 From darkness To full light, that's a very good concept for a tune.. could be just a concept, but the music that came out of this, is very good indeed..

........hmmmmmm.......    22 / 12 .... :o)))))))))))))

Steingrimur, I am speechless!! Thank you so much for creating such wonderful, exceptional music, and thank you also for the dedication to me, first piece ever dedicated to me :-) I think music of this nocturnal beauty can only be written in the far north, where the 21st of december is "the lightbringer", and the people wait for that day and celebrate it. Great symbolic construction of your piece as well from black keys to white keys. Amazing work, bravo!

Wonderful nocturne! A joy to listen to this beautiful piece, thank you!

luckily I have FB to remind me of you, mister...almost missed this beauty!!! Amazing dedication in lovely music...much light to you all, guys!!!

oh, such an elegant turn in the melody...wow!!

Stein Thor Winter Solstice Songs 2012 - 2019

"Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity School Address

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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.


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Hopeless Battle

Every year now, at least past two year´s I have written a piano piece on this day, where the day is the shortest here in Iceland. In icelandic it´s called vetrarsólstöður, one of those words that foreigners think we choke on.

Today we had maybe 5 hours of sunlight,  the day length is 4h 8 minutes to be exact I think. However it was a nice day.

So to keep this tradition going I made this improv, that in the end became quite long. I´m still using my upright dampened, that is using the felt option but now I recorded it from behind so less noise.

No midi, no option to fix, so you could say this has not been photoshopped my friends.

Soon the days start getting longer which is always nice to think about.

(edit) just realized this improv is in sol minor,,,  how fitting :),,, not intentional

Winter solstice 2014 - How precious are our daylight hours

Sometimes, in the midst of difficult times, it helps to just close your eyes, and imagine a peaceful place where you would like to be ….. I hope this helps you find a place too xxxx <3

I will be back soon from surgery, missing you all so much xxx
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Remastered/Produced by: Dr Gray, Mr Electrosketch https://soundcloud.com/dr-gray-2

A Peaceful Place I'd Like To Be - Megs McCarthy (Improv)(Mastered by Mr Electrosketch)

Two posts in one night,,,  well with the status of soundcloud these days who gives a crap...

Just realized that tonight is winter solstice, and soon the day will get longer. Here in Iceland this is a big deal since we have only about 5 hours of light a day.

I have done a song on this day for about 4 years I think,,, and some of them are my favorite. Today was a good day, had a lovely concert with one of my choirs and I feel good. Hope this song sends you some of my feelings, this is probably my last Solstice song on SC since my posts are going to get much rarer in 2016.

It´s free download also, so enjoy. If you download, please help my music by sharing where ever you can, thats how the world works these days.

Stein.

Winter Solstice 2015 - Last ray of light

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Innocence Lost

Every year in early January I get that deep, strange feeling of melancholy... I don't know the reasons, but the best thing then is to take a warm bath and waiting better days to come ...
My music is available here: https://macrima.bandcamp.com

MACRIMA - Seelensee

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Recorded in celebration of Nils Frahm's #PianoDay. This is part of an EP of improvised pieces recorded during a recording session in Feb '16 at Type Foundry Studios in Portland, OR by Jason Powers who also mixed and mastered these recordings. 

Read more about Piano Day: www.pianoday.org/

Abstraktes #5

Minimalistic waltz with emphasis placed on catchy melody BUY HERE https://oliverbohovic.bandcamp.com/track/val-k-v-h-mol-waltz-in-b-minor
The track is featured in the Piano Day playlist 2017 :-)

Valčík v h mol(Waltz in B minor)

For me 21. of december is kind of the last day of the year. It marks the end of days getting shorter which here in the north is a big deal and in a few weeks we start noticing the days being longer.

I´ve done a song on this day for the past few years and I almost forgot to do it today, it´s now 23:22 and I´m writing this, played the improv at around 22: smth.

2016 is almost over and it was a really heavy year. Tomorrow is my dads birtday, but he passed away this spring. My wife is in Italy visiting her dad but her mum passed away this october. Neither of them were very old, my dad 62 and my stepmother just over 70. I play funerals a lot and usually it´s for older people thank god. And my grandma is 94.

Musically this year has been up and down, I think for me as a musician it´s been pretty good, I think I´m better at what I´m doing. The professional life however not so good, going ok but unfortunately I´ve not  seen the things I hoped for this year and I lost one of the best things I´ve had, my girls choir which quit this fall.

So I have decided next year will be the year of changes, take the cards and divide again. Let´s just hope it deals well :)

Hope you enjoy the song my friends, merry Christmas or whatever, and happy new year. Thank you for supporting my music. This one if free download if you like it. Just throw me a share or a comment or something if you download as a thank you.

Stein.

Winter Solstice 2016 - Animae

Track included in "Viaggi in aeromobile" CD. 


Thank you! 

Colori

Hi friends...

I think Ive done a winter solstice song for about 5 years now, even more. This one comes late, but its pretty much on the correct time. The photo is from yesterday, 21. december, wonderful day here in Iceland. Clear skies and the few hours of sun we get are wonderful. The photo is taken around 16:30 or so. The colours are what keep us alive in this country.

The song is a drunken improv, Im really sorry I could not do more today. Just got wonderful news that Ive been accepted into a really high class tailer company. 

That kind of took over. So, soon, 2019,,,,  Im 44 years old, done a lot, but not enough. 2018 was not the big up I was hoping for, 2019??? Will it save the day.

Love you all

Stein

Winter Solstice 2018 - The future is always ahead of the past (free dl)

Stephan asked me to write a nocturne for the day of no light here in Iceland, 21. december and here it is dedicated to him :)  And today was dark, no sun at all here in SV Iceland. However this is in a way a happy day, tomorrow the day will start getting longer and every year it´s like that.

The music starts in F# major/minor, the key with so many black (night) notes and it ends in C major, the white/daylight key. Symbolic.  I thought of the motiv today while I was playing in a service for a lady that died way to soon, and the idea is to start dark and give way to the light as the improv progresses.  I think some moments came out ok, 
and the world did not end which is good.

Nocturne 10. - "21/12, 2012  the lightbringer". Dedic. to Stephan Beneking.

Here is the colors of winter. The piano plays for me, It gives me a gift, so I share it to you :) Enjoy <3 .  

Wood Spirit

Well, its 23:37 here in Iceland, I finally managed to keep my tradition, since 2012 a song for this day.

The photo is from todays sunset, 22. desember, around 15:30.

The reason it took so long to make a track today was that I decided to record a live piece, on my out of tune upright. So much more noise, crap, and sound so so... but its real recording, live playing and no fixing afterwards.

So here is the 2019 winter solstice song.

Winter Solstice 2019 "Ballet For A Brighter Day"

Dieses Pianostück von mir widme ich meiner ehemaligen Klavierlehrerin Arietta Eberstadt, die am 09.12.2020 von dieser Welt gegangen ist. Sie war es, die meiner Liebe zur Klaviermusik Raum und Struktur gab und die mein Talent und meine Kreativität förderte. Soviel verdanke ich ihr. Mit diesem Stück möchte ich ihr ein letztes Mal "Danke" sagen für all das, was ich von ihr gelernt und mitgenommen habe und was in mir dank ihr wunderbares gewachsen ist. Happy Piano Day 2021!

Fuer Arietta

PIANO DAY 2021: MACRIMA - Für Arietta

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If you want to contact me I´m only an email away

stein.musica@gmail.com

Always happy to lend music and would love to take part in cinematic projects.

Nocturne 10. - "21/12, 2012 the lightbringer". Dedic. to Stephan Beneking.

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