Edition 3 Issue 7 June 2018
In this Edition On Page 4 you will find the Editor’s Note Listen to the world with Radio.Garden on Page 6 Jason Martz is featured on Page 8 Reverb with the Nation Page 11 Spotify makes an appearance on Page 14 Page 20 is where Bob Van Laerhoven comments. Listen to Shadowmovement by Chris Balwin via Page 23 Gaelynn Lea’s showcase starts on Page 26 Link to Kendra Dantes music from Page 36
Go to Lisa Canny’s site from Page 37 On Page 38 we look through the window with Josh LaMore
Dorothy Berry-Lound’s column is on Page 44 Enjoy a short story by Paul White on Page 48 Page 50 shows ArtistFirts Radio programmes Travel to Tuva with Hun Huur Tu on Page 52 Meet Neil Newton on Page 56 Stephanie Slevin is on Page 58 Thank You, Page 59
Coming in November, ‘The Horror Quarter’ edition of CQI
E D I TO R S N OT E The Summer of Sound is CQI Magazine's first edition primarily directed at all things musical. Well known for its global promotion of all forms of art and artistic disciplines, CQI Magazine revels in showcasing indie authors, indie artists, artisans and creatives along with their supporting services. In the Summer of Sound, we celebrate everything to do with music, be it classical compositions, modern or traditional jazz, heavy house, rap or Brit -pop. We love sing-a-song writers and lyricists as much as we appreciate a great guitar riff or drum solo. Be you an orchestra, band, trio, duo or stand -alone performer there is room to showcase your work between the covers of CQI Magazine. But‌ that's not all. Where would any artist be without support like recording studios, online & off-line Radio stations, record labels, managers, promoters, Album cover designers, set designers and roadies, not to forget those amazing backing singers and session artists. CQI Magazine helps you shout out, so you can share your music with the world, well at least 90 countries around the world, which would keep you busy touring for a few years! Take your time browsing this edition of CQI Magazine where we introduce you to some amazing artist and writers from around the world. Read, listen and enjoy their stories and sounds, follow links to their recordings and performances in this, the Summer of Sound. Don't forget to share CQI Magazine with your friends, its free to read and what's more it's free to subscribe to sign-up today and never miss another edition. Happy reading, happy listening,
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Want to tune in to the world’s radio stations from one place? Then you NEED Radio.Garden
CQI Magazine is in love with this interactive project and we are sure you shall be to. Radio.Garden is a relatively new interactive online
radio station that can be tuned into at the click of a
website allows users to explore radio stations around
button.
the world as they broadcast live.
With global tensions high, anger at the political
Even in the digital age, it’s an experience familiar to
establishment and fake-news dominating social
many: scrolling through a radio tuner, jumping from
media discussions, it feels like there has never been a
crackled voices to clear-cut sound, shipping forecasts
better time to enable people to reflect on human
to pop tunes, in the hunt for a station you want to
communication on an international level.
listen to.
At the time of writing, Classic FM Sofia is beaming
Now, you can experience this on a global scale,
out a romantic symphony, Mali Jet is blasting out fast
hopping thousands of the world’s radio stations.
-paced hi-life, and over on the west coast of the US,
Radio.Garden is an interactive website that presents
Rockabilly Radio is, well, living up to its name.
the Earth, covered in tiny dots, each representing a
After jumping between talk radio stations in more
were approached by the Netherlands Institute for
languages than I can count, I paused on Richmond
Sound and Vision to develop an installation for a
Indie Radio, which has just played Marquee Moon by
research project about radio called Transnational
Television, before jumping over to ESPN Tucson, to
Radio Encounters, which focuses on radio that crosses
hear a discussion of the Rams game, before spinning
linguistic and geographical barriers.
back to Europe, where Munich’s Hardest Hits is
“Conceptually, what was really important for us was
sounding a little like the UK’s Magic FM.
to leave out the city names, countries and borders
One enlivening tool lets listeners hear international
and just leave you with this naked Earth,” says
radio jingles, “a worldwide crash course in station
Jonathan Puckey, part of the team that created it.
identification”, as well as the option to listen to audio
“Then you just have these pin points transmitting
clips from radio discussions around the world.
radio.”
“a worldwide crash course in station identification” The interactive was created by Amsterdam-based design companies Studio Puckey and Moniker, which
It’s not yet a totally comprehensive collection of the world’s radio stations, but it already feature over 8,000, stations and there are more being added every day.
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Jasun Martz is a world-renowned, New York-based interdisciplinary composer, musician and multimedia artist (painting/sculpture/performance) who has collaborated with French art brut modern master Jean Dubuffet, toured with Frank Zappa, recorded with Michael Jackson (Bad and Dangerous) and worked on numerous #1 best-selling international hits. He signed his first recording contract at age 15 and appears on over 50 albums. His contemporary classical, soundscape, experimental and alt-rock compositions have been used in film, television and advertising. Spotify features over 85 tracks/10 hours of his recently released best-selling, award-winning, eight album retrospective entitled Solo Exhibition. Now on sale: http://smarturl.it/8w7nkg Martz has toured internationally in solo performances at festivals, in the electronic music scene and in contemporary art galleries and museums, most recently in Russia, Europe, Asia and North & South America. In November, Fรกbrica de Arte Cubano and Riera Studio in Havana, Cuba will present a solo exhibition of his art and performances of his avant-garde music. His raw expressionist paintings and sculpture of are collected and displayed internationally. Jasun Martz studied at the University of California, Los Angeles; New York University; California State University, Northridge; Art Center College of Design and graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor's degree in the arts emphasizing sculpture.
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Eva Pasco says she was a Jill-of-allTrades in the progression of life - factory fatale gluing eyes on pairs of lion slippers at Capitol Heel Lining, collating booklets at Sidney-Higgins Bookbinding, getting downright dirty at H & H Screw Products, and teaching in the third-grade classroom trenches. She turned a corner shortly after retirement by reviving my dormant flair for writing. A newly published author in 2008, Eva was busy prioritizing and increasing her visibility, while adding to her credibility by binge-writing her way out of obscurity. Having grown up during the Sixties, Eva drew upon those experiences to write her first memoir, “A Mini Tribute to Twiggy,” and submitted it for publication at The Sixties Official Site. When the webmaster graciously invited her to write more and offered Eva her own page there, she eagerly accepted and turned out a memoir every week for approximately two years, contributing 100 in total. The 100 memoirs in this nonfiction collection - 100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the ‘60s, include most of those originally published at The Sixties Official Site, give or take a few.
