Challenging Performance offers a new approach to western classical music, encouraging and enabling performers to be more individual and creative. It shows how and why creativity is normally discouraged, why it should not be, and how it can become part of everyday performance. The linked website, challengingperformance.com, features podcasts, a free online book, and many new and highly imaginative performances. 

The project is aimed at young professional performers, musicians in the making, and open-minded lovers of classical music. 

We showcase recordings by contemporary performers who use a range of historical, modern and experimental approaches to revitalise the performance of classical repertoire. 

Visit https://challengingperformance.com for more information.

Studio based in Durban,  have a listen to some of my work.

Corentin Boissier, French neoromantic classical composer.

My Website :
https://www.corentinboissier.net/

My YouTube channel :
https://www.youtube.com/user/CorentinBoissier

My five other channels on YouTube on which I upload 20th and 21st centuries post-romantic orchestral works by little-known composers:
- collectionCB (533 videos):
https://www.youtube.com/user/collectionCB
- collectionCB2 (570 videos):
https://www.youtube.com/user/collectionCB2
- collectionCB3 (513 videos):
https://www.youtube.com/user/collectionCB3
- collectionCB4 (521 videos):
https://www.youtube.com/user/collectionCB4
- collectionCB5 (one new video each two days):
https://www.youtube.com/c/collectionCB5

My "Ideal Discotheque of more than 1,700 orchestral works of feelings":
https://fr.scribd.com/document/427561012/BOISSIER-Corentin-Ideal-Discotheque-of-More-Than-1-700-Orchestral-Works-of-Feelings

Downtempo / dream pop / trip-hop / psychedelic. Glitchy-metaphysical electronica, often with female vocals. 
 
The real ok boomer is Pete Carnac, co-founder of Nettwerk dream pop band Single Gun Theory.
 
Recent reviews of the real ok boomer:
“an ambient, swirling, sample laden delight…” [Electric Sound Of Joy, UK]
“really really nice, very spacious and lovely” [Spin This, Canada]
“a cool atmospheric ambience” [Closing Sounds, France]
“very smooth and mellow” [RKJ Music, Australia]
“the vibe is cool, the melodies are very smooth and lovely” [Black Raven, UK]
“super dreamy and smoothly uplifting” [EKM.CO, Canada]

Ten years after a chance meeting in a humid Rio de Janeiro hostel, Cheshire/Liverpool band El Misti finally release their debut album. 

Singer Songwriter Paddy Bleakley and guitarist Kieran Gilchrist, bonded over a mutual love of classic acoustic folk, Americana, rock and roll, West Coast psychedelia and Latin culture, as well as a mutual disregard for personal safety, health and well-being. 

The pair went their separate ways: Kieran embarking on a musical pilgrimage to Central and South America, and Paddy starting a bar and music venue called Kash 22, in his native Frodsham, Cheshire. 

Eventually reuniting, the pair built a recording studio above the bar and got to work. With countless hours of writing, regular hazy after-hours sessions and occasional intimate performances, the duo took their time to create a body of work they believed in. 

The bar acted as a creative club house, bringing the rest of the collective together. Mike Gregson, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter was originally pulling the pints. Rory Ballantyne, notable for his production work with Liverpool bands ‘Paul Dunbar and The Black Winter Band’ and ‘The Grande’, came highly recommended by a few of the acts gracing the bar’s stage. 

Early 2019 saw them hone their craft in the studio above Kash 22, before checking into the live room at Liverpool’s Ark Studios. 

Helped along by legendary local musicians such as KD Taggart on mandolin and percussion, Lee Shone on keys, Adrian Gautrey on organ and classical violinist Daniel Axworthy, the band finally finished an album drawing influences from the sum of its parts. 

From Nashville to Santiago de Cuba, Memphis to Manchester, Liverpool to Laurel Canyon, and Belfast to Woodstock, the needles of musical diversity and political discourse glide elegantly over El Misti’s debut record. 

You have been warned...

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