Munich-born singer-songwriter Laura Grandy has released her debut album "All These Feelings" on November 29, 2024, through Whales Records. The album captures a wide range of emotions, reflecting Laura Grandy's international experiences and personal journey.

“(…) Posing as the doctor to the King of England and the Pope, this charlatan had no real expertise but was yet recommended to two composers. (…)”

“(Created by Michel Magne in the 70s, the legendary Château d'Hérouville was home to one of France's most renowned recording studios. 

To obtain the famous "castle reverb" so characteristic of their recordings, the sound engineers had a most creative idea. They simply converted one of the château's kitchens into an analog reverb chamber ! (…)”

“(…) In 2004, Swedish DJ Eric Prydz scored a smash hit with "Call On Me". 

Originally, it was an unofficial remix of Steve Winwood's "Valerie", produced by Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk) and Stéphane Quême (DJ Falcon), a bootleg played in their sets.(…)”

“Allegri's famous "Miserere", a 17th-century sacred work, was kept secret by the Vatican. No one was allowed to transcribe or perform it outside the Sistine Chapel, on pain of excommunication.

But during Holy Week in Rome in 1770, Mozart attended services(…)”

“At the age of 24, Quincy Jones arrived in Paris in 1957 to study with the great masters Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. But tuition was expensive for the son of a modest Chicago family...

His musical genius enabled him to finance his studies in a very stylish way. Quincy worked as an arranger, conductor and musician, notably in the Barclay studio.”

“In the 1920s, recording conditions were a real challenge for musicians !

Sound was captured by a simple bell and etched directly onto wax. To balance volumes, the most powerful instruments had to move further away(…)”

“Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem (1410-1497) was a master of technical challenges and musical games ! In his "Missa cujusvis toni", he conceived a single score that could be sung in 4 different keys. Instead of keys, a simple "?" guided the singers(…)”

“So you haven’t heard about the birth of Scat ?

Legend has it that in 1926, during the recording of Heebie Jeebies,(…)”

“ Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) was a famous Italian composer and nobleman renowned for his expressive, avant-garde madrigals of the 16th century.

But behind his great musical abilities lay a man consumed by jealousy, capable of the worst atrocities. His tragic fate undoubtedly shaped his compositions.(…)”

“ (…) A giant 12-meter-long balloon named Algie was specially designed. On the day of the photoshoot, a large team of photographers, filmmakers, a helicopter and even a sniper to shoot down the balloon (…)”

“ (…) Performing ASLSP

Composed of just 8 pages with no tempo indicated, some performed it in a few hours, others in 1 day... This was without counting the meeting of a group of German musicologists and philosophers who, after Cage's death, studied the indication "as slow as possible".

How slow can his interpretation be? 639 years! (…) ”

I’m Mattia Galeotti and I’m a drummer from Firenzuola, in the mountains between Florence and Bologna. I started to play drums at the music school of my hometown then I went to study jazz drums at the bachelor program of Siena Jazz University, where I graduated last year.

I’m lucky to be the drummer of Francesca Gaza “Kugelförmigkeit”.

Recently: all the above + Fatima Al Qadiri, The Knife, Savages, Jehnny Beth, Cobrah, Cosey Fanny Tutti and Chris Carter, FKA Twigs, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, Terry Riley, Bohren and the Club of Gore, Nick Cave, Anohni, etc. etc.

If you want to compose like I do (I consider myself as a composer more than an instrumentalist), don’t lie to yourself, don’t try to be someone else, use your memory and musical influences from the beginning of your life until now, put them in a blender and serve us a good (non-alcoholic) cocktail.

What I generally like to have is a direction, or a sort of fil rouge of any kind. It can be a musical motive, or an instrumentation that I particularly like or a text (which might also then not be used, but be there as a sub-text for me). What I generally do is that I start writing and often I feel stuck because my music indicates a pulse and a time very clearly, which I don’t really like often. So what I do, and most of the times helps me out, is to write a choral without using the piano. Just from the skeleton idea of a harmonic or melodic 3/4 voice piano part, I start imagining that it will be sung by 4 voices from Bach’s time. That often gets me out of the "stuck mode”.

What I like to have, is a little notebook with music paper where I write down small ideas, that seem insignificant, and then after a while I open it and often one of the many ideas pops out and feels right to be used.