preparing some new pieces for a "Steinway D" and an "Una Chorda" Piano recording session I am planning for the end of this year, exploring new sounds and styles once more.....

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Dirk Maassen - Juli, Juli (Sketch for Studio Session)

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

Here is Einklang CD1 - Track #01 with the fabulous https://soundcloud.com/aftertherun

exclusive album pre-relaease: https://dirkmaassen.bandcamp.com/album/einklang-cd1

01 - Night Falls - The Opening (feat. JB Aftertherun) - exclusive album pre-release on bandcamp

METANOIA004
April, 27th 2015

01. Laura Weider - Spring Ins Feld (Thema)
02. Laura Weider - Spring Ins Feld (Original)

Everytime I listen to the music by Laura Weider, I get lost in this very moment.

Memories of little light particles transform into fields of 
rising possibilities that you want to jump into.

Spring brings you infinite shifts of emotions, 
relieved from the numb touch of cold winter days.

This journey contains so much of both - joy and saudade; in the very same moment.

(Enjoy in healthy doses whenever you need a transformation)

Laura Weider - Spring Ins Feld (Thema)

Its Alot To Dish

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lXyW32MWsY
Stories of the Naiades could take the form of cautionary tales with unhappy endings. The Naiad, Nomia, fell in love with a handsome shepherd named Daphnis and could not do enough for him. He repaid her love with unfaithfulness and she repaid his inconstancy by blinding him. The Naiades of a spring in Bithynia (Mysia) took a liking to Hylas (companion of Heracles) and lured him into their waters. The cautionary element is uncertain here. The fate of Hylas could have been either an abrupt death by drowning or everlasting sexual bliss.

Bliss - Classical Harp

Legenda Hollandica

Hi all - I produced this piece for the latest Piano Cloud challenge, which was to create a piano piece using an odd time signature.  I chose 5/4 timing.  It started out as a gentle piano arpeggio, but as I continued to work on the piece searching for ideas, it morphed in quite an unexpected direction towards a large orchestral ensemble.  I hope you enjoy this piece :)


Infinity

Winter

Happy new year my friends,,, 2016 is here, 2015 was the year that mostly nothing happened,,,

2016 I don´t have high hopes for,, but I hope it will bring you all nice things.

Free download if you want this piece.

Una Melodia Dal Passato

Hey,
There is my submission for the Piano Soundboard's 6 note sequence challenge, I wanted to try something, so here we are:) I choose the Una Corda to create this ambience, incredible virtual instrument by Nils Frahm, thanks a lot ! 
Description :
"Using the given sequence of 6 notes, compose variations, improvisation, development (a la sonata), fugue, or other form that uses the specific notes. You cannot change the sequence of the notes, but you can play them in any rhythm (i.e., time values). And of course, the harmonization is up to the composer. As always, the compositions must be piano solo or piano lead. Here is the note sequence, or merely look at the challenge artwork. The time value of the notes shown are not final, you can do as you please with that.
The notes are: E (above middle C)- C (octave above middle C), B, A , F#, D (all in the octave above middle C)."
Thanks for listening!
Composed, performed : Dame Géraldine
Recording&Mix : Dame Géraldine
Mastering: Jb Parisot

Laura Weider - Spring Ins Feld (Thema)

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