Magnatune: guitar, piano, jazz, new age, electro

This week's 5 new albums:

  • Curl: Exit Real Life - Electro Rock
    Groovy, French downtempo electro-rock songs

  • Luke Gartner-Brereton: Ambrosia - World
    music for minds

  • Michael Murphy: The Most Beautiful Things - New Age
    Melodic New Age music that tells a story

  • O-liostere: Circonflexe - Jazz
    Progressive jazz frolicking on melodic polyrhythms

  • Toni Iniguez: The Garden - New Age
    classical guitar and Nature

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Description:classical guitar and Nature
Genre:New Age
Artist:Toni Iniguez
Album:The Garden

Immerse yourself in the surround sounds, and quiet, minimalist rhythms of "The Garden". Innovative work in structure and sound, designed without considering gender. The songs and melodies contained in this album are made with textures of 6 and 12 classical guitars superimposed, creating organic shapes, and arranged in a rhythmic mix / original melodic.

The album was composed around the idea of meditation, silence and the beautiful sound of the classical guitar. The songs are arranged carefully to create a sense of silent meditation. The power and intensity of the pieces moving more in the middle of the album suggest we lost in the intoxicating sounds of The Garden.

The idea for this project was to create an organic blend of hypnotic sounds of meditative and minimalist music with the most beautiful instrument that exists: the classical guitar. Enter The Garden and observe life around you. You've never heard anything like it. The music of The Garden you will absorb and marvel.



Description:Progressive jazz frolicking on melodic polyrhythms
Genre:Jazz
Artist:O-liostere
Album:Circonflexe

Circonflexe: cyclic claves, flexed execution, circumspect circles. The concept of this album revolves around claves, rhythmic patterns which unite the musicians and distinguish each track. Some tracks are based on a simple clave such as 1 2 3 2 or RER, while others feature complex patterns like in the introduction of 8 plus 7 for which the album artwork gives the score. Polyrhythms are particularly present throughout 2 virgule 4 and reach an interesting arpeggio step before the last theme. Triades concludes the album with a symmetric ascending and descending chord progression highlighted by a tune jointly played by 4 melodic instruments.

This album features two guests: Olivier Koundouno and YéYé Toon. Olivier Koundouno's cello dances on the interweaving background of MMM, a trance balanced between the written score and improvisations. YéYé Toon's unique scatting style is featured in Polymorphisme, a multiple time scale tune, and in Daga dit Gouda, a piece based on a scattered jungle drum line.



Description:Melodic New Age music that tells a story
Genre:New Age
Artist:Michael Murphy
Album:The Most Beautiful Things

The Most Beautiful Things was inspired by reflection. That feeling of security and comfort because we know how the story goes. When the senses perceive a familiar stimulus our minds create the images of our veiled past.

The smell before it rains reminds me of the purple mountains of Colorado, as a storm would fog the peaks with the gray haze of the rain. The smell of freshly cut grass takes me back to the hills of my grandparents golden pastures, and blankets of snow covering the radiance of Christmas lights reminds me of a chilling December breeze.

I encourage people to remember their past. To recapture their forgotten drive and desire for life, to make old dreams new, and find joy in their journey.



Description:music for minds
Genre:World
Artist:Luke Gartner-Brereton
Album:Ambrosia

Like the divine fair of ancient Greek myth from which the name derives, Ambrosia will nourish the soul and soothe the mind. Layered instruments drift softly above a shimmering soundscapes, often sweet, sometimes bitter.

Tracks feature piano, classical nylon-string guitar, acoustic guitar and a range of exotic instruments, blended and layered throughout like the mingled flavours and textures of a fine meal.

This is an album that invites the listener to recline and drink in; to ponder and unravel, to simply let the music do its work.



Description:Groovy, French downtempo electro-rock songs
Genre:Electro Rock
Artist:Curl
Album:Exit Real Life

Exit Real Life is a new wave, dreamy production that will send the listener through an emotional sonic journey. Angelic combinations of twisting guitar chime, fluttering synthesizers and beastly rhythms are married to Goddess like vocal melodies - intense sonic sculptures for the audio palette.

Psychic Uri Geller was quoted as saying "Lord Admiral Nelson and Napoleon Bonaparte are big fans of CURL and regularly get together to listen to their music over several tots of rum". What else is there to say?