The New Canaan Library once again welcomes musician, composer and educator Michael-Louis Smith, presenting a three-part series exploring the many fascinating elements of harmony. The live webinar will take place Tuesday evenings, September 7, 14 and 21 at 7 p.m. EST. Zoom login information will be provided when registering at newcanaanlibrary.org. The relaxed and educational workshop series is suitable for musicians and non-musicians alike and will cover elements of harmony, from its finished parts to an exploration of chord progressions in familiar songs. Part 1 – September 7 – Building Basic Chords: Participants will first learn about intervals, which are the basic building blocks of triads (chords made up of three notes). Part II – September 14 – Identifying chord / scale relationships: participants will learn how to build a major scale, and more. Part III – September 21 – Harmonizing a melody: participants will learn how a melody corresponds to its harmonic counterpoint by analyzing a well-known piece of music. Musician, composer and educator Michael-Louis Smith received his Masters of Music from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music and has more than two decades of experience arranging, performing and recording music. In 2001, he started giving home music lessons to students of all ages, from 3 to 70 years old. Michael, his wife Christina and their five year old son Braven moved to New Canaan in 2014. Since joining the community he has presented concerts and music theory workshops at the library, his band has donated her talents to help the League of Young Women. of New Canaan raises money for charity and has performed and helped develop a jazz concert series at the Carriage Barn Arts Center in Waveny Park.
(The Magazine Plus Editorial): – Tampa, Florida September 8, 2021 (Issuewire.com) – Hailing from Detroit via Tampa, Florida, Harmony Devoe’s compilation of melodies, metaphorical puns and poetic lyricism announced it as one of the East Coast’s biggest rising R&B stars. Her latest single, “When U Fall Outta Luv”, shows precisely why she is lyricism in motion.
Released on all digital platforms on 9/10/2021, with pre-orders through iTunes on 8/21/2021, this track was produced by JetBlakBrown and features an appearance by JaKeith. The ballad itself is about the real, raw situations that occur in the home, focusing on the torturous emotional fallout of a broken relationship, while also putting up with it during the most devastating pandemic of our generation.
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As Harmony’s usual captivating vocal performances and intricate songwriting shine through, JaKeith delivers her soft voice that blows up the walls of every note, bringing a masculine perspective to the storyline, to create a stunning duet performance that s’ flows perfectly throughout.
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LA based producer Kyle walker returns to London imprint Another rhythmwith his contagious and groovy new single “Midnight Dancer”, a powerful blend of tech-house punch and moving musical detail. Built on the foundations of a call and response with a trumpet melody and djembe groove, this is an emphatic piece of tech-house built for the return of clubs and festivals.
A personality of hard work, determination and undeniable production talent helped Walker have an instant strong impact on the tech-house scene since its first appearance. Its sound palette extends from the deep and melodic side to the more gravelly side and focused on the clubs of the electronic spectrum. Therefore, Walker has graced some of the genre’s biggest labels, including Repopulate Mars, Club Sweat and Swim or swim. He has also walked the stages of the biggest American festivals including EDC Las Vegas, Nocturnal Wonderland, Beyond Wonderland, North Coast Music Festival and more.
His emphatic tech-house anthems also received regular support from Lee Foss, Gorgon City, Claptone And much more. “Midnight Dancer” directly follows his latest Repopulate Mars release, the EP Zilla, an assortment of 3 driving tracks that further illustrates Kyle Walker’s production skills.
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American Cruise Lines has launched its new riverboat, the 175-passenger American Melody, with a 22-day Mississippi cruise from Natchez, Mississippi on September 3.
ACL said the cruise is the longest Mississippi cruise ever. It was originally scheduled to operate from New Orleans to St. Paul, Minnesota, but due to Hurricane Ida, passengers boarded at Natchez.
The Melody will operate eight-day cruises on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and St. Paul and eight-day cruises on the Mississippi River (including round trips to New Orleans and special cruises for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years) until December.
The Melody is the latest addition to ACL’s Modern series. The ship features a multi-level sky-lit atrium, indoor and outdoor lounges, a casual outdoor dining and cafe, a fitness center, and a Skywalk on the upper deck with an elliptical cantilever cutout above the ship’s fourth deck. All of Melody’s cabins have balconies.
Stairs leading to the upper Skywalk deck on the American Melody. Photo credit: American Cruise Lines
This is the ACL’s fourth riverboat in its Mississippi fleet and the second in its Modern series to launch this year. The line will introduce six of these new builds in four years, offering cruises on the Mississippi and Columbia / Snake rivers.
The Modern series launched in 2018 with American Song, followed in 2019 by American Harmony and American Jazz in March 2021.
ACL has announced the names of two more modern riverboats coming in 2022: the American Symphony and the American Serenade.
