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A post-rock lover’s guide to Classical music: Russian cycles, part 6

Music for films Sergei Prokofiev – music for Alexander Nevsky, a film by Sergei Eisenstein ——————- Nothing shook the world of artistic creation like the advent of cinema. At once admired and feared since its inception, the new medium offered an unprecedented way to tell a story in moving images, mimic life and conjure up impossible visions, [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to Classical music: Russian cycles, part 5

Dmitri Shostakovich, string quartets n.8 and 14 ————– Texture is everything. You can create astounding works of art just by carefully arranging sounds and focusing your sonic palette on a series of instrumental combinations that will captivate the listener and create a self-contained experience. Composers are aware of the primordial power of sound and texture alone, and [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to Classical music: Russian cycles, part 4

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano concertos n.2 and 3 [Custom clearance being what it is, there won't be any sample this week either... but you'll have two fabulous versions in the video section below. Fingers crossed for next week, or the week after...] —————– I don’t have particularly bad memories of my teenage years. Sure, I was awkward, clueless and [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to Classical music: Russian cycles, part 3

Sergei Prokofiev [Still waiting to be reunited with my CD collection! So this episode is not exactly centered on a particular work, but rather on Prokofiev himself. There are a few suggestions below, of course.] —————– My love affair with Prokofiev started by chance, and it happened after years of not really listening to a lot Classical music. [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: Russian cycles, part 2

Dmitri Shostakovitch, Symphony no.5 [apologies for the lack of excerpt to download this week...I should be reunited with my CD collection once I reach Toronto!] ———————- I never really got into the Smiths. Maybe it was a variety of factors, but even when I started reading about how influential they had been to a whole lot of bands [ READ MORE ]

Death in Venice

Death In Venice by amberhaze The past few days have been a blur: packing the house for the relocation company, getting 51 boxes to fit into a 280 cubic-feet crate, selling the rest of our stuff away and donating the rest of the unsold items to families who would use an extra bed or a coffee [ READ MORE ]

MUSIC SALE

  • July 10th, 2010
  • Posted in music

I am faced with the prospect of having to ship my studio to Canada, and the price is just ridiculous. So i’ve decided to only keep the guitars and basses and ‘real’ instruments, and let go of the electronic components. Everything here works perfectly, and has been used in a smoke-free environment, for my album [ READ MORE ]

and a last one for the road

I’ve been thinking about having a “farewell” show of sorts. A few bands have been splitting up, moving on, or simply bowing out lately here, and there have been a series of last gigs around. So, for a while, I thought it would have been a good way to go. But over the past two [ READ MORE ]

Manila – part 2

The sun rises before 6 AM this time of year in Manila, so when you finally go back to your hotel after a whole night of playing, drinking, talking and driving around, you realise that the city is getting ready for a new day. Scrap that: the city is always ready, one way or another. [ READ MORE ]

Manila – part 1

So the week-end came and went, and what a week-end this has been. If I ever needed a reminder as to why we go through the highs and lows or composing, recording, believing, doubting and (hopefully) gigging, this trip sits at the top of my self-motivational experiences. And it’s really all about the people you [ READ MORE ]

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