Magnatune: indian, arabic, baroque, instrumental folk guitar, opera hybrid

This week's 6 new albums:

  • Francois Couture: Yahndawa - Classical
    Canadian composer, musician, orchestrator, arranger and sound designer

  • Greater Alexander: Positive Love (instrumental) - Alt Rock
    Music Creator. Bearded Philosopher. Positive Influence.

  • Poeticall Musicke: Instant Fires - Classical
    Late Renaissance and Early Baroque music, historically performed

  • Ruben van Rompaey: Eastern Expressions 4 - Mirage - World
    passionate Eastern percussion

  • Sandeep Bhandari: Sounds of Guru Shishya - Electronica
    Ethnic ambiance combined with electronic moods and grooves

  • Sasha Merkulov: Air Vibrations - New Age
    Ethnic New Age, Groove, Meditation, Sitar, Ambient

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Description:Ethnic New Age, Groove, Meditation, Sitar, Ambient
Genre:New Age
Artist:Sasha Merkulov
Album:Air Vibrations

The "Air Vibrations" album is eclectic mix of natural sitar, beautiful melodies and rhythmic grooves. You can listen, meditate, and dance, doing everything you want under this music. Somebody called it spiritual, somebody related it to Ethnic New Age style, but it doesn't matter. Real music can't be described and classified.



Description:Ethnic ambiance combined with electronic moods and grooves
Genre:Electronica
Artist:Sandeep Bhandari
Album:Sounds of Guru Shishya

An instrumental album that seamlessly weaves together pulsing western electronics with eastern rhythms and textures to create a hypnotic, soul-searching journey.

Anchored by soft, hazy grooves and warm flickering tones, the tapestry of sounds created though rich in East Indian tradition, span the globe. A moving collage of beats and sweeps combining groove with ethnic ambiance.

These are stories without words behind a lush organic atmosphere. Shishya learns from the guru - lessons we can all embrace.



Description:passionate Eastern percussion
Genre:World
Artist:Ruben van Rompaey
Album:Eastern Expressions 4 - Mirage

Dynamic Middle Eastern rhythms fuse with exotic Far Eastern atmospheres, organic electronic Hip Hop beats smoothly blend together with mesmerizing Jazz harmonies. Featuring the amazing sounds of guest artists like Kondo Toshinori, Wataru Kousaka and Tim Rayborn, this album represents a unique and long-awaited sequel to the notorious Eastern Expressions album series.

The songs on this album were created during different periods of Ruben van Rompaey's artist travels around the globe. The result is an exciting meeting of musical worlds, a spiritual voyage and amalgamation of traditional oriental moods and modern sound adventures.



Description:Late Renaissance and Early Baroque music, historically performed
Genre:Classical
Artist:Poeticall Musicke
Album:Instant Fires

Two devastatingly dazzling and delightful sonatas for solo and double violins by Fontana straddle Monteverdi's splendid though rather disturbing Ballo about 'ungrateful' women.



Description:Music Creator. Bearded Philosopher. Positive Influence.
Genre:Alt Rock
Artist:Greater Alexander
Album:Positive Love (instrumental)

The path to achieving a dream can be a long, arduous journey. On it, you see remnants of those that have traveled before you. You see lost hope and altered courses.

Indie-folk artist, Greater Alexander, has seen all of that and more. He steadily walks that long road with a smile and a big heart. Love is his fuel and spreading it is his goal. Hailing from Southfield, Mich. (by way of New York and Athens, Greece), Greater Alexander is a tried and true singer/songwriter. Partaking in this rebirth of Michigan and its glorious folk music, his voice is instantly soothing as it floats across the finely plucked and gently strummed guitar that finds its home in his arms.

Greater Alexander nurtures his music from its birth on paper to the recording stage where he tracks his own vocal melodies over one another to create a full-fledged, lush sound. After having over 30 different jobs in his life, from barista to healthcare provider, Alexander knows that life has an equilibrium of good and bad. His music conveys that teeter-totter that everyone experiences.

Tracks like "Let it Be Me" captures that rollercoaster of emotions that love inevitably puts us on. While "Better Days" is a grateful promise that tomorrow will be filled with memories that will warm us in our silent times.

Greater Alexander's conquests include being named Detroit's Best Local Songwriter by Real Detroit Weekly. The praise does not stop there, indie music blog Middle Tennessee Music says "[the] exploration and discovery occur from the opening "Any Way Out Of It" to the closing "In The Stillness of Water". By the time the music stops, you feel as peaceful as a quiet pond tucked away in the rolling foothills." He has been the focus of the acclaimed Groove Box Studios video series. Nods to Moustaki's strength, Simon and Garfunkel's harmonization and Bon Iver's subtle falsetto are heard after first listen.



Description:Canadian composer, musician, orchestrator, arranger and sound designer
Genre:Classical
Artist:Francois Couture
Album:Yahndawa

When a string orchestra merges with the songs of the Wendat people. More than a hundred years of slumber separate us from the meaning of these lyrics, yet the emotions conveyed remain intact. Let yourself be carried away.