Moments (Andrew Rayel album)

After releasing his debut album titled Find Your Harmony on 2014, Andrew Rayel embarked on a three-year tour period{{cite web|url=http://www.weareexposed.com/main/interview-article/exposing-andrew-rayel-moments-behind-the-album/ |title=Exposing Andrew Rayel: Moments Behind the Album |publisher=WeAreExposed |date=2017-04-22 |accessdate=2017-12-31 |url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231055346/http://www.weareexposed.com/main/interview-article/exposing-andrew-rayel-moments-behind-the-album/ |archivedate=2017-12-31}} where after his first year touring he began to be inspired by watching his fans.{{cite web|url=https://www.edmsauce.com/2017/05/22/andrew-rayel-talks-moments-album/ |title=Andrew Rayel Talks About 'Moments' Album |publisher=EDMSauce |date=2017-05-22 |accessdate=2017-12-31 |url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231060509/https://www.edmsauce.com/2017/05/22/andrew-rayel-talks-moments-album/ |archivedate=2017-12-31}} According to Rayel, the album single "Once in a Lifetime Love" was inspired during a tour show where one of the crowd members came on stage with Rayel's approval to propose to his girlfriend, whose proposal she accepted emotionally. Initially the title of the album was undecided and constantly changed. Rayel was close to naming it Big Time, as he wanted to reference the climax that the present was supposed to be the big time for everyone. After further consideration, he settled on the name Moments as he decided that it would fit the message better of remembering the special moments in one's life,{{cite web|url=http://edmchicago.com/2017/04/11/andrew-rayel-talks-classical-piano-moments-tour/ |title=Andrew Rayel Talks Classical Piano & His 'Moments' Tour |publisher=EDMChicago |date=2017-04-11 |accessdate=2017-12-31 |url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611231935/http://edmchicago.com/2017/04/11/andrew-rayel-talks-classical-piano-moments-tour/ |archivedate=2017-06-11}} which would be what the album aims to accomplish.{{cite web|url=https://www.edmsauce.com/2017/05/12/exclusive-interview-andrew-rayel-moment/ |title=[Exclusive Interview] Andrew Rayel: In the Moment |publisher=EDMSauce |date=2017-05-12 |accessdate=2017-12-31 |url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017220411/https://www.edmsauce.com/2017/05/12/exclusive-interview-andrew-rayel-moment/ |archivedate=2017-10-17}}

Based on Rayel, the main difference that separates his first album with Moments is that each track on the latter is special and specifically delivers the message of the album. "The first album I was doing without knowing what the f*** I am doing. I didn't think that much about it. I just made some tracks and played around with it. After that I got more experience and this album is really more well thought out," says Rayel. When asked about including a psy-trance track in his album which was a popular genre in 2016,{{cite web|url=https://www.mushroom-magazine.com/breakthrough-psytrance-scene-vini-vici/ |title=Vini Vici causes a breakthrough for the Psytrance scene |publisher=MushroomMagazine |date=2016-02-11 |accessdate=2017-12-31 |url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231103825/https://www.mushroom-magazine.com/breakthrough-psytrance-scene-vini-vici/ |archivedate=2017-12-31}} Rayel denied that he was following the trends for profit and said, “Back then I played one of the first versions of "Tacadum" without the vocals. I really fell in love with that specific sound. In 2015 at EDC Las Vegas I closed my set with a psytrance track and saw the reaction of the people and it really inspired me." Rayel also added that it wasn't as interesting to produce a fully trance album as he did in Find Your Harmony, which was why he decided to experiment with multiple genres in Moments to challenge himself.

Moments received positive reception from critics upon release. Kat Bein from Billboard called the album a "bold, bright future for the genre [trance]" and praised the singles in Moments for maintaining a duality of hard and soft sounds.

