#music #musicians
Stephen Sanchez performs onstage at Glastonbury Festival 2023. CREDIT: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images
#musicians
‘Putting a number on #art’: #musicians nervous as #Spotify announces royalty changes
source: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/22/spotify-announces-royalty-changes
“I think 1,000 is too much,” says LA-based independent musician Brandon Washington, who goes by the stage name Ando San. “To an extent it’s true that there’s an oversaturation of artists on Spotify. But without them there would be no Spotify – the platform only exists because of #artists and #music.”
#economy #news #finance #money #profit #platform #internet #streaming #future #change #capitalism #artist
wishing the best for #bandcamp, during these troubles.
maybe time for #faircamp?
#selfhosting #union #bandcampunited
#platforms #centralised #decentralised #onetimeatbandcamp #epicgames #corporatebuyout #sellout #songtradr #thecorporation #principles #purpose #profits #wecanstillhostthis #selfhost #music #musicians
(i say while listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejbZFd9VAes (before perhaps looking through some of the many more articles and videos on this today.))
Musicians pay tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot — who wrote hundreds of songs — is being remembered by fans across Canada and beyond. His music, which covers the nation’s history and his life as an artist with insight that crossed generations, has influenced and inspired musicians from Bob Dylan to Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdPOq1ZjKE8
Part of Jacopo di Cione and workshop, The San Pier Maggiore Alterpiece, 1370-1 (detail) [+]
#JacopodiCione #painting #musicians #angels #art
Welcome #Organelle S! - #critterandguitari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVYx7XKFo4E
The Organelle S is for #musicians who like what they see and hear in the Organelle M but don't need the portability of the M's battery power and speaker.
In all other functions, the S is identical to the M. They share same #patches, processor, RAM, audio & MIDI connections, keys, knobs, screen, microphone, HDMI output, USB ports, and power adapter.
TLDR:
• The Organelle S is great for #studios & pedalboards.
• The Organelle M is portable and autonomous!
• The Organelle is a powerful instrument that keeps up with your spontaneity and creativity!
https://www.critterandguitari.com/organelle
Learn more about the update on our Blog!
https://www.critterandguitari.com/blog/organelle-family-is-growing
#synth #synthesizer
#Trackers: The #Sound of #16-Bit
0:00 Introduction
0:50 The Dawn of 16-Bit Computing
3:08 #Multimedia Powerhouse
4:20 Early Amiga #Music #Software
6:40 #SoundMonitor
8:40 The Ultimate #Soundtracker
12:08 ST-01 #Samples
13:24 Soundtracker’s Commercial Fate
14:02 The Demoscene
16:00 Early Soundtracker #Clones
19:21 #Noisetracker
20:14 #Tracker #Musicians
21:36 Doskpop
21:56 #Chiptunes
23:15 #Protracker
24:03 MED / OctaMED
25:28 Trackers in the Mainstream
26:45 Later Amiga Trackers
27:48 #PC #Audio
28:37 #MIDI #Soundcards
29:34 Screamtracker
30:54 Second Reality
32:02 FastTracker
32:45 Impulse Tracker
33:29 The Advent of CD-ROM
34:26 Epic MegaGames
36:38 Contemporary Trackers
38:28 The Sound of 16-Bit
39:16 Finding Out More
40:42 Credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
#amiga #protracker #demoscene #retrocomputer #history
Rest In Peace Paddy Moloney, composer, leader and founding member of The Chieftains
#PaddyMoloney is the founder and leader of #TheChieftains. He grew up in Donnycarney, north Co. #Dublin. His love of #IrishMusic came from his parents’ native Co. Laois and the #music that surrounded him at home. His first instrument was a plastic tin whistle and by the age of eight, he was learning to play the #UilleannPipes from the great pipe master, Leo Rowsome. It was when he heard Leon Rowsome, son of Leo, play his pipes in the Scoil Mhuire school band in Marino, that he began to beg his parents to have Leo make him his very first set.
