SOUNDCLOUD

SoundCloud is an online audio platform that became important for independent musicians, DJs, producers, and experimental artists. It allowed unfinished tracks, remixes, field recordings, and self-released music to circulate outside traditional labels. On MusicTales the tag points to stories where digital distribution, online discovery, or web-born music culture plays a visible role.

25 articles related to SOUNDCLOUD:

Game

The quiet adventure in the warm depths of Abzû game scored by Austin Wintory

American composer Austin Wintory made history after becoming the creator of the first-ever Grammy-nominated videogame...
Electric Guitar

Monnette Sudler: the first lady of jazz guitar

Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler is known as the “First Lady of Jazz Guitar,” among other titles. Her...
SYNTHESIZER

Classical modernity in Anna Meredith's underwater reality

The Scottish composer Anna Meredith has already worked with the BBC and countless orchestras and chamber ensembles...
HANG

Electronic jazz achieves ambiance with exotic Swiss-made drum

The Portico Quartet is a contemporary jazz and ethnic fusion ensemble from South London. The band is known for their use...
FILM

Full-method approach to the score for Shakespeare's play

The classic Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice had seen many adaptations, one of them a 2004 venture for the big...
Violin

Sweet little waltz from a traveling Swedish fiddler

Early Swedish music was primarily characterized by ballads and kulning, songs typically sung by women for the purpose of...
VIOLA

Indecent Ciaconne dance came from the New World and swept Europe off its feet

Chaconne or Ciaconne is a fiery dance popularized in Spain in 17th century which later gave birth to a new musical form...
Classical Guitar

Swiss-made prelude gifted to Segovia was never played by him

Andrés Segovia had one of the longest and most distinguished careers in the history of Western music. In his lifetime,...
FIDDLE

The jig dance tradition: five centuries old and still counting

Jig is a folk dance that became popular in Scotland and northern England in the 16th century and in Ireland in the 18th...
SONGWRITER

Four continents come together for Manu Chao's Clandestino

In Latin America and Europe, this guy is virtually an icon who seems to have taken the role of Bob Marley. Manu Chao is...
LUTE

Atmospheric collaboration of medieval and modern underground on Only Lovers Left Alive

For his post-modern tale of vampires trying to find purpose in their immortal lives, Jim Jarmusch employs his own group...
HARDANGER FIDDLE

You can't stay still when you hear the reel

The Shetland islands, located between Norway and Scotland, has always had their folk music at the crossroads of two...
ORCHESTRA

Defining Gershwin rhapsody was conceived on a train trip

Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most performed of all American concert pieces, and its opening clarinet glissando is the...
ORCHESTRA

Beethoven was inspired by Goethe’s rhythmic poetry

From 1809 to 1810, Beethoven composed the overture to Goethe’s play Egmont, depicting the life of the count of Egmont, a...
Cello

The surviving pearl of Mademoiselle Paradis, contemporary of Mozart

Maria Theresia von Paradis was a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn. She achieved significant glory as both a composer and...
FLUTE

Bourrée: French folk dance from the Bach suite inspired prog-rock flute and the work of Sir Paul McCartney

Bourrée is a French folk dance typically danced with quick, skipping steps. The dancers sometimes wear wooden clogs to...
ORCHESTRA

Reverie: cello reimagining of Claude Debussy by Julian Lloyd Webber

Reverie is one of the first works written by Debussy for piano. Even at this early stage of his career, with the style...
PIANO

Chick Corea's Spanish pulse in the masterful jazz standard

The son of a trumpeter, the genius pianist Chick Corea is referenced as one of the lead specialists in the fusion of...
SAENGHWANG

Modern jazz meets traditional Korean music in Park Jiha's Communion

Both somehow minimalist and carrying the richness of jazz improvisation, Park Jiha's debut album Communion borders on...
FESTIVAL

The rise of the Crimson King

The Stones in the Park generally refers to a free outdoor festival held in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969 that was headlined...
TRUMPET

Chet Baker: the divine voice of the West Coast jazz

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was born in 1929 in Yale, Oklahoma. The son of musically inclined parents, he sang in...
Violin

Wild harmony of the northern fjords by Nils Økland and Hardanger fiddle

Nils Økland is an innovative violinist and composer from Norway, instantly recognizable for his extensive use of the...
SONGWRITER

The Unthanks: keeping with the modern spirit of the English folk song

The Unthanks is an English group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional Northumbrian folk with other...
HARPSICHORD

Isabella Leonarda: convent star of the Baroque era

Isabella Leonarda’s works include examples of nearly every sacred genre: motets and sacred concertos for one to four...
SAROD

Ali Akbar Khan: the true guru of Indian classical harmony

The first key point of Indian classical music is its structure. Unlike the Western canons, it is structured horizontally...