I’m releasing a 60-second preview of “Do You Still Love Me?,” Track 1 from Winter Rhapsody Volume 2: Echoes of Medina, now streaming everywhere, including Spotify. This opening piece offers listeners an intimate first encounter with one of the album’s most emotionally raw and contemplative tracks.
Echoes of Medina continues my six-album instrumental journey—a long-form exploration of emotion, mythology, and human experience shaped through global musical traditions. This volume leans heavily into Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Moroccan textures, using rhythm, timbre, and atmosphere to create stories that unfold without a single word spoken. Every track is a landscape of feeling, each movement a narrative told through sound alone.
“Do You Still Love Me?” is based on my poem of the same name, which wrestles with the lingering ache of a love once given, the doubt that follows distance, and the hope that connection can endure even after absence. At its heart is a simple, haunting question: can love survive the passage of time and the weight of unspoken words?
The piece explores that emotional tension through a delicate musical arrangement. It opens with a gentle, almost hesitant motif, evoking the fragility of lingering feelings and unspoken questions. The instrumentation slowly deepens, rising into moments of warmth and subtle triumph, capturing the bittersweet realization that love may persist quietly, even when certainty does not. Each note mirrors the echoes of memory—the moments remembered, the emotions felt, and the questions that remain unanswered.
In the context of the album, this track sets the emotional tone for what follows. While other pieces build vast landscapes of myth and imagination, “Do You Still Love Me?” creates an intimate, reflective space—a meditation on memory, longing, and the fragility of human connection. The 60-second preview offers a glimpse into that space, highlighting the vulnerability, quiet yearning, and bittersweet hope that define both the poem and the music.
This track reminds us that love is not only measured by presence or promises kept, but by the subtle ways it lingers in memory, the questions it leaves behind, and the quiet way it shapes our hearts long after distance has grown.
Do You Still Love Me? is now streaming as part of Winter Rhapsody Volume 2: Echoes of Medina, and the full album invites listeners to journey through these emotional landscapes, where every note carries the weight of remembrance, longing, and connection.
