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Gelka – Wishful Thinking (Spotify)

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Gelka – Wishful Thinking
(Spotify)

“From the very first track, the author fascinates his listeners with a piano that caresses the ear, as if with the breath of nature enticingly dispose you and me to its vast expanses. For a moment, the heart stops, the pulse slows down ... and we plunge into impenetrable bliss ...”

“С самого первого трека автор завораживает своих слушателей ласкающим слух пиано, словно дыханием природы вкрадчиво располагает нас с вами к своим необъятным просторам. На мгновение сердце замирает, пульс замедляется... и мы погружаемся в непроглядную негу...”

-Nagamag.com

Gelka has been on such labels as Om Records, Ministry of Sound, Stereo Deluxe, Wax On Records or Warp, also Café del Mar artist since 2003, with more than 20 CDM compilation releases under the belt, compiling and mixing 3 Café del Mar albums. Gelka is famous for delivering floating musical journeys, originally extending their musical scope, his mashups and re-edits are amongst the top listened to mixtapes on Mixcloud with more than 62K followers. Gelka has over 20 million streams on Spotify, Apple Music, and Youtube. The new milestone is Wishful Thinking, the first solo album of Csaba (as Gelka) following “Stardust Memories” from 2016 and his recent collaboration with Sam Brookes, with “Open” hitting millions of plays on Spotify. The new LP contains 13 new songs with a whole refreshed sounding based on more piano than the guitars from the past. Wishful Thinking is more electronic, digging more profound than ever.

Selsom – Eiter (Spotify)

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Selsom – Eiter
(Spotify)

“Imagine flying into a new untouched land as a free bird, seeing the beauty of pure nature, the clean cool air tickling your skin, your eyes hypnotized into this majestic view. Selsom with Eiter through his wonderful harmonies manage to provide us a daydreaming of hope.”

-Nagamag.com

Eiter, meaning "small hail stones" in Norwegian, is part of a one-track-a-month ode to snow concept. It is an electronic neo-classical single with a piano solo B-side. The A-side is lead by an intimate pacy piano rhythm, covered by ambient strings, arpeggiator synths and vocal chops reminiscent of Ólafur Arnalds.

https://www.selsommusic.com/

Selsom is the composer alias of songwriter and producer Stian Vedøy. Hailing from a windswept west coast island in Norway, with not much else to do other than playing music, Vedøy started having piano lessons as a 6 year old. Having given most of his adult years too his indie folk pop project, Firewoodisland, he has now decided that it is time create an outlet for his piano lead compositions. With hints of misty and organic sounding synths and other sonic nuances, Selsom takes you to an atmospheric and cinematic state of deep focus.

https://www.instagram.com/selsommusic

Andreas Kübler – The Stories We Forgot (Spotify)

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Andreas Kübler – The Stories We Forgot
(Spotify)

“Even if the title is about - The Stories We Forgot- , Andreas Kübler with this beautiful cinematic neoclassical performance creates an atmospheric environment which brings the nostalgia of old memories happiness. Memories you may have forgot, but never fade deep in your soul. Like a flashback to your best moments since you felt your whole being, as human person in this world. ”

-Nagamag.com

The Stories We Forgot is a very calm instrumental soft piano track including live recorded instruments like an oboe, cello, violin and trumpet. It's from the same named 5-track EP. The EP is about getting to know a new person in your life, who you take into your heart, but who at some point separates from you. After saying goodbye, you still have the beautiful stories in your mind that give you comfort. I'm very thankful for every support on this release!

http://andreaskubler.com/

Andreas Kübler’s life is all about music. He went on stage to tour Europe as singer and bass guitar player right after school, played lots of music and left the stage again to compose even more. His style could be described as epic music, but plainly emotional would cover it better. A contemporary, modern orchestral sound is the basis of his compositions, but that’s all that makes them comparable.

Andreas is one of the founders and the lead composer of the popular music studio IMAscore and responsible for the music of some of the most successful movie marketing campaigns of all time. This includes Disney’s The Lion King, Aladdin, How To Train Your Dragon, Jurassic World, Avengers and the Star Wars saga. On top of that the music he wrote for the Captain Marvel promotional campaign won the prestigious Clio Gold Award in 2019.

