Magnatune: Chopin, deep electro, wood & rock

This week's 5 new albums:

  • Chad Lawson: The Chopin Variations (disk one) (disk two) - Classical
    Multi-award winning pianist and composer who is not afraid to put his hat in anything

  • Evgeny Bardyuzha: Exaltation - Electronica
    Russian electronica using breaks, atmosphere and chillout

  • Made of Wood: Narcotherapy Hypnosis - Jazz
    Groove laden chillout funk

  • Mark Boulle and the Haba Dudes: Gofer Land - Alt Rock
    Rolling Roots Folk Pop from the band of Australian singer-songwriter Mark Boulle

  • Mokhov: Future Hope - Electronica
    Sounds like Four Tet + Boards of Canada

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Description:Sounds like Four Tet + Boards of Canada
Genre:Electronica
Artist:Mokhov
Album:Future Hope

Uplifting electronic music, these ten instrumental electronic tunes sound like Four Tet + Boards of Canada. With some Bonobo and Röyksopp thrown in. Uplifting, energizing, melodic, and emotionally-hitting. If you like that style of electronic/instrumental hip-hop/downtempo music, this album is for you.



Description:Rolling Roots Folk Pop from the band of Australian singer-songwriter Mark Boulle
Genre:Alt Rock
Artist:Mark Boulle and the Haba Dudes
Album:Gofer Land

The 6th independently produced album from Mark Boulle and the Haba Dudes is a rollicking, skanking, ballady affair. The album traverses the roots, folk and reggae realms and features Boulle on guitars, keys, bass and lead vocals, Andy Woollard on drums, percussion and backing vocals, Dylan Marshall on bass, guitar and backing vocals, and Elodie Mayberry on violin, cello and backing vocals.

From the grunge, reggae skank of Bad Drunk to the pirate folk song Lovin" in your Mind, Boulle manages to yet again showcase his prolific songwriting prowess. The melodic instrumentation from Boulle and the band are pleasing to the ear and give the album a pop feel.

To be enjoyed relaxing with a cold drink or turned up loud at a party.

Gofer image courtesy of Kurtis Garbutt @ www.flickr.com/photos/25187937@N05/6189664869/



Description:Groove laden chillout funk
Genre:Jazz
Artist:Made of Wood
Album:Narcotherapy Hypnosis

Narcotherapy Hypnosis is an instrumental album steeped in nostalgia for a time that never quite existed. The album is the soundtrack to a fictional 60s/70s spy movie (you'll have to supply the visuals) that fuses both older and more modern sounds into new but familiar grooves. The music ranges from instrumental funky jams with Wurlitzers, clavinet and horns, to more trippy retro-synth space sounds - with a whole lot of exploration in between.

This album is a follow up to Made of Wood's previous album, "The Chill Funk Trip," which was met with glowing reviews by the Indie music community.

Cover art by Ryan Crowley.



Description:Russian electronica using breaks, atmosphere and chillout
Genre:Electronica
Artist:Evgeny Bardyuzha
Album:Exaltation

Exaltation is my third album. This is what happens when a progressive trance producer and DJ tries to break the standard EDM concept and think wider.

The album genre is something between breakbeat, chill out and dubstep with cinematic touch. It sounds dreamy, etherial and slightly melancholic.



Description:Multi-award winning pianist and composer who is not afraid to put his hat in anything
Genre:Classical
Artist:Chad Lawson
Album:The Chopin Variations (Disk 2)

Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, decided Chopin needed a new introduction. Along with violinist Judy Kang (Lady Gaga, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and cellist Rubin Kodheli (Kanye West, Courtney Love), Lawson has arranged ten Chopin works into a modern day interpretation. It's a risk editing the "poet of the piano" but one that Chopin would be proud of.

Lawson's previous release, "The Space Between", debuted at #12 on Amazon's Adult Contemporary while Olafur Arnalds named it in his Top 5 of 2013. Prior to, The Space Between, Lawson's release, The Piano (2011), reached #19 on iTunes Classical. Chad has been a featured guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation, PRI/SiriusXM's Bob Edwards Show, toured with Julio Iglesias and can be heard on Delta Airlines In-Flight radio programming.



Description:Multi-award winning pianist and composer who is not afraid to put his hat in anything
Genre:Classical
Artist:Chad Lawson
Album:The Chopin Variations (Disk 1)

Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, decided Chopin needed a new introduction. Along with violinist Judy Kang (Lady Gaga, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and cellist Rubin Kodheli (Kanye West, Courtney Love), Lawson has arranged ten Chopin works into a modern day interpretation. It's a risk editing the "poet of the piano" but one that Chopin would be proud of.

Lawson's previous release, "The Space Between", debuted at #12 on Amazon's Adult Contemporary while Olafur Arnalds named it in his Top 5 of 2013. Prior to, The Space Between, Lawson's release, The Piano (2011), reached #19 on iTunes Classical. Chad has been a featured guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation, PRI/SiriusXM's Bob Edwards Show, toured with Julio Iglesias and can be heard on Delta Airlines In-Flight radio programming.