CREDITS:
Composer and lyricist - Shai-li Paldi
Music production: Yossi Bozo & Shai-li Paldi
Mix engineer: Yossi Bozo
Mastering: Guy Shema

Patience

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

Held Space

The Secret lighthouse

The Secret Lighthouse

Another excerpt from live performance of my first opera based on H. Ch. Andersen's fairy "The Ugly Duckling"  Beautifully performed by Con Brio Children's Choir and Leopoldinum Orchestra in National Forum of Music in Wrocław.

Photograph by Tomasz Bogusz

The Ugly Duckling (Children's Opera)

The King of Swans

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The Black Swan

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Deep Blue You

Our new single: "One Week In"
By Shai-li & Yair Albeg Wein

One Week In, a feeling of the first days of isolation and separation.
An artistic expression capturing the mood felt throughout the world in spring of 2020.

Exclusive Licensing: Songs To Your Eyes Ltd.
https://stye.sourceaudio.com/link.php…

Reshaped

One Week In - Reshaped

Pools Re-works

The Wooden King

Jim Perkins -  The Wooden King - (Floraleda Sacchi Re-work)

Composed performed and produced by Jack Mitchell

Cover art by Ben Lockett

Skyward

Shai-li Paldi/שי-לי פלדי is a singer-songwriter, composer and producer from Tel Aviv. 
After the release of her third EP 'Troubled Thoughts', that was featuring both piano tracks and her vocals in English, she will be releasing music in Hebrew for the first time, starting with a cover of the song 'Leat Leat'/ לאט לאט׳ by Shalom Hanoch that she recorded with the pianist and composer Itai Lahav.

Her writing is a bland of her knowledge in classical and jazz piano, a melodic inspirations by Israeli musicians (such as Eviatar Banai, Alon Eder and Rona Kenan) and the minimalistic production of Ólafur Arnalds and Hania Rani.

Patience

Shai-li Paldi

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