Glistening pianos and emotionally cratering harmonies rising from the ethers. Acoustic guitars that seem to howl out for someone to hear their desperate cry of love. Dreams translated into sonically sophisticated ballads. Serenading that lingers in our minds even after the disc has stopped spinning and the band has ceased to play. “Bird,” “Only Image,” […]
Music has always been an answer to so many of life’s problems. Listening to it always has its perks but creating your own music has positive effects in so many areas. Making music has been called therapeutic quite often. It seems our recent find, the Infinite State project is a perfect example of this. […]
As beautiful and creative as classical music is it is often an afterthought of the music community. People take classical training and then veer in totally separate directions creating music that lacks the sustainable beauty that the classical genre has given them. Our friend Toni Castells, whose music we covered some years ago HERE, is […]
One of the greatest feats of the human species was the development of language. We’ve created layers and layers of it — from symbols and pictures that can stand for ideas, to symbols that are put together to create words that stand for ideas. Arguably an even greater feat of humans was our development of communication […]
There are those out there that say every good melody and sound combination has already been recorded and there is nothing new left to write. These are narrow-minded individuals that have been brainwashed by the mainstream radio that we are being force-fed every day. Luckily today more options have opened up to find all sorts […]
The art of building a song is something that takes a great amount of skill. The goal should be to create a feeling or emotion that sends the listener to a different place. Sometimes that place will be dancing around in an energy fueled rage. In the case of our recent find TheKunig, the place […]
There are musicians out there that seem to have a never-ending supply of song ideas and melodies bouncing around their minds. The ability to transfer these works to the recorded medium is another skill that is quite rare. We only recently discovered illrecur, who has been doing it for quite some time. The illrecur […]