"While the mushroom cloud of the Cold War hovered over us, my sister and I carried on as kids do, regardless of world events. Since the daily minutiae of life provides the magic for memories to MUSHROOM WILDLY - your head nostalgic recollections of growing up during the ‘60s counterculture."
Memoir #8 – Fallout from the Sixties A child growing up in the Sixties, the Cold War entailed a dark cloud palpable as the mushroom blast over Hiroshima. Still fresh in my mind are clips of Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on a lectern while
delivering the line, “We will bury you.” Then there was the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, where President Kennedy proved Russia placed nuclear missiles in Cuba and he imposed a naval quarantine around Cuba to force their removal. Scary stuff. Since the threat of nuclear annihilation seemed imminent, one survival antidote was of the nuclear fallout shelter stocked with civil defense biscuits, canned goods, and booklets suggesting fitness exercises while confined.
While these fears lay dormant inside me throughout 1962, I was a sixth-grader at Lincoln Community School. Our school could not accommodate the town’s growing population, so fifth-and-sixth-graders were relegated to the MacColl Field barn on Breakneck Hill Rd. Every Friday before school let out, we had to empty our desks and stow away our books and implements inside a pillowcase, so the desks could be stored in a corner to clear the floor for square dancing. Nevertheless, we country hicks were hip to the drill - the one which prepared us for a nuclear holocaust. “Fallout shelters? We don't need no stinkin’ fallout shelters!” Our desks would protect us! When Miss G gave the signal, we’d crouch beneath our desks despite the wobbly legs on some. In such a lowly position, one could glimpse the topsy-turvy world of loose crayons, books teetering on the edge, points of scissors and no. 2 yellow pencils - along with the occasional wad of gum strategically stuck underneath for a rainy day. The crux of the situation is we all bought into this line of safety, confident our rickety desks would save us from heavy debris and radioactive particles in the air until our parents could come get us. I hereby nominate the school desk to be added to the memorabilia housed in any Cold War museum.
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When thinking of music streaming services one of the first that comes to mind is Spotify. There are others, of course, Apple, Google, Deezer, Amazon Music, Pandora, Soundcloud to name a few. But why is the most popular music service, despite all the competition. Well, it's not just because Spotify was one of the first. With Spotify you can choose between free and premium plans; premium (the most popular) costs around $10 per month and gives unlimited access to over 30 million tracks and you can download tracks to three devices at a time for offline playback. If you have a big family, though, you can save a lot of money with a Premium for Family account. This costs $14.99/ÂŁ14.99 a month but lets up to six people connect to Spotify at the same time. (Try to "share" a standard account and you'll be bumped off as soon as someone else tries to play a song.) In 2018 Spotify re-vamped what you can do without paying a cent. Originally you could only listen to playlists based on an artist you like, with limited skips. Now you can handpick 15 playlists featuring up to 750 songs in
total. These can't be stored fully for offline playback but a low-data-use mode caches some of the data, to go easy on your allowance. It's the biggest change in Spotify Free in years. However, there are still some restrictions. You can't freely skip tracks in these playlists and there are still, of course, ads. This helps pay for artist royalties. Spotify Free feels more like a taste of the fullfat experience than ever before. A few years ago, there was a big fight among music streaming services for library size and exclusive albums. This has, thankfully, died down as it does not benefit us end users. Spotify works on Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices. Use a laptop or desktop? It also supports OS X and Windows. There's a web interface too, letting just about any connected gadget with a browser get involved. Spotify wants you to get on-board with its generated playlists. Spotify looks at what you've listened to and fills a whole bunch of playlists with tracks it thinks you will like.
Discover Weekly is a TechRadar favourite. This features tracks and artists you may not have heard, but it hopes you'll like. It's a good way to find new and often slightly obscure music.
Spotify's mobile app used to be the preserve of Spotify Premium users only, but the service has now opened music on the move to everyone.
My Time Capsule looks is filled with old tracks that may stoke a bit of nostalgia. It crossreferences your date of birth with your taste to guess the tracks you may have listened to growing up.
You have four basics ways to approach looking for some tunes. The Browse part lets you find curated and mood-based playlists easily. Radio uses playlists again, but they are genre-based, more like an array of virtual radio stations. You can manually search for artists, which is what we end up doing. Or you can head to Your Music, which you can treat more like an oldschool digital music collection.
Each artist also has their own "radio", which is a generated playlist based on the style of the artist/band It features some of their songs along with similar or relevantly associated tracks. The web player is one of the few weak points of Spotify. It lets you use the service on a laptop or desktop without installing anything. It is Flash-based so will not work on all browsers. You can't use it on Safari, for example. We think of the web player as an interface to use in a pinch. And Spotify seems to think that way too.
Spotify added Podcasts to its service in 2015. This may seem like a strange move when podcasts are freely available anyway, but Spotify wants to become the only audio app you use. In a normal podcast app, you subscribe to a podcast feed. But in Spotify you "follow" them and recent episodes then appear in an "unplayed podcasts" part of the app.
Podcasts fiends may not be ready to switch over from a dedicated app just yet, but it's a nice feature for anyone looking to trim down the number of apps they use daily. Spotify Connect is one of the most important features for anyone with a Wi-Fi-enabled wireless speaker. Many wireless models support it, and it lets you beam tunes over to them directly from the Spotify mobile and desktop apps. It's a little like a specific Spotify version of Apple AirPlay or Google Cast. If your speaker uses Bluetooth rather than WiFi you don't need to worry about it as Bluetooth simply transmits all audio from your phone. (You can head over to SpotifyGear to check if your speaker supports Spotify Connect.) While Spotify's catalogue and app collection place it as one of the best music streaming services, integration of social makes it even better.
A little three-pip icon by any artist, playlist or song lets you share links to Facebook or Twitter or copy a link you can send to a friend over WhatsApp or SMS. We use this feature all the time to suggest bands to friends. If you opt for a Spotify Premium subscription you can choose between three sound quality levels, normal, high and extreme. When using the mobile and desktop apps, Spotify plays Ogg Vorbis. This was a semi-popular format a decade ago, and Spotify continues to use it because it's open source. Spotify doesn't have to pay a license fee for it. At Standard setting, music streams at 96kbps, which sounds a lot better than MP3 at 129kbps. Switch up to the High-quality setting and the bit-rate bumps up to 160kbps. Most people will be happy at this level as any compressions trade-offs are not obvious. The extreme setting uses 320kbps, which is perceptually close to lossless.
Spotify is the undisputed king of streaming, and its reign doesn't look like ending soon with these recent updates.
missing, and its flawless implementation and integration into the general experience have made things a lot better.
