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Reminiscence by Emiel Stopler Emiel Stopler : Reminiscence.
 Filmic composer and acoustic fingerstyle guitarist.

Reminiscence is an album with solo acoustic guitar pieces. When I was a teenager, taking classical guitar lessons and discovering acoustic steel-string guitar, guitarist Michael Hedges was my absolute hero. The sounds that Michael Hedges managed to produce from just one acoustic guitar during the 1980's were both unprecedented and awe-inspiring. Many people couldn't believe his solo albums Breakfast in the Field and Aerial Boundaries were recorded without overdubs.

The music on this album Reminiscence is like a suite with five movements on solo acoustic guitar. The pieces were written between 1994 and 2003 and I tried to create my own magic from what I'd heard on the albums of Michael Hedges and other so-called finger style guitarists like Alex de Grassi.

This album kicks off with a rather virtuoso prelude and then continues with Reminiscence: a work inspired by memories of my childhood. (While composing this piece, I could almost hear the children's voices on the schoolyard in my mind.) The Peasant Wedding is a lively jig (an Irish dance) and depicts festivities and people dancing from the past. Avond in Schaddeberge is a Dutch title meaning Evening in (the village of) Schaddeberge. A friend of mine unsuccessfully tried to find Schaddeberge on Google Maps, until I told him the village name was made-up. I had used the name in a children's story I was writing. The suite closes with Finale, a rhythmic piece with strumming and percussive effects.

If you're a guitar enthusiast you can download and play the guitar TABs of this album from MusicaNeo: http://emielstopler.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/?cat=4599

Songs:

1. Prelude
2. Reminiscence
3. The Peasant Wedding
4. Avond in Schaddeberge
5. Finale

Listen to: the entire album.

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Release date: 11/01/2014
Emiel Stopler lives in Zwolle Netherlands

Tagged as: Alt Rock, Folk, Instrumental Rock, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Rock, Daydreaming

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