The Paper Kites - Young

Griffin House - Better Than Love

<b>Taken from new album 'Maps' https://messagetobears.bandcamp.com/album/maps</b>

<i>'Maps is the third LP from multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, the man behind Message to Bears. 

Following on from the success of Folding Leaves, Jerome has created something that encapsulates the folksy ambience of previous releases whilst adding an electronic dimension. Building layer upon layer, songs evolve with a fragile intensity. Vocal melodies are draped over string and guitar arrangements and end up soaring over them, at the same time lending a hook instantly recognisable as Message To Bears and blending harmoniously with the arrangement. 

The overall result of Maps is something that is both startling and familiar. You are drawn in, given a map if you will, and invited on a musical journey that nods to Message to Bears' past but also leads to the future.'</i>

Order from www.messagetobears.com

I Know You Love To Fall

Buy and Listen here:

Bandcamp: http://thegloamingbrassland.bandcamp.com/album/the-gloaming
Amazon: http://geni.us/gloamingamzndigi
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/1CeEkBmYJG9ghiHRls9poQ
iTunes: http://georiot.co/gloamingitunes
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The Gloaming's debut album, entitled simply The Gloaming, was produced by Thomas Bartlett and mixed by Patrick Dillett (David Byrne & St. Vincent). It was finished in the summer of 2013 during the build up to a series of sold out concerts at prestigious venues in London, Amsterdam, Paris & New York.

In early 2011, the five musicians first met to explore their collaboration at Grouse Lodge Studios in Ireland's County Westmeath, an hour northwest of Dublin. In August 2011 -- newly christened The Gloaming -- they went on their first Irish tour, including a sold out debut show at The National Concert Hall, Dublin. The sellout hints at the excitement surrounding their formation, as does the fact that Ireland's prime minister Edna Kenny was in attendance that night.

Most of The Gloaming's work is based on traditional Irish forms, the basic grammar of which is known as a "reel." "Reels" are performed in simple rhythmic meters (2/2 or 4/4) and repeated in simple configurations. They are the syntax of Irish music just as a "riddim" is to dub reggae and the "break" is to contemporary hip-hop.

Happily, what The Gloaming do with the syntax of Irish music is anything but simple nostalgia. Into these traditional structures, they introduce deep wells of personality and experience. Lyrics are drawn from the history of Irish literature, old and new. The music is played with the authority of virtuosos. The result is unclouded by sheen or hokey sentimentality. Instead, it's haunting and emotionally charged. It sounds ancient without being a mere reproduction.

The Gloaming: "Allistrum's March"

VSQ Performs The Hits of 2014 Vol. 3 is available January 20th

Vitamin String Quartet Performs Vance Joy's "Riptide"

Vitamin String Quartet Performs Sigur Ros' "Hoppípolla"
Available at iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/per-versions/id317265509

Vitamin String Quartet Performs Sigur Ros' "Hoppípolla"

First Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Armstrong Cabin

The Armstrongs

VSQ Performs Modern Rock Hits 2012 Vol. 2 is available now: http://vsq.io/mrh12v2

1. Sail (AWOLNATION)
2. I Will Wait (Mumford and Sons) 
3. Stubborn Love (The Lumineers)
4. Radioactive (Imagine Dragons)
5. Some Nights (fun.)
6. The A Team (Ed Sheeran)
7. Take a Walk (Passion Pit)
8. Madness (Muse)

Vitamin String Quartet Performs AWOLNATION's "Sail"

The Theory of Everything (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Chalkboard

The Theory of Everything

Los Angeles, California serves as home base for the concept group called Vitamin String Quartet. The group is made up of studio musicians who are brought together to interpret and record orchestra style covers of music from all types of genres ranging metal, techno, country, pop, rock and hip-hop dance music. While the quartet uses a wide assortment of artists and instruments, one fairly constant member of the group is violinist Tom Tally. Tally has been intimately involved in the composing, arranging and conduction of many songs on approximately 50 of the albums that have been recorded by the group. While the group is referred to as a string quartet, the reality is that more individuals are usually involved, using instruments such as violins, cellos, percussion, brass and woodwinds. The group was originally brought together in 1999 as an experimental project. They wanted to determine the effects of using classical style instruments to create new and different sounds on popular recordings. Early on, the FM broadcast station WWHK in Concord, NH would play the group's music 24 hours a day, every day, for a period of time. The popularity of the group's music has led to the music being featured on TV and in the movies. Credits include So You Think You Can Dance (2008), TV show The Vampire Diaries (2010), the 100th episode of Gossip Girl and the fifth season finale of Modern Family (2014). Throughout the years, the group has been involved in the recording of over 200 different albums. In 2009, the group stepped out of the box a bit and recorded some original material provided by some of the various musicians on the album Per_Versions.