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

Written 2021.
Performed by Noteperformer 4 plug-in.
Engraved in Dorico Pro 5.
License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Oboe-Arrangement: "Corona" Cello-Etudes Opus 9.2: No. 5 (2021)

Flute-Arrangement: "Corona" Cello-Etudes Opus 9.2: No. 5 (2021)

Flute-Arrangement: "Corona" Cello-Etudes Opus 9.2: No. 4 (2021)

Flute-Arrangement: "Corona" Cello-Etudes Opus 9.2: No. 3 (2021)

New: The teaser for my upcoming fourth album “Dancing Pulse”. The 90-minute “disc”, which will be released on Bandcamp and Spotify shortly, offers 14 tracks with very rhythmic and melodic sounds, which also venture into the areas of trance, techno and world music. In addition to freshly remastered pieces from my playlists “Pulse Of Steel” and “Dancing Spirits”, which have already been published here, there is also a completely new and previously unreleased part for both topics. I hope that after listening to it, you will want more!😊👍🏻

Neu: Der Teaser zu meinem in Kürze erscheinenden neuen, vierten Album „Dancing Pulse“. Die gut 90-minütige „Scheibe“, welche in Kürze auf Bandcamp und Spotify erscheint, bietet auf 14 Tracks sehr rhythmusbetonte sowie melodische Klänge, die auch Ausflüge in den Bereich des Trance, Techno und der Weltmusik unternimmt. Neben frisch remasterten Stücken aus meinen bereits hier veröffentlichten Playlists „Pulse Of Steel“ und „Dancing Spirits“ gibt es zu beiden Themen zudem je einen gänzlich neuen und bislang unveröffentlichte Part. Ich hoffe, nach dem Hören bekommt ihr Lust auf mehr!😊👍🏻

Dancing Pulse (Album Teaser)

Good Morning Soundclouders

Enjoy my latest production 
Blend of alchemy synths, pads & beats

Produced in the ARAPA Music Studio
Sydney - Australia
19.3.2024

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Obsession

Ralf Kleemann live, Harfensommer 2015: Variation over "Lascia ch'io pianga" by Georg Friedrich Händel. 
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzZGxJCXx4

Creative Commons licence and download are set for this track, enjoy!

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Variation over "Lascia ch'io pianga"

Oh what I wouldn't give to be able to actually play the 'cello!!!!

Recently I've been listening to The Piano Guys a lot (http://www.youtube.com/thepianoguys) and I was inspired to create a piece of music using mainly piano and 'cello after listening to the fantastic cover versions/mash-ups they come up with.

To play this live you'd need 5 cellos, two pianos, and some percussion...! On this recording the piano is real, the 'cellos are not :(

This is definitely not in their league, but I'm quite happy with it - although the mix could possibly be less muddy...

UPDATE: I've done a more recent tribute to the Cello. No piano but more beats and effects :-) - check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/purplerhapsody/cellissimo-electronic

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Celloforte - 5 cellos, 2 pianos, and a drum kit...

Extrait de l'album EllesSeules dispo à partir du 19 octobre 2019

Transit Partie 3 (extrait)

"Ein Ort für meine Träume - 1.Satz" by Frank Federsel.
Interpretation by Lena Lütz. December 2010.

Ein Ort Für Meine Träume - 1.Satz

ELECTRONIC MUSIC, AMBIENT, PROGELECTRO, PIANO and more ...
Artist contact via E-Mail: jens-hinrich@t-online.de

The instrument I learned first was the cello, later on the piano. In my childhood and youth I took part in several orchestras and choirs. At the age of 17 I started playing in rock bands; in 1989 me and my friend Daniel ("Vocebasso" and "Liedschmied", you find him here) founded the progressive rock band "The Lynx"
(my functions: keyboards, cello, backing vocals, songwriting and arrangement). In the early 90s I became more and more enthusiastic about electronic music and the German broadcast radio show "Schwingungen" with Winfrid Trenkler. With the help of my first synthesizers Kawai K1 and Korg T3 I started to compose tracks. After using the internal sequencers I discovered the possibilities of Cubase. 
Beside my activities in the cover rock band "Silent Sound", several projects I initiated in my function as a teacher for music in a secondary school and the singer- /songwriter project "WortSpiel" (https://www.facebook.com/DuoWortSpiel) I never stopped composing electronic music in the last 20 years. 
My music is most influenced by orchestral music (classic, soundtracks), progressive rock and pop music and - of course - by electronic music. I will never forget, when I was six years old and my brother put on the record "Oxygene IV" by Jean-Michel Jarre. Another track, which gave me magic moments, was "Force Majeure" by Tangerine Dream. The year 1990 meant the final electronic wake-up call, namely in the form of Ron Boots and his great record "Dreamscape". It's one of my favorites to this day.
The themes of my music are generally the nature, journeys and landscapes, personal relations and emotions and - within these associations - often the longing for inner and outer freedom, for the breakout of boundaries and fears. 
Wiesenberg: That's the maiden name of my mother (by trade a vocalist), which refers back to my roots and to the long way, my ancestors took from Salzburg (Austria) through Königsberg / Kaliningrad (Russia) to Rheda-Wiedenbrück (Germany, North Rhine Westphalia). I walked on - through Lower Saxony to Rhineland-Palatinate. Next stop: Who knows? In the end I am an expellee and a hermit - an "eremit".

Dancing Pulse (Album Teaser)

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