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NFT and Music: is there anything in common?

20 Apr 2021 6 minute read 10 comments Roney Laurent

Read on to get a perspective about the new possibilities of digital art in the music industry. Understand the strong union of music, art, technology and non-fungible tokens. Music and NFT technology  Firstly, music is increasingly open to new technol...

Pushing my limits with Smetana....

20 Apr 2021 3 minute read 2 comments bengy

  This last month has seen a few projects starting up in the Netherlands and Europe for freelance period instrument players. It's a bit of a spring for the performances, but most of it is still recordings for audio streaming or TV. Not my favourit...

Songs I Love: These Are the Days - Neal Francis

19 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments The Sad King Billy

Funk is dead. I'm sorry was dead. Enter Neal Francis with a throwback sound I didn’t even realize I missed until it got my shoulders groovin' and my fingers snappin'.  The Chicago based musician sounds like a man who accidentally stepped through a ti...

Aphorismen für Klavier: V. Oberek [Philip Daniel; 2020]

17 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

        Fifth in a cycle of aphoristic miniatures for piano. A highly virtuosic and vociferous stylization of the Polish folk dance called the Oberek. The painting in the video is "Oak fractured by a lightning (Allegory on the artist's wife death)"...

Aphorismen für Klavier: IV. Vergänglichkeit [Philip Daniel; 2020]

16 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Fourth in a cycle of aphoristic miniatures for piano. As the title suggests, a "reminiscence" of prior pieces in the set ("...mit Raureif bedeckt..." and Lautenlied), wherein harmonic and melodic ideas reappear in "refracted" guise. Unusua...

Hi everyone! I'm back to posting here!

15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments NewenX

Hello Publish0x! I'm glad to be back posting here, been away for a long time because I was taking a break from music to get inspiration back and strong, so I've been doing other things in my life. I want to return bringing back to life the first trap...

Aphorismen für Klavier: III. Lautenlied [Philip Daniel; 2020]

15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Third in a cycle of aphoristic miniatures for piano. A lachrymose yet harmonically sensuous invocation of the Renaissance "lute song", unfolding within a compressed "developmental variation" tripartite formal scheme. The painting in the vi...

Aphorismen für Klavier: I. "...mit Raureif bedeckt..." [Philip Daniel; 2020]

15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

                      First in a cycle of aphoristic miniatures for piano, here in crystalline fashion evoking the earth "bedecked with frost". Note, in the piece's brief and compressed duration, the central section, almost a "canone al rovescio" (c...

Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: IX. Der unendliche Feuerstrophe [Philip Daniel; 2020]

14 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

                    Ninth in a series of "Idiosyncratic Tone-Pieces" for concert organ (the instrument ideally of the "French Symphonic" variety). An "endless verse of fire," unfolding in the passionate polyphony of seemingly endless melody, with co...

Songs I Love: Love Sick - Beach Bunny

11 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment The Sad King Billy

In 2015 Lili Trifilio began Beach Bunny as a solo project and stage name. The project soon expanded to a four-piece band in 2017 adding guitarist Matt Henkles, Johnathan Alvarado on drums, and Aiden Cada on bass. The 2018 release of their EP "Prom Qu...