Music Genre
Sigesmundsen – Distance (Spotify)
Sigesmundsen – Distance (Spotify)
Sigesmundsen returns with a new ambient chill, a stress assasin, release that will help you focus and relax.
Adenine – Flindrikin (Spotify)
Adenine – Flindrikin (Spotify)
Ambient harp, synths and field recordings from Scotland, a track that as develops unleashes its mystery through its clever sound design textures and harmonies without missing melancholic drops within.
Willebrant – A Knight on a Boat (Spotify)
Willebrant – A Knight on a Boat (Spotify)
"A Knight on a Boat" is a concept exploring the idea of a psychological journey to an uncertain destination and the persona that emerges at the other side of the whole experience.
Kaleidoscope of Colours Interview on Nagamag.com
Kaleidoscope of Colours
Interview
Nagamag:
What are the genres that describe better your music style?
Kaleidoscope of Colours:
classical crossover, percussive piano, contemporary piano, post minimal, ambient
Nagamag:
Few words about your musical background and career?
Kaleidoscope of Colours:
I`m a synesthete, which means, when I listen to music or play my piano I immediately perceive colours, that are evoked in my brain. A lot artists have it - Pharrell Williams, Lady Gaga. But because I had difficulties with traditional note reading, I startet my own way to compose - entirely on base of colors. I have always been able to memorize tones and sounds from a very early age, but it was many years later that I really understood that I associate music with colours and that the colors are the reason for my good orientation. Today synesthesia affects my work as a musician in any way. I’m able to approach music from a very new perspective by writing songs neither on a note level nor entirely based on improvisation, but on base of the colours that are triggered in my brain while listening to sounds. Each of my songs get the name of the scale and aura they have been perceived on. People ask me, how I see music, but I hardly find words for the colors and even shapes. But scientist can measure activity in a synesthetes brain, its not just an illusion ;)
Nagamag:
Do you remember your first connection of love to music that was the right impact to be a music artist now?
Kaleidoscope of Colours:
I grew up in Eastern Germany. When I was about 8 years old, I discovered my parents' guitar, and when I was 14, I got a keyboard as a present, with which I started playing my favorite songs from the radio by ear. I am entirely self-taught. I felt happy, when I could dive into my very own little world of imitating my musicals idols, trying to catch famous film melodies and secretly play them by ear on an old grand piano in my school. Until today, creating, writing music is something where I can pursue and live a lot of my personality traits, being curious and observing, to listen and speak out at the same time, to feel and connect. I always had difficulties with expressing myself when I was younger. Music helps me to calm down and express.
Nagamag:
Do you have any new music coming out?
Kaleidoscope of Colours:
My EP The Birth of Coulours just released on May, 8th 2020. Its a selection of piano based pieces that represent the second cycle of pieces and have been written and perceived on my personal colour scales.
Nagamag:
Most artists have a favorite song from a different music genre than the one they are producing music for... Which is yours?
Kaleidoscope of Colours:
Mogli "Alaska"
Nagamag:
Of Course Nagamag would love to listen also which track from a similar artist you admire?
Kaleidoscope of Colours:
Yann Tiersen "Tempelhof"
Lauge – Pine Trees Covered in Fog (Spotify)
Lauge – Pine Trees Covered in Fog (Spotify)
Taken from compilation "Echoes in the Valley, Vol. 1". A collaboration between Australian label Valley View Records and Hong Kong-based Echoes Blue Music, Echoes in the Valley specialises in nature-themed ambient music. Vol. 1 is our first compilation album and features sounds from the depths of the forest.
I Am Waiting for You Last Summer – Foundation (Spotify)
I Am Waiting for You Last Summer – Foundation (Spotify)
This track is a a part of EP "Turn off the lights for the next 20 minutes"
Turn off the lights for the next 20 minutes is a kind of mechanism with a manual attached to it. Its main function is to start the listener's journey through the gates of their consciousness in search of figural, figurative and abstract artifacts. It can be fragmentary memories, moments of insight, random visual images, short bursts of sensations and feelings caused by long-forgotten events emerging from the depths of memory, places, smells, and social contacts. A short briefing tells three things: to achieve the maximum effect, the album should be listened to alone, with the lights off, with a couple of minutes in silence on top of it (this is important).
Shunkan Idou – Outworld Breeze (Bandcamp)
Shunkan Idou – Outworld Breeze (Bandcamp)
Outworld Breeze is the new cosmic spacey ep of Shunkan Idou who return more active and creative than ever, inviting listener from first seconds in their intelligent sound design and ear tickling atmospheres. Harmonic lush and emotional space abyss bundles balanced their minimal downtempo electronic story.
Aroshanti – Sweet Dreams (Spotify)
Aroshanti – Sweet Dreams (Spotify)
The soothing sound of the Indian Bansuri flute takes you on a journey through a peaceful soundscape. From a gentle place of rest you enter a mystical world of dreams and their possibilities. Asian sounding strings lead you into a sweet state of sleep where you start your night of deep relaxation and nurturing dreams.
Adenine – Smirr (Spotify)
Adenine – Smirr (Spotify)
Smirr - A Scots word to describe a fine, drifting rain or drizzle
Written for Harp, Synths and Field Recordings from Scotland, Smirr is a reflection of the landscape of the Cairngorm Mountains.
The Rashomon Effect Interview on Nagamag.com
The Rashomon Effect
Interview
Nagamag:
What are the genres that describe better your music style?
The Rashomon Effect:
Ambient electronic music with acoustic instruments
Nagamag:
Few words about your musical background and career?
The Rashomon Effect:
I bought my first guitar when I was twelve years old and since then have played in metal, soul, folk and post-punk bands in Seattle, Los Angeles, Budapest and New York City. I’ve learned from many great teachers along the way. Around five years ago I started to make electronic music, which was a perfect fit since I love composition and sound design.
Nagamag:
Do you remember your first connection of love to music that was the right impact to be a music artist now?
The Rashomon Effect:
When I was around six, my mother gave me a set of tapes that told the life stories of great composers – Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. I listened to them every night in my bed when I was supposed to be sleeping. That early love of music has never stopped evolving through styles and genres over the years. There is always more to know and more to discover. I’ve always loved meeting and playing with musicians from other countries and cultures, and the way music can circumvent the intellect and touch the heart. Music has always been deeply healing for me and in these times I am finding that aspect more important than ever.
Nagamag:
Most artists have a favorite song from a different music genre than the one they are producing music for... Which is yours?
The Rashomon Effect:
Charles Mingus "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"
Nagamag:
Of Course Nagamag would love to listen also which track from a similar artist you admire?
The Rashomon Effect:
Floating Points "Silhouettes (I,II,III)"