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“Dan Schrage releases his "Last Goodbye" in a new version; an ideal piece for all the lovers of Classical sound. 100% emotional and (as the title reveals) melancholic touch from the fingers of a talented pianist.”
-Nagamag.com
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“Feel the true pleasure of orchestral music and imagine how your heart is broken into puzzle-like pieces. While collecting these pieces, you squeeze them in your warm hands. Even in absolute silence, this music will fill your loneliness with warm sensations.”
“Почувствуйте истинное наслаждение оркестровой музыкой и представьте, как ваше сердце разбивается на кусочки пазлов, собирая которые сжимаешь каждый из них в своих тёплых руках. Даже в абсолютной тишине, когда вы не слышите своего дыхания, эта музыка наполнит ваше одиночество тёплыми ощущениями. ”
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“Bright classical piece, with warm chords of violin and vocal effects. Thomas Hewitt Jones proves his composing abilities once again, by offering something "Way Forward" from the usual sound. Enjoy this gem in high volume!”
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From the latest album "Cinematic Advertising".
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“A composition that tells a story of love and rejection. A lonely cello and a bright, expressive piano melody create a strong resonance in the soul. Everything sounds very solid and thoughtful. Emotions flow like a river, charge and push the consciousness towards changes and revolution.”
“Композиция, которая рассказывает историю любви и отвержения. Одинокая виолончель и яркая, выразительная мелодия фортепиано создают сильный резонанс в душе. Всё звучит очень цельно и продуманно. Эмоции льются рекой, заряжают и подталкивают сознание к изменениям и перевороту сознания. ”
-Nagamag.com
Jordi Forniés was able to interpret with the amazing Štěpán Švestka at the cello. The King is a composition that tells a story of being loved and rejected, a path to follow dreams and achieve them.
https://jordifornies.bandcamp.com/releases
Jordi Forniés is a Spanish musician, composer, and visual artist based in Singapore. His works are characterised by a continuum between tender overarching refrains and defined sequences with increasing momentum.
Always contemplative and expansive in nature, his compositions draw on neoclassical and ambient electronic music. Forniés composes for piano, strings, and small ensembles, working with studio recordings alongside electronic elements.
His first album Loudly Quiet will be released in 2021 together with his forthcoming solo exhibition under the same name. The album is a hopeful and poignant collection of compositions for piano and strings which each focus around an individual story or transient moment.
He has often worked in collaboration with others including Bouvaque with photographer and filmmaker Han Sungpil for which Forniés’ created a piano and string quartet score. He has composed for films including Caroline Fink’s epic documentary about the receding of the largest glacier in Switzerland, Aletsch: Of Ice and Men, 2016, and made music for documentaries and video installations with Gitta Gsell. He also worked on Yan Wang Preston’s major project Mother River, which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015.
A classically trained pianist since childhood, educated at Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Vila-seca in Spain, Forniés returned to music study in 2017 gaining an MFA in Music Composition and Orchestration at Chichester University in the UK. He is a member of the Composers Society of Singapore.
To check Jordi’s visual work please visit www.jordifornies.net
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“Taken from Josephine's forthcoming album, this single has some Cinematic touch. A slightly melancholic story of love unfolds from the lyrics and the delicate singer's voice matches perfectly with the chilling background patterns.”
-Nagamag.com
The Clue is a contemporary love song. It revolves around impossible love and the acceptance of it.
The track is also an homage to Nina Simone’s version of Billie Holiday’s song Don’t Explain.
Don’t Explain was written by Holliday in response to one of her husband’s affairs. When he tried to explain away why lipstick was on his collar, Simone responded disgustingly “Take a bath, man; don’t explain”.”
Philip’s The Clue is an inspirational tribute to the great women, their sound, storytelling and courage, that took to the microphone and stage before her - a driven, vulnerable, poetic and empowering track.
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“Piano and cello version of piece full of emotions. Real quintessence of melodicity, stunning atmosphere and attractiveness. All such beauty usually cannot be fully transmitted. After all, it's a challenge to get the real mental massage.”
“Пение и танец пиано и виолончели. Игра чувств и эмоций. Настоящая квинтэссенция мелодичности, потрясающей атмосферы и притягательности. Всю красоту невозможно передать в полной мере. Это возможно лишь только прочувствовать. Настоящий душевный массаж.”
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The song Mon Petit Frère is a neoclassical or modern classical piece composed by Yo Ma Ma. Yo Ma Ma plays the piano and the incredible famous cello player The Wong Janice took care of the cello lines.
