An generally intimate-sounding mixture of indie pop and consumer electronics, Christchurch, New Zealand’s Stunning Pinks will be the task of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nick Harte. Something of the wunderkind, Harte started playing piano at age group six; used bass, drums, and electric guitar by enough time he was eight; and …

Italy’s Aydra performs ultra-complicated, convention-defying death-jazz in the setting of Florida’s Atheist, and features vocalist/bassist Mauro Pacetti, guitarists Francesco Olivi and Marcello Lammoglia, and drummer Nicola Raffaeli. Although created as soon as the middle-’90s (their 1st EP, Psycho Discomfort Control, arrived in 1996), Aydra’s debut recording, Icon of Sin, just …

The dramatic history of the fantastic and distinguished Brazilian popular music composer Assis Valente begins with him getting kidnapped at six years from his parents, simply by a man called Laurindo, who thought he’d be better in other hands, to are a semi-slave for family Canna Brasil in Alagoinhas, BA. …

Though he’s relatively forgotten today, Samuel Mayes was widely considered among the finest American cellists in the middle-20th century. Among conductors and orchestral music artists he was extremely respected, having offered as primary cellist for quite some time in both Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra. He was among a member …

SixMileBridge plays a distinctive make of Celtic rock and roll, thanks to affects that span a whole spectral range of other music styles. Certainly the band’s music displays its traditional origins, particularly when it addresses tunes like “Crazy Hill Thyme,” and in light of tunes like their ode towards the …

Araci Cortes is among the most important performers from the Brazilian popular music and theater of her period. As an extremely well-known celebrity of musical revues, she released composers from the excess weight of Ary Barroso, Noel Rosa, Zé da Zilda, Benedito Lacerda, Assis Valente, Lamartine Babo, and João de …

After fronting the seminal Brit-pop duo from the Vaselines for several years, guitarist Frances McKee shifted in 1997 to start out Suckle. Along with co-founder/vocalist Marie McKee, the entire lineup of Vicky Morton (bass), Elanor Taylor (flute/keyboards), Kenny McEwan (drums), and Brian McEwan (acoustic guitar) resolved in later on that …

Claudio Merlotti Latinized his name to Merulo (the initial Italian form means blackbirds and Merulo may be the Latin edition). He’s not linked to Tarquinio Merula (ca. 1595-1665), but Jacinto Merulo (1595-1650), a author of Parma, might have been a grandnephew. He researched with Tuttovale Menon (an expatriate French composer/instructor) …

Nanino was probably students of Palestrina when Palestrina was in St. Maria Maggiore in the 1560s. He offered as choirmaster at St. Luigi dei Francesi in the late 1560s and in addition was an associate from the papal choir. Nanino was a gifted instructor who trained the youngster sopranos from …

After releasing the Direzione Estranea album in 2001 using the group Estranea, Swiss-born and Bologna-bred guitarist Antonio Capolupo decided he wished to begin something he could both write songs for and create. In 2004 his fresh pieces started to consider shape and 2 yrs later on he added vocalist and …