Entertainment/Culture

Julian Treasure & The Power of Sound (TED)

February 2, 2010

Have you ever had that experience where you decide you’re going to do something and then you suddenly start seeing this thing everywhere in your life?  I had decided to increase the number of posts on the blog about how music can affect you and I have a load of studies lined up to talk [...]

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Review: Sora – Celtic / World Music with an Angel Voice

January 27, 2010
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We’re on a Celtic kick at the moment – not least ‘cos of the free website giveaway that a musician / band or artist can win over at Kilted Chaos – but specifically because this week we’ve been listening to the music of Sora. Sora is a Canadian Celtic / World singer songwriter who’s new [...]

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Music Recommendation – Craig Urquhart

January 21, 2010
Listen to Craig Urqhart

Another musician who’s music we are currently listening to is composer/pianist Craig Urquhart. Craig not only produces beautiful instrumental piano pieces, but he’s also a believer that music is helpful to human beings, which is one of the premises on which music2work2 is built. According to Craig each composition reflects the healing power of music [...]

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Brett Juilly – music2work2 Recommendation

January 7, 2010

While browsing Last.fm recently, I came across the music of Brett Juilly. His music is also instrumental and piano driven. I listened to all 18 tracks on his album Piano and can say that I enjoyed them all. There were a couple of tracks that I particularly like, The Dance, being one. The Dance – [...]

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61-808 – 9 minutes 49 seconds

January 4, 2010

Piano, Strings and an 808 heart beat   $1.99 Download Now   I hope everybody had a great holiday – I certainly did.  I suspect I’m like many of you in that I use Christmas and New Year as a release valve after the pressure of the year.  Two weeks of relaxing, hanging out with [...]

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Thank You Monsters are Not Myths

December 24, 2009
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Courtesy of Alex from Kilted Chaos – this arrived in my inbox yesterday: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I’ve been talking music and Tech with Evan from Monsters Are Not Myths for a couple of years now. Their latest album Corporate Grown is pretty kick ass – honest to goodness Indie rock and [...]

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Last Chance 1218 Variations

December 19, 2009

Piano variation on the theme from the movie Last Chance [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Was up late last night re-doing the piano track for Last Chance – http://projectlastchance.com – Having been away from the track for a week I worked on a little variation to warm up and get back into the [...]

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Emma Beats The Blowfish

December 10, 2009
Beating the Blowfish by Emma Pontin

One of my favorite pieces of solo piano music on music2work2 is Emma – along with its accompanying piece, the music was written to help a friend get through chemo. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Emma chose to visualize her cancer as a blowfish – it gave her something tangible to direct her [...]

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