Im watching a similar sunset in Miami Beach, Fl while im serenaded by your beautiful piano music.

Stein Thor Winter Solstice Songs 2012 - 2019

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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

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

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

Hi - here is a piano solo version of my composition Heart Strings (well it does include some electric bass, so not entirely solo!).  I hope you like this piece :)

Heart Strings (piano solo)

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15.09.2016 _ DE _ Berlin _ Lido
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25.09.2016 _ DE _ Erlangen _ E-Werk
29.09.2016 _ UK _ London _ The Forge
30.09.2016 _ BE _ Brussels _ AB

Bach Interpreted - St. John Passion (Johannespassion), Bwv 245 (Bc D2)

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

Piano Works is the second installment of Lucy Claire’s ‘Works’ series. It is an eclectic take on what piano music can be. Featuring cellist Ren Ford (Keaton Henson’s Romantic Works) and violinist Marie Schreer (The Royal Northern Sinfonia) and surrounded in atmospheric binaural soundscapes, the piano is far from lonely. The work features a collection of pianos from grands and uprights, to electric keyboards, toy and thumb pianos. It is grounded in the real world but hints strongly at the magical and supernatural, it absorbs, transports, then delivers you back to reality with new perspective.

Dear Shadows

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)

Reverie

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"

This is the special edition for for the book "The Call of Mektoub" which is written by Helen Suzanne (aka Sleepingenius). No one less than Alexander Hallberg added a superb intrumentation to it that lets the piece appear in an "all new shape" ! 

Thanks Helen (aka Sleepingenius for the wonderful theme which I used for the variation and for the wonderful ending....) 

And (I did not know it but I am very happy about it, now Helen told me) thanks to Andreas Richter (aka PessoaZ for the ambient sounds)

Hear all the wonderful music of the book here:

@soundcloud.com/mektoub-music

Also have a listen to Helen's and Alex's cloud:
@soundcloud.com/sleepingenius
https://soundcloud.com/booback


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Maassen | Hallberg | Sleepingenius - Secrets Of The Book (upcoming e-book: The Call of Mektoub)

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 2019 "Ballet For A Brighter Day"

Stein_Thor

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