Run On Sentence

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

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

This is my contribution to the "November 2014 New Music Discussions" of the Piano Cloud.

Rising Haze On November Fields

Presenting
"Symphony of Wisdom"
Composed by
Heidi-Marie Arapa.

Lyrics by Heidi-Marie

In the haze of darkened confusion
Lost in a maze
Of my own illusion
I turned to her with eyes so true
 and softly whispered
What should i do

Her voice a gentle melody
Guiding me through uncertainty
In her wisdom I found my way
She’s the light
That turns
Night into grey
So I asked her what to do
She said
Follow
I’ll guide you through

Every step
Every choice you make
Believe in yours
For your own sake

Through the storms and the raging tide
She stood by me
Right by my side
With courage
From life so pure
She showed me a path
Steady and sure

Her words like a calming breeze
Easing my life with gentle eazse
In her strength I found my own
She’s the rock that I lean on
So I asked her what to do
She said trust in yourself
You’ll make it through
Take a breath
Let your spirits soar
You have the strength and
so much more

Now I see clearer than before
Her guidance lead me to open new doors
With gratitude in my heart
I stand tall
For her wisdom lifted me
When I would fall

So I asked her what to do
She said
Embrace who you are
Your dreams pursue

In your journey
Let your soul ignite
You have the power to shine so bright
With her words echoing in my mind
I leave doubt and fear
Far behind
For in her presence
I found the key
To unlock the best version of me


Produced in the ARAPA Music Studio
Sydney - Australia
25.6.2024

Symphony of Wisdom

I always remember packing up with my first serious girlfriend and I never really ever got over seeing the hurt in her eyes. Anyway this song came out of that break up.
LYRICS 
Can't stand to to see you crying
Just leaning on the wall
I didn't mean for this to happen
I didn't think at all
What is left for you
When all your tears are dry
It's just a memory of
Some two timing guy.

I wished you'd never fallen
And just treated it as fun
Another quick flirtation
A week or two then run
I can't stand the look you gave me
Tears mingled in the rain
I can stand almost anything
But someone elses pain

Chorus

I'm not a bad man
And I'd change this if I could
My hearts still aching
"cos I'm not made of wood

Verse2
Verse1

Someone Elses Pain

My original production "Neo-Dub Nightmare" needed some lyrics so I have transformed it into a new production "Let's Rewind The Clock".

See link to Neo-Dub Nightmare
https://soundcloud.com/heidi-marie-arapa/neo-dub-nightmare

Original Music & Lyrics by Heidi-Marie Arapa

Lyrics & Vocals
Now
Let's rewind the clock 
Back to the days when life was a lock 
No worries, no stress, just peace and bliss
But then came the changes, the twist and hiss
The ups and downs,
the trials and tests
A journey of growth,
 a life-changing quest
Through the storms and the sunshine bright
 I found my path,
 my guiding light
Now, I'm back to where it all began
A full circle, a wiser woman
Learned from mistakes,
 embraced the pain
Gained strength,
 and found my lane
So, let's celebrate this journey's end 
A new beginning
The circle's complete,
 the story's told
 A testament to courage,
 strong and bold.


Produced in the ARAPA Music Studio
Sydney - Australia

Let's Rewind The Clock

Dieses neu komponierte Titelstück für das aktuell erschienene Album "Greetings From Australia", welches die Zusammenarbeit mit Heidi-Marie Arapa präsentiert, entstand kurz vor der Veröffentlichung und ist zugleich Heidi-Marie gewidmet, welche meine Kompositionen, deren Originale ebenfalls auf dem Album zu finden sind, so einfallsreich und vielfältig bearbeitet hat. Da es sich zumeist um Ambient-Piano-Stücke handelt, welche Heidi-Marie vor allem mit orchestralen Synthsounds ergänzt hat, ist auch das Titelstück passender Weise ein Ambient-Piano-Stück.

This newly composed title track for the currently released album "Greetings From Australia", which presents the collaboration with Heidi-Marie Arapa, was written shortly before its release and is also dedicated to Heidi-Marie, who my compositions, the originals of which can also be found on the album, edited so imaginatively and diversely. Since these are mostly ambient piano pieces, which Heidi-Marie has supplemented primarily with orchestral synth sounds, the title track is also appropriately an ambient piano piece.

Greetings From Australia

Welcome to the planet TABOOOO.

MUSIC WRITTEN AND RECORDED BY DS 2022-2024.

TRIBUTE to the unforgettable Mike Oldfield and the instrumental genre he invented; vaguely based on the concept of a never heard album, possibly Tubular Bells 4.

INSTRUMENTS: PRS & Schecter electric guitars; Takamine acoustic guitar; various VST synths (e.g., Zebra2, AAS) played via a Yamaha physical keyboard; drum loops, various pedal effects by BOSS and ZOOM.

The roots and origin of the new music is my deep respect for Oldfield, a fantastic instrumentalist and composer. During the recordings, I often tried to imagine what a “forgotten” full-length instrumental from his mid-career would sound like. In particular I had in mind live concerts from the early 80s; a rarity played, a track that Mr. Oldfield somehow decided to never release for mysterious reasons. Call me naive, laugh if you must but this was my line of thoughts while working on this music.

Although a long piece, plenty of material didn't make it into the published track, and it is likely that a calmer "part B" might follow in 2025. 

Special Thanks to Mike, Mark and Theuns for feedback on early drafts.

TABOOOO

T A B O O O O  {Tribute}

Sometimes it's hard to say, what you think and feel ... This is for the victims of the plane crash last Tuesday ... Airbus A320 ... Flight 4U 9525 ...  

Lost Lifelines

"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".

Rising Haze On November Fields

WiesenBerg