Andreas Küblers public music is the musical portrayal of his artist self. No limitations, no briefings, no boundaries.

https://www.instagram.com/andreas.kuebler/

MDJ Matthias De Jaeger – Fading Soul (Spotify)

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MDJ Matthias De Jaeger – Fading Soul
(Spotify)

“If you are too sensitive with melancholic music, not step in as this goes deep. If you are from those that melancholic music works in a cathartic way for their soul, their mood, cleaning the whole inside, then step in and let yourself flow. Fading Soul by MDJ Matthias De Jaeger is very emotional solo piano track which performed with clearly passion, erupting to strong harmonies which work as razor in your heart. Beautiful! ”

-Nagamag.com

This track is an easy listening moving and peaceful piano song expressing feelings like tenderness, regret and melancholi

Paul Cousins – An Abstract Place (Video)

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Paul Cousins – An Abstract Place
(Video)

“Receiving an ocean of music variety, and in beatless ambient styles like what Paul Cousins offers here sometimes is hard to define what worked more or less to catch your attention. Usually is the blend of harmonies, the story line which blended in a brilliant way together with a secret recipe from the artist. Same as many can follow the guidelines of a cooking recipe, yet few will reach the right taste. Here we feel that mesmerizing taste. A story line which through way and at end, left us with clean thoughts, total relaxed and a warm feeling about life. This is what a good ambient story can manage! ”

-Nagamag.com

An Abstract Place’ is inspired by the spaces we’re taken to during immersive listening. The track was produced with analog synthesizers, half speed 1/4″ tape effects and digital samples. It’s designed for reflective moments, walking alone or soundtracking a journey.

The accompanying video by director Edward Harber is an atmospheric study of the eroding coastline at Happisburgh, Norfolk. The historic area has undergone a process of coastal erosion in recent years, leaving a familiar place hard to recognise for residents. As more homes surrender to the sea, the sense of abandonment through elemental change weighs upon the landscape. The film takes this displacement further, by contorting the environment into something wholly unfamiliar. Sand flats merge with water intertwined in rock and tide motions are reversed. As the track unfolds the fragility of the landscape becomes fluid, echoing the ocean’s relentless pull upon the cliffs.

The track’s artwork is a collaboration with digital artist Signalstarr, and inspired by Russian abstract minimalist Kazimir Malevich.

https://www.paulcousinsmusic.com/

Paul Cousins is a producer & composer based in London. Recently featured in FACT magazine’s ‘Patch Notes’ series, he creates ambient soundscapes using analog synthesizers, samples & field recordings. In addition to producing for a diverse range of artists such as Muck Spreader, August Child & Night Games, his other studio credits include Luke Evans, FOURS and Makeup & Vanity Set.

https://www.instagram.com/paulcousinsmusic/

Rebecca Jean Rossi – Waltz for New York (Spotify)

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Rebecca Jean Rossi – Waltz for New York
(Spotify)

“Rebecca Jean Rossi soundtracks into her Waltz for New York and through a gently performed neoclassical style, the most beautiful piano notes, of light, positive emotions. ”

-Nagamag.com

Watching New York lose so much of what has made it vibrant during this pandemic has been extraordinarily difficult: the people, the places, the bustling city life that seemingly vanished overnight. While I was writing this piece, I was living alone during the lockdown and really missing my family and my partner. I was mulling over what type of music sounded like New York City, and one night I came up with this Waltz. I hope you enjoy it and that you are all doing ok during this extremely difficult time. -Rebecca

Rebecca Jean Rossi (a.k.a Krystalmath) is an NYC based music producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer.

While studying classical piano performance at the Eastman School of Music, she discovered her passion for electronic music and composition and began focusing on music production.

Between 2007-2012 she worked on crafting her individual sound as a producer. During this time she wrote and sang for an indie rock band that toured the US and most of Europe, and also produced a single in collaboration with the late but great Prodigy of Mobb Deep.

Finally in 2015, she wrote, produced, and released her first album under the name Krystalmath- with her first single “Same Mistake” hitting Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist and then the Global Viral 50, peaking in 15th place and receiving over 200,000 plays within a couple of weeks.

The entire Krystalmath catalog was picked up in 2016 to be featured on In-Store playlists by stores like Forever 21, Gap, etc. by PlayNetwork, Inc.

Always interested in a wide variety of musical genres, she is currently collaborating on a pop EP with Italian producer Jason Rooney in Milan, Italy, and will also be releasing an EP of instrumental piano compositions in 2020.

