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Julie Hanney – Forest Bath (Spotify)

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“Giving us a sense as stepping on the grass with bare feet, where the evening dew gives us cooling and tranquility. Julie Hanney invites us to take a look at the soundscape, a really wonderful one!”

“Я ступаю по траве босыми ногами, где вечерняя роса дает мне охлаждение и умиротворение. Julie Hanney предлагает нам взглянуть на звуковой пейзаж. И это действительно чудесно!”

-Nagamag.com

This song invites the listener to relax as if surrounded by oxygen-giving trees in a peaceful forest. In Japan they have a term for "forest bathing" - it's shinrin-yoku. They understand the importance of getting out of the city, being surrounded by nature and resetting one's nervous system.

Julie is a pianist, composer and teacher. Her music spans several genres from relaxing to contemporary classical to jazz to modern romantic. Writing music since she was a little girl, she received her formal music education at the University of Oregon where she graduated with a degree in music with special emphasis on piano and composition. She studied composition at the graduate level and is a published composer of works for piano, choir and various instrument combinations. She has arranged and composed music for the Jones Road String Quartet, the Bend Cello Collective, the Gospel Choir of the Cascades and various community, church and school choirs. Comfortable crossing many genres from classical to gospel and more, Julie loves to create unique soundscapes. Julie's music has been described as "peaceful yet intriguing."

One reviewer said, "If George Winston and Erik Satie had a musical baby, it would be Julie Hanney." This is a true compliment of Julie's ability to create and perform music that can both inspire and soothe.

http://www.juliehanneypiano.com

Matthew Avery Interview on Nagamag

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

Matthew Avery:
Classical, minimalism, ambient, melancholy.


Nagamag:
Few words about your musical background and career?

Matthew Avery:
I used to play guitar in several punk/hardcore bands from age 15-23 and then slowly began composing on piano over the next years. I find the sounds of the piano soothing and more conducive towards composing songs that inspire strong emotions. Guitar is still an amazing instrument that I enjoy playing, but the piano has taken over as my instrument of choice over the past few years.


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

Matthew Avery:
My first real love of music came when I heard AFI's album "Sing the Sorrow". The guitar tones, song structures, lyrics, melodies and production quality were all so perfect in capturing a sort of romantic feeling of sadness. I would say my biggest inspiration for composing instrumental music came later from listening to movie soundtracks done by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis as well as Clint Mansell. They were able to inspire so much emotion with minimalistic piano-based songs.


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

Matthew Avery:
Caravels "Hanging Off"


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

Matthew Avery:
Nil Ciuró "Inner"

Discover & Listen to Matthew Avery

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Matthew Avery's Website

Justus Rümenapp – Autumn Days (Video)

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“Can you hear this rustle of leaves falling on the piano keys? This will not stop the talented pianist -Justus Rümenapp- from continuing his performance in a day of falling leaves which he fills the silence with a sensual melody that soundtracks autumn.”

“Вы слышите этот шорох листвы опадающий на клавиши рояля? Это не сможет помешать талантливому пианисту Justus Rümenapp продолжать свой осенний день. И он наполняет чувственной мелодией осени тишину нашего дня.”

-Nagamag.com

Thomas Hewitt Jones – Rising Again (Spotify)

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“Thomas Hewitt Jones with Rising Again under Vivum Music imprint, showcases his unique cinematic skills on how to sound design emotions, how well manages harmonies and layer them brilliant, creating unique atmospheres which could sync perfect on romantic films. ”

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Artist shered with us few notes about the source of inspiration "I wanted to write a song about hope in difficult times, and triumph over adversity. This song's quiet poetry offers hope, consolation, and promise of good times to come. "

About The Artist
Thomas Hewitt Jones is an award-winning composer of contemporary classical and commercial music. Winner of the 2003 BBC Young Composer Competition, his music has been published by Boosey & Hawkes, Oxford University Press, Banks Music, the RSCM, Encore Publications, Universal Music, and is frequently heard on radio, TV and the cinema in the UK and abroad.

Thomas has written three ballets which toured the UK in 2008–2011 with Ballet Cymru, most notably a dance setting of Dylan Thomas’ masterpiece Under Milk Wood. His choral and instrumental music is frequently performed worldwide. He has also written numerous Christmas carols, including What Child is This? (OUP, 2012). Recent large-scale works include Wildflower Meadows, a song cycle commemorating the First World War, and the Christmas cantata Incarnation, released on Regent Records, both with words by regular collaborator Paul Williamson.

Commercial commissions have included work in America and scores for films in the UK, as well as music for the London 2012 Olympics Mascots animated films, with stories by Michael Morpurgo and narration by Stephen Fry. Thomas has also composed the music for a new musical version of Rumpelstiltskin which premiered at The Egg, Bath in December 2014. Recent performances include the premiere of a new set of songs charting the history of Bath with words by Paul Williamson (Bath Abbey, 2015), and the UK premiere of choral and orchestral work Panathenaia at the British Museum, commissioned by Hugo Ticciati.

