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New England Conservatory President Emeritus and Walter W. Naumburg Chair in Music, Laurence Lesser Bach: Suite for Cello solo no 1 in G major, BWV 1007. Recorded live in Jordan Hall, Boston, by Alex Hug

Bach: Suite for Cello solo no 1 in G major-Prelude

Our debut album "When It Was Now," is now available on iTunes- smarturl.it/atlas

Subscribe for more new music on YouTube- bit.ly/W8yTQS
iTunes - www.smarturl.it/atlas
Facebook- facebook.com/atlasgenius
Twitter- twitter.com/atlasgenius
Tour Dates- atlasgenius.com/tour

Lyrics to Trojans:
Take it off
Take it in
Take off all the thoughts of what we've been
Take a look
Hesitate
Take a picture you could never recreate
Write a song
make a note
for the lump that sits inside your throat
Change the locks, change the scene
Change it all but can't change what we've been

Your trojan's in my head

It's ok if it's gone
The thoughts that you had that it was the one
And oh what is left?
For all those times is that what you get?
Oh regardless
The walls get painted anyway
Oh you're guarding
The gates, but it all got away

Your trojan's in my head

Take it off
Take it in
Take off all the thoughts of what we've been
Take a look
Hesitate
Take a picture you could never recreate
Write a song
make a note
for the lump that sits inside your throat
Change the locks, change the scene
Change it all but can't change what we've been

About Atlas Genius-
The members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius do things a little differently….They set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band 3 years before they even played their first live show as Atlas Genius. For two years, they devoted their days to constructing their dream studio and spent their nights performing songs by The Police, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at local pubs to pay the bills. “We really got down and dirty with dry walling and literally laying the floorboards, and at the same time we were taking a couple of days a week to focus on writing songs,” recalls Keith Jeffery, Atlas Genius’s vocalist/guitarist. "We had a lot of song ideas and it was important to us to have our own studio where we could experiment and hone in on our sound," adds brother and drummer, Michael Jeffery. The studio was designed and outfitted by the brothers with the help of their father (who comes from a music and engineering background). Once the studio was complete, the first song that Atlas Genius finished was a song called “Trojans,” which they wrote, recorded and produced in collaboration with their friend, keyboardist Darren Sell. After many weeks tweaking the song, Michael insisted that the song was ready to be heard outside of the studio walls. Within an hour, “Trojans” was on the Triple J Unearthed Website, SoundCloud, and for sale via TuneCore on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify worldwide.

“We had begun to think that music was a pipedream and we had all gone back to university to pursue more realistic careers,” says Keith. “We’d had such a long slog of playing late nights and working all day, and it felt like we didn’t really have anything to show for it.” But then, in the midst of cramming for their Fall 2011 semester final exams, Neon Gold discovered “Trojans” on the Triple J Unearthed Website and wrote a post praising “Trojans” as a song sure to “invade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff.” Checking the band’s email account for the first time in over a month, the band found that dozens of record labels, publishers, lawyers, booking agents and management companies from all over the world had contacted them.

“We were trying to focus on school, but it was just impossible,” recalls Keith. “So we said, ‘There’s something going on here. Let’s get back to the music.’” The band added manager, Jonny Kaps from +1, to their extended family to navigate all of the interest as the band focused on writing and recording more songs.

Quickly named an iTunes Single of the Week in Australia and New Zealand, “Trojans” reached #4 on Hype Machine by the end of May. In August, SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s Alt-Nation discovered the song on a blog and decided to give it some spins. There was an immediate reaction from listeners, and in September, “Trojans” was placed into heavy rotation, where it maintained a top-five position on the listener-generated Alt-18 countdown and peaked at number one for 4 consecutive weeks in January 2012. “Trojans” began selling over a thousand tracks per week on U.S. iTunes and soon climbed to 45,000 sales - all with zero promotional efforts from the still-unsigned Atlas Genius.

“Knowing we had this audience that was waiting on new songs, we had a much greater sense of purpose than we had before,” says Keith. “It was really exciting to know that there were people who wanted to hear more of our music.” Although labels were clamoring for the band to come to the U.S. and play a series of showcase gigs, Atlas Genius turned down those offers in favor of staying in Adelaide to keep writing and recording new songs. In February 2012, after months of communicating with numerous labels via Skype, the band chose to travel to the US in order to make their label decision.

“We’d never been to America before,” says Keith. “We flew in at night and saw this sea of lights, and it really became apparent to us how massive the U.S. is. It was pretty intimidating - like ‘How do we fit into all this?’” In April 2012, the band returned to the states having made their decision to sign with Warner Bros. Records. “We felt a connection with them,” notes Keith. “Everyone there feels very creative and dedicated to the music.”

