Yup, now days can only get longer; may yours get brighter too :)

I wish you best of luck and health for you and your family for the next year. May the new year bring you joy and success in your carreer. Thank you for your music! Best regards from Luxembourg! Hope to see you giving a concert here in the near future. :)

great performance of the piano, exellent sound, i appreciate this song

Stein Thor Winter Solstice Songs 2012 - 2019

Music by Nic Evennett and Philip Dupuis (Classical Glass)
Lyrics by Nic Evennett
For more by us as Cellar Door https://soundcloud.com/cdoor
For more music by the wonderfully talented Nic: https://soundcloud.com/wingless-night
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You don't have to be right,
you don't have to be.
there's every chance the world is upside down.
in strange jaws
and broken mouth
though how the tongues are soaked but never drown...

don't worry yourself,
don't worry.
the ocean doesn't judge with all it knows.
say sorry to your tired limbs and lay them on the shore
the body won't stop pulsing under clothes

the colours of the massacre that opened up my throat
and dripped down to the floor
there's a pool of barely spoken, hardly thought , and never wrote,
and stains forever more.
who are we breathing for?
who are we breathing for?

are you brave enough to follow between the stolen sounds?
are you wise enough to know what cuts in two?
can you rise to the challenge whilst you fall to the ground?
am I asking you in me or me in you?
are you brave enough to follow between the stolen sounds?
are you wise enough to know what cuts in two?
can you rise?

Pulsing (Nic Evennett and Classical Glass as Cellar Door)

Happy Piano Day 2021!

#pianoday2021 #pianoday

Lullaby For Insomniacs (Piano Day 2021)

A calm and dreamy and melancholic piano track with additional cello sound... composed for a short movie... enjoy listening! 😊 If you like my music, please share, repost, like and comment it. Thank you so much! ❤️

Seelentrost

Seelentrost - Comfort of soul

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

Esbós #18 ·Vuit anys· (Piano Day 2016)

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

The warm and sunny days in september are the best preparation for a long, cold and dark winter time, like in the children book "Frederick" from Leo Lionni. I love to sit in the sun until dawn and I appreciate the change of the seasons...

You like what you hear and want to buy some of my music? Visit my profile on Bandcamp: www.macrima.bandcamp.com



Warme Septembertage

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

A new piece from my upcoming new LP 'ELASTIKANIMAL'.

Out in May, 12th on 1631 Recordings.
www.facebook.com/1631recordings/

Recorded & Mixed by A.BRUNET at CELESTINE RECORDS
www.celestinerecords.com/

Mastered by JC PANIZZA at CLIMAX MASTERING
www.climax-mastering.com/

Contact Press officer:

Nicolas FAVIER
e-mail // communication@la-centrifugeuse.fr
Phone number // 06 34 06 21 09

The Keys

Words cannot yet describe what this sombre piano improvisation means at this moment. where the music hopefully 'speaks' for itself, produced with a beautiful ambience and depth added to the piano by John Styles.  

A full Orchestral version of this piece is also in the planning ….

This music was initially inspired by watching images of terrorism and the fallout, the chaos and people running in fear  .. it was these horrifying images I saw as I played this music watching a silent TV … a reflection of so many lost opportunities for beautiful, carefree people, of those who were lost, and for the survivors, and their families and friends and the heroes who risked their lives.  These feelings were also expressed with John Styles, but I still cannot find words which are adequate enough to convey the depths of such sorrow……   Perhaps only music can achieve this

Declining health stopped me from uploading this track until now but I, and others, continue to keep going, in the belief and hope that life will change for the better  ….

It is this unknown in what may await us that inspired this piece …. but It is also this hope that we must hold onto if ever we undergo change, loss or grief in our lives…. Hope and peace within …. to continue on despite our external circumstances, for life can be filled with such joy, which we must try never to lose sight of…. even the simplest of things,… the flowers that bloom, the leaves blowing in the breeze, the singing of birds and the sun on our faces ……  to find a safe place within ourselves where we cannot be touched and where inner peace and silence holds strong …and solidarity of all helps us to carry on
xx

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Music Composition: Megan McCarthy
Piano Performance: Megan McCarthy
Producer: John Styles https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds
Released: 21 July 2017 (Australia)

What Awaits Us

What Awaits - Megan McCarthy (Producer John Styles)

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)

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"

After a while I'm back with one of my compositions, entitled Parisienne Walkways. Listening to the song reminds me of images of a walk through the streets of Paris!

Orchestral arrangements and mix by Roberto Riccò.

If you see the video, click here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vlPQ56UhKY

Parisienne Walkways - Daniela Spadini (original)

4 years ago I wrote this composition in remembrance of the dreadful event in Nice on the 14th of July....Jeff Torres has been so kind to add his own orchestration to it, and hope you will enjoy listening to it....
my sincere thanks go out to him....

To listen to more by Jeff, please follow this link....
@jtcmposr

Art picture by Tom Morel on Unsplash

Une pensée pour Nice....Jeff Torres-Liz Dicker

So much bitter in the world, it's hard to find the sweet. If you look hard enough, it's there.

bittersweet

Sheet music
www.steinmusica.com

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.

Winter Solstice 2016 - Animae

Stein_Thor

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