On Instagram someone made a video with a magic background music, which caught my attention. Never heard of Porter Robinson before but his song “Sea of Voices” creates a beautiful musical atmosphere. Enjoy!
Oh Yeah out now!
The Youtube video of my latest song “Oh Yeah” is now live! This is my first cooperation with Anna Davis for the title image, which was also used as rendering background for the video.
Listen also to my other songs on Spotify.
Berlin glowing on ice
Tanja Kolbe makes ice glow: She is a 27 year old ice dancer from Berlin and creates a magic atmosphere with her coreography in the video for the Coldplay song “Everglow”. The video was shot in the “Eisstadion am Pferdeturm” in Hannover with excellent special effects by the London-based post production studio CherryCherryVFX.
The performance was actually filmed with her skating partner Stefano Caruso but for the Coldplay video he was removed in post production by the VFX team to make her part of the performance look even more magic, as if she could fly over the ice surface. Tanja and Stefano last won the 19th place at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. In 2015 she got a son and is now showing herself back in everglowing magic on ice in the Coldplay video.
Atmospheric moment
Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight from Seattle are bringing magic to earth. Under the band name Odesza they are releasing excellent electronic music and videos. This month they released their new album “A moment apart”, with a stunning teaser.
The song “A Moment Apart” is simply magic.
The band was formed in 2012 and has released three albums so far. For their current album tour they have designed a stunning teaser.
A masterpiece of video animation is their video for “Line Of Sight”, which has beautiful lighting and reminds of the movie Terminator.
Beautiful Youth
In a Vlog video of the Youtuber Michael Linde, he used beautiful melancholic background music which immediately caught my attention.
The song is called “Youth” from the English band “Daughter” with the 27 years old singer Elena Torna. Beautiful music and beautiful video with a great lighting and atmosphere!
Acoustic trance
In his latest song “Without You” Avicii is combining two music styles in one song: It starts as a vocal and acoustic guitar song and then builds up slowly to become an instrumental trance-style song at 2:27 min. Very cool idea.
For some reason the plucked octaves in “Without You” e.g. at 2:31 – 2:33 min. remind me of a Tella 2XLC remix of the song “Spring” from the German music producer RMB (Rolf Maier-Bode).
TV unplugged
The Norwegian a-ha lead singer Morten Harket is 58 in the meantime but his voice remains unchanged. This month they have published a beautiful “MTV Unplugged” session, in which they performed again their 1985 hit “The sun always shines on TV” with assistance from the Ingrid Helene Håvik, the lead singer of the Norwegian band Highasakite. The venue took place at the Øygardshallen, close to the Ocean Sound Recordings studio on the small island of Giske nearby Alesund.
In this session they also presented their beautiful new song “This is our home”, with the pure voice of Marten Harket.
Music store guidelines
As a music publisher it’s necessary to announce that your new song is available in music stores. The announcements can be done in Social Media as image posts or video teasers or in any other media. In this context it is helpful to understand the guidelines of the music stores because it get’s tricky when you use their logo in your own artwork or video teaser.
Each music store has different requirements and it is recommended to read them all before you use their logo.
These are the links to the music store guidelines:
– The Apple Music Identity Guidelines.
– The Spotify Logo & color guidelines.
– The Deezer Logo Guidelines.
– The Apple Music Identity Guidelines.
– The Spotify Logo & color guidelines.
– The Deezer Logo Guidelines.
Don’t stress the music stores by using their company symbol in a wrong way.
Try to look from the perspective of the brand: The logo is a symbol for the values of the company and it is also copyright-protected property of the company. Music stores in general have no problem if their logo is used in own media content but the ask you use it according to their rules and follow their design guidelines. It is for example forbidden to use just the Apple logo in own media content. Respect the rules of the brand.
Imagine a thunderstorm
It’s totally impressive that one pitched word is causing a thunderstorm in music stores. This version of “Thunder” by All Saints points out that one word is the key component of the song.
Imagine Dragons themselves are very successful with the song, currently at 310 million streams on Spotify. The video has nice impressions of the Dubai Marina and Sheikh Zayed Road.
Beautiful day in Dublin
Remembering July 22, 2017 in Croke Park. We were watching U2 from Cusack Stand but the U2 fan Paulo Vetri has created a great memory of this “Beautiful Day” from many different perspectives.