The new look and new features take what was already a brilliant service and add the level of polish and comprehensiveness to make it a five-star product.
Spotify's fantastic catalogue, its ability to use its brand to win major exclusives, superb and unrivalled social features make it the obvious choice for anyone looking to take the plunge with streaming.
‘Your Music' is the feature Spotify had been
Listen anywhere—Select your country
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JIM
Jim Toomey was already a successful drummer when he became a part of a new group, The
Tourists, in
the late seventies. He formed the group with Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart, Peet Coombes and Eddie Chin. From their early beginnings in London, finding their sound and their voice, through their success, their recordings, TV appearances, and their tours across the world, this is the story of The Tourists, told by the man sitting behind the drums.
In a series of anecdotes and tales of the band’s journey, we gain insight into the inner workings of a successful band; the fun and success, but also the work, the creativity, the pressures of seemingly endless tours, the good and the bad sides of the business, and the all too familiar trajectory of a band which sowed the seeds of music which endure 40 years later.
TOOMEY Having spent his entire life touring and travelling the world, Jim
Toomey has finally settled down in
Brisbane, Australia where he now lives with his young family. Still playing occasional gigs in a jazz and blues trio, Jim has recently turned to writing and undertakes some acting work, appearing as an extra in the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Turning professional in 1965 at the height of the beat boom in England, he survived the hippie revolution and highs and lows of life as a rock musician in a variety of bands. Jim was a founder member and drummer in The Tourists from day one.
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Literature Resonates A personal view by
Bob Van Laerhoven Lately, many people ask me if I think literature is still meaningful in this era of rapidly progressing digital technology: fast changing communication, the many ways of experiencing movies, streamed television series and news. Literature does matter in our time. In any era. I'll explain this with an example of my own work. Return to Hiroshima is my latest novel in English. As the first city ever struck by a nuclear bomb, Hiroshima became an iconic symbol. A novel with that city in the title inevitably refers to that moment in time that changed human history forever. Why write a work of fiction in which the nuclear detonation plays such an important role? It’s easier, and faster, to stream a documentary about the subject, or to be carried away by watching an after-the-bomb movie. That would make us informed, correct? In a way, yes, but, in my eyes, literature has an added value. It can provoke in us an empathic understanding of the consequences of nuclear warfare. That’s something else than being informed. Moreover, are we as informed as we think we are? The answer is a bone-dry “no”. Mass-media and social networks spread “news bytes” every second around the globe but have desensitized us to a certain degree to the deeper meaning – or consequences – of the experience behind
information. What do you think about the heightened possibility of a WWIII, which has been all over the news lately? Tensions are on the rise. A new World War is nearer than ever since the end of the Cold War. Democratic regimes lose the battle against dangerous demagogic populists and dictators: Kim Jong-un in North Korea, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, Vladimir Putin in Russia, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, to name but a few. Never before was the turbulent Middle East such a chaos of shifting alliances and growing animosity. Iran and Saudi-Arabia are competing for hegemony in the region and build nuclear facilities that can be used to produce nuclear weapons. The US, Russia, and Turkey - with China looming at the horizon support different factions in the civil war in Syria… They are allies today and enemies tomorrow. Noone seems to have a sound strategy, a solution, for the region. It’s obvious that the seemingly endless Syrian civil war could become the trigger of a new worldwide conflict. The airstrike in April of the coalition of US, UK and French forces on the chemical weapon installations of Bashar al Assad’s regime triggered so much international unease that the most important question for the coming months (years?) seems to become: how close are we to WWIII?
People tend to react to this question with a curiously abstract resignation. When prodded a bit, they usually confess that they can’t fathom how it would be, a nuclear conflict across the globe. Usually they end the conversation with an uneasy, “They won’t let it come that far, will they? I can’t imagine they would”.
One of the problems of the modern digital society is precisely that mass-media and social networks have wreaked havoc on our ability to use our imagination. As a result, the all too real possibility of a nuclear WWIII seems unconceivable. And that, my dear friends, is truly dangerous. Our leaders are not smarter, wiser, or more mature than we are. And they sure do not have more imagination… except in one area - their endless dreams of their growing power. This is the point where literature can step in. You may have trouble imagining what a nuclear conflict would be like, but literature can. Moreover, it does this on a one-on-one basis. A one-on-one basis in this era of masscommunication? Do I hear your Gargantuan laugh booming?
I like movies and television series, even games and social networks, as much as anybody. But I notice that, when spending too time with these media, my level of thinking is reduced to a receptive, confined mode. The essence of a story often slips away from me like water from a seal. This is not the case when I read. A novel resonates within me. Words can convey sensations that even the most sophisticated visual media cannot. Words can vibrate with layers of meaning, they can produce flashes of feeling (which is different than experiencing emotion), and they can make the reader emotionally receptive. The power to step into the story, not wandering on the outskirts of it, is readily available.
I know, I know: you’ve heard this story before. Since the advent of mass-media, countless philosophers and artists have hammered on similar reasoning. You’re probably sick and tired of being advised to read fiction. Why should you, when watching movies is so much easier?
You may argue reading novels takes time, a certain effort, which is getting more difficult with every minute. Stress on the job, stress in traffic-jams, stress at home with children. Stress of not having posted a witty message on Facebook for two days… You have every right to think so, but in my view, literature, more than any other art-form or entertainment, gives you the opportunity to interrogate yourself about the meaning of life: what exactly power or wealth is, how the world is evolving, what kind of society we live in…. The list is endless. To interrogate yourself is a lot different than being shown what it is all about. It’s not per se better. But definitely different.
I admit willingly that I present the situation rather black-and-white in this post. But so is the question I hear so often: do you really think that literature can offer something more than, say, Netflix? It’s nearly always about who or what wins, not about differences. We don’t like differences anymore; we want to see winners and losers.
A girl, blood gushing from her mouth, stumbled through the ruins of a school. Hands shot up from the rubble, bloody and smouldering. They tried to grab the girl by the ankles. Voices begged: “Take me with you, take me with you!” In panic she kicked at the hands and ran on, her arms outstretched as if she was blind.
And that, dear friends, is a dangerous attitude, won’t you agree?
Hundreds of people tried to reach the river Aioi. They screamed for help, lost direction in the ashfilled clouds of smoke and fell exhausted to the ground before they could reach the banks of the river and baked like clay stones in the raging fire.
So, as an experiment, try something different. Watch a thrilling, shocking movie about the consequences of a nuclear conflict. There are a lot of gripping movies about that theme out there. And, afterwards, read a novel about the same subject. There are a lot of gripping, passionate novels out there with this theme.
