Album Notes

Interiores / Interiors - By Darian Stavans.

Darian Stavans - Piano.

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In the interior, light.
Alone, indoors, clarifies.
Outdoors, departs...

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


Interiores / Interiors is a music CD that talks about the wonder of our inner life. Outside is technical, so every move we make begins in our inside. What makes us different is the capacity of feeling and being conscious of it; Then we act, we work, we pray, we deal, we love. Light and shadow are inside of us, is a never ending erotic dialogue imbued in scenes and encounters. Time and space is also a valued quality of our main conflict of existence; When we resolve that meaning of life we keep thinking that our inner world is the accurate trustable resource of that forcefulness of our own existence. When we become acquainted with it, we trust in our inner life, and walk.

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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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