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The Invisible, “Surrender”

The Invisible, “Surrender”

The Invisible began in 2006 with Okumu, who – encouraged by Matthew Herbert to record solo material – soon realised he required the input of friends Leo Taylor (formerly of Gramme and Zongamin) and Tom Herbert (a member of Polar Bear (British band) and Acoustic Ladyland) to make real the sounds inside his head. Herbert’s Accidental Records spawned the production of the band’s first official release, the one-track 7 inch vinyl “Constant” in early 2008.

The name arrived after the three began writing. The moniker is a nod to the writing of Irish philosopher and poet John O’Donohue, who articulated the notion that humans exist in parallel worlds – the visible and the invisible; one physical, one spiritual.

The Invisible’s second album, Rispah was released on Ninja Tune in August 2012, having been recorded in Brighton – with producer Richard File. The album’s first single “Protection” was premiered through online music magazine, The Quietus] Rispah was named after frontman Dave Okumu’s mother, Rispah Achieng Okumu, who died during the making of the second album. Rispah is, in the words of singer-guitarist Dave Okumu, “a love letter to grief.”

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Au4, “Planck Length”

Au4, “Planck Length”

The AU4, the Audio / Visual Creative Collective formed in 2004 in Canada , including the three brothers Ben Wylie, Aaron Wylie, Wylie Nathan and their friend Jason Nickel, which began from an early age to study music at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto . Later, in high school, they took part in the groups of alternative rock , continuing his musical studies as well as participating in the productions of jazz , choral and theatrical .

In particular, Nathan and Jason Wylie Nickel later attended the Capilano University , based in Squamish and Sechelt, north of Vancouver, deepening their knowledge and practice of jazz, while Ben Wylie and his brother Aaron were dedicated to electronic music. The experiences of this period would then merged to form the future of the group’s style.

Partly inspired by the spread of electronic music in the 1990s, as well as from the albums milestones of the Underworld , Massive Attack , Björk , AIR , Nine Inch Nails , Mogwai and M83,  Ben and Aaron began to compose and shape of the productions both musical and visual, accumulating an amount of work that would later find her suitable accommodation in their debut album on: Audio, and their live show on: Visual.

Fantastic band and experience. Check them out.

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Snow Ghosts, “And the World Was Gone”

Snow Ghosts, “And the World Was Gone”, Live Version

Producer Ross Tones (aka Throwing Snow) and vocalist Hannah Cartwright (aka Augustus Ghost) first met and started collaborating in 2008, having a shared interest in British folklore and experimental electronic music.

The first Snow Ghosts record, the ‘Lost At Sea’ EP, was released through Black Acre Records in 2011. Following this initial release, Tones and Cartwright spent the next two years compiling their debut album ‘A Small Murmuration’, which was released on London nightclub Fabric’s record label Houndstooth in 2013.

In 2014, Tones and Cartwright joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Oliver Knowles, and Snow Ghosts became a trio. The band’s second album, ‘A Wrecking’, was released on Houndstooth in February 2015. In August 2013, Snow Ghosts track ‘And The World Was Gone’ featured in a pivotal scene in episode 10 ‘The Overlooked’ of Teen Wolf (Season 3).

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David Garrett, “Palladio”

David Garrett, “Palladio”

David Garrett, born David Christian Bongartz, is a record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist. By the age of seven, he studied violin at the Lübeck Conservatoire, and by the age of 12, Garrett began working with the distinguished Polish violinist Ida Haendel, often traveling to London and other European cities to meet her. After leaving home at 17, he enrolled at the Royal College of Music in London, leaving after the first semester.  In 1999 he moved to New York to attend the Juilliard School, in 2003 winning the School’s Composition Competition with a fugue composed in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach.[ Whilst at Juilliard he studied under Itzhak Perlman, one of the first people to do so, and graduated in 2004.

Palladio is a composition for string orchestra by Karl Jenkins, written in 1995. The title refers to the architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). The work in three movements is in the form of a concerto grosso.

“Palladio was inspired by the sixteenth-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio, whose work embodies the Renaissance celebration of harmony and order. Two of Palladio’s hallmarks are mathematical harmony and architectural elements borrowed from classical antiquity, a philosophy which I feel reflects my own approach to composition.” -Karl Jenkins

Maria Callas, “Il Dolce Suono”

Maria Callas, “Il Dolce Suono”, Performed in the Teatro Comunale, Florence, Italy, 1953

Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Florentino

Chorus Master: Andrea Morosini

Orchestra Conductor: Tullio Serafin

“Il Dolce Suono” (“The Sweet Sound”) is the incipit of the recitativo of a scena ed aria taken from Act III scene 2, Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti. It is also commonly known as the “mad scene” sung by the leading soprano, Lucia. An arrangement of the aria was featured in the film The Fifth Element, sung by the alien character Diva Plavalaguna voiced by Inva Mula.

Amber Run, “I Found”

Amber Run, “I Found” from the Album “SAM”

Amber Run is a British band from Nottingham, UK composed of Joe Keogh, Will Jones, Tom Sperring and Henry Wyeth. The band has released one album and three EPs while being signed to RCA Records. They were initially called Amber but were forced to change their name to avoid a conflict with the German dance-pop singer of same name.[3] The band has played mostly in the UK and Ireland.

In July and August 2014 the band released videos for the single “I Found” and “Pilot”, respectively, that are a duology. Speaking to LeftLion Magazine in December 2014, they explained: “We were already discussing what to do with  “I Found”; it’s not a song that screams “single” but we wanted to release it in some form. Releasing it with “Pilot” just seemed to be a good method to bring attention to the whole EP, and doing something creative with the videos is a bit more interesting. Linking the videos gives you more scope… [to] expand the storyline past three and a half minutes.“

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Gossip, “Heavy Cross”

Gossip, “Heavy Cross”

Gossip was formed in 1999 in Olympia, Washington, with vocalist Beth Ditto, guitarist Nathan “Brace Paine” Howdeshell and drummer Kathy Mendonça.  All three were originally from Searcy, Arkansas; Mendonça moved to Olympia to attend Evergreen State College and Howdeshell and Ditto followed. Howdeshell and Mendonça had been in bands together in Arkansas. The band coalesced when the three members were roommates in Olympia.

Their style has been described as “a soul or gospel” voice with “a sort of funky punk soundtrack”. The band stated a liking for rock bands like Birthday Party, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nirvana and The Raincoats but also for other genres such as dance and hip hop.

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