I want to share a few lines with you from Return to Hiroshima, a story set in Japan in 1995. In one of the chapters, a Seizon-cha, a survivor of the nuclear bomb called “Little Boy”, recalls some of the scenes he witnessed and could never forget.
A woman staggered past the burning buildings with a baby in her arms. The heat had caused the baby’s skin to peel. He was limp and motionless in her arms.
A man tugged at the body of a teenager buried under the rubble. The boy’s skull was cracked open and brain tissue was hanging out of the wound. He had lost his right eye. He was calling out for his mother, his voice clear and steady. The man had pulled away enough rubble to see that both legs had been crushed. He tried to lift the boy. He succeeded. He continued on his way, the boy motionless in his arms.
How did this excerpt make you feel? Reading literature resonates.
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"Born and raised in Blackburn, north west of England, I was introduced to hardcore rave music in the early nineties and I was always interested and intrigued on how it was all created even as a child. After leaving school in 2001 my musical taste varied from hardcore to hard house and many other electronic genres. I bought Reason in 2015 and to be honest, I have never looked back from starting out making not so good hard house tracks to producing and writing many different styles that I do today.
Not as concentrated on Hard Dance as I once was, but more pointing into the rave revival/ breakbeat hardcore jungle direction. A bit of a late bloomer but who says music has an age limit."
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I c o n i c is a very special book indeed. It captures a rare record of some of the best musical artist who
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Gaelynn Lea is musician unique to her age
popular for aficionados of traditional folk music, something that is a bridge between the dance music of older Europe and the
group and her time. While most women
traditional mountain music of the United
engaged in acoustic music would be treading
States. Listening to her music you can hear the
the singer songwriter path, Gaelynn weaves a
eerie strains of Appalachia
fascinating tapestry of personal themes and clearly Celtic musical sensibilities. Her songs and her voice are haunting, her lyrics poetic and reminiscent of another time. Gaelynn plays the violin but there are times when she makes it more than an ensemble instrument; Lea can make it a powerful foundation of a song as powerful as full band. For those with a passion for unique, personally fuelled music, outside of the mainstream, Gaelynn is find. Her playing as a violinist is impressive with a vibrato as sweet as a any classically trained musician. At the basic of her musical DNA is Celtic music, something she played consistently through college. What puts her farther outside the musical norm is an affinity for fiddle tunes, a body of work that is
Yet Gaelynn possess a modern sensibility. Her song “Lost in the Woods�, while it has the deep feeling of her other songs, is about the modern dilemma of maintaining one’s integrity amid the complexity and stress of modern life.
GAELYNN LEA The following are several questions that
message seems to be obvious, it’s always
Gaelynn was kind enough to answer:
worth asking the musician themselves exactly
what he or she meant. What does the song Q: Are you influenced by Celtic music since it seems to be within the sound of your music? A: Yes, I played in a Celtic musical group all the way through college. My first album is about 80% Celtic fiddle Tunes! I know that it has influenced my style over the years.
Q: I am almost 60. The mixture of Celtic music and fiddle tunes was extremely popular. What brought you to what might be considered old school folk music? A: I really enjoyed learning them in a group setting. My very first exposure to fiddle tunes was through a jam at a local bar in our town. It was much more relaxed the classical music scene and music became a social activity for me in a way that it hadn't been it before. I
think that's what drew me in initially!
Q: I saw your video for “lost in the woods”. My experience tells me that while a musician’s
mean to you? A: That song is about holding onto your identity & your integrity no matter what. It's harder and harder to do that when life is busy and you are traveling, so even though I wrote
the song before I won the Tiny Desk Contest, it has even more meaning for me today.
Q: Your voice is beautiful. Like any other instrument, you make decisions to develop your sound. What influences formed your vocal technique? A: To be honest my voice is just my voice. I haven't had any vocal training, but I do think performing a lot has helped it to become a little more refined. I think what inspired me was hearing Iris DeMent sing Our Town. She has such a unique voice and it helped me to realize that you don't have to have a stereotypically beautiful voice to have an impact.
Q: Do you plan to stay in the musical area that
Q: What advice would you give to fledgling
you are currently in or are you interested in
musicians who might take a non-mainstream
expanding to other genres and perhaps even
route in terms of how they would form their
mashups?
voice.
A: I am releasing a new album in September
A: Just remember that your voice is a muscle
and that will be with a full band. So the style is
and it gets stronger with time. I used to have a
a bit more pop or indie rock, but I always love
very limited vocal range but that has changed
to experiment. I'm not sure where my career
in the last couple years. It all comes down to
will go in terms of musical style, but I think
using your voice as much as you can! And
one thing that keeps me interested in music is
pushing the air out from your diaphragm
that there is always room to learn and grow
instead of your throat so you don't strain your
and change.
vocal chords.
Q: We’ve just seen severe financial issues for
think I will ever stray entirely from those sorts
franchises like Guitar centre and a filing of
of traditional instruments. But what I think is
chapter eleven by Gibson guitars. Autotune
cool is how you can blend technology and
and electronically processed music seems to
ancient instruments to make something new.
be the leaving acoustic and even standard
Even though my first album is almost all the
electric music in the dust. Have you
traditional fiddle tunes, I used a modern
considered becoming more mainstream or will
looping pedal to layer up the sounds. That
you stay with your standard musicianship?
changes the game a lot. I think you must be
A: I love using old instruments like violins, and
open to both sides! And of course, do what
I have a big interest in the harp. So, I don't
you love.
Gaelynn Lea Official Website: www.violinscratches.com Music Streaming Link: https://gaelynnlea.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/gaelynn-lea New Music Video: https://youtu.be/Pk9lgimztD4
Markie Madden When I was in 4th grade, my teacher would draw a partial shape on our papers, and the assignment was to finish it into a drawing and write a story about it. This was when the writing bug first bit me. I continued to write through high school and shared my stories with my classmates. In 2013, I was diagnosed with cancer. This illness and treatment took me out of the traditional workforce, so I turned back to my love of writing. I now live in southeast Missouri, USA, with my husband, two daughters, 3 dogs, a cat, and a horse. Now, I’m writing and publishing several books a year, from my paranormal mystery Undead Unit series to a historical romance series set in ancient Egypt. I wrote Liberty as an Electric Eclectic Book so new readers will have a sample of my work. I hope you enjoy the book, and you can find my work wherever books are sold. Website: https://metamorphpublishing.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markiemaddenauthor Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Marguerite-Markie-Madden/e/B00O17AOHM
Siren Song Can the Undead Unit resist the call of the Siren?