Luca Bluefire – Forgotten Heroes (Spotify)

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“Luca Bluefire and Courtney Waldron deliver us an ambient neoclassical vocal theme with their latest signgle - Forgotten Heroes- under Long Gone Daya imprint. A dreamt emotive story which tickles your ear like a feather thanks to wonderful mix it offers. ”

-Nagamag.com

Humanity's expansion and development is created by those who dare, those who
have the courage to go one step further, and show what is possible to the others.
But what about those who do so and fail or - even worse - die?
Are they a part of humanity's progress? Will they be remembered in history,
and from those who will benefit from their courage and their actions?

"Forgotten Heroes" is inspired by the great number of applicants to the project
"Mars One", a one-way ticket to Mars with no possibility of coming back.
People willing to leave their planet of origin to explore wider spaces,
even if that means a certain death in the unknown.
https://www.instagram.com/lucabluefire

LYRICS:

And you have waited for the stars
All our hopes they where out there
And you walked among satellites
Looking for something you couldn’t find

Black Holes are Here
Empty Spaces and Lost Souls
Black Hole, I’m here
Coming closer, drowning into

I can see the earth that spins away
while I inhale my last breath
do all forgotten heroes
away from home, die alone?

And all of what’s out there
Is hidden in here
Black Hole, I’m here
Coming closer, diving into

Darklights – Lotus Bird (Spotify)

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“Lotus Bird from Darklights, taken for his album Landed which released under Miracle Grow imprint is a neoclassical piano minimal theme, an emotive story telling which unfolds together with dreamy ethereal cinematic voice and beautiful strings. ”

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A meditative, contemporary classical piece. Lotus Bird was inspired by playing piano whilst looking out the widow at a bird flying across the morning sky just as the sun was rising. I wanted to capture the beauty of that moment along with its healing transformative power.

Darklights is a Duo from London - a blend of easy listening, balladry, with jazzy influences and neo-classical/new age piano and instrumentals. Often working with strings.
https://www.instagram.com/jasonrosetheartist/

Mikael Oterhals – Waves (Video)

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“The End of The Beginning by Mikael Oterhals, is a well performed and right recorded solo piano, which unfolds its emotive story into more faster tempo style playing. Gently dynamics with a bit of nostalgia within. ”

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Waves is a piano piece written and performed by the Swedish pianist and composer Mikael Oterhals. It’s from his EP “The End of the Beginning” released on June 19th 2020 containing four piano pieces. Mikael Oterhals mostly write classical music, but with influence from other styles as well. You can hear the influence from Pop Music throughout the entire EP. The EP is about love, mostly the tough part of love, and therefore the music is often melancholy and heartbreaking but with a touch of hopefulness and a strive to better times!

https://www.instagram.com/moterhals/

Trevor Gerard – Osaka End (Mono No Aware) (Spotify)

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“Osaka End (Mono No Aware) by Trevor Gerard unfolds progressively a neoclassical romantic cinematic story. Initially capture the harmonies with keys and layering further with strings and guitars, generating a quiet and peacefully atmosphere like a morning breeze of a beautiful day. ”

-Nagamag.com

Trevor Gerard is a Singer/Songwriter from Perth, Western Australia. He has previously written, produced and performed music as a member of Perth Electronic Indie outfit Our Man in Berlin, with his creative input seeing the band receive 3 West Australian Music Award Nominations, airplay on Australian and International radio, and performing at the 2015 Music Matters Festival in Singapore. Trevor has also performed as a live session guitarist for Perth acts Bri Clark and The Peppermint Club.

2020 sees Trevor Gerard embark on a solo music project with 'Osaka End’' the second single off a debut EP planned for release later in the year.

Lux Aeterna by Frederik Magle – Maleen (soprano) & Edgar Asmaryan (duduk) (Video)

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“With visuals that syncs perfect with the atmosphere of this cinematic neoclassical song by FREDERIK MAGIE, LUX AETERNA delivered as a hymn for the beauty of nature and the life that lights gives to Earth. Dreamy vocals and abundant harmonies of keys and pas mixed with clarity, engage a deep relaxing atmosphere. ”

-Nagamag.com

Featuring Maleen (soprano) and Edgar Asmaryan (duduk), Lux Aeterna combines Maleen’s angelic voice with Asmaryan’s beautiful duduk, and the composer Frederik Magle himself on electric piano, synthesizers, and pipe organ, creating a classical but at the same time modern, otherworldly sound depicting the eternal light.

The text consists of three words: Speratum (hope) and Lux Aeterna (Eternal light)

Originally released on the album Anastasis-Messe, this is a brand new version of the piece, recorded and produced in September 2019 (The album track has been replaced with the new version on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, etc.)
https://www.instagram.com/frederikmagle/

Bartosz Szpak – Heim (Spotify)

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“Heim by Bartosz Szpak opens like the soundtrack of a great mystery movie, beautiful sound crafted to tell the story through a good flow and while the keys deliver a melancholic tone the strings develop a tension for what it comes. A fine piece of neoclassical cinematic music. ”

-Nagamag.com

Bartosz Szpak shared with us few works about his new music: The third in a series of singles teasing my new solo album. This time, the search for new sounds led me through felt-muted piano, dissonance strings and vibrating, modulated synthesizers. Brilliant multi-instrumentalist Marta Zalewska participated in the recording sessions on violin and viola da gamba parts. I try to look for interesting style combinations, juxtapose distant moods and create a narrative vibe by moving between electronics, film music and the raw tones of classical instruments.
https://www.instagram.com/bartosz_szpak/

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