Rising Dutch multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Harry Kappen is back with his evocative new single, “The Longing,” a track that explores the timeless battle between emotion and logic in all of us. This piece serves as the opening track/fullth single taken from his album FOUR, and it sets the emotional scene for what awaits us on Kappen’s introspective and mature findings. Right from its first notes, “The Longing” draws listeners into a soundscape that’s intimate and yet cinematic.
The song unravels like an inner dialogue, the cool logic of the mind confronting the reckless pull of the heart. But under its philosophical heft, there’s a person, even if that person is sometimes three sprites in a trench coat with their arms stacked atop one another. Kappen’s lyrics are delivered confidently, with a subdued urgency, setting the stage for an immaculate climax that leaves you breathless. The tone sounds like a man who has fought with his own soul long enough to realize that the heart and head can't survive without each other.
Lyrically, it’s a confession, a word of resignation in the face of what can’t be helped. With “The Longing” Harry Kappen demonstrates once more that music can be deeply introspective and universally relatable at the same time. It’s a song that asks you to do more than just listen, but to feel, to participate in acknowledging your own internal wars and turn up the comfort on the humanness of it all.
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