Singer/songwriter Briona Solis is one of the top musicians in the world. Her voice is acclaimed as the most radiant on the planet, and she has a gorgeous figure to match. When her band Solace books a two-week tour in Dallas, shows are sold out. Kirsten Wagner is found in a deserted alley just minutes away from the concert. She’s in shock and barely alive; her eyes have been removed with surgical precision. The team struggles to gather information on their case, hoping to prevent another assault. And Kirsten isn’t the only one. Each night brings a new victim. The Undead Unit must race against time to catch the perpetrator. Will they be able to resist the call of the Siren, or will these cases go unsolved forever? Ebook Kindle: http://geni.us/ssongkin Kobo: http://geni.us/ssongkobo Paperback Barnes and Noble: http://geni.us/ssongbn Amazon: http://geni.us/ssongzon
Bob v
laerho Bob Van Learhoven is a fulltime Belgian/Flemish author Bob has published more than 35 books in Holland and Belgium. Several of his literary work are published in French, English, German, Slovenian, Italian, Polish, and Russian. He is three-time finalist of the Hercule Poirot Prize for Best Mystery Novel of the Year with the novels “Djinn”, “The Finger of God,” and “Return to Hiroshima” and the Winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for his book “Baudelaire's Revenge,” which also won the USA Best Book Award 2014 in the category "mystery/suspense". Bob's collection of short stories “Dangerous Obsessions,” first published by The Anaphora Literary Press in the USA in 2015, was hailed as "best short story collection of 2015" by the San Diego Book Review. The collection is now translated in Italian, (Brazilian) Portuguese, and Swedish. Chinese and Spanish translations will follow in 2018. “Retour à Hiroshima”, the French translation of “Return to Hiroshima,” has recently been completed.
www.bobvanlaerhoven.be (NL/FR/EN)
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www.bobvanlaerhoven.com (Russian website for Месть Бодлера, the Russian edition of Baudelaire’s Revenge)
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1995, Japan struggles with a severe economic crisis. Fate brings a number of people together in Hiroshima in a confrontation with dramatic consequences. Xavier Douterloigne, the son of a Belgian diplomat, returns to the city, where he spent his youth, to come to terms with the death of his sister. Inspector Takeda finds a deformed baby lying dead at the foot of the Peace Monument, a reminder of Hiroshima's war history. A Yakuza-lord, rumored to be the incarnation of the Japanese demon Rokurobei, mercilessly defends his criminal empire against his daughter Mitsuko, whom he considers insane. And the punk author Reizo, obsessed by the ultra-nationalistic ideals of his literary idol Mishima, recoils at nothing to write the novel that will "overturn Japan's foundations".... Hiroshima’s indelible war-past simmers in the background of this ultra-noir novel. Clandestine experiments conducted by Japanese Secret Service Unit 731 during WWII become unveiled and leave a sinister stain on the reputation of the imperial family and the Japanese society as a whole.
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'The story takes place in 1995: fifty years after the atom bomb Hiroshima looks like any other normal city. Van Laerhoven’s characters, though, are far from normal: there’s a police inspector who struggles with his parentage (he is the son of a Dutch woman raped in a Japanese prison camp), there is a young punk author who finds it difficult to separate fiction from reality, there is a confused girl on the run from her extremely violent gangster father, a girl, moreover, that spent a large part of her life hidden on a deserted mining island, and there is the son of Belgian diplomat who tries to come to terms with the death of his sister. Their story is not for tender souls. The crime that will determine their life is indeed a gruesome one: at the Peace Monument the deformed and blackened corpse of a baby is discovered, and it looks exactly like the dead baby found and photographed after the nuclear attack fifty years before. Van Laerhoven skilfully creates the right atmosphere for this drama. As a consequence the whole book is shrouded in a haze of doom. Is this due to Hiroshima itself, a place burdened with a terrible past? Or is the air of desperation typical for our modern society?" Jan Haeverans, Weekend, Belgium
"A deformed dead baby that police inspector Takeda discovers under the Peace Monument at Hiroshima in 1995 is the starting point of a hair-raising (reading) adventure. Van Laerhoven stocks up the story with a choice selection of characters and contrasts: good versus evil, the individual versus the group, East versus West, philosophy versus materialism, the modern versus the traditional. Van Laerhoven mixes these ingredients into a complex, sophisticated and exciting thriller. It is a daring yet successful attempt at showing the struggle of a highlydeveloped nation with its past through a spine-chilling story. It rarely happens in Dutch literature that such a thriller gets published. A wonderful book." JVC, Thriller Guide Vrij Nederland, The Netherlands
In “Return to Hiroshima” tension and drama are perfectly alternated. The main characters, though not your ordinary men or women in the street, have been depicted most convincingly, and the description of the ‘new’ Japan, where all criminality is papered over, is truly shocking. Yet the most powerful impression is left by the account of the atom bomb that had just been dropped and by the effects of the explosion on the inhabitants of Hiroshima. All this is presented as a thrilling and above all entertaining crime story. “Return to Hiroshima”: a surprising must." Kris Derks, crimezone.nl, The Netherlands
Watch the video trailer: https://youtu.be/G89ns-UgCzk Return to Hiroshima is a vailable as a Hardcover, Paperback & Kindle book UK https://amzn.to/2JNHKZz USA https://www.amazon.com/Bob-Van-Laerhoven/e/B00JP4KO76
Kendra Dantes I am a young, aspiring artist on YouTube. I have had my own YouTube channel for just
over a year now and have released over 70 covers and 5 original songs... my goal is to continue to release a new video each week. Music is my passion and my joy and I hope to one day make it my career. I would love to travel & perform & maybe one day have songs
on the radio Watch and listen to 'Smoke that Thunders'
https://youtu.be/M4q2lGVtymo a song I wrote after reading Legend of The East
Legend of The East Road MIDDLE GRADE FICTION:
Road (The Roads of Luhonono Series) by
The amazing adventures of three
Hamilton Hill
would-be adventurers and their
You can subscribe to my YouTube channel,
quest to find a mysterious
YouTube.com/KendraDantes, and you can
princess.
follow me on Instagram & Twitter.
