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His discography includes acclaimed albums such as \"Solipsism\" and \"Prehension,\" which have received critical acclaim for their artistic brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"prehension","title":"Prehension","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntroducing a brand new artist to the Deutsche Grammophon label: contemporary Dutch composer \/ pianist Joep Beving. Joep creates genuinely relaxing and contemplative neo-classical music with a broad and immediate appeal, music which displays introspective, melancholic, filmic and uplifting characteristics – presented in a simple, warm acoustic atmosphere. 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It follows work together on 2019’s \u003ci\u003eHenosis\u003c\/i\u003e, Beving’s third album, which came about after the two musicians shared a bill in Amsterdam in 2018. Mixed by Frahm at Leiter studio in the German capital’s famed Funkhaus complex, the LP contains eight brand new compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Beving’s never recorded an entire album with another artist before, Vos has regularly engaged in such activities, sharing credits with artists such as Julianna Barwick, Nicolas Godin (AIR) and Alex Smoke. For Beving, it was a natural step to take, and arguably overdue. “Doing an album from scratch as a joint project was something Maarten and I wanted to try for a while now,” he says. “When my deal came to an end, we saw an opportunity to start making music. I’m always trying to create small worlds for the listener to temporarily live in. Working with Maarten and Nils has helped immensely in achieving this. 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It’s also an astonishing personal tribute to Mark Brounen, their friend and, in Beving’s case, manager.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVos considers the haunting sounds of vision of contentment “a sonic landscape that encourages imaginative exploration”, and the duo talk of Morten Feldman as a musical guide, and Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto as ‘mentors’. Beving, meanwhile, says he intends to leave listeners with a simple sense of love, adding that he hopes it will also enable “a search for harmony and understanding” that also delivers “a big fuck you to fascists and fear!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTransitions are a theme on\u003ci\u003e Vision of Contentment\u003c\/i\u003e, not least because, by the time Beving and Vos had settled down in the woods, their friend Brounen had been fighting cancer for three years. And yet, if his imminent ‘passing over’ cast a shadow upon proceedings, it’s wasn’t exclusively a cause for sadness. “The central theme here is the ‘Blue Hour’, the twilight,” Beving explains. “Transitioning from one state to the other, but also embracing the darkness. Mark had shown a remarkable way of dealing with his disease and impending end. 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