Instantly adding to the canon of poems and songs in Spanish dealing with exile and the constant dream for a return home, “Golondrina” (the swallow) is an original composition by the-then-24 year old Brazilian singer songwriter Dom la Nena. The title track of her November 2013 EP Golondrina is also an apt metaphor for the permanent expatriate. […]
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Danny Norbury: Light in August
Based in Manchester (UK), Danny Norbury is a modern classical composer and cellist. Originally released in 2009 on the UK based label Lacies Records, Danny Norbury’s Light in August has just been re-issued on 14th April 2014 last on the Tokyo-based record label Flau. The re-release includes all 10 tracks from the original album as […]
Hauschka: Morgenrot
Jeff Desom is a young video artist based in Luxembourg who directed the 2008 stunning music video for German pianist Volker Bertelmann’s (a.k.a. Hauschka) “Morgenrot” featuring a burning piano falling from a high rise somewhere in New-York city. Hauschka’s superb slow motion conversation with cellists Insa Schirmer and Donsa Djember provides the soundtrack to the […]
Zoë Keating: Leap
As a former information architect, as a successful entrepreneur pioneering a new DIY approach to music business and as an advocate for decent artist compensation in the digital age, Canadian cellist and electronic artist Zoë Keating is often invited to talk or to perform at various tech conferences or web events around the world. Over […]
Zoë Keating: Escape artist
“One-woman avant-garde orchestra” Zoë Keating is a classically trained cellist and electronic artist born in Ontario and now based in California. Exploiting all the melodic, rhythmic and even percussive potential of the cello, the musician also integrates live samples of her own sound with a laptop and a loop station to generate the beautiful textured […]
Deaf Center: White lake
Introduced as “a haunting homage to the world of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti”, Pale Ravine (2005) is Norwegian duo Deaf Center’s first full-length EP on the Type Records label. Inspired by “old silent 8mm film reels, the historical architecture around them and the call of the alluring Norwegian landscape”, Erik K. Skodvin and Otto […]
