Music Genre
A quiet sunday night of a long weekend, Gregory Paul Mineeff sits on his favorite felted piano, full of emotions and energy to express, filtering them out of his hands to the keys and transforming them into a deep nostalgic cinematic theme.
Nagamag:
What are the genres that describe better your music style?
Leena Hertz:
Neo-classics, new age, instrumental, spiritual, piano, cinematic
Nagamag:
Few words about your musical background and career?
Leena Hertz:
I am playing piano since the time I remember myself. My mom is a music teacher and my dad is a big music lover. So piano, guitars, vinyl, music players were normal things in our family. My study background is 16 years: 9 year of classical piano school, 6 years of jazz piano in Moscow College of Improvising Music and 1 year of film composer study in Moscow Film School. Before 2018 I worked mostly as a pianist. I worked at exhibitions and events in Russia and abroad, I played covers and my own music. And I noticed that the public's reaction to my music was very positive. People told me that while listening to my music they had been wrapped in memories, different images, they cried. In 2016 I initiated a movement Piano Maniacs with the idea to connect those who are crazy about piano. But in 2017 I decided to be a professional film composer. In 2018 I started to work as a film composer. Also I've been playing sacred music for Gurdjieff's sacred dances since 2009. In June 2019 I started to record my first studio album Az Esm. It was released on 30/06/2020.
Nagamag:
Do you remember your first connection of love to music that was the right impact to be a music artist now?
Leena Hertz:
From the beginning of my life I felt myself as a real musician. I always played piano, sang songs, composed music. I played with rattled glass bottles that they are participants of some orchestra. I always made different noises with different things and heard music in them. Now I think that profession of sound designer could be good for me.
Nagamag:
What does the name of your album mean?
Leena Hertz:
My album is called Az Esm. It means I Am. But my music is not about myself. It's about you. You will learn something more about yourself, maybe you will recall something forgotten or maybe you'll discover something new in yourself. You will watch your own movie.
Nagamag:
Where can we listen to your album?
Leena Hertz:
Here is the link to the album: https://sl.onerpm.com/1393422220
Nagamag:
Most artists have a favorite song from a different music genre than the one they are producing music for... Which is yours?
Leena Hertz:
Shpongle "Around The World In A Tea Daze"
Nagamag:
Of Course Nagamag would love to listen also which track from a similar artist you admire?
Leena Hertz:
Shpongle "Dorset Perception"
The dove by William Ogmundson written while he was looking at the wall between Palestine and Israel and watching birds flying over. Anothe quality performed and recorded piano capturing perfect the emotions of the mentioned scene.
About William Ogmundson:
William Ogmundson is an award-winning pianist, lyricist and composer. He has performed all over North America and Europe (including the Vatican) and released nine solo CDs to date. For more information, go to WilliamOgmundson.com
https://www.instagram.com/williamogmundson
Chec also our interview section in nagamag and learn more about William Ogmundson
An impressionistic piano solo inspired by water from an album that is an exploration of 'now': water, fire, climate change, survival, and the vanishing of souls into the wind. Well performed and recorded/mastered with clarity offering a fresh positive outlook making it perfect for start up your new day.
Few words about Fiona Joy Hawkins:
Fiona Joy (Hawkins) is an Australian Pianist, Composer and Singer. Known asThe Piano Angel in China, she is a member of the New Age Super-group FLOW (Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt, Jeff Oster, Will Ackerman) and performed with them at New York’s Carnegie (Weill Hall) as well as on Echoes/NPR Radio in 2017. Fiona had a song on a Grammy Winning album in 2014, won two categories in the Independent Music Awards held at the Lincoln Centre in NY in 2016, works with Australian piano maker Stuart and Sons and also records in Audiophile forms with Blue Coast Records (content Partners with Sony for hi-res audio).
“One of the brightest lights in contemporary instrumental music, Fiona Joy is poised to move into stardom.”
- Will Ackerman, Founder of Windham Hill Records
http://fionajoy.com/
This modern classical harp track enchants with a dreamlike flow. “Tableaux” are pictures in one’s mind that evoke a vision expressed through a musical concept. I’m inspired by Rachmaninoff’s Etudes of the same title and aimed to capture Romantic era elements with a contemporary approach.
