Product Description
I've found that music with autobiographical references has a particular expressive strength.
I was in Finland once (performing at the World Tango Summit in Seinäjoki, 2011). The city of Seinäjoki is quite
close to the Arctic Circle, so in summer the sun doesn't really set: instead of
a night you have several hours of an eternal twilight.
The feeling was that of a transition stopped in time, as a slow
motion film of someone springing over a wide river. This can be a wonderful
experience (and for me it was), but can be also unnatural to us,
Latinamericans, used to the "day is sun and night is no sun" approach
to life.
Anecdotically, the temperature during these days in Seinäjoki was 31
Celsius. So my experience of Finland is that of a very warm place. I guess
other persons have colder experiences.
There are three
versions of this piece:
Piano solo (pedal all throughout, resonances) 7:24
Tibetan singing bowls 7:40
Electronic sounds (ambient) 7:50
The bowls version is recorded at A = 432 Hz. The solo piano and the electronic versions are at A = 440 Hz.
Summer
Twilights in Finland are Particularly Long was
composed in Bremen on 5 May 2017.
Cover Art: Juan
María Solare, based on a foto by Chado
Nihi (released under license CC0, and used by explicit permission: "You are welcome to use it for any
non-harmful purposes").
Listen on:
https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/album/summer-twilights-in-finland-are-particularly-long
or on Spotify /
Deezer etc.
Updated, general
information:
http://www.juanmariasolare.com/summer_twilights_in_finland_are_particularly_long.html
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