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Window Sessions: The Making of an Audio, Visual, & Textual Book
by: Josh LaMore | www.joshlamore.com Josh LaMore is a writer, poet, storyteller, and librarian with an affinity for nature, history, travel, creative expression, and small-run / unique multimedia artist books. Born in Illinois and currently living in New York City, he has also lived in Southern Utah, San Diego, California, Minot, North Dakota, and traveled the contiguous United States extensively as a musician. His most recent book, Beauty Beyond Telling: The Story of Cedar Breaks National
Monument, was published by the National Park Nonprofit, Zion National Park Forever Project in May 2018. In the book, LaMore celebrates the splendor of Cedar Breaks, a high elevation park in southern Utah, and touches on nearly 165 million years of the area’s natural history and approximately 10,000 years of human habitation.
Audio/Multimedia Books, Vinyl Poetry, & Homer I recently read an article in Poets & Writers that discusses not only the budding market in audio books, but also vinyl poetry. Surprisingly, there are now even a few record labels dedicated to vinyl poetry. What does this mean for creators and writers?
One answer comes in the form of a Facebook post I saw from some book marketing company I no longer remember the name of, which quotes popular misconceptions writers have about making a living from their art. The article then talks of ‘truths’ and ‘marketing’; the ‘solution’. Not that producing multimedia works is a marketing strategy, it still somehow broadens potential audiences for creative works, or at least, broadens how written works can be consumed. This broadening has led me to another set of questions and subsequent thoughts about writing in general: What is writing? And, where (if it exists) is the line between music and written word? When I write, I tend to rely deeply on my ear. Oftentimes what I am trying to say or express isn’t in the definitions of words, but rather in their tonality and connected/disconnected rhythms; their interactions with each other. Maybe this is because I am also a musician, or maybe, it’s because music and words have always been linked. I once saw a one-man performance, a monologue, performed by Stephen Spinelli, called An Iliad, in which he was Homer reciting the beautiful epic that has lived with the world seemingly forever. Some of the performance
was sung, and I seem to remember a conversation after the performance discussing the idea that the Homeric epics were first and foremost sung. It’s easy to write this off as simply being a mnemonic device, making the story easier to remember, however, I believe there are things told in music that cannot be put into words. This also goes for the musical accompaniment, as demonstrated throughout the entirety of An Iliad, through Homer’s muse, a cellist, producing abstract rhythm, melody, and sound. The music told just as much of the story as Spinelli’s Homer did.
The Muses Out The Window I don’t have an explanation to how or why I switched over from primarily writing songs and performing to writing prose, poetry, and non-fiction, but I think it may have something to do with muses, for they are everywhere around us ... The bus as it flies past my New York City apartment window. The silence that follows a rumbling ambience of a plane overhead, while various birds sing, and a gate door creaks open and slams. Another engine off in the distance can now be heard, its screeching hum zooming closer and closer until it whooshes past, an explosion at its peak. Then it dissipates with a sound not all that different from a crashing wave, now receding. Someone's air conditioner just kicked on and a car horn honks as the wind begins to pick up and a child screams with summer delight. It’s music and story together, telling of a beautiful morning when much of the neighbourhood is still in bed or at work.
It’s going to be a good day, from the sound of it; peaceful, yet hot. It’s the feeling, telling, sound of the world around me enjoying moments before the day takes off.
Photographeddd These thoughts remind me of a friend. He’s a full-fledged musician who plays in multiple bands, on multiple instruments, and writes and records his own music under the moniker Yellowbirddd. But, I think of him more as a writer, a poet, rather than a musician. His words, and how they reflect observations of the world around him at different moments
tell me so. Currently, he is working on a project he calls the Photographeddd Project, where people send him pictures and he writes songs based on the images that speak to him. The images and their respective songs are wonderful and I believe cannot readily be separated from each other. They, the music and the chosen image, are reflections of the same thing. Each is a mouthpiece for moments now past, and because it is visual, audible music, with written words, it will survive in people’s minds in one or more of those three ways, making the story, or writing of the moment, last and stretch much further than if it was just written in one medium.
Image of song page with picture for “Let The Engine Run” of Yellowbirdd’s Photographeddd.
Let the engine run. Future’s comin’ on so fast. Innocence you’ve lost. I don’t think you’ll get it back.
Every day is a gift. I don’t really give a shit about it. Runnin’ for your life, it’s alright, but you always doubt it. Tryin’ to find my way.
Yellowbirddd - “Let The Engine Run,” (Verse 1, Chorus 1) https://soundcloud.com/yellowbirddd/sets/photographddd-2018
Window Sessions A few years ago, I was living in a place that off
Interrupted by muses out the window before
the bedroom, had a small side room with a
going back into the story again. This was
narrow window overlooking the street. This
especially true of the recordings I made to
made the little room bright, vibrant, noisy, yet
remember my songs. While I recorded song,
comfortable. And from it, the muses of the
the laptop microphone would pick up people
world, the neighborhood, spoke and sang to
talking, dogs barking, cars honking, the woosh
me louder and more consistently that I was
of them going by, the sounds of squeaky gates
used to. So, I made it my office and added a
and
desk, bookshelf, guitar, and chair.
airplanes, rain, snow, thunder, the vibrating
strollers,
footsteps,
garbage
cans,
windowsill when trains in the subway crept by From that room, never did just one song or
underground, and the list goes on. When I’d
writing piece come to me, they always
listen back to these recordings, I would realize
seemed to come in threes. When I’d hear a
that all these captured background sounds
new song in my head, I would stop what I was
were the accompaniment to the pieces. And
doing, figure out what it was I heard in my
the words weren’t just lyrics, but stories,
mind, and record it on my laptop so I would
poems, something more than music. I began
not forget. Most of these pieces would float
calling all of this Window Sessions.
off and tell stories of elsewhere, only to be
Picture of prototype page from Window Sessions.
Music, Poetry, & Pictures: In One Book Almost four years later, after my encounters with the muses of the room, I have finally begun figuring out what to do with all these ‘sessions’. They are more than songs, stories, or the noises in the streets, they are a complete multimedia book of images (from the places and moments on my mind when the songs came to me); the words of the
songs, handwritten over the images; and lastly, the songs themselves, recorded in Los Angeles with Yellowbirddd, and an accompaniment of everyday background sounds, the music of our lives, windows, that I recorded on my I-phone, as I walked all over southern California, Utah, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, and other places on the eastern seaboard. All of this is part of one thing: language, not of words, sounds, or visuals, but rather intuitive emotion from a vast collection of moments.
As creatives, humans all part of the same emotional language, I encourage you to look at everything as language and figure out how best, with all the mediums at our disposal, to
collect moments of it together and write in our universal tongue, emotion, the music all around us.
