At just two and a half minutes, “Welcome the Winter Sun,” by Hilary de Vries, makes a virtue of brevity. Built around the bright, resonant tones of the Scottish clarsach, this gentle...
The title of Keisuke Yoshizawa's debut EP is an equation. Raised in Tokyo's old downtown, the composer and keyboardist grew up with a quiet melancholy and a restless madness side by side,...
An album called Bright Colors might sound cheerful, but bassist and composer Trevor Robertson wrote it out of loss. The music emerged from consecutive periods of great loss and growth in his...
Pieter Goemans' "Aan de Amsterdamse grachten" is a classic Dutch melody, and Sergiy Bolotny has given it to a solo violin. The result, "Little Dutch Rhapsody No. 3 (Capriccio Amsterdam)," came out...
Milan, Italy – Italian musician, guitarist, and composer Richard Green released “Age of Dreams” on 22 December 2024 as part of the EP First Light, the opening chapter of his most ambitious...
Childhood can feel like a place we leave without realizing we are leaving it. The imagination remains, but the certainty that anything is possible slowly gives way to practicality, expectation, and time....
For Sergiy Bolotny, folklore becomes more than musical material; it becomes a way of connecting places, histories and identities. A Ukrainian-born violinist making his home in the Netherlands, Bolotny turns toward Dutch...
We often talk about music as an escape from reality, but sometimes it is less about escaping than figuring things out. “Bent Out of Shape” by Peter Manning Robinson emerges from precisely...
