JOEP BEVING SHARES NEW ALBUM OF RE-WORKS, CONATUS, TODAY

 

 

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28 September 2018 (Toronto, ON) - Streaming sensation Joep Beving today releases Conatus, an album of new reworks by acclaimed and up & coming artists such as iconic synth legend Suzanne Ciani and renowned Amsterdam DJ Tom Trago. The album features reworks of pieces from his previous albums Solipsism and Prehension, and foreshadows Beving's next solo album with a rework of one of the brand new tracks. Listen to Conatus HERE.

Out today via Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, the album follows the release of three singles over the past few months: “Sleeping Lotus” - Tom Trago’s Sixtine Remix, “Hanging D”, which received a rework from the acclaimed Cello Octet Amsterdam, and Beving's own new piece, “Prelude”.

 

Conatus is a selection of reworks and a further expansion of Joep Beving's desire to create a simple soundtrack to accompany our complex human emotions. Its title comes from the philosophical concept of conatus – an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself. “If you see music as a living organism, then it’s something that will always adapt to new circumstances in order to stay present. This project is not about me. It is about the conatus of my music and for this album I’ve put their lives in other people’s hands.”

 

Beving invited a range of artists he knows and admires – Cello Octet Amsterdam, Suzanne Ciani, Tom Trago, Eefje de Visser, Colin Benders, Andrea Belfi, CFCF and Thomas Bloch – to rework his music in their own way. The results are not remixes in the club sense, but new and original interpretations of tracks by Beving, woven together on Conatus to form a coherent album. As well as approaching legendary American electronic music pioneer Ciani, Beving was also keen to involve other musicians from his native Netherlands: “They’re all people I think easily hold their own on the international scene.”

 

 

Joep Beving – Conatus:

1. Prelude
2. For Steven - Eefje de Visser Rework
3. Hanging D - Colin Benders Rework
4. A Heartfelt Silence - Andrea Belfi Rework
5. Ab Ovo - CFCF Rework
6. The Light She Brings - Thomas Bloch Version
7. Hanging D - Cello Octet Amsterdam Version
8. Sleeping Lotus - Tom Trago’s Sixtine Remix
9. 432 - Suzanne Ciani Rework

 

 

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