Album Notes

El Lugar de los Sueños / The Place of Dreams - By Darian Stavans.

Darian Stavans - Piano.


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This CD is a journey to imaginary places; legends created by mind and soul.

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


This CD is a journey to imaginary places; legends created by mind and soul, refuges to the thunder of the daily activity. The miracle of the earth where we live is being permanently transformed, and suddenly emerges a story of castles and romances... We come again, once and again we work to transform the world into memories that will be kept forever in another soul, in another miracle of walking through life and imagination, that gives us the pleasure to be, to feel, to enrich our steps and enjoy the happiness of creating pure and invented places, refuges for us, for ourselves; always imbued with love, light and passion.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST


Evocative is a word that has been used to describe, or better said, react to the music of Darian Stavans. Evocative? One would imagine that such a music would bring to the mind and heart shared memories, but one does not necessarily share memories with an artist; one shares feelings, reflections, dreams. These are the things one finds in the music of Darian Stavans— a passage of sorts to that special place we all have deep in our souls.

The apparent simplicity of works such as Interiors, Passion, and Poetic is powerfully touching and intensely beautiful. Captivating melodies hold our attention as their notes drop ever deeper into the soul of the listener, retrieving echoes of the human experience we all share. Our lives may be different, but our feelings are not. Stavans’ music glides us soothingly into currents of profoundly romantic reverie, pools of sunlit serenity, and occasionally into the depths of fleeting melancholy.

Stavans, the composer, imbues his music with texture: a guitar lends its sometimes earthy, sometimes airy quality to Els Segons Temps; whereas a lighter, more translucent harp is used to render Lullabies. In making his music come alive, Stavans has also become a producer (he produced all the works featured here) and a conductor. He conducted and recorded the St. Angelis Symphony Orchestra for his works Noir et Blanc and Prayer.

Nonetheless, Darian Stavans is first and foremost a gifted composer and pianist. His music speaks his soul and in so doing, speaks to our own. Perhaps listening to his works we might become acquainted with the artist, but it would be more accurate to say, we become reacquainted with ourselves.

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