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In A Time Lapse is the representation of the bringing together all of life's experience and emotions into a single moment of time. Recorded in a remote monastery near Verona and written over a period of 2 years it is as epic and emotional as Divenire and as experimental and adventurous as Nightbook.

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In A Time Lapse

Experience

ISRC code: GBUM71207834
Album: For Now I Am Winter
Track: Only The Winds 
Artist: Ólafur Arnalds

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Arnalds: For Now I Am Winter, Only The Winds

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Solitude

a reissue of American pianist Dustin O'Halloran's "Piano Solos" (2004) and "Piano Solos vol.2" (2006)

Dustin O'Halloran - Opus 23

Joep Beving has been one with the piano from an early age. He was forced to end his musical studies at the conservatory and instead continued at university to get a degree in public policy and public administration. However, his love for his instrument never perished. Where once his goal was to hit as many notes per minute as physically possible, his style of playing has changed over the years, searching for a particular aesthetic essence. His path was illuminated by a piano that Beving inherited from his grandmother when she passed away in 2009. This German instrument insisted on a more gentle touch and a gracious pace, which eventually led Beving to adapt to a more classical vocabulary to tell his story.⁣⁣
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This story started to manifest itself relatively late in life, when in 2014 at age 38, he was forced to stay home from work and decided to answer the draw of his piano. In search of tranquility of mind and some form of essence, music started to present itself that he had never played before in his life. Minimal pieces that he later once described as ‘simple music for complex emotions’.  Turned down by the only label he approached, Joep decided to self release his debut album Solipsism in 2015.⁣⁣
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The sound of his piano found its way to the ears of Deutsche Grammophon’s A&R manager Christian Badzura when visiting his favorite Bar in Berlin. This led to the signing of Beving to the world's foremost classical label and consequently the release of equally successful sophomore album ‘Prehension’ in 2017, making Joep one of the most listened to living pianists in the world at that time.⁣⁣
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He has attributed much of his music’s broad appeal to the stream of consciousness in which some of the pieces were conceived. Claiming that the music is already out there and that one has to ‘just’ create the circumstances for it to land. In 2018 he took this idea one step further with the release of ‘Conatus’ of which he said:  “If you see music as a living organism then it is not unthinkable that it has its own innate inclination to continue to exist and enhance itself.” On Conatus, Beving sees compositions from his first two albums travel through the minds of artists he admires (a.o. Suzanne Ciani, Collin Benders, Andrea Belfi), resulting in new pieces of music adding new layers and dimensions which would serve as the upbeat to his next major solo project as would become apparent in April 2019.⁣⁣
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As part of the art piece ‘Franchise Freedom’ by acclaimed artist duo Studio Drift, Joep travels to Burning Man at the end of 2018 to perform in the desert of Black Rock City in front of his largest audience to date. Inspired by the display of human creativity and inclusivity he returns home to finish his third solo album.⁣⁣
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April 2019 sees the release of HENOSIS, Joep Beving’s closing chapter in a trilogy of albums – marking the end of an intensely personal four-year spiritual and philosophical exploration.⁣⁣
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On HENOSIS the Dutch composer continues his minimalist and at times romantic style of writing, but this time explores new territories. It sets off where his sophomore album Prehension left us, the warm intimate sound of the Schimmel piano. With the help of producer Gijs van Klooster and through collaborations with Cappella Amsterdam, Echo Collective, and Maarten Vos, Joep Beving opens up new musical worlds using orchestral and electronic sounds alongside the familiar piano.⁣⁣

I have been studying music in Barcelona since I was six, specializing in piano. Beginning with my dealings with the world of amateur theater, especially of the musical variety, and given my performances as a pianist in recitals, concerts, and musical theater, the need to compose and arrange music arose. Little by little my passion took shape and gained importance in my life. In 2011 I composed some songs for the soundtrack of the Gayxample web series. The internet gives me the opportunity to feel free, inspired and stimulated to compose new works which come from my intuition as I keep integrating countless music styles that are part of my artistic and musical background. 
Estudio musica desde mi infancia en Barcelona, especializandome en piano. A partir de mi contacto con el mundo del teatro amateur, especialmente musical, y con mis interpretaciones como pianista en recitales, conciertos y teatro musical, surgio la necesidad de componer y arreglar musica. Poco a poco mi pasion por la musica ha ido tomando forma e importancia. En 2011 compuse algunos temas para la banda sonora de la serie web Gayxample. Internet me ofrece la oportunidad de sentirme libre, inspirado y estimulado a componer nuevos temas que surgen de la intuicion y de la asimilacion de un sinfin de estilos musicales que forman parte de mi bagaje musical y artistico. 

Solitude

Joep Beving

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