December 5, 2024 10:10 am

MUSIC

SURREALISTIC MUSIC

Sound juxtapositions for your dreams An example of the influence of surrealism in music is found in avant-garde composers in New York (like Edgard Varèse, John Cage and Morton Feldman. Surrealism, transposed into music with Debussy’s themes, was the first musical taste of this movement that developed its own creative aesthetic, very close to Freud’s thought. Jazz is one of …

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NOTHING TO MY NAME – Cui Jian, Chinese songwraiter

His was a family of Korean musicians (trumpet father in an orchestra and mother dancer in a dance troupe). He started as a trumpeter and in 1981 he was admitted to the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra. Born in Beijing in August 1961, he is considered the pioneer of rock music in China, and is also labeled as “the father of Chinese …

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LEARNING KEYBOARD AND PIANO – Rapperiya Baalam, Rajasthan’s songwraiter

He was born in 1992 at Dabla (district Sriganganagar, Rajasthan). After completing primary school, he moved to Jaipur in 2006 for secondary and college education, where he started learning keyboard and piano in 2012. Ashok Manda Bishnoi, better known by his stage name RAPPERIYA BAALAM is a songwriter. He became famous in 2014 with “Mharo Rajasthan” (a fusion hip hop …

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MUSAFIR – Atif Aslam

Spurred by his friends, he began to sing in public until he met a talented guitarist who gave impetus to his desire to sing. He appeared in Western newspapers for defending a spectator who during a concert had been subjected to sexual harassment. ATIF ASLAM – Pakistani singer and actor – was born in Wazirabad, March 12, 1983. As a …

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MOLLY, I JUST LOVE YOU – Olga Serjabkina

Serebro is one of the most popular Russian band. In October 2007 there were rumors that Olga (one of the band’s members) she was leaving the band because seemed to have problems with the singer. Since 2006, Olga is part of the female pop group Serebro, with whom she has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. She started studying …

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LA VEREDA DE LA PUERTA DE ATRAS EXTREMODURO – Extremoduro’s transgressive rock

The lyrics of their songs deal with topics like sex, drugs and love, without reference to politics. Until 1996 (the year of publication of the Agila album), the group was not included in the circuit of the major media, but since then they became known to the general public. They define their music as transgressive rock. The Extremoduro are a …

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UNTIL MY LAST BREATH – Tarja Turunen

TARJA TURUNEN was born in Kitee (a Finnish city located in the North Karelia region) in August 1977. As a young girl she had a great musical talent, widely encouraged by her parents, which allowed her to attend music lessons. Her hometown is the one of Nightwish, a world-class metal band. Her vocal profile is that of lyrical soprano. She …

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DEJEUNER EN PAIX – Stephan Eicher

Stephan Eicher is a Swiss songwriter, born in Münchenbuchsee (Swiss municipality in the canton of Bern) in 1960. At the age 17, he and his younger brother founded a punk techno group called “Grauzone”. The hit single “Eisbar” brought the sale of 500,000 copies in Germany and Switzerland. During this period he occasionaly met his future manager and this way …

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AUSTRIAN SINGER WHO OPENED LENNY KRAVITZ’S AND JAMES BLUNT’S TOURS – Anna Wappel / Anna F.

Anna Wappel with art name Anna F was born in Friedberg in 1985. She started singing in childhood and cites the first records of her parents including Bob Dylan, Alanis Morissette and Joan Baez. At the age of eleven she played the classic guitar, three years later she started electric guitar for the first time, deciding to switch to rock. …

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LIBERCANTUS ENSEMBLE – Ancient Renaissance music and contemporary polyphony

They combine musical experiences into a vibrant sound message, where music is the emerging point of their being together, in the background of the friendship that binds them. https://soundcloud.com/libercantus The passion for ancient music and contemporary polyphony is the theme that unites the members of this vocal group, now well-known for the refinement and expressiveness of their musical performances and …

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