John Bickerton – Quiet Journey (Spotify)

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John Bickerton – Quiet Journey
(Spotify)

“Quiet Journey, the #4 story of -Heartland- album of John Bickerton, is a cinematic solo piano story, giving you a soft easy listening pleasure and a hidden nostalgic tension, like a character of a movie which moves away from his problems to a new life and flashback the past and what he had pass through. ”

-Nagamag.com

Quiet Journey is a soft, meditative solo piano piece. It has a light, mysterious, quality evoking an introspective, dreamy state of mind.
https://johnbickerton.hearnow.com/heartland
https://instagram.com/johndbickerton

Marcus Moon – The Moon Represents My Heart (Official Video w/ Lyrics) (Video)

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Marcus Moon – The Moon Represents My Heart (Official Video w/ Lyrics)
(Video)

“-Marcus Moon- through a divine, unearthly vocal performance and a lush of gently harmonies , with his new song -The Moon Represents My Heart- deliver us cinematic emotions of a beautiful world that reflects inside us.
”

-Nagamag.com

The Moon Represents My Heart

An accessible, modern day aria set to the most beautiful words and images. Try to get through the poetic lyrics and haunting music (not to mention the angelic voice of opera singer Ania Hejnar) without having a few of your heart strings pulled. A box of tissues may come in handy for when your eyes get misty.

Just like the Moon inspires us to dream, and guides us through the dark night, so does your heart guide you when you need it the most, if you choose to listen to it.

Marcus Moon composes in the style and instrumentation of classical music, but with an unmistakable influence of modern day life. Deeply inspired by the singer/songwriters that he grew up listening to, there is always a story at the center of his work. Although his music is mostly without words, he paints the most vivid and heartfelt imagery using simple harmonies and very direct melodies, played on classical instruments, such as piano and cello.

His highly anticipated debut album is scheduled for release in December, 2020.

Energise | Julia Thomsen (Video)

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Energise | Julia Thomsen
(Video)

“Julia Thomsen with a nimble, infinitely melodic flow, a gently performance and a sound clarity in the recording, with her music -Energise- recharge our emotional batteries in a way to achieve more, daydream and see the bright side of life. ”

-Nagamag.com

Sea Energise a beautiful blend of emotive minimalist piano mixed in with rich magical strings, which takes the listener on a blissful cinematic journey pointing towards the healing power of the sea and miracles of Nature. Special guest on the track is German Composer Orchestrator and Arranger Robin Hoffmann.

Julia says ‘Forces of Nature and the power of music – May the force be with you.

Through these difficult times I have been more inspired than ever to compose never ending music tracks and I hope that my music will help people to relax, reflect and refocus.

https://youtu.be/lf7NXnuAwV4

Julia Thomsen is a neo-classical composer who takes inspiration from nature and everything around her. Julia’s music has been used in art exhibitions, documentaries and films, most notably ‘Looking Out For George’ (2002) which was shortlisted for the Jury’s Prize at the Raindance Film Festival 2003 . In February 2020 Julia was signed up by international Sync agency, Deli Music.

‘Sea Energise’ EP follows the release of her previous single ‘Snowscape Remastered’, remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Grammy Award Winning engineer Andy Walter (Harry Potter).

Julia’s new EP, is a beautiful blend of emotive minimalist piano tracks mixed in with rich magical strings, which yet again takes the listener on a blissful cinematic journey pointing towards the power and miracles of Nature. Special guests on the record are Dani Howard who orchestrated ‘Evoque’, ‘Nature Interlude’ and ‘Starlight’; and German Composer Orchestrator and Arranger Robin Hoffmann who orchestrated and arranged ‘Sea Energise’, ‘Beauty Inside and Out’ and ‘Blended’. All tracks were mixed and mastered by Nick Harding.

Julia says on the EP: “Forces of Nature and the power of music – May the force be with you. Through these difficult times I have been more inspired than ever to compose never ending music tracks and I hope that my music will help people to relax reflect and re focus.”

“Julia’s wonderful score beautifully encapsulated the empathy and drama within our story.”

Chris Dodds Director on ‘ Looking Out For George’ (Raindance Film Festival Nominee 2002)

“ Her music is very distant, evocative and leads the listener to still waters, one of the hardest things music should do. Julia does with ease in her amazing style, creating an atmosphere that one would want to listen to forever. “

William Camilleri, Composer and Cannes Film Festival Judge

Joel Humlén – Glue (Spotify)

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Joel Humlén – Glue
(Spotify)

“Joel Humlén with his new single Glue under Neon Animals which initially gave us a twin peaks atmosphere but in a more positive mood. Gently performed and fine recorded, a set of harmonies who build up for develop a soft atmosphere to breath, think, calm or sleep. ”

-Nagamag.com

This is the first single after debut album 'Lanes' from writer, producer and award-winning film composer Joel Humlén.

This neo-classical piano piece is all about simplicity and calmness, a couple of minutes to pause the outside world.