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H ALFWAY U P A M OUNTAIN Our regular columnist Dorothy Berry-Lound reports from Umbria, Italy. As summer is almost upon us here in Central Italy we look forward to the wonderful concerts and events that are held out under the starlit sky. However, we are fortunate to have some great Italian singer/
songwriters to listen to all year round.
Umbria Jazz Since it started in 1973, Umbria Jazz has become one of the most important jazz festivals in the world. The festival starts on 13 July with Quincy Jones’ 85th Birthday Celebration. It concludes on 22 July with Gregory Porter. David Byrne is also performing on 20 July. Those are just some of the concerts in the main arena in Perugia. But there is so much more to this festival! It includes daily street jazz parades and lots of free concerts to enjoy. Bands performing include ‘The New Orlean Mystics’, ‘Rockin’ Dopsie and The Zydeco Twisters’ and the ‘New Talents Jazz Orchestra di Mario Corvini’. A wonderful fusion of international and Italian jazz artists!
Trasimeno Blues A slight pause to recover from Umbria Jazz and then Trasimeno Blues kicks off on 27 July until 4 August. This is an international Blues festival that is held all around Lake Trasimeno in Umbria. At time of writing the programme for Trasimeno Blues is not yet finalised. Last year it featured 19 concerts in 10 locations around the lake (in Castiglione del Lago, Citta della Pieve, Magione, Panicale, Passignano and Tuoro). As well as acoustic and electric blues, concerts range from soul to funk, from Afro-beat to reggae. You can sit and dine in lake-side restaurants and enjoy a performance, or just sit under the stars in a town square and enjoy the music on offer.
Italian Singer/Songwriters There are many fabulous Italian singer/songwriters but many may not be well known outside of Italy. There are, however, some wonderful duets combining Italian singers and songwriters with other international stars that you may have come across. Here are three that I think are among the most notable. Primavera in Anticipo (It is My Song) was a very successful collaboration between Laura Pausini and James Blunt in 2009 which did well in Europe – though it was not released in the UK and Ireland for some reason. Eros Ramazzotti is a very popular Italian singer/songwriter who actually releases all his work in Italian and Spanish. He has been involved in many duets with artists such as Cher, Tina Turner, Andrea Bocelli, Anastasia, Laura Pausini and many more. He brought out an album of duets in 2017 called ‘Eros Duets’. My personal favourite is ‘I Belong to You (Il Ritmo Della Passione)’ that he recorded with Anastacia in 2006. A second mention for Andrea Bocelli, this time in a duet with my new neighbour Ed Sheeran (I wrote about Ed becoming my neighbour in my blog: https://www.shannathshima.me.uk/ artblog/ed-sheeran-bought-a-house-near-us/). Released in January 2018, a duet of Ed Sheeran’s song ‘Perfect’, sung in Italian has received wide acclaim. A summer of music?
No, more like a lifetime!
About Dorothy Dorothy is a fine art photographer and visual storyteller. Specialising in photo art. She uses her own photographs, work ng to develop them so they reveal the story that lies beneath. Dorothy Berry-Lound FRSA is an award winning artist, storyteller and writer/blogger. You can follow Dorothy’s blog and her latest art work at her website
https://dorothyberryloundart.com Dorothy is a regular columnist for CQI Magazine. From her mountain retreat in Umbria she writes articles which link neatly to the various topics each edition of CQI covers, which we greatly appreciate. However, this talented ladies first love is in creating unique and individually stylised artworks which would grace any home or office. CQI magazine recommend you browse Dorothy’s artworks website, we are certain you will find many inspiring and wonderful pieces you will want to own.
TOOTHACHE DROPS A short story by
Paul White
"Johnny" shouted Marjory, her voice carrying
for long, he had his special sweets, his
the length of the garden. "Johnny, stop
toothache drops. If he felt bad he ate two or
running about. Go sit with your Grandfather."
three of those and he was smiling and
Sluggishly, Johnny dawdled along the garden
laughing again in no time.
path towards the small arbour where his
Johnny often wondered why Grandfather
Grandfather sat. As he walked he ran a stick
Eddie did not go and see the dentist more if
along the fencing so it made a clackety-clack
his teeth hurt. Surely a dentist could make the
sound.
pain stop, or he could take Grandfathers tooth
Most adults found the noise annoying, but
away altogether?
Grandfather Eddie clapped his hands together,
Grandfather Eddie wrote songs. Not old songs
jumped from his seat and said: "Go back a bit
like he was old and Nanna was old, but songs
Johnny, go back and do that again".
you hear on the radio. He knew all stars and
Johnny liked Grandfather Eddie, he was funny.
artists. Grandfather had been on television
He did lots of stupid things and told jokes that
and had trophies for writing on display inside
his mother called 'only nearly funny'. That was
the house next to his collection of guitars.
when he wasn't grumpy.
Sometimes the famous people came to eat
Not that Grandfather Eddie was ever grumpy
dinner at Grandfathers house, or to have a barbecue.
Some of them were coming today. Which is
"You have done quite enough young man, I
why Johnny had to be on his best behaviour.
shall reward you handsomely when the record
Although, when you heard and saw all the
becomes a big hit."
things these people did, Johnny wondered
"Can I have a fast car, an orange one, with
why he had to behave when no one else did?
silver wheels?"
Adults can be strange at times. Most times.
Grandfather Eddie laughed. "When you are old
Johnny sat opposite Grandfather Eddie and,
enough you can have all the cars you want."
looking directly at his face, watched as he
"Eddie" it was Nana's voice. "They are
tapped away on the laptop keyboard. His
arriving."
Mother said, "Don't disturb your grandfather when his typing." So, Johnny waited patiently. "That's it," Grandfather said, with a big grin spreading across his face as he shut the laptop. "So, Johnny, that’s the Vampire Dunkin Monkeys next big hit in the bag. That's the Grunge-punk awards won for this year and it's all down to you and your clackety-
"Right, Johnny." said Grandfather Eddie, "Let's go to work, let's get that fast Orange car for you, shall we?" "Go to work? I thought they were your friends?" "My friends are Alexander Hamilton, Ulysses S.
Grant, Benjamin Franklin, William McKinley and Grover Cleveland. You would do well to make their acquaintance too, young man." Grandfather Eddie popped two toothache drops into his mouth as they walked towards the house. When they met their guests, Grandfather Eddie was chatting and buzzing
like a teenager.
END
Paul White is a prolific writer and author of fiction and non fiction.
Yo u c a n f i n d o u t m o r e a n d s e e all his books, some which are clacking".
NOT available on Amazon, on his
"I could have done more Clacking, but the
website.
