Nocturnal Blues Matteo Myderwyk

• 1 Nuages 02:25
• 2 Nocturnal 03:21
• 3 Avenue 02:38
• 4 Céleste 04:25
• 5 Pietà 03:20
• 6 Self Portrait 02:41
• 7 Into The Blue 02:17
• 8 Moonrise 01:37
• 9 Viola 02:16
• 10 Mode Noir 03:05
• 11 Our Ballad 03:34
• 12 Starry Night 02:18
• 13 Sotto Voce 04:14
• 14 Serenade 02:27
• 15 Past Lives 03:07
• Total Runtime 43:45

Info for Nocturnal Blues

Nocturnal Blues, an ode to the night, is music for those who listen best when the world is silent.

A collection of 15 contemplative, impressionistic nocturnes. Music for moments of reflection, memory, and tenderness — illuminated by the soft luminosity of the night. Blue bleeds through these nocturnes — not as pigment, but as emotion. Each hue holds a memory, a thought. Blues that shape our quietest hours, becoming a world of their own.

Matteo Myderwyk about his work: For centuries, artists have turned to the night as their muse. My greatest hero Vincent van Gogh once wrote:

“It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day — as if the night were not black but blue, violet and green.”

That idea — that the night contains a deeper palette, a richer language — lies at the heart of this album.

With titles Self Portrait, Starry Night and Pietà, I honour Van Gogh’s world, his light, his sorrow, his radical tenderness, and the way he turned the night into a language of colour and feeling.

Late night moments where thoughts find clarity — this is where Nocturnal Blues lives. Where stillness allows us to reflect, to dream, to be vulnerable. In these hushed hours after dusk we lose ourselves, or finally find ourselves; in shadow, in starlight… in music."

Matteo Myderwyk, piano

Matteo Myderwyk
As a classical pianist at the conservatory, Myderwyk abandoned the music of his heroes Bach, Liszt and Messiaen to develop his own musical vocabulary.

First of all, he decided to throw away the rulebook of classical music altogether, ending up enthralled in the wonderful world of free-jazz. Making music without plan or pre-written composition gave a new creative impulse that pushed the musician’s craft to exciting new directions.

Myderwyk learned his most important lesson in this experimental period; music isn't something written on paper, but materializes in the moment.

This album contains no booklet.