After he left school, Paddy, always aware that he needed a nine to five job to support his musical hobby, took a job with Baxendales, a large building firm, where he worked in accounting. It was here he met his future wife, Rita O’ Reilly.
Paddy always had a vision from his early days playing. A sound he wanted to create, a sound that had never been heard before. He knew it would take much experimentation with different combinations of instruments and so he formed several groups with other #musicians in duets and trios. In particular he played with Seán Potts, Michael Tubridy and Sean Keane in various combinations who would all later become #Chieftains.
But it was not until he had formed the original line up for The Chieftains in 1962 that he finally achieved the sound that had eluded him, a sound created by Paddy’s inspired choice of instruments, styles and players. It was only at this point did Paddy feel ready to give his group the title The Chieftains (a name which was inspired by the Irish poet John Montague) and confident enough to take his band into studio to record the very first of many, award winning albums. This recording came about at the invitation of his good friend, the Hon. Garech de Brun for his record label Claddagh Records.
The sound that Paddy created some 40 years ago has become the instantly recognisable sound of The Chieftains, which lives on fresh today and has always set them apart from any other traditional line up throughout out the world. It is simply the sound of The Chieftains.
Sad day for music
Paddy Moloney obituary
#PaddyMoloney, who has died aged 83, was a founder and the leader of the #Chieftains, a band that made #Irish #traditional #music famous across the globe. A composer, arranger of traditional music and innovative #musician on the tin whistle and the #uilleann pipes, #Moloney was a towering influence in #IrishMusic for more than six decades. His ambition for the band and his love of music led to a long series of collaborations on stage and on record with a wide variety of performers, some from the pop and rock world and others who made traditional music from a variety of cultures.
#TheChieftains grew out of informal groupings of highly accomplished #musicians in #Dublin. In 1959, Moloney was recruited by the composer Seán Ó Riada to arrange the music for the play The Golden Folk at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. This led to Ó Riada forming Ceoltóirí Chualann, playing Irish music in a chamber orchestra style with Ó Riada on harpsichord and Moloney, Sean Potts (whistle) and Michael Tubridy (flute). The arrangements, with musicians playing in various combinations, using harmony rather than the unison playing of Irish dance bands, had a great influence on the musical style of the Chieftains.
Moloney formed the group in 1962 with Potts, Tubridy, Martin Fay (fiddle) and David Fallon (bodhrán) specifically to make an album for Garech Browne’s new Claddagh record label, with Moloney arranging all the music. The album was called simply The Chieftains, to be followed by The Chieftains 2 (1969), then The Chieftains 3 and so on, right up to number 10 in 1980. There was a turnover of band members, but the central and dominating figure of Moloney ensured that the Chieftains’ winning style continued...
...The band received six Grammys over their long career as well as a lifetime achievement award at the BBC Radio 2 folk awards in 2002. Moloney always remained ambitious for the Chieftains, bringing enthusiasm, energy and business sense to all their projects. And he remained a superb uilleann piper.
Moloney was born in Donnycarney, north Dublin, to John, an army sergeant and Catherine (nee Conroy), both of whom were musicians, as were countless family members, especially those living near his maternal grandparents in Co Laois.
Almost before he started at St Mary’s school, his mother recognised his musical talents and bought him a tin whistle. Paddy soon persuaded his parents to buy him a practice set of pipes, costing a whole week’s wages, and he enrolled at the school of music run by the master piper, Leo Rowsome.
He made his public debut, aged eight, with fellow musicians in Phoenix Park, and was soon winning prizes at competitions. Still in short trousers, he played alongside piping greats such as Séamus Ennis and Willie Clancy and was soon a regular performer at Dublin’s Pipers’ club.
Having left school at 16 to work in the offices of the builders’ suppliers Baxendales, Moloney became managing director of Claddagh Records in 1968, where he was responsible for releasing and promoting dozens of music and spoken word records.
David Aellen and Damo Suzuki.
#DavidAellen #DamoSuzuki #Can #musicians #photo... for my dear @nina_lynn@diaspora.koehn.com