This album contains a collection of piano pieces I wrote in 2025. The album tells the whole story of that year. It was released on 20-10-2025.
This was one year of composing and publishing, starting in August 2024. At the beginning of this year, I composed soundtracks for the film "The Revelation," which are collected in the album of the same name. In April and May, I composed the album "Dimming Lights" (piano solos), which I will release later. In addition, I have started several other projects. Since June, I started recording with plugins. Most of the music on this album was recorded with the famous Yamaha C7 grand piano.
 
I started writing this album when I was literally far from home, hence the name FFH. Two of the seven piano pieces on this album were submitted for a Flat Challenge: the Awaking (July Challenge) and the Route Time Takes (September Challenge).
The main line of this album is the story of my life this year, from the sad, incomprehensible events (Far From Home, closer to the inevitbale) to strong desires (the Awaking) and the resignation that things go the way they go (the Route Time takes) and that time rushes ahead of us (Thoughts, from: Think, by Elisa de Wit).

Read about this album:
 

1. Far From Home (closer to the inevitable). “…How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings..." (Luc. 13:31)

2. The Story (from the album: hidden freedom, released in January 2025). "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go:

3. a farewell (to old memories). a pre-upload of the album "Dimming Lights. “No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us." (Phil. 3:13&14)

4. The Awakening. submitted for the July Challenge on Flat "The Butterfly's Dream). “For now we see through a mirror, darkly,
   but then we shall see face to face.
   Now I know in part,
   but then I shall know
   even as I am known.” (1 Cor. 13:12)

5. Thoughts (from Think, by Elisa de Wit). An improvisation of "Think" original composed by Elisa de Wit. “For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
   But for you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.
   Remember me, O my God, for good.”
   
   (Ecclesiastes 9:12 (KJV), Malachi 4:2 (NLT) and Nehemiah 13:31 (KJV))

6. the Route Time takes. Submitted for the September Challenge on Flat "Poetic Notes". Description on Flat: 

 

The Route Time Takes
from the poem:
a Time for Everything, by Ecclesiastes

'For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 NLT

What truly makes this poem a poem that lingers in your mind is the constant "a time" (used 29 times). This gives the feeling that time truly flows in the poem, and the content reveals that time takes a route; there is a time for one thing and a time for another. I tried to capture this feeling by constantly using sixteenth notes in the right hand throughout this piano solo. They do the same thing all the time (an upward arpeggio) and follow the chords formed between the two voices. I also tried to illustrate "the route time takes" by using many different chords and not repeating them often. This creates the feeling of being carried away by a story, by a poem, by time. I gave these chords many dissonant sounds, such as the seventh, ninth, and a minor second in the bass, which creates a "twist" in the sound. This reflects the poem's content in particular, where themes seem to constantly be in opposition to one another and where sentiment seems to "wave" through the (seemingly) negative and positive themes that are mentioned one after the other.

Experience the sine wave of events in our lives that shape us into who we are.