All Blog Posts Tagged 'composer' (6)

"Blue Dream" by Australian pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins has been hailed as a New Age masterpeice. This is the behind-the-scenes interview with Will Ackerman and Corin Nelsen at Imaginary Road Studios with live recording footage.

Fiona Joy Hawkins (born 1964) is an Australian composer. She was born in Cessnock, New South Wales, to a creative family, and trained as a classical pianist. Her first album, Portrait

"From The Outside" by Fiona Joy Hawkins, album Blue Dream (2008).

Fiona Joy Hawkins (born 1964) is an Australian composer. She was born in Cessnock, New South Wales, to a creative family, and trained as a classical pianist. Her first album, Portrait of a Waterfall charted at #1 on the New Age Reporter (NAR) World Charts in 2005. Her classical release, Angel Above My Piano, earned the NAR Lifestyle Music Award for Best P

An array of innovative melodies drifting over various continents and cultures. Each title releases its own emotional force and takes us into "another world", where atmospheres are created by remarkable instrumental arrangements of astonishing chords that are ideal for conveying emotion and sensitivity.

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This is a music video for Alexander Shulgin's composition "Polet Na Vozdushnom Share (Balloon Flight)" from part three of his songbook Triptych. The video is a montage of clips from modern-day Russia, showing both the flurry of day-time activity on the streets and the subsequent tranquility of the night.

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Relative to jazz in general, the genre "smooth jazz" often entails less complexity and more accessibility. However, Alexander Shulgin - the famous Russian composer and former member of the band "The Cruise" - succeeds in creating an album that is both complex, yet accessible, and thus pleases both musicians and non-musicia

This is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of part two of Alexander Shulgin's Songbook, Triptych. Producer Richard Niles and multi-instrumentalist Gary Husband discuss what it was like creating part two of Alexander Shulgin's instrumental album.

"Atmosphere is a key word for me in my musical endeavor, whether it's in the pop, jazz, classical or fusion