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Feather Squadron: Academy - New Zealand

Medical and Education

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This app contains a variety of fun games for children to play (ages 5 and up) and we measure their...

How to Play Guitar

Future Publishing Limited

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A practical guide to everything you need to know about what is probably the most popular musical...

CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated Hellespont by Simon Herron in Music

Jul 11, 2019

Yes, this is in some ways the soul of Damien Rice, but there is something plaintive about the entire song that strikes a note Rice never hit. Sure, I'm a sucker for the one note piano melody; we have a lot of that, and some extra intervals, but the mark of this song for me is the pony-slow walk of the timpani, the subtle sway of the violins, and the perfectly precise acoustic strums.

If this song were a painting, it would be a piece by Gauguin with those swirling fields of yellow flowers, in his own Hellespont of Arles - which some say is the only place he ever felt at home.

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CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated On My Own by Jeffrey Piton in Music

Jul 11, 2019

You can hear The Lumineers and Imagine Dragons just from the vocal mix, the heavy acoustic guitar, and the way the production doubles every harmony. Somehow the breaks always have oh-oh-oh and the melody flitters like a sparrow, but it still works. It's the simple message that says it all.

“It’s been a couple years
now I have scars to remind me
it can take a while
to get the wounds to heal”
— Jeffrey Piton
Jeffrey lives in Montreal, Canada, land of cold winters, sweet summers, and salty poutine. We think after he drops his new EP today he going to feel pretty good even if he has a few scars left from the experience.

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B- Sides & Rarities Pt II by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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B-Sides & Rarities is a 3CD compilation by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in March 2005. It...

Karl Hyde recommended Inside Out by John Martyn in Music (curated)

Inside Out by John Martyn

1973 | Rock

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"It may seem like a change of tack, but it’s not actually. This is his most processed album. This is what I’m a fan of John Martyn for and something I don’t think anyone else has ever done before. It’s that sort of processed acoustic guitar that features a lot on my solo record, where the guitars are so heavily processed. John did this brilliantly. I saw him tour this album – it was one of the first gigs I ever saw as a youngster. It was astonishing hearing him making these beautiful soundscapes on a battered old Martin guitar through a delay line and a fuzz box. Not only was he a master of the guitar, he was also a master of processed sound. He used the voice in the way, again, that was like a tone generator. The words were barely audible but they made tones, in the way that Miles Davis might play his horn. Sometimes he’d sing in a completely different key. It was all about where he positioned the sound and the timbre. I don’t think he ever released another record that explored the acoustic process in the way that he did here. I know people that worked with him and had his effects pedals – I tried to get hold of them for this project (Edgeland) but they were long gone. It was a reference point for me for this album. I wanted to take that concept on, and Inside Out was my jumping off point."

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