Album Notes

Música Nocturna / Nocturnal Music - By Darian Stavans.

Darian Stavans - Piano.


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Música Nocturna / Nocturnal Music is a music tale of landscapes and night poems.

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


Música Nocturna / Nocturnal Music is a music tale of landscape poems of things that occur at night; since the very beginning of it when the skies turn slow and silent, and we become acquainted of the echoes of the night. We all have images of moon lights, when the clouds look like veils beneath the moon. We all keep impressions of the night and the ocean, that dreamy monologue between the stars and the sea. We pray for strength at night; and love and passion find their best scenario for encounters. Then just before the night ends, we fall into the deepest essence of the soul of it, that slowly ends with those light strokes far away when the sky begins to shine. The birds announce the end of the night and with it the forcefulness of another journey that brakes that awesome miracle of the world of the night, that amazing transparency of the force of nature.

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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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