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Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: May 5, 2023

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06/29/2019 - Festival International de Jazz / Montreal, QC
07/13/2019 - Wilde Westen / Kortrijk, Belgium
08/08/2019 - Binnenplein Belfort / Brugge, Belgium
08/17/2019 - Lowlands Festival / Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
09/27/2019 - Cultuurcentrum Hasselt / Hasselt, Belgium
12/01/2019 - New Church / Den Haag, Netherlands
12/09/2019 - Willem Hijstek zaal / Maastricht, Netherlands
12/10/2019 - Catharina Kerk / Eindhoven, Nertherlands
12/11/2019 - Nieuwe Kerk / Groningen, Netherlands
12/12/2019 - Odeon / Zwolle, Netherlands
1 Beving, Flowers, Albayrak, Bulgarian Voices Berlin, Scoring Berlin, Filmorchester Babelsberg: Post  
2 Post - Delyrian Remix  
3 Beving, Flowers, Albayrak, Bulgarian Voices Berlin, Scoring Berlin, Filmorchester Babelsberg: edit  
4 Post - Delyrian Remix edit  
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Berlin, 5 May. As Joep Beving celebrates the landmark achievement of surpassing one billion streams across his UMG catalogue, he unveils the four-track Post EP. His latest Deutsche Grammophon release includes the eight-minute single version of Post, two different edits of the track and a remix. Also out today are the 10-inch vinyl version of the Post single and an e-single featuring the upbeat Delyrian Remix, available in Dolby Atmos.  

Speaking about the remix, for which he’s added his own lyrics, Beving says: “I’m known for melancholy music so I deliberately chose to do something cheerful that people can dance to. It’s like something you’d hope to hear at a summer festival, something that is joyful and hopefully gets the message across that life is worth living.” 

Five years in the making, Post is a work full of rich instrumental colour that evolved organically and collaboratively. Beving worked with Luke Flowers (piano, synthesiser, percussion), Tugce Albayrak (ney flute), and members of Bulgarian Voices Berlin, Scoring Berlin and Filmorchester Babelsberg. They recorded the piece from different locations, using state-of-the-art streaming software. Beving then joined forces with Dutch writer-director Hugo Keijzer (The Occupant) and production company MikeTeeVee to create a moving short film set to and inspired by his music.  

Premiered on Beving’s YouTube channel on Monday, Keijzer’s short film reflects the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter (played by Renáta Martinová and Klara Müller). The young girl is engulfed by the darkness of depression and anxiety, but when her mother takes her out of the city and into the countryside, she starts to make progress towards recovery. 
“I always felt Post needed to be a soundtrack to a story,” says Beving. “I was waiting for the story to reveal itself.” Together, music and images send out a message of love and hope for anyone struggling with the challenges of life today.

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    Posted At: September 3, 2020 12:00 AM

    Acclaimed pianist and composer Joep Beving has digitally released his new EP The London Session. The recording features two different versions of ‘September', a meditation for piano and string quartet on stillness and concentration, and a new arrangement of ‘An Amalgamation Waltz 1839', for voice, piano and string quartet, featuring soprano Grace Davidson. Joep Beving explained, "‘S...
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  • Joep Beving says; 'peaceful music provides escape, comfort and change' / udiscovermusic.
    Posted At: January 17, 2020 12:00 AM

    "A lot of us are desperate to find some sort of essence and truth," says Joep Beving, the latest curator of the Peaceful Music playlist. Dutch pianist and composer Joep Beving is a 21st-century music phenomenon. His self-pressed 2015 debut album, Solipsism, quickly became a viral sensation; over the following five years, his tunes have gained more than 320 million streams. Beving, who stands 6' 10" a...
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  • Hearts of Space features Joep Beving: Henosis and Ludovico Einaudi: Seven Days Walking
    Posted At: November 15, 2019 12:00 AM

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  • Pile, listening to Joep Beving / Brooklyn Vegan
    Posted At: May 4, 2019 12:00 AM

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  • Joep Beving - Henosis is an epic affair / contactmusic.com
    Posted At: April 12, 2019 12:00 AM

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  • Joep Beving is set for Seattle's Benaroya Hall, Q&A's with KING: Second Inversion
    Posted At: October 24, 2018 12:00 AM

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  • Joep Beving's simplicity is deep at Melbourne Recital Centre / Sydney Morning Herald
    Posted At: October 14, 2017 12:00 AM

    It's not often an upright piano makes it to the big time, sitting centre-stage for a solo piano recital. But Joep Beving plays the kind of music that a grand piano wouldn't understand – music so quietly unassuming that it requires a humble instrument to bring it to life. An instrument that doesn't mind having its front panel removed to expose its inner workings, or having extra felt lay...
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  • Joep Beving goes from fiddling on his grandmother's piano to millions of streams / The Sydney Morning Herald
    Posted At: September 29, 2017 12:00 AM

    About three weeks after self-publishing his debut album Solipsism on Spotify in 2015, Dutch composer Joep (pronounced Yoop) Beving was stunned to discover the blissed-out piano tracks he intended purely for his nearest and dearest had hit 60,000 streams. "To me that was already crazy," he says. "And then all of a sudden it started to rack up really rapidly." That figure is now well north of 85 milli...
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  • Joep Beving - Prehension is KUCI 'Featured CD'
    Posted At: June 26, 2017 12:00 AM

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  • Joep Beving is a modern classical phenomenon. Prehension 'vinyl review' on theartsdesk
    Posted At: May 27, 2017 12:00 AM

    Modern classical, often computer-treated, is on the rise, recalling the long ago days when tweedy collectors would have chests of classical to dig into on Sunday afternoons, place on weighty old stereos, and sit quietly, eyes closed, contemplating the eternal verities (well, I knew one older gent who did that, back in the Eighties). However, fear not, techno and punk are also present and correct. The onl...
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