CLARIFICATION: This report was updated on September 8 to indicate that the Natchez-to-St. Paul’s Sailing is the longest American cruise line ever on the Mississippi River.
The New Canaan Library once again welcomes musician, composer and educator Michael-Louis Smith, presenting a three-part series exploring the many fascinating elements of harmony. The live webinar will take place Tuesday evenings, September 7, 14 and 21 at 7 p.m. EST. Zoom login information will be provided when registering at newcanaanlibrary.org. The relaxed and educational workshop series is suitable for musicians and non-musicians alike and will cover elements of harmony, from its finished parts to an exploration of chord progressions in familiar songs. Part 1 – September 7 – Building Basic Chords: Participants will first learn about intervals, which are the basic building blocks of triads (chords made up of three notes). Part II – September 14 – Identifying chord / scale relationships: participants will learn how to build a major scale, and more. Part III – September 21 – Harmonizing a melody: participants will learn how a melody corresponds to its harmonic counterpoint by analyzing a well-known piece of music. Musician, composer and educator Michael-Louis Smith received his Masters of Music from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music and has more than two decades of experience arranging, performing and recording music. In 2001, he started giving home music lessons to students of all ages, from 3 to 70 years old. Michael, his wife Christina and their five year old son Braven moved to New Canaan in 2014. Since joining the community he has presented concerts and music theory workshops at the library, his band has donated her talents to help the League of Young Women. of New Canaan raises money for charity and has performed and helped develop a jazz concert series at the Carriage Barn Arts Center in Waveny Park.
Navigating through Covid and the racial socio-political events of everyday life, The Livesays continues to deliver insightful, poignant and hard-hitting music.
Group in the making Livesays, starring Clarence Clemons guitarist and singer Billy Livesay, is set to release his latest masterpiece in the form of his new album “Not What I Bargained For”. Billy Livesay, best known for his work with E-Street Band legend Clarence Clemons, is set to make a dramatic comeback in the new album, due out September 1, 2021, and promises to be a masterful hybrid of melody, passion, and rhythm.
The Livesays were forced to take a hiatus from making their 4th CD in 2018 following the sudden and unfortunate death of their beloved drummer and bandmate Eddie Zyne. The search for a new drummer began in 2019, and ended with the addition of Howard Goldberg while reconnecting with the pianist who left the band in 2014 – Timothy Murphy.
After the group reformed and regrouped, Covid struck in 2020, forcing the entire world to lock down. And so, isolated in his Lauderdale-area home, critically acclaimed singer and songwriter Billy Livesay began writing, creating a whole new set of songs that included two entirely new albums, the last one being “Not What I Bargained For. “.
Most of the songs on the last album reflect everything that’s been going on in the world lately, focusing specifically on the socio-political disparities that exist in our society. With 12 new songs about life in 2021, The Livesays is ambitiously releasing its 5th CD (and the second in less than a year) as a cathartic and creative release.
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The Livesays are respected members of the South Florida music community. They are a Heartland-Rock revivalist offering a blend of Americana and Roots Rock infused with Pop, Blues, Funk and Soul, forging a national career, which includes, licensing 21 original songs to MTV for a series, and contracts. editing with Transition Music, Kid Gloves Music, Crucial Music and Fervor Records. Credits include placement of songs on TV shows such as: “Saving Grace”, “Witch Blade”, “Robin’s Hoods”, “Doogie Howser”, “King of The Hill”, “The Matthew Sheppard Story”, ” Samantha Who “,” My name is Earl. ” “One Tree Hill”, and countless Netflix and Amazon series.
The Livesays have been dubbed “Heartland-Rock Revivalists” offering a blend of Americana and roots rock infused with pop, blues, funk and soul. They have long been respected members of the South Florida music community, well known for their dynamic live performances. They have opened for dozens of international artists and have been featured in countless rock, blues and indie festivals.
Their latest album, titled ‘Not what I bargained for’ will be released worldwide on September 1, 2021. This album features 12 tracks – Ten new original songs and two surprise classic covers. Everything was recorded in Billy Livesay’s home studio, produced by Billy, mixed by Grammy-nominated engineer Steve Gordon and mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Mike Fuller at Fullersound in Ft Lauderdale.
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“Come on and let the happiness begin”, chants Lorde on the title track of her third album. “Blink your eyes three times when you feel it start.” Alas, I’ve had this collection of Hippie Heat Mist Noodles on repeat for a few days now, and I’m still waiting for the promised sonic effect. In fact, I’m still waiting for more than one or two discernible songs.
