Eunike Tanzil’s new EP ‘Dreamscapes’ arrives June 26 on Deutsche Grammophon’s Yellow Label, and its origins are as vivid as the music itself. Growing up in Indonesia in a city without live orchestras, Tanzil’s first encounter with orchestral sound came through animated films. Those early impressions are the emotional DNA of all 6 tracks here, each one a poetic miniature conjuring imaginative soundworlds built from childhood memory and compositional precision.
The Los Angeles-based Indonesian composer, pianist, and producer recorded ‘Dreamscapes’ again with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and conductor Anna Handler, the same team behind her debut Deutsche Grammophon album ‘The First of Everything,’ released in September 2025 to warm critical reception. Der Spiegel praised her “complex instrumentation” and absence of “intellectual pretension,” noting her works are “sometimes powerful, sometimes fragile, always intensely emotional and driven by a deep love of melody.” HIGHRESAUDIO called her command of emotional packaging a mastery of virtuosity.
Tanzil describes the new EP’s creative core directly: “Dreamscapes brings me back to those early memories of being a child again, with music that captures optimism and hope. I used the orchestra as a canvas to paint my imagination, like soaring through the clouds or a dog chasing butterflies.”
The title track opens like the start of a journey, rich orchestral landscapes establishing the adventure immediately. “SOARING!” follows with scurrying strings, jaunty woodwind, and resounding brass punctuated by Tanzil’s solo piano. The 3/4 rhythm of “Flying Kites” suggests movement and color high in the air. 2 tracks, “Pearl’s Lullaby” and “Pearl’s Fantasia,” are paired: the lullaby rendered in solo piano with a gently rippling melody, then expanded into full orchestral development. The EP closes with “The Ringtone Waltz,” which takes a world-renowned theme by Spanish composer Francisco Tárrega and transforms it into an elegant waltz, a showcase for Tanzil’s ability to reinvent any musical fragment entirely.
Tanzil and Handler have been friends and artistic collaborators since meeting as students at The Juilliard School. Their partnership recently extended to the world premiere of Tanzil’s ‘Prelude to Light,’ conducted by Handler with her own ensemble Enigma Classica at her debut at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie on April 17, 2026. Handler also previously premiered Tanzil’s ‘Ode to the City of Dreams’ at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Philharmonic.
This year, Tanzil has been named a Classic FM Rising Star and announced as the Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s first composer in residence, a collaboration beginning in September 2026 as the orchestra celebrates its centennial season. The first single “Dreamscapes” is out now, with “Pearl’s Lullaby” following June 5 ahead of the full EP on June 26.