Ólafur Arnalds’ Love and Regret with the Piano
You may find it surprising that longtime composer Ólafur Arnalds himself has limitations when it comes to the piano. As Arnalds explains during the Montreux Jazz Festival, you won’t be hearing him play...
View ArticleA Winged Victory for The Sullen’s Long Awaited Full Album Set To Drop October
After releasing one of the year’s best tracks in contemporary/post classical, A Winged Victory for The Sullen, announced the release of their new upcoming album ATOMOS due this October on Erased Tapes...
View ArticleNordic duo Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen of Kiasmos Want to Watch the...
The tag team of composer Olafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen of Faroe Islands band Bloodgroup, otherwise known as Kiasmos have unveiled the first single “Burnt” off their long-awaited self-titled debut...
View ArticleWas This America’s Last Hope to Revive Opera?
Reality-variety show America’s Got Talent is far from a breeding ground for budding opera stars, but Queens based operatic duo ACTE II probably pulled the best shot for an Opera-ized act to have a...
View ArticleAndrea Bocelli Does the Ice Bucket Challenge then Fucks Dog Up
Singer Andrea Bocelli took part in the ALS challenge, giving a splendid performance before splashing himself…and an unsuspecting golden retriever with ice water. Real Smooth. The dog demands an actual...
View ArticleCosplay Fashion That’s Both Stunning and Tasteful at NY Comic Con 2014
(by Genevieve Yraola) At this year’s NYCC 2014, female attendees more than ever will be in its strongest numbers. Without question, female cosplayers have been treading a fine line between risque and...
View ArticleKiasmos Tingles the Music Bone We’ve Been Searching For
One word sums up the self-titled offspring between contemporary composer Olafur Arnalds’ collaboration with Bloodgroup’s Janus Rasmussen: surreal. What seems to be more of side project for the budding...
View ArticleNew Video From Nils Frahm Is Enticingly Chaos Inducing
Ever wonder how much work goes into setting up neo-composer Nils Frahm’s elaborate stage load-in? His new video for “Hammers” off his incredible Spaces live-LP will show you just how insane it can get....
View ArticleAnna Thorvaldsottir’s Aerial Is Light On Texture, Heavy in Complexity
To say that Icelandic Anna Thorvaldsottir’s major label debut Aerial is as wispy and light-hearted as its titles suggests couldn’t be anything further from the truth. Right from the very start of...
View ArticleReview of Nils Frahm US SPACES Tour (NYC)
Multi-instrumentalist…or more like experimentalist Nils Frahm made a third return to NYC in support of his stellar SPACES record on Erased Tapes Records. Following an added appearance at Glasslands...
View ArticleThe Best Score No One Has Heard About – Daniel Hart’s Comet
Every so often there comes a movie score that’s so good, it warrants a viewing of the film it supports itself. In fact it makes the movie even better. Such is the case with ambient, surreally...
View ArticleCatching Them All Never Sounded Better With Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions
Currently on it’s European leg of the tour, Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions, features the music from the longtime running videogame franchise in wonderful orchestra arrangements. Having made stops already...
View ArticleThe Force Is Strong With One Man Band
Whoever said you need an orchestra to do the Star Wars theme must not have heard this Swedish street musician. May the force be with you young jedi.… [Read More]
View ArticleNBC’s Love Affair With John Williams
(by Nick Sheer) NBC has always had some of the best programming themed music on broadcast television that always added to their exceptional production quality, specifically for their news and sports...
View ArticleJessica Jones’ Incredible Theme Music
Many this week have been binge watching Netflix’s latest exclusive series Jessica Jones from Marvel Studios. Just like the series’ surprisingly great plotlines featuring numerous twists and turns, it’s...
View ArticleWhat Would the X-Men As An Opera Look Like?
(by Ezra Wasser) Everyone may be excited for the upcoming new X-Men movie Days of Future Past in which the heroes travel back in time to prevent an apocalyptic future, but what if our favorite mutants...
View ArticleCompose Yourself: Focus On Rob Simonsen
L.A.-based composer Rob Simonsen has slowly been building a name for himself scoring music for films such as the Oscar-winning Life of Pi, Moneyball, and most recently The Way Way Back starring Steve...
View ArticleThe Best Symphonic Mashups
Having a supporting orchestra arrangement can more often than not create a more grandeur atmosphere to any non-classical song. Let’s take a look back at some of the most notable...
View ArticleWatching A Violinist in Virtual Reality – Yay or Nay?
(By Matthew James) Well with the introduction of VR cardboard glasses and Google/Youtube 360, it was bound to happen for an orchestra…or a classical musician to create a 360 video. Violinist Tim Fain...
View ArticleMinimalism is Alive and Well with Lubomyr Melnyk’s Rivers and Streams
No piece of work…no piece will come close this year to what Ukranian composer and pianist Lubomyr Melnyk has done with his latest album Rivers and Streams. Flowing and fluid like its title suggest,...
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