Category: Interview

37 albums, a jazz background, a principled refusal of neural networks, and a sincere affection for rainy Great Britain – all of this is about the Longboat project. Originating in Seattle in 2011, the band has always gone beyond standard genres, easily transforming in the studio from a solo songwriter project into large-scale lineups with…

When you meet a band formed by four teenagers on February 14th “because they had no romantic plans,” you immediately expect self-irony and drive from them. The British indie quartet Suncharmer – Paul Crisp, Josh Bryce, Dan Turtle and Mike Pocock – more than lives up to those expectations. Their music is a cinematic cocktail…

What will happen if an academic musician decides to go beyond the limits of a strict concert hall, take a cello, and head into the forest – not to perform, but to talk? Irish artist Clíodhna Ní Aodáin found her answer to this question, and that is how her new album “For the Love of…

Stephanie Seymour’s musical biography has unfolded through a wide range of chapters: from drummer in a New York all-female rock band to creator of the solo project Birdy and a person who worked for many years at Island and Virgin Records. In 2018, she brought together her two main passions – music and ornithology –…

Based in Scotland, originally from Austria, dreaming of Eurovision, and fresh off releasing a track… about making tracks. Sounds like a brain-teaser? Maybe. But the result is surprisingly heartfelt. Ferdinand Rennie has been through it all: from the grueling schedule of “Les Misérables” to private performances for Monaco’s royal family and launching his own indie…

To gather six cool musicians in a basement home studio, record a track for the series The Blacklist, receive praise from BBC Radio 2, and still remain a simple guy from Yorkshire – that, in brief, is the story of Paul Stone. He created the project The Basement Collective, where the main values are sincerity,…

Falling asleep isn’t easy: thoughts going in circles, the phone winking with notifications, and silence feeling too loud. Composer Tim Corpus, it seems, has found a solution – and recorded it. For ten years he has been writing music for film, stage, and media projects: his works have sounded in Carnegie Hall, performed by the…

How does modern rock sound that is not afraid to look back at the classics, but at the same time confidently blazes its trail into the future? Ask Free Under Fire – the guys from the Canadian town of Ajax, who manage to combine the drive of alternative rock with warming melodiousness. In the breaks…

Once, he used to step onto the basketball court. Now he steps up to the microphone – and with the same stubborn drive with which he once fought for the ball, he now fights for a line, for a beat, for the right to say: “This is mine.” Jon Kabongo traded his familiar city for…