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Pablo Smog's Movie Posters

16 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Aside from my 1-second cameo in the Germs biopic What We Do Is Secret from 2007 (pictured below), I have appeared in many films over the years under the alias "Pablo Smog."  Not including my participation in the music-industry allegory Full Metal Jac...

Distribution Deals, With Distrokid. (2 minute read)

16 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments KushT_UK

DistroKid: (https://distrokid.com/vip/seven/1062679) If you have thought about distributing music on streaming platforms, you have probably come across the name Distrokid. Boasting good reviews on their home page from their competitors no less, not a...

Seltsame Epigramme für zwei Glasharmoniken: VIII. Das klagende Saraband [Philip Daniel; 2020]

15 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Eighth in a series of deeply intimate "strange epigrams" for two glass armonicas, exploiting the ethereal qualities of this instrument. The third dance movement in a row, this is a "plaintive Saraband" featuring an expressive, gestural mel...

Social fearlessness for musicians in 2021

14 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments KushT_UK

First and foremost, stop making excuses not to be on every available platform, specifically if that platform has recently set a track record of making hits from the songs it breaks? (Do I actually have to spell that out re: Tik Tok)   -Photo courtes...

Seltsame Epigramme für zwei Glasharmoniken: VII. Bourrée [Philip Daniel; 2020]

14 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Seventh in a series of deeply intimate "strange epigrams" for two glass armonicas, exploiting the ethereal qualities of this instrument. Another dance, this time a vivacious, relentless, even clamorous Bourrée in characteristic alla breve...

Seltsame Epigramme für zwei Glasharmoniken: VI. Écossaise [Philip Daniel; 2020]

13 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Sixth in a series of deeply intimate "strange epigrams" for two glass armonicas, exploiting the ethereal qualities of this instrument. Though a stylized "Écossaise" ("Scottish dance", though of French provenance) featuring the characterist...

Seltsame Epigramme für zwei Glasharmoniken: V. " ... Von süden weht es " [Philip Daniel; 2020]

12 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Fifth in a series of deeply intimate "strange epigrams" for two glass armonicas, exploiting the ethereal qualities of this instrument. The title, " ... Von süden weht es" ("a wind blows from the south"), quotes the closing line of Stefan G...

Musicoin, what the others don't have? #UBI Pool and a community governance

11 May 2021 1 minute read 5 comments Lorenzo The big Brain

What others don't have For more than 4 years now, Musicoin has been present in the global blockchain landscape, traversing no less than two BTC halvings with renewed passion. And now averyone can participate to promote Musicoin all around, in every l...

Seltsame Epigramme für zwei Glasharmoniken: IVa. Tempo di gavotta; IVb. Musetta [Philip Daniel; 2020]

11 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

      Fourth in a series of deeply intimate "strange epigrams" for two glass armonicas, exploiting the ethereal qualities of this instrument. First, a whimsical (even reeling) gavotte, followed by a rustic and slightly less stable musette, rounded o...

Seltsame Epigramme für zwei Glasharmoniken: III. "Gegrüßet seist du, Königin" [Philip Daniel; 2020]

10 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Third in a series of deeply intimate "strange epigrams" for two glass armonicas, exploiting the ethereal qualities of this instrument. Here, the title "Gegrüßet seist du, Königin" refers to the German translation of the Marian antiphon "Sa...