Co-Composed with Nicolas Laget:

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All things have hope. With patience and caring hands, even the delicate and vulnerable can survive winter and grow into maturity with strong roots and branches. With time and unconditional love, our tree may one day blossom and bear fruit in the joy of spring. We must remain patient.

ALBUM INFO:

"The Idea Of You" is the first of 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 Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may it help you on your journey, as it has us...

The Idea Of You Cover Art "The Idea Of You" is music inspired by the spirit of Eros and all of its blessings as well as its tribulations. It explores the vicissitudes of romantic love, the delicate seasons and contour of life, and all the lessons learned along the way. Themes of desire, passion, limerence, romantic love, idolatry, jealousy, envy, loss, regret, forgiveness, acknowledgment, appreciation, acceptance, and eventually glimpses of true understanding permeate the work. It attempts to communicate that which so many of us can never quite communicate properly with words. It is an open apology for the clumsy mistakes we all make when coming to maturity in learning how to care selflessly for another human being. It is a gentle reminder as to what is most important in life, as well as an invocation to continuously seek self-improvement regarding our understanding of such matters.

Andrew Souter & Nicolas Laget -- Solstice

THE PIANO - The Composers Cut Series - Volume III

Music composed and performed by Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman's score for Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano is one of the most successful film soundtracks of all time. The film itself won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 1993 and went on to win several Oscars at the 1994 Academy Awards. Holly Hunter's role as Ada the film's central role was that of an elective mute who chose to communicate via her playing. If having the music feature so prominently in a film was unusual, for the music to additionally convey the dialogue of the main character is unique. The soundtrack of the film went on to become a multi million seller. Perhaps surprisingly for music with such strong ties to its original source many of the pieces from The Piano were subsequently used in a variety of other settings in film, television and advertising making it some of the most performed/frequently heard orchestral music of the last twenty years.

The concert suite for The Piano as performed by The Michael Nyman Band also became a staple of the band's concert repertoire and has been performed all over the world with the composer taking the roles of pianist and conductor. It is this expanded form of the soundtrack that Nyman chose to record as his own definitive edition in Abbey Road studios in April 2005. The piano pieces again form a dialogue, though here the dialogue is purely musical between pianist and orchestra rather having the piano pieces act as speech substitute as they did in the film. The resulting album is a wonderful example of film music transformed to a distinctive stand alone concert work.

"The purpose of the Composer's Cut series is to present music from my soundtracks in a state of continuous evolution. As I transferred particular cues from film to concert hall both musical structures changed and performance styles developed, enabling the music, perhaps, to realise its true potential. So these recordings represent the Michael Nyman Band's state-of-performance as of spring 2005." – MN August 2005


The Heart Asks Pleasure First

Music for solo piano.

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Sierra

Lead Kindly Light

An immersive journey bridging Eastern and Western musical traditions. This five-piece improvisation merges classical piano with traditional orchestral elements and Asian instrumental influences, creating a mesmerizing soundscape that transcends cultural boundaries. Each piece captures spontaneous moments of musical dialogue between classical European structure and mystical East Asian sensibility, featuring lush string arrangements, ethereal wind instruments, and meditative piano passages that evoke both ancient temples and modern concert halls.

Monsoon Echoes

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Philip Wesley - Tears of the East

"What Grows Within" Reaches #1 on Soundcloud Trending Charts: http://www.stereoshockmusic.com/blog/2015/9/23/what-grows-within-hits-1-on-the-soundcloud-popular-charts-in-2-days

My latest piece entitled, "What Grows Within", follows the ever-evolving, feeling of growth that we have as individuals. Some listeners may define it as love, while others may define it as the maturity we gain over the course of our lives. When writing this record, I felt it was important for each part of the piece to feel slightly different/definable, yet still maintain an overall connection to the theme. The essential idea was connecting the slow, dynamic, and climatic growth that we have in our lives, to that in which can be appreciated in an audible context. I hope while listening to this record, you feel that I achieved this vision, and as always, appreciate you taking the time to listen. Thanks! 

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Grasping Reality

Grasping Reality (feat. Shu-Li Cheah)

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ABOUT LIVING ROOM SONGS:

Icelandic contemporary composer Ólafur Arnalds created and released a new song, one per day for one for one whole week during the month of October 2011. The songs were recorded and filmed live in the living room of his Reykjavik apartment and released instantly for free as streamed videos and mp3 downloads.

Thousands of fans followed this exciting project online at: livingroomsongs.olafurarnalds.com

Living Room Songs will now also be released on CD, Vinyl, Ltd. Special Edition CD &amp; DVD and as High Quality Downloads on December 5th via Erased Tapes.

Following in the spirit of Ólafur Arnalds’ critically acclaimed Found Songs (2009) now comes Living Room Songs. This time Ólafur takes the idea further and invites the audience into the comfort of his living room, where the songs were recorded live and the whole process filmed. The songs were instantly released in form of a free mp3 download and video stream- straight from Ólafur's Reykjavik apartment.

IN HIS OWN WORDS: ‘One night I was just playing my piano here in this apartment and I was writing a new song and I didn't have my phone on me which I usually use to record ideas. So I actually took out my MacBook and I didn't want to open like a proper recording program, so I just opened Photo Booth and recorded a video of myself playing the song so that I would remember the song. And I really liked the atmosphere of that video and that's when I thought I should do a series of songs in my living room...’ – Ólafur Arnalds

Born in the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, a few kilometers outside of Reykjavík, the 24-year old composer has always enjoyed pushing boundaries with both his studio work and his live-shows. Through relentless touring and determination this young artist has steadily gained recognition worldwide since his 2007 debut Eulogy for Evolution. Ólafur Arnalds’ second full-length album ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness, continues his mission to lure an indie-generation of pop and rock fans into an emotive world of beguiling electronic chamber music and delicate classical arrangements. Ólafur is currently touring with Ryuichi Sakamoto on his Trio Tour throughout Europe.

'The indie kid who knows the score’ – Guardian’s Observer

'Timeless and sublime’ **** – Uncut

'An artist of immense maturity' (9/10) – Drowned In Sound

'Hotwired to the soul. ...will reduce you to wordless tears' – The Quietus


TRACK LISTING:

I. Fyrsta 
II. Near Light 
III. Film Credits 
IV. Tomorrow's Song 
V. Ágúst 
VI. Lag Fyrir Ömmu 
VII. This Place Is A Shelter

Living Room Songs

Lag Fyrir Ömmu

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Ólafur Arnalds - Lag Fyrir Ömmu

Stories from the Sky is a conceptual collection of 10 neoclassical ambient pieces that aim to place the listener within a place of reflection and deep thought. The 10 pieces employ Sid's acclaimed sound, incorporating moving electronic elements with deeply emotional and melancholic orchestral foundations.

Stories From The Sky

Part of @masterofinstrumental radio collection
Curated by @Agamidae

Philip Wesley - Tears of the East

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