Album Notes

In Silence - Darian Stavans.

Darian Stavans - Piano.

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"On a foundation of knowledge, patiently keeping on with the search in silence, discovery will be genuine and personal; always on the foundation of knowledge... " Darian Stavans.

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


With the CD In Silence, Darian Stavans comes back to Piano composition after writing for several music genres and forms as well as for different instrumental combinations. Back to the Piano, he builds up a minimalistic musical artwork, under Erik Satie's structures, giving a controlled passion, a careful enigma, a silence walk, discovering that in the deepest intimacy there's the answer for genuineness. In Silence is a musical hearing experience; captures the listener since the very beginning and drives him through more than 45 minutes on a trail without corners, transparent and lucid, almost elemental. Darian Stavans speaks about the human silence, about our inner moments where only through this minimalistic silence we reach our truth, revealed permanent inside of us, and we know it well, in it's broadest expression.


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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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