Guest Music Bloggers

By Mark Kirby, MusicDish e-Journal
When we last left John Corda, in the guise of drum ‘n’ bass superhero Mashed Buddha, on his full-length CD subdue your mind, he was adding elements, musical elements, to a genre that doesn’t go much past mechanical repetition in rhythm and bleating electro sounds for tunes. To this, he added […]

ABOUT THE ARTIST
In October of 2005, a very fine musician from Germany ( Gunnar Spardel of Tigerforest ) caught Amethyste’s attention. One of his wonderful song “Summer Rain” was playing on the player and she HAD to click on the “view” button. Suddenly, she was transported into a new dimension where music has a soul […]

The Internet-based Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute (JBGI) announces that it has quadrupled in size, in just the last six months, to over 1350 paying students. Originally designed for 350 students, the JBGI has shattered all enrollment projections since opening in May 2007. “The growth has been phenomenal and gratifying”, says Affiliated Artists CEO and JBGI […]

Laurel Canyon, Calif. - No one guessed that the piano, harp and other sounds came from a drum - but that’s what the folks at Synesthesia ( http://www.synesthesiacorp.com ), the company behind the stealth What’s That Sound? online contest, expected. “Synthesizer” was as close as anyone got, and Megan Hardman of Deer Creek, Oklahoma is […]

Drum n bass n keyboardist Mashed Buddha (aka John Corda) announced the release of his latest album “Zen Conspiracy.” The album represents a new direction for Mashed Buddha, first introduced in his prior EP release “Four Keys To Zen,” offering an intricate blend of drum n bass, ambient electronica and downtempo funk-grooves that allow for […]

David Beard Music Production - A Derbyshire-based music production company supplying music and sound design to a wide range of commercial media including Film, TV, Theatre Productions & Dance has provided music for the last film to be made involving the late ‘Mike Reid’.
The Film ‘Jack Says’ also stars Simon Phillips, Rita Ramnani, Aurelie Amblard, […]

Live performance of the complete “Jazz Cycles” by Manhattan New Music Project on January 23, 2008 shows: 8:30 & 10:30 PM
Iridium Jazz Club, 1650 Broadway, New York, NY
http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1177792
Modern jazz with a touch of Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage, Al DiMeola guitar lines, horns inspired by Blood Sweat & Tears and the guts of a good, tight […]

http://dievantile.com/
Di Evantile - Inertia
My immediate response to “Inertia” was, “Oh no, digital pitter-patter, this is going to be boring; all the sampled midi stuff is not really music anyway.” Then, right about the time I decided to put aside my often stuffy, somewhat elitist attitudes regarding the conventions of musical expression - you know, acoustical […]

Hello All,
With Christmas around the corner, I wanted to introduce to you an extraordinary new release called “Christmas in Rhythm & Bossa” - Franco & Guests.
The CD is distributed worldwide and can be found in most e-stores including iTunes, AmazonMp3.com, Yahoo! Music, AOL Music, e-music, etc.
The artist is Franco Sattamini, and his Christmas CD features […]

There are millions of musical stories in the naked city. This is one of them. This is not the story of contrived tragedy, the sad story of the life of a facile celebrity, created the way interest in nearly everything is created in the current culture - through hype and marketing. Though the lines between […]