Lemon tree is in the way," said Johnny.
h t t p : / / b i t. ly/ pa u l s w e b s i t e
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In the decade leading to his death Richard Feynman, the famous physicist, challenged his
friend Ralph Leighton to travel to a tiny republic that had become part of the Soviet Union. Tuva is a tiny country in Asia that is populated by what is known as Turkic people. During Feynmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenge, it was extremely difficult for Americans to travel to Tuva. It took years before Feynman and his friends got the requisite paper work to authorize their travel. In the end, Feynman succumbed to cancer just before he was scheduled to visit the country. His daughter took his place. <<< >>>
Hun Huur Tu on KEXP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ovoRyv4kw&t=280s Orphanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lament:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b1egQpIjLs Altai Sayan Tandy-Uula [Full album] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIrdoGK0-xg
The prestige of Tuva took off after Feynman’s death. A unique and mostly rural country, Tuva has a mountainous and forbidding landscape. What dominates Tuvan culture is horses and religion. But what has been the greatest export of this tiny country is music.
One of the traditions of Tuva is something that most westerners know little about. It’s called “throat singing” and most likely stems from musical prayer techniques in the Buddhist temples. By any standards, throat singing is fascinating. Also called “biphonic singing” throat singing involves, by western standard, an odd technique that utilizes the vibrations of normal singing to create a second tone by manipulation of the vocal chords and the mouth. This produces what are called overtones which are tones related to the original tone sung by the singer.
While a technical description of throat singing could make the eyes glaze over, it’s more important to describe the actual sound of throat singing. One form of the art creates an eerie whistling sound that rises and falls as the singer manipulates lips and oral cavity. Another version creates odd low grating tones. All this sounds basically odd by western standard but hearing throat singing is a treat.
My experience with throat singing began with a musical group called Hun Huur Tu, a group I saw three times in New York City. The group travels the world, bringing their unique style to audiences everywhere. What underlies
much of the music is a compelling clip-clop rhythm that comes from their national love of horses. The instruments are also traditional with the exception of the occasional use of a guitar.
Since the allure of the music is in the hearing I’ll ask my readers to follow this link to music by Hun Huur Tu. Shortly into the song you’ll hear what sounds like a whistling sound; this is throat singing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=R1AWQ7O10Lg&list=PLNhL603ziyeXvU3fKhX4kQM9IjPKS_iU
Just north of Mogolia, Tuva has been annexed twice in thirty years by Russia without anyone being the wiser. A large part of the population of Tuva is Russian and Russian is the official language of the country. Its ethnic makeup is complex, being made up a Mongols and other Turkic people. The working popular language is a mix of Russian, Tuvan and Mogolian.
Along with the sound of the horse moving, Tuvan music is based on multiple layers of sound expressed simultaneously. The Alash Ensemble web page describes this musical phenomenon as follows: The Tuvan way of making music is based on appreciation of complex sounds with multiple layers. Whereas the western cellist aims to produce a focused, pure tone, the Tuvan igil player enjoys breaking the tone into a spray of sounds and textures. Absolute pitch is less important than richness of texture. “Multiple sonorities are heard together as an inseparable whole. This idea may be illustrated by an anecdote about a respected Tuvan musician who was demonstrating the igil, a bowed instrument with two strings tuned a fifth apart. When asked to play each string separately, he refused, saying it wouldn’t make any sense. The only meaningful sound was the combination of the two pitches played together.” Throat singing allows the singer to create
two or three tones simultaneously. While seemingly magical to the west, where a singer only produces one tone, it is also natural to the human body; this should expand the horizons of musical knowledge if studied correctly. Keeping the traditions of multiple layers of tonality Hun Huur Tu has recently expanded their music to include more western instruments and even electronic music. Perhaps this small country may have a hand in the future of music both in Asia and the west.
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Neil Newton
Neil Newton is a Jack-of-all-trades. While this can be seen as a good thing, we do live in an age of specialization in music and the creative process as a driver for the creation of music plays less and less of a role in the production of commercial music. Technology, like auto tune, controls the landscape of popular music, putting the traditional creation of new music by instruments and the naked human voice in peril. Recently Gibson, the most famous of guitar maker in American history declared bankruptcy, something unthinkable a couple of decades ago. There are two things that drives Neil’s music: Pushing the envelope of solo acoustic guitar The creation of music that speaks to issue of abuse. Neil does write standard singer-songwriter songs. But he also writes songs about abuse and less than optimal childhood experiences. Growing up in New York City, Neil was weaned on early folk and the incredibly
eclectic music scene in the city during the 70s. As a teenager he studied at the Guitar Workshop which is historically the most progressive and comprehensive acoustic music school ever to exist in the New York area. While there, he studied music theory, jazz improvisation, folk fingerpicking, mandolin and a host of other musical topics. Along the way Neil played in a song writing folk duo, played in an electric blues band and has done his share of solo playing in restaurants and other venues. Over time this “jack of all trades” has moved away from electric instruments and group projects and moved toward a concentration on the acoustic solo guitar. Why? The guitar is one of the few traditional instruments that allows you play more than one voice at a time, making it a small and convenient accompaniment instrument. Ludwig Van Beethoven, a master of large ensembles that created vast “walls of sound” is quoted as saying “The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”
What started as a guitar technique has become more of a passion. Neil has found that he can take songs that are purely band infused rock songs such as “Break” by Three Days Grace and create arrangements for the acoustic guitar that are not simply parroted copies of the original rock recordings; the arrangement that Neil has created has as much delta blues embedded as it has rock, something that can’t be said of the original recording. This makes the arrangements a new thing. In some ways, this is sort of homegrown, acoustic, version of the mashups that are popular in music. As said above, Neil is a Jack of all Trades and has turned his hand to writing books like his debut novel, The Railroad.
On Sept. 11, 2001 Mike Dobbs' life was forever changed. Reeling from his nightmare experience in New York's subway as the twin towers collapsed he retreats from his high power Wall Street life to his run down country house. Soon he is embroiled in the life of Eileen Benoit and her 7year old daughter Megan as they flee Eileen's abusive exhusband. Suddenly Mike is thrown into a world he knows nothing about and he is forced to answer the question, how far would you go for someone you love?
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Stephanie Slevin Hi, my name is Stephanie Slevin. I am a Singer/Songwriter/poet/psychic medium/ from London U.K. I write from my pain and the pain of others . I also write upbeat tracks and a few jokes; all my lyrics come from poetry as we are all poets one way or another ... Keeping it real through pain of feel . Thank you for reading this summary an welcome to my page ; ) ...
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Listen to your heart as it gives you the beat....â&#x20AC;?
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