The band’s first release from their new label home, the EP Through The Glass (produced, engineered and mixed by the band), came out in June of 2012. With Through The Glass completed, Atlas Genius then holed up in its studio and worked on writing and recording its first full-length album, while at the same time rehearsing for their first ever tour. The tour started in August 2012 and led to three more tours back to back taking them thru to the end of the year. Thus, their full-length debut was finished up between tour dates and got completed just before Christmas 2012. When It Was Now is set for a US release on February 19th, 2013, with an international release to follow soon after.

The debut captures Atlas Genius’s singular combination of sophisticated musicality and warm, wistful spirit. Infused with a classic sensibility, each of the songs would fit seamlessly if somehow slipped into a long-treasured mixtape. On the shimmering “Symptoms,” for instance, taut keyboard riffs mesh with urgent acoustic strumming before the band bursts into a gently frenetic, guitar-drenched chorus. Meanwhile, “Back Seat” blends its pulsing bass throb with a sweetly infectious beat and tender vocals that alternately soar and sigh. And on “Trojans,” Atlas Genius begins with a restrained guitar melody and vocal (“Take it off, take it in/Take off all the thoughts of what we’ve been”) before giving way to the handclap-accented, harmony-soaked refrain and lush yet kinetic bridge.

“It’s still surreal,” says Keith of all that’s happened over the past 18 months. “I think when we were very young, we had hopes that something like this might happen one day,” he continues. (Thanks largely to encouragement from their Beatles fanatic parents, who encouraged the brothers to begin playing music by age 14.) “But then you grow up a bit and it seems less and less likely. So when we put ‘Trojans’ out, we figured it would be a success if maybe a hundred people heard it. We don’t want to force our music onto anyone. Our goal is to write songs that we love and we hope they connect with other people too.”

Trojans

Buy on iTunes

Lyrics and Vocals on "Nowhere to be found"
Vocals on "Dabdahdabdah" & "Abschied von den Hühnern"
Composed by Niki Reiser

Nowhere To Be Found

Wafia
https://soundcloud.com/wafia
https://www.facebook.com/WafiaMusic
https://twitter.com/Waffiaa

Produced by Thrupence
https://soundcloud.com/Thrupence
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thrupence/236600583030745

Sheepy on Spotify
http://bit.ly/MrSuicideSheepSpotify

Wafia - Let Me Love You (prod. Thrupence)

"Heartbeats" from "Veneer"

Website: http://found.ee/JGWebsite
Mailing list: http://found.ee/JGMailingList
Twitter: http://found.ee/JGTwitter
Instagram: http://found.ee/JGIG
SoundCloud: http://found.ee/JGSC
YouTube: http://found.ee/JGYouTube
Spotify: http://found.ee/JGSpotify

2015 Tour Dates:
Tickets available: found.ee/JGFullTour

March
2 Berlin, Germany @ Heimathaften* SOLD OUT
3 Berlin, Germany @ Heimathaften* SOLD OUT
4 Prague, Czech Republic @ Lucerna Music Bar*
5 Vienna, Austria @ Ottakringer Brauerei* SOLD OUT
6 Munich, Germany @ Muffathalle* SOLD OUT
7 Zurich, Switzerland @ Kaufleuten*
8 Frankfurt, Germany @ Mousonturm* SOLD OUT
9 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg Oude Saal* SOLD OUT
10 Paris, France @ Cabaret Sauvage*
11 London, UK @ Scala* SOLD OUT
12 London, UK @ Scala* SOLD OUT
13 Coventry, UK @ Warwick Arts Centre*
14 Manchester, UK @ Academy 2* SOLD OUT
16 Brussels, Belgium @ Cirque Royal*
17 Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefarlich* SOLD OUT

April
6 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer*
7 Washington, DC @ 930 Club* SOLD OUT
8 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg* SOLD OUT
10 New York, NY @ Webster Hall* SOLD OUT
11 Boston, MA @ Paradise* SOLD OUT
12 Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre*
13 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre*
14 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall* SOLD OUT
15 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall* SOLD OUT
16 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center* SOLD OUT
17 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center* SOLD OUT
18 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre*
20 Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre*
22 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot*
24 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater* 
25 Vancouver, BC @ Imperial* SOLD OUT
27 San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club* SOLD OUT
28 San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club* SOLD OUT
29 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent* SOLD OUT
30 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent* SOLD OUT

May
22-24 Mannheim, Germany @ Maifeld Derby
22-25 Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Festival
28 London, UK @ Shepherd's Bush Empire 
29 Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound

