Lone Piñon - 2. Norteño music
As promised a while ago in my previous post let's listen to some of Lone Piñon's very enjoyable Norteñomusic. This music genre "developed in the late 19th century, as a mixture between local Mexican...
View ArticleLone Piñon, Orquesta típica - 1. Introduction
....they have brought the language of the New Mexico orquesta típica back onto the modern stage, back onto dance floors, into a contemporary aesthetic/artistic conversation, and into the ears of a...
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Pieter Hemony - 400 Years, 2. Ghent and Amsterdam
After years of exile in Germany during the 30 Years War and itinerant work, Pieter Hemony's (1619-1680) older brother François (ca. 1609-1667) settled down in Zutphen in The Netherlands. During...
View ArticleLone Piñon, Orquesta típica - 1. Introduction
....they have brought the language of the New Mexico orquesta típica back onto the modern stage, back onto dance floors, into a contemporary aesthetic/artistic conversation, and into the ears of a...
View ArticleFrank Gingeleit - 2. Instant Drone Factory and Living Tunes
In 2005 Werner "Zappi" Diermaier and Jean-Hervé Péron reunited to form the "new"Faust. They made their debut at the 2005 Art-Errorist Avant Garde festival in Schiphorst in Northern Germany where Péron...
View ArticleFrank Gingeleit - 1. Introduction and Underground Releases
Well, I started to make music in a serious way beyond the age of 40. As many juveniles of my age I learned basic guitar chords in the school yard but it took quite a while that I took a lunchtime break...
View ArticleEdward Jessen
The chosen scenes, in each case, have distinguished themselves not through any epic nature, nor from any grandiose character qualities. Rather, it is from this world of small things that we find the...
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Isabelle Leymarie
Isabelle Leymarie (1)Isabelle Leymarie is a musicologist/ethnomusicologist, author, pianist, filmmaker, translator and photographer. She studied music lessons from age four and already as a child...
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Video Pick - Julius Cornet (1793 - 1860)
Julius Cornet (b. Anton Josef Michael Julius Cornet, 1793 - 1860) was an Austrian opera singer (tenor), theater director, songwriter, author and translator. Panorama of Innichen (1)He was born in...
View ArticleBryan Kesselman - 2. Vocal Works
Bryan Kesselman, British baritone singer, singing teacher, musical director, composer, and lately author, has been involved with vocal music at least since his studies at Guildhall School of Music and...
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Bryan Kesselman - 1. About the composer - Prelude to an Unwritten Opera and...
Bryan Kesselman is a British composer, musical director, baritone and bass singer, singing teacher and author. His Jewish family probably emigrated around the end of the nineteenth century from...
View ArticlePanos Alexiadis - 3. Live performance, collaborations, shows and podcasts
As a contemporary electro-acoustic sound artist Panos Alexiadis has participated in many live concerts, performing and improvising his synth-drone-experimental music, often in collaboration with other...
View ArticlePanos Alexiadis - 2. Releases under his own name and film scores.
Panos Alexiadis, a sound artist from Athens, Greece, has been releasing electro-acoustic music albums and extended play (EP) CDr and cassettes under his own name since 2014. (1) Later in the decade he...
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Panos Alexiadis - 1. Introduction and early projects
He uses a constantly evolving modular synthesizer with live recordings, physical instruments and other electronic devices. In his live shows, he builds a soundscape in real time which in turn...
View ArticleVideo Pick - Américo Nicolás Farinella
Américo Nicolás Farinella, Lieutenant Colonel and Band Conductor, was born in Azul (Province of Buenos Aires), Argentina in 1939. (1) He joined the military in 1956 as a band musician. In 1972 he...
View ArticleLoyset Compère - 3. Influence & Style and Chansons.
By temperament he seems to have been a miniaturist, and his most popular and numerous works were in the shorter forms of the day—primarily chansons and motets.(1)Loyset Compère (c. 1440/45 - 1518), a...
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Loyset Compère - 2. Life post-Milan - Motets-Chansons and Motets
After the murder of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza in 1477 the Milanese court chapel was cut in size and Loyset Compère (c. 1440/45 - 1518) lost his job along with other musicians. The next decade of...
View ArticleLoyset Compère (c. 1440/45 - 1518) - 1. Early Life and an early Motet, Motet...
Compere, vous passez le [temps]En amours, comme je sup[pose];Vous nourrissez les bien chan[tants]De l'art que vostre engin com[pose]... (1)Loyset Compère (b. Louis Compère; aka "Aluyseto" in Italy; c....
View ArticleZach Danziger - 5. Soundtracks
Zach Danziger5. SoundtracksZach Danziger has performed and written music for the movies very regularly from 1998/1999 until 2010/2012. He spent stints in Los Angeles and even considered moving...
View ArticleZach Danziger - 4. Groups
Zach Danziger4. In Groups Over his busy career Zach Danziger has been a session drummer for countless groups, a.o. for Blood, Sweat & Tears (1998-2001). Let's take a listen: New York Jazz Guerilla...
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