Top Countries Making Name In Music Production

Top Countries Making Name In Music Production

Previously the boundaries of countries or regions were not broken by the universal language which is music but in recent times, with just one click or a scroll on the internet, one can gain access […]

Celia Hollander: 2nd Draft review – turns a piano into a new sound world | Music

Celia Hollander: 2nd Draft album artwork.

People have been playing the piano for centuries, but few people have ever made it sound like Celia Hollander does. Her latest album genuinely seems to redefine what the instrument can do. The music made […]

‘We put his face back together again’: the groundbreaking show bringing Ryuichi Sakamoto back to life | Ryuichi Sakamoto

Optically transparent devices … the audience watches Kagami.

Todd Eckert is explaining, in circuitous yet joyous fashion, how he first fell in love with the work of the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. It’s a conversation that meanders through Eckert’s teenage visit to Preston, […]

Find Out the Top 8 Proficient Music Composers

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The music industry is one of the largest existing industries. A lot of musicians and composers have shown their talent by creating music. In this industry, we have seen a lot of composers who have […]

Zeena Parkins: Lace review – delicately woven patterns of intricate beauty | Music

Zeena Parkins Lace artwork.

Detroit-born Zeena Parkins is best known as a maverick harp player, who has worked with everyone from Björk to Yoko Ono, Courtney Love to John Zorn. This album, however, foregrounds her role as a composer […]

Legendary Electronic Producer Ryuichi Sakamoto Compiled a Playlist for His Own Funeral

Legendary Electronic Producer Ryuichi Sakamoto Compiled a Playlist for His Own Funeral

Ryuichi Sakamoto, who tragically succumbed to cancer in March, was a trailblazer in the electronic music space, paving the way for the sounds of today through his influential work with the iconic Yellow Magic Orchestra. […]

Bossa nova pioneer Carlos Lyra at 90: ‘We wrote songs about our reality: the beach, sun and love stories’ | Music

Carlos Lyra in 1954.

In 1959, Carlos Lyra’s musical partner and lyricist Ronaldo Bôscoli said that bossa nova is a state of mind. Lyra thought he was talking nonsense. “Today, I’m actually agreeing with him,” he reflects more than […]

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese Composer, Dead at 71

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese Composer, Dead at 71

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the highly influential Japanese pianist, composer, and electronic music producer, has died at 71, Kyodo News reports. Sakamoto had first revealed a throat cancer diagnosis in 2014, which went into remission after successful treatment. […]

Tinkling the ivories and tugging the heart strings: is The Piano the most uplifting TV talent show ever? | Television

‘It’s impossible not to wonder how many of those train travellers are seeing something that looks like fun’ … The Piano.

Is there an instrument with more emotional range than the piano? Sometimes, it is tough to believe that the same collection of wood and wires can make you stamp your feet with delight one minute […]

Debussy: Jeux; Dukas: La Péri; Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, etc review – Hindoyan impresses and charms | Classical music

Hindoyan’s first release with the RLPO album cover

For his debut disc as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s chief conductor, Domingo Hindoyan has brought together three of the most significant French ballet scores of the first half of the 20th century. Paul Dukas’s La […]

‘Hold Me Tight’ review: Vicky Krieps holds drama together

Vicky Krieps in the movie "Hold Me Tight."

“Let’s start again.” The opening line of “Hold Me Tight” hits a little differently the second time around — and the movie, a jagged little heartbreaker from French writer-director Mathieu Amalric, is certainly built for […]

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler: ‘I don’t believe in ghosts, but I believe in David Bowie’ – Music News

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler: 'I don't believe in ghosts, but I believe in David Bowie' - Music News

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 for an extensive conversation about the band’s sixth studio album due out this Friday. Butler details the influences and challenges of making the record, […]