DIRK MAASSEN

Inception Tour 2025

The new album deals with creation and the question of musical origins. The pieces paint emotions and stories associated with creation and origins. Maassen demonstrates his characteristic talent for interweaving complex piano melodies and cinematic atmospheres. The title "Dans le Coeur", a piece that Maassen wrote after a ballet performance by his daughter, is particularly close to the artist's heart. "The piece is my musical reflection on how I have to let her go, but at the same time always feel a deep connection to her." This personal experience is reflected in a haunting composition that attempts to capture the fleeting moment that contains so much emotion.

The "musical origin", as Maassen describes it, is a central theme of the album. For him, it is the moment in which music flows naturally without him giving it much thought. "It's a state in which I just sit down at the piano and the music comes out of me - unfiltered, spontaneous, unpolished," he explains. "On 'Inception', I wanted to capture exactly this origin - the magic of the moment in which the music is created before it is changed by post-production or a long composition process."