Joep Beving & Maarten Vos releases A Night In Reno

Pianist Joep Beving and cellist Maarten Vos release a second single from their upcoming collaborative album, 'Vision of Contentment'. The single is called 'A Night in Reno' and is out today. Joep beving about the track: "'A Night in Reno' perfectly encapsulates the energy that filled the room throughout the week of recording this album. There's an enigmatic quality to it, something we felt but couldn't have planned beforehand. It's pensive and poignant at the same time. A confident embrace of the unknown, striding through the twilight of night that transforms into morning. A bittersweet cocktail of merging realities. It illustrates the entire vibe of this record, and I can't wait to share the rest of it with the world."

'Vision of Contentment', will be released by Nils Frahm’s LEITER label and arrives on July 19. It follows work together on 2019’s Henosis, 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, where Vos also has his studio, the LP contains eight brand new compositions and will be available on vinyl as well as via all digital platforms. It’s preceded by a single, ’02:07’. ’02:07’ is the sound of a life well lived departing for a better place, while the title track’s spacious, quietly epic nine minutes seem somehow to celebrate absence itself.

While 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. “Occasionally I come across artists with whom I share a musical connection, leading to a mutual desire to collaborate,” Vos explains. “Exploring different creative approaches and learning from their workflows has been inspiring, contributing greatly to my development.”

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. Maarten is a sculptor of sound and Nils is, well...the master of sound!”

Transitions are a theme on 'Vision of Contentment', not least because, by the time Beving and Vos had settled down to start recording, their friend Brounen had been fighting cancer for three years. Vos and Beving managed to see their friend in the days leading up to his loss, and were together in the studio when they ultimately learned he’d passed away, immediately turning to their instruments to put their feelings into music. The moment is captured on the deeply affecting ‘02:07’, named after the hour the news arrived, but each of 'Vision of Contentment'’s pieces is similarly illuminated by his existence in their lives.

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