“On March 26, we will share with you a new composition by Sam Sheperd […]”. Briefly introduced at the beginning of March 2021 by a short 4mn voiced-over presentation featuring black & white stills, namechecking the musicians and the recording locations, the “Promises” project quietly emerged on the contemporary music scene ... [Continue Reading]
Modern Classical
Mischa Blanos: City Jungle
Born in Bucharest, Mischa Blanos is a young classically-trained pianist and an electronic musician. Renouncing very early on an expected career path of solo concert recitals, the pianist embraced an alternative trajectory integrating experimentation and improvisation with electronic music performance. Encouraged perhaps by the ... [Continue Reading]
William Susman: Collision Point/A Quiet Madness
Born in Chicago and based in Palo Alto, California, William Susman is an American composer and pianist whose work encompasses orchestral, chamber, vocal and soundtrack music informed by western classical, jazz, African and Latin American traditions as well as contemporary minimalism. Constantly toying with instrumental ... [Continue Reading]
A.G: Lonea
Agis Giannoulis aka A.G is a multimedia artist and modern classical pianist based in Paris and Athens. Since 2005, he has released three studio albums under the names of Anika and A.G as well as several experimental audio visual artworks including “Videos: 2003-2013” (2014), “Colours in Black and White” (2018) or more recently ... [Continue Reading]
Lau Nau: Poseidon
Laura Naukkarinen - aka Lau Nau - is a Finnish singer songwriter and composer based in Kimito, Finland, 160km west of Helsinki. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, devoted sound designer and record collector, Lau Nau seamlessly blends elements of Finnish folk with modern classical, ambient and experimental music using both ... [Continue Reading]
Mary Lattimore: Silver Ladders
Originally from North Carolina, Mary Lattimore is a classically-trained harpist and composer now based in Los Angeles, California. Over the last decade, the musician has devised her own vocabulary to shape a novel and immersive ambient sound informed by experimental, modern classical music and post-rock. Equally striving as a ... [Continue Reading]
Hania Rani: Home
Just over a year after her impressive solo piano début album Esja for Gondwana Records, Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani returns with a new collection which expands significantly on her original sound. Featuring double bass, drums, a string quintet and the pianist herself on synthesisers, keyboards, electronics and vocals, ... [Continue Reading]