Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Giuseppe Brai


GIUSEPPE BRAI
Singer-Songwriter

Music is the dream of my life. I'm an independent artist who supports all the costs of recording, producing and distributing my own music. I work in the production department of  a renowned company that produces organic food. I started playing acoustic guitar at the age of 15.

My musical and cultural background in general, have always covered the Anglo-Saxon world and in particular the culture and music of the United States and Great Britain. I have a profound knowledge of English and American literature and have always been fond of Celtic music, country and folk. My myths from a very young age were Woodie Guthrie, Jim Croce and Bob Dylan, the singers of the vast prairies of North America. Other artists who have strongly influenced my music world are John Denver, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, and all of West Coast's Artists like  Crosby Still Nash and Young, Eagles and America.


For Elena I wrote my first song followed by many others dedicated to her. All those who have listened to them have appreciated  innovative melodies, vibrant lyrics, and the intense emotions  they arouse. This awareness gave me more confidence and encouraged me to continue. So I started seeing artists and musicians, going to recording companies  hoping to get somehow noticed in the Italian musical artistic arens. I have been trying to emerge as a songwriter for 5 years, but despite the hard work I have not come to anything concrete.

I have always loved studying, especially scientific subjects and languages. I am fortunate enough to know English correctly, and this has allowed me to write and record songs in English too. I am pleased to know that the Gotha  of Italian music listened to my pieces but despite that I had to change my commercial strategy. In January 2017 I decided to address the Anglo-Saxon market by pointing to all the English-speaking countries: United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa etc.

Another idea was to join ReverbNation, the world's largest emerging artists platform that offered me all the tools to get more visibility and be contacted by top-level artists and record labels. In February 2017 my first single "Sparkling Dreams" was released, which was broadcast by some major American radio websites such as Lonely Oak Radio and C.Y.D. Radio.

At the end of 2017 I released my first Country song "Let The Beauty Write Into Me” on CDBaby featured on 150 Digital Distributors in 200 countries around the world, a song I am expecting much from. The song is about an artist that has lost his inspiration and turns to gods and nature to regain his gift.

Thursday, September 27, 2018

DateMonthYear



DateMonthYear releases ‘hard hitting’ new single
November 20, 2017                              

Hamilton band DateMonthYear has released a new single which delivers a strong message with itshard-hitting lyrics, music and video.
Band Founder Trevor Favillesaid the new song, called March, eludes to the idea of going through the process of grief and loss.
Faville and fellow band members Emma Koretz, Brooke Baker, HayelySchwass and Tyler Leetworked with local production team Bad George to produce and film their music video in Hamilton.
Bad George production teamwere award nomineesat the HP 48 Hour Film Festival, with Brooke Baker – who is a band memberas well asproduction crew – nominated for the best director and best female director, along with Jay Baker who was nominated for best scriptwriter.
After gaining accolades in local and national film competitions,March is Bad George’s first foray into the work of music videos and the band members are pleased with the result for their latest song release.
“The song itself is quite different to our last one, musically,” Faville said.
“It’s a lot more dramatic and has dynamic changes involved.
“It’s something more of a big rock song. It is a completely different topic lyrically but probably just as intense.”
The band embraced the unconventional with their most recent single Numbers, which was a video-only release as a teaser of what’s to come from their album. After the online success of the widely played Numbers video, the song has been well received worldwide with international airplay in France, Mexico, USA and United Kingdom.

The song Numbers reflects on today’s society and how people’s lives revolve around numbers – thoseof your mortgage or rent, income, supermarket shopping and simply hoping that you have enough to pay for groceries and bills each week.
Shunning traditional band formats, DateMonthYear’s structure means that “commitment is defined by contribution” with allowance for new ideas and influence. The fluidity of the line-up ensures a smorgasbord of musical flavours.
Faville describes their music as pop melodies, rock dynamics and a movie cinematic atmosphere.
“That’sthe best description. Technically it’s rock music, but it’s a little bit more than that,” Faville said.
The next project, after releasing March is to work on releasing their album. Faville said the album isn’t full of happy lyrics, instead the songs speak of issues that need to be spoken about, rather than songs that provide a distraction from what is going on in the world.
“They’re not unified by one particular theme, but what we’re trying to do specifically is to make sure we don’t waste any tracks and trying to make sure that every song has something to say.” 
Check out DateMonthYear’s new song March on Spotify, the band’s Facebook page andYouTube channel, or purchase it from iTunes and datemonthyear.bandcamp.com.

Locklin

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Locklin


Barry McLoughlin, aka Locklin is an Irish musician, whos sound can best be described for the most part as upbeat indie/rock.
Having released an EP with The Rumours a number of years back, the debut single 'Keep it Going' peaked at number 2 in the Irish download charts and was championed by Hotpress (Irelands premier music magazine) and also by Today FM DJ Alison Curtis, a Canadian national but based in Ireland.  A slot at the prestigious Electric Picnic music festival in Ireland followed that.  Said EP also contained 'Zeezu', another upbeat, melodic rock track.
Currently Locklin has recorded his debut solo EP and has already received airplay on UK radio recently (Nova Radio North East) The current EP, entitled 'Never Forget' contains 4 tracks with that familiar indie/rock sound as can be heard on 'Keep it Going'.
'Never Forget' was recorded at Twin Oaks Recording Studio in Ireland and mastered by London based mastering engineer Pete Maher, who has worked with the likes of U2 and Liam Gallagher among others.

Locklin can be found on Spotify and on the links below.
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/never-forget-ep/1418728607?app=music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

https://www.deezer.com/en/album/69237392

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