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Kevin Kerrigan Interview on Nagamag.com

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Kevin Kerrigan
Interview


Nagamag:
What are the genres that describe better your music style?

Kevin Kerrigan:
It's a cross between film soundtrack, ambient and classical music. I aim to create little worlds of music and sound to escape into..


Nagamag:
Few words about your musical background and career?

Kevin Kerrigan:
I grew up working with artists such as Brian Eno, Bjork, and film composer James Newton Howard. These guys gave me confidence in my own work, and also helped influence my creative approach to music (as well as probably my sound). These days I mostly compose music soundtracks for film, but I also release instrumental music soundtracks as an Artist.


Nagamag:
Do you remember your first connection of love to music that was the right impact to be a music artist now?

Kevin Kerrigan:
I started making music by accident. My school had a fire, and the next day they had to throw away all the instruments. I asked if I could have an old electric piano which was in the dumpster. It was melted and looked like a Dali painting. But I repaired it and started writing little piano pieces on it. 25 years later I'm still essentially doing the same thing.


Nagamag:
Do you make any other styles of music?

Kevin Kerrigan:
Myself and Sophie Barker (of Zero 7) make music for children, called "The Rainbow Collections". We've been signed to Sony for about 15 years now and it's quite popular with young kids. It's fun to do.


Nagamag:
Most artists have a favorite song from a different music genre than the one they are producing music for... Which is yours?

Kevin Kerrigan:
Asa-Chang & Junray "Hana"


Nagamag:
Of Course Nagamag would love to listen also which track from a similar artist you admire?

Kevin Kerrigan:
Jessica Curry "Finding the Pattern"

Discover & Listen to Kevin Kerrigan

Kevin Kerrigan on Spotify

Kevin Kerrigan's Signature Track


Kevin Kerrigan on Social Media

Kevin Kerrigan's Website

Unwed Sailor – Haze (Spotify)

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Unwed Sailor – Haze
(Spotify)

Following the release of the driving singles "Camino Reel" and Look Alive", today Unwed Sailor share a different kind of look from the new album via the new single "Haze". The 9-minute long album closer is an introspective ambient journey featuring layered guitars, percussion, subtle electronics, and heady synths, calling to mind the band's work on 2003' The Marionette and the Music Box LP.

The group enters its third decade of creating lush, evocative instrumental music, with the honesty of Johnathon Ford -- a onetime member of Pedro the Lion and Roadside Monument — anchoring the way. The upcoming album's seven songs are about emerging from hardship, not unscathed, but rather, with newfound conviction in who you are.

Discover more about the artist: www.unwedsailor.net

Kaleidoscope of Colours Interview on Nagamag.com

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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"

Discover & Listen to Kaleidoscope of Colours

Kaleidoscope of Colours on Spotify

Kaleidoscope of Colours' Signature Track

Kaleidoscope of Colours on Social Media

Kaleidoscope of Colours' Website

Lauge – Pine Trees Covered in Fog (Spotify)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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.

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