Journeys in Sound & Music
Musician & vocalist Karen Vogt says that her new album is “about longing for the sea after spending many years living inland”. The inland location she refers to is Paris, her home for the past 15 years and half a world away from her native Australia where the sea was always in close proximity to…
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How many times have we walked or driven past another human being living a shattered life? Random by happenstance and anonymous save for their fleeting presence as we pass by, how often do we take time to ponder what brought them to that point and whether they once were happy or could be again? On…
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Franz Kirmann is a French electronic musician based in London who has been releasing music since 2006 both as a solo artist and with composer/multi-instrumentalist Tom Hodge as part of electronic/post-classical crossover project Piano Interrupted. Franz has recently added a new dimension to his work with a project dubbed Sérine which operates in the realm…
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However long it takes to put this seemingly interminable pandemic in the rear view mirror, one day down the road we will get the chance to look back fondly on the bright spots of kindness, creativity, and friendship that illuminated the darker times. But that does not mean we can’t savor them now where we…
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Greek composer & musician Thanos Christodoulou has recorded under the name Lumiere since 2015, a nod to the famed French brothers of the same name who pioneered the craft of cinematography. It is as fitting a name as any for an artist who combines piano and post-classical elements with electronics and modern jazz to create…
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Affectionately named after a tiny room in Belo Horizonte, Brazil where a group of friends would gather to quietly rehearse and record new ideas, La Petite Chambre Records has been publishing a uniquely warm and colorful style of experimental music for over a decade. The label has created their own space for artistic expression in…
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In 2015, French composer & pianist Raphaelle Thibaut quit her marketing job at Google to pursue a lifelong passion for music and film scoring quickly leading her to work with major brands like Ubisoft, Coca-Cola, and Nike as well featuring in movie trailers for such major Hollywood productions as ‘Incredibles 2‘ and ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil‘…
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In 2006, multi-instrumentalist Michael A. Muller co-founded the Austin-based ensemble Balmorhea which went on to create six full-length records and numerous EPs over the past 13 years while touring globally and producing original scores and track placements for TV & film. Now, Muller makes his full-length debut as a solo artist with Lower River, an…
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When Sony Masterworks releases ‘Reveries‘ by Rob Simonsen in September, it will technically by a debut album, but the Los Angeles based composer’s work should be well known to many. Having worked with Mychael Danna on movies like 500 Days of Summer (2009) Moneyball (2011) and Life of Pi (2012), Simonsen has gone on to…
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Stationary Travels 