Writing credits adapted from AllMusic{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/moments-mw0003038514 |title=Andrew Rayel – Moments |publisher=AllMusic |date=2017-05-05 |accessdate=2018-01-01 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125122149/https://www.allmusic.com/album/moments-mw0003038514 |archivedate=2018-01-25 }}

{{Track listing

| total_length = 69:21

| title1 = Moments

| writer1 = {{hlist|Andrei Rata}}

| length1 = 3:21

| title2 = I'll Be There

| note2 = featuring Eric Lumiere

| writer2 = {{hlist|Andrei Rata|Eric Lumiere}}

| length2 = 5:51

| title3 = All Systems Down

| note3 = with KhoMha

| writer3 = {{hlist|Roberto Alzate Pasos|Andrei Rata}}

| length3 = 4:35

| title4 = Connected

| note4 = with ATB

| writer4 = {{hlist|Andrei Rata|ATB}}

| length4 = 4:12

| title5 = Once in a Lifetime Love

| note5 = featuring Kristina Antuna

| writer5 = {{hlist|Kristina Antuna|Chris Garcia|Andrei Rata}}

| length5 = 3:39

| title6 = My Reflection

| note6 = featuring Emma Hewitt

| writer6 = {{hlist|Anthony Hewitt|Emma Hewitt|Andrei Rata}}

| length6 = 4:46

| title7 = Forgiven

| note7 = featuring Jonathan Mendelsohn

| writer7 = {{hlist|Jonathan Mendelsohn|Andrei Rata}}

| length7 = 3:12

| title8 = Heavy Love

| note8 = with Max Vangeli featuring Kye Stones

| writer8 = {{hlist|Iain James|Andrei Rata|Kye Sones|Max Vangeli}}

| length8 = 4:46

| title9 = Home

| note9 = featuring Jonathan Mendelsohn

| writer9 = Andrei Rata

| length9 = 4:07

| title10 = Take It All

| note10 = with Jochen Miller featuring Hansen Tomas

| writer10 = {{hlist|Joost Griffioen|Andrei Rata|Jochen Van Der Steijn|Hansen Tomas}}

| length10 = 4:12

| title11 = Let It Be Forever

| note11 =

| writer11 = Andrei Rata

| length11 = 4:20

| title12 = Back to the Moment

| writer12 = {{hlist|Mike James|Andrei Rata}}

| length12 = 3:53

| title13 = Lighthouse

| note13 = with Christina Novelli

| writer13 = {{hlist|Joe Lawrence|Christina Novelli|Andrei Rata}}

| length13 = 4:59

| title14 = Never Let Me Go

| note14 = featuring Angelika Vee

| writer14 = {{hlist|Andrei Rata|Angelica Vasilcov}}

| length14 = 5:32

| title15 = Tacadum

| writer15 = Andrei Rata

| length15 = 4:37

| title16 = Winterburn

| note16 = with Digital X & Geert Huinink featuring Sylvia Tosun

| writer16 = {{hlist|Peter Holub|Andrei Rata|Sylvia Tosun}}

| length16 = 3:19

}}

Credits adapted from AllMusic.

• Andrei Rata – composition, production
• Angelica Vasilcov – composition, vocals
• Kristina Antuna – composition
• André Tanneberger – composition, production
• Peter Holub – composition
• Chris Garcia – composition
• Joost Griffioen – composition
• Anthony Hewitt – composition
• Emma Hewitt – composition, vocals
• Geert Huinink – production
• Iain James – composition
• Mike James – composition, vocals
• Roberto Alzate Pasos – composition, production
• Joe Lawrence – composition
• Eric Lumiere – composition, vocals
• Jonathan Mendelsohn – composition, vocals
• Jochen Van Der Steijn – composition, production
• Christina Novelli – composition, vocals
• Kye Sones – composition, vocals
• Hansen Tomas – composition, vocals
• Sylvia Tosun – composition, vocals
• Max Vangeli – composition, production

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• [http://andrewrayel.net/ Official website]

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