KIRSTEN AGRESTA COPELY is a harpist, composer, and arranger. Known for her unusual command of genres like hip-hop in addition to classical music, her prolific career has taken her throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Israel, Japan, and the South Pacific; she has performed for heads of state, in blockbuster movie soundtracks, alongside Billboard 100 artists, on late night television, and with the most recognized symphony orchestras in the world. Composition marks Copely’s latest addition to her career: she released her first album as composer, Around the Sun, in January 2020. The album, a collection of new age/ambient works, is a collaboration with her husband Marc Copely, credited as producer, engineer, and mixer. Recently, One World Music UK praised her first single as “a rich weave of melodic brilliance...a single you could leave on repeat for hours.”....
Check also her interview at Nagamag:
http://nagamag.com/interviews/kirsten-agresta-copely-interview-on-nagamag-com/
Nagamag:
What are the genres that describe better your music style?
Catty.L:
New Age, Neoclassical, Ambient, World, Singer-songwriter
Nagamag:
Few words about your musical background and career?
Catty.L:
Since the age 3 I've been learning to play piano and accordion, music had become a part of my life when I was a kid. I used to sing a lot (well maybe I still do?), then started writing music on my own since I found it's way more interesting. In 2017 my first single "Tirta Empul" was released, after that I've been writing many works in the genres of New Age, Neo-classical, ambient and world music. This year 2020 I'm publishing new Single/EP/albums every month, I'm always excited to write something new !
Nagamag:
Do you remember your first connection of love to music that was the right impact to be a music artist now?
Catty.L:
I don't think there's a single one moment that made my wanna be a music artist... Like I said, music is a part of my life, some everything just happened very naturally. Real music can live for us after we died, and help us being remembered by the world, and that's one of the reason becoming a music artist.
Nagamag:
Most artists have a favorite song from a different music genre than the one they are producing music for... Which is yours?
Catty.L:
Alexandre Desplat "The Angel"
Nagamag:
Of Course Nagamag would love to listen also which track from a similar artist you admire?
Catty.L:
Olafur Arnalds "Near Light"
Upon Return by Dale Nichols is a peacefully, well performed, emotive piano. Soft key harmonies as feather, a layer of soft fields beneath and the tickling sound "crackling" recording of piano gives you the sense like listen next to performer and watch out of the window the rain hitting thirst earh.
Walk on Windsor embodies an instrumental, classical, and cinematic tone using only the piano. The song was crafted to re-create the feeling of what it feels like to go on a walk with someone you love. Walk on Windsor withholds fluttery scales to depict birds, swells in speed and dynamic to exhibit sweet conversation, and emotive pauses to explain the feeling of walking with those you love. David Snyder, the composer, lives on Windsor Road with his wife in their first home together, seeing this song as an ode to their first memories in their first home.
All of David's songs venture to tell a story and musically embody an experience, a feeling, a moment, or a thing.
https://davidsnyder.com/
This is the tenth Electric Nocturne for solo piano.
Electric Nocturne No. 10 is a gentle, sleepy, well performed emotive piano.
There will eventually be 100 under the Electric Nocyturne theme playlist.
For more info on them and how they are related to each other, stay updated here:
https://www.garrydwjudd.com/electric-nocturnes
Garry Judd is a contemporary classical composer whose music is driven by such diverse influences as the English Experimentalists, Erik Satie and Percy Grainger. His music has been played on BBC Radio 3, ClassicFM, and other broadcasters in the USA, Germany and France, by such performers as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leslie Howard and Courtney Pine.
An impressionist improvisation captured in the studio of William Ogmundson, one of our most beloved Neoclassical producers which knows how to explore the harmonic world of piano keys. Check out also our interview with him in our magazine.
William Ogmundson is an award-winning pianist, lyricist and composer. He has performed all over North America and Europe (including the Vatican) and released nine solo CDs to date. For more information, go to WilliamOgmundson.com