Maison Melody

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Maison Melody

It is with pride and joy that I here like to offer to you my new album called Maison Melody, an instrumental music-project performed on piano and strings and indie-released on a non-profit basis.

For centuries now a music-composer prefers to work in solitude on his creations and often the only 'companion' in this process is the direct environment, his/her house. The composer develops a special relationship with the house through his creations and this way finds his desire for quietude, the peace of mind so essential to the mental work of composition. Historically music-composers always have distanced themselves from busy communal places in order to be able to better hear their own inner voice that can lead to a more thorough artistic self-expression. In this hyper-focus mode the relationship of yourself with your direct environment, your house, becomes your partner in crime. This way you create at home by travelling in your own mind and tapping in to your own imagination without external distractions.

And this is exactly how I, about a year ago, composed my most personal and introspective melodies so far in the confinements of my own house and therefore this album project is called Maison Melody.

 


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After finishing composing and arranging in my own house, later in 2019 I re-recorded the piano and string-quartet outside of the house with some other musicians next to myself such as Marcel Worms, Dimitri Leivici and the West Side Trio in a professional studio and the album got mixed by Francesco Donadello who has previously worked a.o. with Hildur Guonadottir, Johann Johannson & Einaudi. Mastering took place in Berlin early 2020. It contains 10 compositions and they are lyrical and meditative piano - miniatures characterised by impressionist elegance with simple and direct melody with me trying to compose calm and soothing music for people who have an unspoken voice deep inside of them.

Stephen Emmer - May 2020

 

Composer

Stephen Emmer

Producers

Stephen Emmer & Francesco Donadello

Musicians

Stephen Emmer - piano & keyboards

Marcel Worms - piano

Dimitrie Leivici - first violin

Vera van der Bie - violin

Isabella Petersen - viola

Annie Tangberg - cello

Orchestration

Willem Friede

Recording engineers

Lau Kagenaar, Fieke van den Hurk & Joris Wolff

Mixing engineer

Francesco Donadello

Mastering engineer

Bo Kondren

Project management

Connie Kemp

Label & Digital management

Maarten Bousie

Video Directors

Marco Mocking & Maarten Bousie

Video Editor

Marco Mocking

Recorded @ Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum & @home

Mixed @ Electric Monkey Studios, Amsterdam

Mastered @ Calyx Mastering, Berlin

 

Inspired by the music of silence by Federico Mompou

Dedicated to Fred, Roekie, Julia, Inez & Daphne

 

(p) 2020 Stephen Emmer B.V. & © 2020 Electric Fairytale Recordings

All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited.

For further information, licensing inquiries and other requests, please contact: office@stephenemmer.com


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