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Nocturnal Mind in d Minor

Nocturnal Mind in d Minor (Piano Septet Version)

Songs Without Words

Amber

Moments" was born just when there seemed to be nothing left, when I felt alone and trapped in this forced solitude. And it is precisely in these moments that you begin to travel with your mind and memories, and you sit at the piano trying to relive those feelings now distant. "Moments" represents all those past moments, of serenity, lightheartedness, friendship, love, difficulty, sadness, loneliness; it is as if I had stopped to look at my past, my past moments, trying to make them "immortal" through my music. We start from the "Risveglio" to conclude with "Lullaby under the stars", a lullaby under the stars: I describe a "whole day" as a metaphor of my past and my journey.

The album cover depicts me locked in my room, and through the keyhole I look at what is happening, with the eyelid shiny for the sadness but also for the emotion in reliving the past moments. Right in that room I wrote "Moments", a set of emotions and memories, now fragmented, represented by the lines that break the image on the cover.
Having nothing left led me to reflect myself in the music, writing my "diary of memories".
My "moments of life" transcribed into music, this is "Moments

Emiliano Blangero - Solitude

Waves

The Quietest House - Remy Styrk

From Reflections in Waltz (2020), sheet music published by Editions Musica Ferrum.

Vilnius

https://www.douweeisenga.com

Audio Trailer for the Album

“A modern, irresistible groove in the impressive Piano Concerto, the mesmerizing City Lines and the sparkling string quartet Rose Road. Colorful and sublime”.

Gerard Bouwhuis, piano, Erika Waardenberg, harp, Johan Faber, percussion, Mifune Tsuji, violin, Lydia Forbes, violin, Lorre Lynn Trytten, viola, Pascale Went, cello, Jaap Branderhorst, double bass, Joeri de Vente, horn, Reijer Dorresteijn, trumpet, Eric Westerink, trombone, Tjeerd Oostendorp, tuba, Pepijn van Doesburg, flute, Vicki Laws, oboe, Marc Dijcks, clarinet, Stefanie Liedtke, bassoon

"The Dutch composer Douwe Eisenga writes post-minimal music that is accessible without becoming superficial. Better evidence of this than the CD Rose Road - City Lines, is scarcely conceivable. Time and again he creates a modern, irresistible groove with classical instruments. This emerges strongly in the impressive Piano Concerto, the mesmerizing City Lines and the sparkling string quartet Rose Road. " - PZC / Rolf Bosboom

"The Xenakis Ensemble performed Eisenga's Piano Concerto in Japan, but in his own country his name has not been universally recognized. That will change with the CD "Rose Roads – City Lines." Eisenga has found his own sound within the restricted latitude of minimalism. Perhaps "City Lines" is most reminiscent of the sensual composer Simeon ten Holt. The performance of Eisenga's tenderly sweet melodiousness by the Francis B. Quartet and pianist Gerard Bouwhuis is colorful and sublime". - Trouw / Anthony Fiumara

"The minimalistic Piano Concerto, with pianist Gerard Bouwhuis as nonchalant pioneer, takes on showy proportions now and then through the use of heroic brass players. The string quartet Rose Road, with somber counterpoint and sharp counterrhythms, is splendidly played by the Francis B. Quartet. City Lines babbles on in extreme respectability". -NRC / Jochem Valkenburg

"The DNA of Eisenga's work bears a likeness to the pepped-up locomotion of Aaron Copland and the benign minimalia of the Flemish composer Wim Mertens. Philip Glass is also family, but Eisenga's Pianoconcert, with its tumbling notes and wheedling clarinets, has a playful inventivity usually lacking in Glass' fill-in-the-blanks exercises". -Volkskrant / Frits van der Waa


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Rose Road City Lines - Audio Trailer

Finding Neverland

Neverland - Piano Variation In Blue (Finding Neverland/Soundtrack Version)

Adagio for strings (computerfile 1998)

Expo 1

Einaudi: Divenire

Fantasy soundtrack that evokes a dreamy soundscape. It will lead you to a fantastic and oneiric place in nature. Suitable for children’s tales and new age media.

Enchanted Forest (Children - Fantasy - New Age)

Nocturnes

Nocturne In C Sharp Minor

Songs of Middle Earth

Lothlorien

Analog Love

Analog Love (Unplugged)

Kammermusik

reflect

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releases January 29, 2021

piano, recording : Hideyuki Hashimoto 
mastering : Zino Mikorey 
artwork : Misa Saitou

Koto

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The Fifth and last track of my new EP, "YAAL". You can listen to the whole EP on Spotify, Apple Music and all the streaming platforms.

Composition & Piano: Amir Darabi
Kamancheh: Farzin Dehghan
Bass: Dana Roth
Drums: Ivanna Cuesta
Percussion: Kan Yanabe

Mixing Engineer: Lara Persia (Studio Lemura)
Mastering Engineer: Alan Silverman
Art Advisor & Audio Editor: Makan Taghavi
Artwork: Parin Heidari

Recorded at Wellspring Studio
Recording Engineer: Matt Hayes
Assistant Engineer: Ryan Gallagher

Special thanks to Alain Mallet and Makan Taghavi for their immense support.

Also, thanks to Julian Schoming, Shayan Karimi, Siamak Gholizadeh and Amir Bahari.

YAAL

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Blue Ballerina

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