Early Bird
Alongside the band Forestears, the producers Tom Peterson and Owen Crouch have recently launched a venture into the realm of experimental hip-hop, under the name Early Bird, and at the end of January...
View ArticleThe Shures Cover Whitney Houston
Gabriel Cabrera and Chris Kennedy of The Shures, though once again without Sophie, the group’s newest member, have ventured an impromptu cover of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” and...
View ArticleA New Video from The Shures – “Halo”
Though I’m still in the midst of bringing the other site up to grade, a video just crossed my path that’s remarkable, a rendition of Beyoncé’s “Halo” which, as Gabriel Cabrera and Chris Kennedy of The...
View ArticleThe Sunday Soundcloud – Dash?
As regards this and the other Musicuratum website, the last week has largely been absorbed by the work after the work, which proved to be somewhat less protracted than the former but demanded an equal...
View ArticleMobidextrous
A few months ago I featured in the Sunday evening round-up a collaboration of the English DJ Mobidextrous (earlier a resident of Beijing, he now lives in Singapore) and the Chinese singer known as Miss...
View ArticleSunday Evening’s Soundcloud Excursion
For today’s excursion among the artists represented on Soundcloud, it’s a threesome of diverse urban music which will be offered. To start things off, here is an eerie track called “Denouement,” made...
View ArticleThe Sunday Round-Up – Gone Gaga
This Sunday it isn’t the round-up of some tracks from Soundcloud that I’m rushing to complete, but another text which has proven to be a bit more complicated, and also – more to the point – more...
View ArticleThe Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud
This evening I have relatively little time on my hands (an interesting text near to completion is still in need of some work) and so, without further ado, here is today’s round-up: three tracks that do...
View Article“Stay” x3
They escaped my attention at the time when first uploaded earlier this year, as I was preoccupied by the renovation of this and the other website, but by way of belated rectification here are three...
View ArticleThe Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud
Today’s round-up includes two energetic versions, one a cover, the other a remix, and a bravura original, the former the work of two established acts in Los Angeles and the latter by one in Manchester...
View ArticleBenin City
A couple of weeks ago, a new trio in London called Benin City released a debut album entitled Fires in the Park, and as one of the tracks included on it, a promising number, “Baby,” had previously been...
View ArticleThe Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud
It seems that tonight’s round-up has been captivated by the relative obscurity of the words of some languages I don’t know and by a semi-opaque collection of letters in the one I know best. This...
View ArticleTwo Rectifications
The vocalist Dee Rüsche, active along with the keyboardist Owen Pratt and the drummer Jonas Ranssøn under the name Női Kabát (the Hungarian term for a woman’s jacket), has informed me that the trio is...
View ArticleMichael Bonaventure
A third mainstay of a small and distinctive body of musical minimalists and electroacoustic sound artists in Amsterdam, alongside René Baptist Huysmans and Luiz Henrique Yudo, hails from Scotland by...
View ArticleThe Sunday Round-Up on Soundcloud
In today’s edition of the weekly round-up there are three pieces by artists who have all been featured here before and for whom therefore introductions are not really needed. (Happily so, it turns out,...
View ArticleThe Jasmine Thompson Playlist: “Titanium”
The young London chanteuse Jasmine Thompson, who has begun to attract considerable notice during the last couple of months, has recorded a version of David Guetta and Sia’s “Titanium” and loaded it...
View ArticleFive Rounds of A.P.P.L.A.U.S.E.
A.P.P.L.A.U.S.E. – spelling out the word makes for a catchy hook, but Lady Gaga’s new song didn’t elicit much at all from me initially, when it hit the airwaves last week. To my mind, this emissary of...
View ArticleFynn Farrell
The second of the two singers is a young Londoner who has begun to perform material of his own as well as covers of other people’s, Fynn Farrell, whose abundance of skilled passion, in both his singing...
View ArticleA New Composition by Rory Smith
Right in the midst of the many post-publication mini-after-activities, the mood here is still rather halcyon and elated – and just now, as though to exemplify an exquisite sense of timing, the English...
View ArticleOn a Somber September First …
In view of the warclouds over all our heads, there will not be quite the usual round-up this Sunday so much as a pause to consider three pieces of sober apposite music. From Two Silhouettes in London,...
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