🎉 OUT NOW! 🎶
✨ Prelude to the Divine Realm ✨ by Global Music Award Gold Medal Winners Gao Hong & Zhao Xiaoxia is finally here!
🎧 Listen now: https://lnk.fuga.com/gaohongzhaoxiaoxia_preludetothedivinerealm
Pipa master Gao Hong and guqin virtuoso Zhao Xiaoxia bring fresh life to China's most cherished traditional pieces, like Three Variations on the Plum Blossom and Yangguan Sandie. 🌸✨ Through improvisation and creative adaptation, they weave together the deep history of traditional culture with the bold energy of contemporary art.
🌟 This album is more than music—it’s a philosophical meditation and a spiritual journey. Let these timeless melodies and innovative interpretations captivate your soul! 💫
#NewAlbum #OutNow #PreludeToTheDivineRealm #GaoHong #ZhaoXiaoxia #Pipa #Guqin #WorldMusic
Gao Hong & Zhao Xiaoxia perform their gorgeous new track 'Dancing with Strings' taken from the forthcoming album 'Prelude to the Divine Realm' releasing 24th Jan 2025. Enjoy!
Listen to the new single: https://lnk.fuga.com/gaohongzhaoxiaoxia_dancingwithstrings-1
Pre-order the new album: https://store.arcmusic.co.uk/prelude-to-the-divine-realm-pipa-and-guqin.html
Pipa master Gao Hong and guqin virtuoso Zhao Xiaoxia revisit some of China’s best-known traditional pieces, such as Three Variations on the Plum Blossom and Yangguan Sandie, complementing them with improvisation and adaptation full of their own unique creative charm. Here, they masterfully combine the rich history of traditional culture with the avant-garde energy of contemporary art to create a work that is both a philosophical meditation and a spiritual journey.
Something exciting comes this way... Gao Hong and Zhao Xiaoxia are to release their new single 'Dancing with Strings' in the new year! Watch this space... coming January 10th. And a gorgeous new album to follow in its wake!
In this video: Sarah Wantsall (ARC Music) hand-painting the artwork for the new album cover 'Prelude to the Divine Realm'
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#art #newmusic #china #chinesenewyear #artinmotion
Rachel Hayter - flute #Alvorada #FazTempo
💡 Rachel Hayter's infectious, bubbly personality fits perfectly with the gorgeous new music on #FazTempo by #Alvorada
We can't wait to share more charm and wonderful music with you over the coming weeks from this band!
https://www.alvoradamusic.com/
Luiz Morais - 7-string guitar #Alvorada #FazTempo
"Bringing Brazilian music to the UK has been an amazing learning process... an honor and a mission..."
Listen to the new album 'Borbulhando' out now on all digital stores worldwide
Pre-order the new album #FazTempo today: https://store.arcmusic.co.uk/faz-tempo.html
Jeremy Shaverin - cavaquinho #Alvorada #FazTempo
'Faz Tempo' best translates to 'its been a while' - as Jeremy Shaverin explains.
A fitting new album name for Alvorada as their last critically acclaimed 'First Light' was released in 2019.
We couldn't be happier to be sharing this gorgeous new album with the world!
Delve into their new single 'Borbulhando' today and be sure to follow this incredible band for more new music coming soon
Faz Tempo releases on ARC Music 25th October 2024
#FazTempo #Avlorada #Brazil #Choro
Andrew Woolf - clarinet #Alvorada #FazTempo
"Choro for me is an amazing thing because I grew up playing classical music... and then later I got into jazz... Choro contains all the elements of music that I love, its delicate but also exciting"
Andrew Woolf plays clarinet on the new allbum #FazTempo
Andres Ticino - percussion #Alvorada #FazTempo
"My setup is a little bit of drumkit and a little bit of percussion... What I'm trying to do is find a sound that works for many differenet situations..."
Percussionist Andres Ticino discusses his attention to detail in performing and studio recording on the album
#FazTempo
https://www.alvoradamusic.com/
🤩✨🎧 'Borbulhando' ('bubbling')🤩✨🎧 the new music video and single by uk-based Brazilian choro band Alvorada is out now: https://lnk.fuga.com/alvorada_borbulhando
Rooted in the choro tradition, Alvorada’s rich compositions embrace rhythms from across Brazil, including samba, xote, bossa nova and baião, tinged with further influences from jazz, tango and more. Faz Tempo pushes traditional expectations with its bold and intricate arrangements, endlessly varied textures, and breathtaking improvisations and interplay – all transmitted with an infectious joy and soulfulness.
Out now! Roll up, roll up! All aboard the 19th century ZRI celebration cruise from Vienna to Odessa! Our legendary house band are as stylishly up to the moment as ever, reimagining the latest hits by Herren Rossini, Strauss, Schubert and even Dr Brahms with an intoxicating Romani twist!
Listen here: https://lnk.fuga.com/zri_cafdanube
Among the most remarkable compositions in the musical repertoire of #Fritzkreisler is #Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow). An enchanting piece, originally passionately performed by talented violinists, is adapted by ZRI into a true musical marvel... 🫶
Enjoy the new single and incredible rendition of 'Liebesleid', out today: https://lnk.fuga.com/zri_liebesleid
Performed on: Clarinet (Ben Harlan), violin (Max Baillie), Matthew Sharp (cello), Iris Pissaride (santouri), Jon Banks (accordion).
ZRI - Cafe Danube - Album Trailer
Roll up! Roll up! Get your hands on the 27th September album release on Naxos World ... 'Cafe Danube' by ZRI celebrates like a 19th century musical cruise from Vienna to Odessa. ZRI stylishly reimagines hits of the time by Herren Rossini, Strauss, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms and more... with an intoxicating Romani twist.
Order 'Cafe Danube' here: https://lnk.fuga.com/zri_cafdanube
Listen to the first single 'Rondo Alla Turca' out now: https://lnk.fuga.com/zri_rondoallaturca
#WorldMusic #Classical #crossover #NewMusicFriday