The disappointment of Solar energy feels intense, because Lorde, real name Ella Yelich O’Connor, had set the bar so high that David Bowie thought she was “the future of music”. The New Zealander was only 16 when she first appeared on the pop scene in 2013, like a fluorescent light. His first album, Pure heroine was the work of an artist who had no interest in flattering emotions. Instead, Lorde used her unique and exciting manipulation of synths and vocal harmonies to shine harsh beams on messy truths. It was a mission she pursued with the raw exploration of “the terror and the horror of wondering why we bother” on her second album. Melodrama (2017).
Corn Solar energy finds Lorde trading her trademark franchise for a melodyless detachment. Instead of finding fresh new sounds, producer Jack Antonoff helped her filter out the trippy beach vibes of the 1960s through her love of early hits from the Noughties of S Club 7 and Robbie Williams. There’s a nod to George Michael’s “Faith” (1987) in the stubble and booty-shaker beat of the title track, and a sleepy nod to Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” (2010) on “California”, with its farewell to “all bottles, all models” and slightly Tori Amos-ish falsetto jump into the chorus. There’s a little Natalie Imbruglia breeze in the driving time bop of “Secrets from a Girl (Who’s Seen it All)”. The slap of the palm of the bongos echoes through “Oceanic Feeling”, arousing sweet memories of All Saints’ “Pure Shores” (2000), but lacking the tidal momentum of the old tune.
Interviewed by The New York TimesLorde says she’s spent years tweaking the vibe of a psychedelic summer to make “a great weed album.” She clearly had fun sampling waves and cicadas on her phone and recruiting Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo to add floating layers of sweet harmony. There are groovy flutes and a crackling tambourine. Despite her long-standing hatred for guitars, she earned an ace when fellow New Zealander Neil Finn left her 1965 Fender Jaguar “Lake Placid Blue” in her studio for her. Producer Jack Antonoff gives the vintage guitar a delightfully cool, smooth sound: like a Hockney pool. But he lets it splash around without really delivering any memorable hooks – until you tune it like a water feature in a hotel lobby. He pours aimless arpeggios on “Stoned at the Nail Salon” as Lorde sighs for the songs she loved at 16 and sounds like she already misses the one she sang. This is one of the many songs whose melody is discolored by the sun.
Throughout the record, Lorde says she delivers an “extreme satire” of modern wellness cults of the kind that she and her friends find appealing. In the video for “Mood Ring”, she dresses in a blonde wig – à la Gwyneth Paltrow – and participates in a variety of Goopy hobbies like cute pebble patterns clad in designer silk. In a panting voice, she sings about how the Searing Sage and Cleansing Crystals “can’t seem to fix my mood / Today it’s as dark as my roots.” But the voice lacks the bite of satirical conviction or the weight of real grief.
Lorde has often spoken of wanting to make music like Joni Mitchell. Solar energy looks like his vision for the 21st century The hissing of summer lawns, the 1975 classic in which Mitchell explored the dark undersides of privileged California suburban lives. But where Mitchell has spoken of deep desperation in her stories of rich women hiding “spiritual darkness with a cheerful mask,” Lorde is content to float on her lovely pastichey soundscape without really connecting. More lack than happiness.
New Delhi: People without any musical training might have a sense of rhythm comparable to that of professional musicians, in large part due to “dense neural connections in specific regions of the brain,” a new study has found, according to The Hindu.
With the study, conducted by scientists from the National Brain Research Center (NBRC) in Manesar and Symbiosis International in Pune, the scientists wanted to test whether connectivity in the brain and certain brain structures is “either minimal or absent” in patients. non-musicians and whether progressively higher musical training influenced the “density or degree of connectivity” between certain regions of the brain.
Scientists have been curious as to whether musical ability is inherent and, if so, to what extent. According to The Hindu, it is interesting to study whether musical ability is influenced by training, and which regions of the brain are most activated when perceiving musical elements such as rhythm and pitch.
The report states that previous studies have shown that 15 months of early childhood music training results in “long-term changes in the structure of the brain” and that this differs from typical brain development. Other studies have shown that musical ability is also influenced by the neuroanatomy of the brain and even by certain genes.
To test connectivity in the brain and certain brain structures, Nandini Chatterjee Singh, the neuroscientist who runs the Language Literacy and Music Laboratory at the NBRC, recruited 27 college graduates with varying degrees of music training. They ranged from non-musicians to professionals.
They took the Profile of Music Perception skill test, a standardized computer test that has been used in research to test listeners’ abilities to discern changes in rhythm, pitch, accent and melody. The Hindu said participants’ scores have been assessed and brain imaging data has been collected.
“What we found was that non-musicians performed as well as musicians trained in rhythm processing tasks because of the way the brain is connected,” Singh said. The Hindu. “So there are musicians hidden – or asleep – among us. However, these findings were specific to rhythm. The researchers found no strong trends in the perception of ground, on the other hand.
According to Singh, rhythmic processing abilities were not significantly influenced by connections within the right and left hemispheres of the brain, but rather by “the strength of the connections between the two hemispheres.”
