Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula - Mirage (2020)

Composer, pianist: Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula (1991 -)
This piece was a request by the composer.
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[@TheJeanselimcom]

Dear Cmaj7, thank you so much for your great 'page-turning' and for sharing it to your audience. Dear audience, I am very curious about all that you think and hear. With much love to all, Jean-Selim

[@asmusmejdal3769]

Very good and interesting piece!

[@samuelmutter2568]

What a wonderful piece! I love the contemplative, mysterious, yet calm mood the piece evokes. Hope to hear more of your music in the future!

[@m.p.3musicstudio411]

An Interesting one! I am quite curious in what you are trying to bring out in your piece. Like what do you want to say to audience through this piece?

[@noiselesspatient]

Love the chorale and its transformation. And it's lovely to hear some counterpoint - so sadly lacking in much contemporary music.

[@qaave]

Someone's been listening to traced overhead

[@entropysfo]

Lovely music.

[@themoonfleesthroughclouds]

amazing

[@natandonascimento1953]

"Dont play, imagine" i love that

[@sg_dan]

This is quite possibly one o the finest contemporary pieces I've listened to in a good while! Congratulations to the composer!

[@Juliushenrykim]

This piece is WONDERFUL!

[@maffeffe]

This just sounds sad and good

[@miksavichev]

Nice👍☀️

[@owengette8089]

Very nice, I find it to be a more modern take on impressionistic themes. Similar to Sorabji and to a lesser extent Messiaen

[@adamchenadamov]

Wow!

[@KR-mm4el]

Absolutely bonkers 🤯

[@daniellu8282]

Marvelous! It reminds me of Sorabji but with much more clarity.

[@giorgiociomei5030]

È vero A di elementi che rimandano a Sorabji

[@grit2289]

Stupendous! Both imaginative and meticulous: a rare combination nowadays. I very much hope to hear more of your music in the future. Best regards.

[@giorgiociomei5030]

Bella composizione, la felicità di comporre liberamente, e non secondo le regole delle correnti che vanno in voga, come per esempio il fatto di essere assolutamente ultra avanzati, anche se qualcosa nel mondo musicale e' cambiato.

I got to hear it a few more times before giving proper feedback, but from my first one, it reminds me a lot some of Rautavaara's solo piano works, but "less thematic", in the sense that I can't feel a narrative going on or the piece wanting to go somewhere. I also used to think that from some Rautavaara's pieces and now I love them, so I guess it is a matter of letting the piece grow into you.

[@eugenepashch5213]

A very interesting piece!

[@wumisuzume]

👏👏👏

[@roses2155]

Technically, a tremendously crafted and precise work with structural and design elements that reflect consideration, discretion, and artist instinct. Musically, I find it meandering and without an arc of expressive narrative. The hyper-precision of the notation leads me to believe is wasn’t crafted from the heart as much the brain. Architecture and Art are not equivalencies.

[@grit2289]

I have to disagree. Art and architecture might not be “equivalencies”, but architecture can be art - and this piece most certainly is... It is cerebral, “composed” by all accounts, but it betrays a sensitivity and delicacy that only the heart can conceive. Often it is those works whose "narrative arc" we only comprehend with time, after close and multiple reading, that bring us the most profound joy. In that sense this piece reminds me of the literary works of the great master Henry James: Meandering, yes, but never disoriented; hyper-precise, but never cold. The warm and wondrous embrace of technical perfection and artistic imagination.