Today, I'm listening to an upcoming release on Bigo & Twigetti, titled From the Deep, collecting five pieces by different composers, all performed by a newly formed Curve Ensemble. "Taking their name from the arc shape they perform in, Curve Ensemble is made up of a group of friends who met playing with many of the major orchestras and chamber ensembles on platforms throughout the UK and abroad." This is a collective of musicians, each bringing their own unique experience to the entire whole, turning original compositions into emotional, heartfelt, and honest music. These immersive performances include works from Angus MacRae, Jim Perkins, Tony Woollard, Anna De Bruin and Daniel Hewson. For my introduction to this upcoming album, I've selected a piece by none other than the founder of this London-based imprint, Jim Perkins. It's a deceptively simple composition, demonstrating how even the most unadorned melody can transform the delivery in the hands of the performers who truly connect with its message. If you enjoyed this, you should also check out this Bigo & Twigetti Mix put together by Leah Kardos for Headphone Commute back in 2020.

From The Deep

A Distant Sun

TRACK PREMIERE : Jim Perkins & Curve Ensemble - A Distant Sun

Hi! I'm Niccolò: I make music in my room with a digital piano and Logic. I'm focusing mainly on alternative rock and OST for D&D sessions. Feel free to use the last ones, they're all with free licence. Let me know how to improve and getting better. I'll be happy also in trying to help if you have some necessities or request for songs.
My influences  for soundtracks are Yoko Shimomura, Nobuo Uematsu, Joe Hisaishi, Masayoshi Soken as well as the great Philip Glass.

I'm developing also playlists for D&D soundtracks: if you have suggestions or track to recommend, write me!

I also make alternative rock songs. The project witch I'm slowly developing is "Through Hell and Heaven", a tell witch analyze the more sore aspects of life as well as the birghtest, trying to find balance.
Here I am inspired mainly by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Swans as well from songwriters as Tom Waits.

Music picks you up from where people and places left you offering soft hands to hold. It lets you fade in and out of this world to escape into feelings and memories.

Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!

Gaspar Monterde is a fingerstyle guitarist and composer, based in Parets, Barcelona

Remember to seek beauty.


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