June
4-6 Porto, Portugal @ NOS Primavera Sound
12-14 Aarhus, Denmark @ Northside Festival
26-28 Oslo, Norway @ Piknik I Parken

July
1-4 Gdynia, Poland @ Open'er Festival
4 Dachau, Germany @ Dachauer Musiksommer
16-19 Ostrava, Czech Republic @ Colours

August
10-17 Budapest, Hungary @ Sziget Festival
20-22 St Pölten, Austria @ Frequency Festival
21-23 Biddinguizen, Netherlands @ Lowlands
21-23 Hamburg, Germany @ Dockville Festival

* with Ólöf Arnalds

Heartbeats

Elsewhere is the title of track of my debut album, released 6th April 2015 on Because Music.
Produced by Rodaidh McDonald. ‘Elsewhere’ is available to pre-Order now: 
http://po.st/ElsewhereAlbum
http://po.st/ElsewhereAmaz 

Live: 
7th April - The Lantern, Bristol
8th April - The Deaf Institute, Manchester
9th April - Elektrowerkz, London

Denai Moore - Elsewhere

Endgame (cello Solo)

From 'Red' EP, released via X Novo April 2015.

Catch Mt. Wolf live at Cecil Sharp House, London on 15th April, tickets here - http://bit.ly/1wU83SZ



Red (Deluxe Version)

Hamburg

Homegrown

From 'Red' EP, released via X Novo April 2015.

Catch Mt. Wolf live at Cecil Sharp House, London on 15th April, tickets here - bit.ly/1wU83SZ

Thanks to @seanxoleary and @indieshuffle for the premiere: http://www.indieshuffle.com/mt-wolf-viii-ft-alexa-harley/

VIII (feat. Alexa Harley)

Follow Virtu:
https://soundcloud.com/virtumusic
https://www.facebook.com/virtumusic
https://twitter.com/virtumusic
https://instagram.com/virtumusic/

Follow Daya: 
http://www.facebook.com/TheOfficialDaya
http://www.twitter.com/TheOfficialDaya
http://www.instagram.com/TheOfficialDaya

Free Download

Daya - Hide Away (VIRTU Remix)

Lorne - Oil and Water (Acoustic)

Written by Lorne
Mixed by BOA

www.lornemusic.com

Lyrics:

In the dead of night I feel the tide
I see the wreckage in the sea we left behind

All the places where we went have lost their names
All the churches where we stopped are empty frames

We were oil and water lying side by side
We did everything we could trying to collide

In the quiet hour you were hard to read
A predicament with no reprieve

All the places where we went have lost their names
All the churches where we stopped are empty frames

We were oil and water lying side by side
We did everything we could trying to collide

Oil and Water (Acoustic)

BREAK MY HEART AGAIN

Music by David Allred

http://pianoday.org/

David Allred - Piano Tree

Hidden Paths (Piano Day 2018)

Happy Piano Day 2018!

Middle Names is original released by Devendra Banhart on his 2016 record "Ape In Pink Marble" (Nonesuch Records).

Middle Names (rework by Nils Frahm)

Released on March 29 in celebration of Piano Day 2018.
Pre-order the album 'Persona' here: http://phonofile.link/rivalconsoles-persona

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Be Kind

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Rival Consoles - Be Kind

You taught me the courage of stars before you left.
How light carries on endlessly, even after death.
With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite.
How rare and beautiful it is to even exist.

I couldn’t help but ask
For you to say it all again.
I tried to write it down
But I could never find a pen.
I’d give anything to hear
You say it one more time,
That the universe was made
Just to be seen by my eyes.

I couldn’t help but ask
For you to say it all again.
I tried to write it down
But I could never find a pen.
I’d give anything to hear
You say it one more time,
That the universe was made
Just to be seen by my eyes.

With shortness of breath, I’ll explain the infinite
How rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist

Saturn - Sleeping At Last

Ableton EIC - Solo Cello (legato)

Ableton Orchestral Strings - Cello Solo

Life Size Ghosts EP

Life Size Ghosts

This beautiful cello solo by Salma Vives can be found on our album "Ruh" as part of the track "Nur al-huda". 

Solo Cello (Nur al-huda)

Don't ask if you don't wanna know
There's no one else here who do
And don't rise if you don't plan to go
Or know where you're going to

And don't jump when you know you can't fly
At least you don't seem to have wings
That can bring your head higher than mine
I have my plane to settle in
You have your thoughts
That's where I win

Don't dream when you can't make it real
They're only fictions anyway
And don't love if you really want to feel
The spiking sense of grey
Our spiking sense