“Connection density in the right posterior cingulate cortex, a region that acted as the hub of connectivity between the two halves of the brain, was strongly related to participants’ overall scores. ” The Hindu reported.
The study was accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal European Journal of Neuroscience. Besides Singh, Archith Rajan, Apurva Shah and Madhura Ingalhalikar also participated in the study.
Singh said The Hindu that their discovery – that the perception of rhythm is engraved in the brain – has underlined its importance for “language processing”, and that it opens up new avenues of inquiry into autism, musical skills and use possible music therapy for physiological care and rehabilitation.
Gospel singers, Evangelist Dare Melody, Moses Harmony, Lady Evangelist Kemi Rehoboth, Ewa Kristi, Vanessa Selika Gold among others are set to lift souls at the gospel and prayer concert titled “Night of Divine Experience “scheduled for August 18, -20.
The event which is the 3rd edition, which will also feature the ministry of notable clerics, Prophet Sam Ojo, Pastor (Ms.) Seyi Bakare, is hosted by New Seraph Church Founder, Prophetess Oluwaseye Yomi Sholoye .
According to Sholoye, the three-day program will begin on August 18, while the grand finale will take place on August 20. She added that the program will also include prayers and counseling and that everything is expected to accommodate around 50,000 people at New Seraph. Prayer Town – Km 60, Lagos / Ibadan Highway, Ode Remo, Ogun State.
“It is time that we started to do his will, to live properly, to follow his paths. Thus, when our end comes, we would have explored our last chance for the benefit of our salvation and the glory of Christ Jesus. We are therefore convinced that this program will win more souls for Christ, ”she added.
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The Mallett Brothers Band’s latest album breathes new life into old backcountry ballads.
By Nick Schroeder
The fall of the pine is available on CD from malettbrothersband.com and downloadable from iTunes. The Malletts tour the east coast this month but return to Maine to play The shelf in Carrabassett Valley on March 25. Photo by Nate Eldridge, courtesy of the Mallett Brothers Band.
[dropcap letter=”T”]The Mallett Brothers Band packed their first four albums filled with crackling Americana, a mind-boggling patchwork of country, folk and rock. But the generally rowdy sextet hits quieter notes on their latest album, The fall of the pine, a ruminative collection of 19th century logging camp songs lent new melodies and arrangements. Through 10 pieces of rich instrumentation and absorbing harmonies, the Portland Malletts revitalize bygone tales of the triumphs and aspirations of working Mainers. For fans of state history – or fans of the Avett Brothers, Okkervil River, or even Springsteen – the Malletts record deserves serious listening.
Some 90 years ago, folklorists Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Mary Winslow Smyth put together dozens of backwood melodies in a tome titled Le Ménestrel du Maine: folk songs and ballads of the woods and the coast, after having stubbornly traveled the state to preserve the endangered oral tradition. “Bright colors, Homeric in simplicity, here are old woods and old Yankee lumberjacks,” Eckstorm wrote in his prologue – a statement the Mallets borrow as an epigraph from their album cover notes.
Conductors Luke and Will Mallett first found an old copy of The minstrel of Maine with their parents. “We thought this would be a fun, quick little project to perform a handful of songs,” Will says. But the brothers liked it so much that they decided to involve the whole group. “We’re approaching this more as a history and art project,” says Will. “If that convinces one or two young or old to immerse themselves in historic Maine music, we feel like we’ve achieved our goal.”
On the album, the band members dig, hammer and work their way through these historic numbers and unearth a lot of authenticity and courage in the process. For a Portland boy group, some of whom have spent time in hip-hop and metal bands, their North Woods twang has never sounded so serious or believable as when they treat these songs with respect. workers. The results are both fresh and timeless. The title track comes closest to Mallett’s signature sound – a rousing jamboree that would set any tavern on fire – while ballads like “Lake Chemo” showcase the band’s ability to spin restrained melodies. Throughout, Will Mallett’s alluring delivery seems to weigh the sentiment behind every word.
Violinist Andrew Martelle said the group intended to portray the Maine lumberjack as “the North Woods equivalent of the cowboy”: a hardy outsider with a flair for philosophy and an ability for complex lyricism, as in “The Logger’s Boast”: “When the white frost gilds the valleys, the cold freezes the flow; / When many men have nothing to do but earn bread for their families; / When the swollen streams are frozen and the hills are covered in snow, / O! we will go through the wild woods, and we will go to the logging.
This song becomes the centerpiece of the record, with Will and Luke’s old man – acclaimed singer-songwriter David Mallett – contributing vocals. Elder Mallett’s altered and resonant voice has the effect of looping The fall of the pine in the continuum of Maine’s folklore heritage, as if the album floated from one river town to another, over time.
