Say hi ! : hawaska.music@gmail.com

French composer and producer based in New Zealand, Hawaska beautifully blends emotive neo-classical works with electronic music - creating soft, melancholic but somewhat luminous journeys. 

Sebastien’s passion for music started with the drums and other percussive instruments at age 10. Although he trained in a classical music school, his interest for classical music and more specifically piano based works came much later. He spent his teenage years in the suburbs of Paris, obsessed with Nirvana and other heavy rock music bands. 

Sebastien gained experience in writing and music production from his prior indie rock projects. His day job allowed him to live in many different countries, where he was exposed to a variety of music until he decided to call New Zealand his home. Many things have changed in his life and so his music. The loud drums and distorted guitars have been replaced by dreamy piano chords and electronic beats, which led to the creation of Hawaska. 

Sebastien has always loved nature, the greatest artist of all and from where he takes most of his inspiration. Other influences include Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Jon Hopkins, Christian Loffler… and many other artists who have contributed to the  development of his unique sound.
Following a very intimate and introverted process of music production, he released his first single ‘Ascending’ in September 2022, which will be followed by an EP in the coming months.

I currently live in Brussels. I studied Film & TV and now work as a broadcast director for TV.

I've been playing classical piano since the age of 7, and it became a part of my life. I also play the drums for about 6 years now. As I still love classical music, I came to love the modern minimalistic interpretation of classical music in the nowadays "post"classical music. 
Also I'm very interested in analog synthesis and the scaping of sounds to create a certain mood. 

I love listening to music and I try making music with sounds I like.

michiel.meire@hotmail.com
Post Classical and Ambient Electro

Independent musician qualified in music production, performance and music business inspired by all types of situations, people and emotions.

Nineteen Fifty Eight are an alternative/ rock quintet based in South Wales made up of members: Ceryn Sara (Vocals), Charlie Pitson (Lead Guitar), Jared Planas (Rhythm Guitar), Isaac Griffiths (Bass Guitar) and Liam Grundie (Drums).

We have been gigging constantly since we started in 2013, across Wales and over to Bristol. In early 2013 we released our self produced debut EP 'Rapture' accompanied by a self produced music video for the title track.

Since the end of 2014 we have played a bunch of sold out shows across South Wales including our debut headline show in December at The Scene, Swansea. We have been lucky to play some fantastic venues including Clwb Ifor Bach and supported some great bands such as Altered Sky, Max Raptor and Brawlers. We were also extremely grateful to be one of four bands shortlisted to support Paolo Nutini at Singleton Park, Swansea!

We have been fortunate to have a handful of our tracks aired on BBC Radio Wales with Adam Walton as well as various other radio stations across the UK and even in the US, including BBC Radio 1 with Huw Stephens!

We took some time out in February (2015) to go to Longwave Studios to work with Romesh Dodangoda for our next EP 'When Will I Get To You?' which we released on July 3rd 2015. Now our EP is out there we are gigging hard and look forward to embarking on our next musical adventure!

scsimonmusic@gmail.com
Please visit www.scsimonmusic.com.
I am working on a concept to share the creative process. You will find a series of posts that show the development and progression of the music along with technical information including sources, techniques and links to influences. I would be very interested to have your thoughts and reactions to this project as it is in a very early stage of development and constructive feedback will help me develop the concept further.

I am a surgeon.  I work in a mostly poor and working class community in Arizona.  My practice is a mix of elective and urgent cases with a large amount of Laparoscopic and, more recently, Robotic procedures.

Many days and some nights I make lives better and some days I save a life.  There have been a few dark days when I’ve contributed to the universe’s entropy rather than added to it’s light.

After nearly 25 years in practice I still feel privileged to care for others and continue to love the performance of a surgery.

I am a musician.  I have been playing music since I was 10 years old.  I have played rock, dance music, European classical music and Jazz.  I studied music at Bennington College with Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, Nadi Qamar.  (If you don’t know them, Google them.)

A few years ago, I decided to learn how to create and produce computer based electronic music.

I have experienced more technological change during my career in surgery than in all of the rest of surgical history.  The technologies available to me as a musician have also evolved far beyond what I could have imagined as a student and young musician.

I am a child of the 60’s and 70’s and remember a time when popular music often reflected, connected to; responded to, and influenced the social and political challenges of the time.  My current musical interest is electronic protest music….Propaganda for a better world. 

Economics
Blog http://cafeeconomique.wordpress.com
Talk http://soundcloud.com/cafeaug12

Followers of DNME