, it reveals Chopin’s genius for bending time itself. The left hand beats the familiar three of the waltz, while the right hand insists on two—duple against triple, particle against wave—creating an auditory illusion as if couples were gliding past each other in different dimensions.

Like a jeweler turning a diamond in shifting light, each return to this piece reveals new colors. Its interwoven themes play like refracted beams in a prism: amusement, drama, intimacy, and that unforgettable sostenuto melody blooming at the heart of the work, a melody Schumann said deserved to be danced only by countesses. Even Chopin’s humor flickers through—the sudden break in the reprise feels less like a mistake than sly stagecraft, as if a dancer had tripped, only for the music to whirl back into an ecstatic frenzy.

From a quantum lens, Op. 42 is superposition in sound: both gallop and glide, both order and abandon. Chopin carried fragments of it for years—echoes of youthful sketches, of tone-portraits of his beloved Maria, of earlier Valses Brillantes—before collapsing them into this final, mature form. The result is music that feels inevitable yet forever unstable, a ballroom spun inside a collider. It is Chopin the improviser and Chopin the architect fused into one: creating a waltz that is not just danced in time, but dances with time itself.

Frédéric Chopin Waltz in A-flat major, Op.42

Listen to my debut album 'Dimensions' out now: https://ffm.to/dimensions_album

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Joe is a 30 year old pianist/composer/songwriter from York, England who studied at Paul McCartneys Academy of Music for two years. Previous clients include: BBC1 / BBC2, UEFA, RFU English Rugby, Melvita, Landrover.
 He has a huge passion for writing songs on piano. Joe has been writing music since he was 15, currently signed with Nettwerk Music Group worldwide.

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