Epic orchestral music with beautiful strings, brass and piano

Wind Of Changes

classical orchestral piece for a trumpet, cello, piano and strings.. it is all about a trumpet in this composition

Home

Electronic composition with some classical influence, with piano, strings, and brass (trumpets, horns and trombones).

Approaching the Moon

classical waltz with flute, clarinet, French and English horn, brass.. influenced by waltzes of Tchaikovsky and other Russian composers

Waltz Of Roses

Both classical and a bit of ambient composition, with flute solo, strings, and some electronic pads, mostly from Spitfire VSLs. Enjoy!

Cold morning

Classical orchestral composition with French Horn and cello solo and strings, brass and some rhythmic pop music patterns and synth pads.

Winter Day

Orchestral composition with some epic influence, very dynamic.

Aspirations Of Youth

Relaxing ambient piece with piano, flute, duduk and strings

A beautiful day in October

What Are You Running From is about the human tendency to turn away from those aspects about ourselves we dislike the most, to run from our own darkness, desperately trying not to see it. Fiercely trying to deny it. The tragedy is this: if we do not pull these fragments of our selves out of the fog, raise them into the light, examine and understand them, we risk letting them run our lives. We risk allowing that darkness to define who we are and how we treat others.

This is Track 35 of The 52, a project in which Rachel LaFond is releasing a new single every week for a year.

Listen to all of The 52 thus far on this SoundCloud playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/rachellafond/sets/the52

Art Design by Rachel LaFond
Mastering by Mike Bloemendal

What Are You Running From

Melbourne producer Steve Law (aka Zen Paradox) takes us on a deep journey through the cosmos of experimental electronic soundscapes with this impressive mix, sparsely punctuated with techno laden beats, containing many of Steve's own original tracks.  Sit back and float away with number 14 in the Machine isoStream series.

Steve Law :: 7 quick lockdown questions

1.	Action, Drama, Romance or Documentary movie?
- Documentary.
2.	Coffee, Tea or Alcohol? 
- Alcohol. 
3.	Sleep in or get up early 
- Get up early (but not too early unless I have to).
4.	Favourite Sunday afternoon listening album 
- Lately it would by Odyssey by Terje Rypdal.
5.	What art movement describes you the best?
- Dada.
6.	Opera, Country, Folk or Black Death Metal
- Black Death Metal
7.	Tell us something no one knows about you?
- I observed 87 bird species this September (and same number in August), a pretty decent effort considering I'm in central Melbourne with a 5 km limit lockdown..

Tracklist:
Ryoji Ikeda - -.
Steve Law - Rhinella marina
Steve Law - Bringing Forth a World extract 1
Eliane Radigue - Kailasha
Vangelis - Atom Blaster
Steve Law - Bringing Forth a World extract 2
John Cage - Diary
Jan Garbarek - Dis
Zen Paradox - Distant Land (extended space mix)
Hesius Dome/Steve Law/Garagee/John Justin -  *Untitled
Stephan Micus - The First Day
Sense - How Sorry am I
Pan Sonic - Lomittain
Steve Law - The Opaline Forest
Stomu Yamashta - Our Way/As Far As
Terje Rypdal - Rainbow
Vangelis - Creation Du Monde
Edgar Froese - Pinnacles
John Tejada - Swift Box
Steve Roach - In the Eye of Noche
Svarog - Woking Time
Zen Paradox - Tension to Detail
Dubspeeka - Torn434
Steve Law - Memories of Light
Thomas Koner - Andenes


follow #SteveLaw / #zenparadox here:
https://soundcloud.com/zenparadox
https://www.facebook.com/zenparadoxlive
https://www.discogs.com/artist/57483-Steve-Law

image by VDMO

Machine isoStream 14 :: Steve Law

A colorful life makes for colorful music.

Rachel LaFond is a composer and pianist living in Austin, Texas, with roots in Seattle and New Zealand. You can find Rachel hanging from the heights on a trapeze bar, deep in creative thought in her home recording studio, and even swing dancing on a historic Austin dancefloor. Or you may have to look a bit further afield for her, traveling the world in search of the best scuba diving spots, trekking into the wilderness for a taste of untouched beauty, and turning up new friends everywhere. But she will always return home to her piano to work her magic, transforming it all into music.

Rachel combines a technically proficient approach to composition with an intuitive ability to draw in the listener and convey profound emotion. Her creative range reflects her enthusiasm for new experience: achingly introspective, whimsical and spooky, gut-wrenchingly powerful, her solo piano catalog covers it all and more. She’s even branched out from solo piano into epic symphonic electronica piano (Lost in the Azure), and angelic a cappella vocals. With a strong musical foundation and a zest for adventure, Rachel is forging a unique path as a composer, recording artist, and all-around creative human.

One of Rachel’s most ambitious ideas came to fruition in 2019-2020 with The 52. She released new music every week for a year, designing distinctive artwork for each track. Her career as a recording artist began in 2017 with the release of Wandering Soul - musical snapshots from a year spent backpacking around the world. She composed Encounters of the Beautiful Kind about the challenges and delights of living as an expat in New Zealand, and her Halloween album, Well Past Midnight, came about as a playful response to literally everyone telling her to write “holiday music”. 

Rachel has experienced many sides of the piano: she's the daughter of a piano teacher, a former piano teacher herself, studied piano performance as a teenager in Vienna, and earned a music degree at the University of Washington. She grew up adoring David Lanz songbooks and discovered Ludovico Einaudi's music in her twenties, which inspired a deep love for passionate, contemporary piano music.

In addition to writing and releasing music, Rachel relishes touring and live performance. Audiences rave about her captivating stage presence and deeply intimate emotional style at the piano. Past performances have ranged from playing on the main stage of a cruise ship (Audiosyncracy at Sea 2019) to inviting the public into her home for a more intimate concert - the best “seat” in the house is lying underneath her Yamaha C7!

Rachel’s always working on new projects, and she loves collaborating with other musicians and artists. Keep an eye out for what’s coming next, because this musical firecracker is far from done!

MACHINE is an Australian based record label for deep futuristic techno music.
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I am a classically trained composer, finished music school in Russia and took private lessons in music composition. I write and orchestrate my works myself.  I am influenced by music of Tchaikovsy, Chopin, Beethoven, Shubert, Alexander Desplat, Thomas and Randy Newman, Danny Elfman. I write in cinematic, orchestral, classical, epic and ambient genres. I have practice writing for short scenes in cartoons and documentaries and trailers. You can view some of my cues here https://vimeo.com/user105330114. I will consider any offer to write a soundtrack for a short documentary, cartoon or a film score. Please contact me via julialesnichy@aol.com

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