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“If you are sitting, then hold tightly, since you will immediately feel a strong vibration all over your body. The vocals of -Chiara Dubey- will penetrate into your mind as fast as you can withstand the energy flow. Cinematic sound with pure magic, causing a feeling of excitement!”
“Если вы сидите, то держитесь крепче, так как сразу же почувствуете приятное онемение по всему телу. Вокал -Chiara Dubey- проникнет в вас настолько глубоко, насколько вы сможете выдержать его энергетический поток. Кинематографический звук, всепоглощающее чувство возбуждения, магия как она есть!”
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Artist shared few words with Nagamag behind her song inspiration:
"Stranger is a moment of reflection on the strange experience we all went trough recently. The lockdown.
The lockdown was like a surreal dream. A blanket of solitude and quietness that just felll on us. Rythms changed, patterns changed. We changed. And yet, in this silent storm I found something good: I found this person in my empty home that I had lost a little along the way.
Myself. I was a stranger to myself.
But suddenly there was enough time and space to look inwards and it felt good. It felt like meeting an old friend after a long time.
Writing this piece, this intimate conversation with my very own soul, was liberating.
Maybe it will feel the same for those who listen as well.”
https://www.chiaradubey.com/
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“-Luis Paul- in an amazing and sincere way, has reflected on his sound canvas the night streets of our favourite cities. This music can reach your soul, set free your imagination, fantasy and memories from twilight sleep. That's all you wish? Then welcome to the city night.”
“Поразительно, как бережно и искренне -Luis Paul- отразил на звуковом полотне ночные улицы наших любимых городов. Это музыка из самых недр души, освобождающая воображение, фантазию и наши воспоминания от сумеречного сна. Это всё, чего вы желаете? Тогда добро пожаловать в Городскую Ночь.”
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Artist few words with Nagamag behind the source of his inspiration for this song:
"I wrote this song after I had gone for a walk during a rainy night in Berlin. In my neighborhood there wasn't much going on anymore except for a few people in a bar waiting for the rain to end while having a drink. I thought it’s just incredible how many different life stories and experiences take place in a single city. Music can completely change your perspective on what you perceive in that moment. This song is a little film music of life with which I tried to capture the feelings of that night."
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“Dedicated to the famous painter, “Van Gogh” mainly consists of melancholic piano melodies. On the other hand it creates a mysterious feeling of hope, coming from a peaceful, calm sound environment. Another relaxing Neoclassical flower.”
-Nagamag.com
The piece is a tribute to the tormented personality of the great Dutch artist, as brilliant as he was misunderstood in life.
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“Simple and influensive Cinematic beauty, based on acoustic chords and some quite artistic singing. "Final Breath" has the power to stimulate the mind and affect our mood. The cooperative work which you cannot easily skip!”
-Nagamag.com
“Final Breath” hails from The Duel, a striking instrumental album memorializing the two hundredth anniversary of New Brunswick (Canada)’s last fatal duel.
https://www.zacharygreer.com/
“On the surface, ‘Final Breath’ is about George Wetmore and George Street’s emotional journey leading up to the events of the last fatal duel in New Brunswick,” said Zachary Greer (he/him) on the eve of the October 2 anniversary. “However, the themes of their characters are so current. The experience of carrying guilt and regret, and the potential to succumb to ‘darkness’ when under extreme emotional pressure are timeless tropes of the human condition. I also found that the immense significance put on reputation, which was the main reason Wetmore challenged Street, resonated so well with our current society and its relationship with social media.”
https://zacharygreer.bandcamp.com/
Recorded at Fredericton’s The Recordery with Brad Perry and Evan Hansen, the LP features contributions from Fredericton string duo Pallmer and violinist Ali Johnson.
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“Pallmer has an intimate and raw sound, which is exactly what I wanted for this story,” said Greer. “I wanted raw and gritty textures, but there’s also beauty, representing the complicated lives of these characters. Some of the tracks were basically written in the studio, and then I structured them around the improvised takes we did. I envisioned this single in the story as a local group in 1821s New Maryland, playing this song in a little tavern just after the duel occured.”
Inspired by how Beethoven would write incidental music like the “Egmont Overture” or the “Coriolan Overture,” which were both based on plays, Greer’s album unfolds chronologically with the events of the duel, as outlined in a companion digital booklet.
“This story that took place just outside of Fredericton is so surreal, and people don’t realize what kind of history we have here in New Brunswick,” Greer said. “To make a film or television production of it would require a crazy budget and resources, so I felt this was a great opportunity to bring it to life with an instrumental album.”