Category: Music

Tanja Kolbe makes ice glow: She is a 27 year old ice dancer from Berlin and creates a magic atmosphere with her coreography in the video for the Coldplay song “Everglow”. The video was shot in the “Eisstadion am Pferdeturm” in Hannover with excellent special effects by the London-based post production studio CherryCherryVFX.

The performance was actually filmed with her skating partner Stefano Caruso but for the Coldplay video he was removed in post production by the VFX team to make her part of the performance look even more magic, as if she could fly over the ice surface. Tanja and Stefano last won the 19th place at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. In 2015 she got a son and is now showing herself back in everglowing magic on ice in the Coldplay video.

Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight from Seattle are bringing magic to earth. Under the band name Odesza they are releasing excellent electronic music and videos. This month they released their new album “A moment apart”, with a stunning teaser.

The song “A Moment Apart” is simply magic.

In a Vlog video of the Youtuber Michael Linde, he used beautiful melancholic background music which immediately caught my attention.

The song is called “Youth” from the English band “Daughter” with the 27 years old singer Elena Torna. Beautiful music and beautiful video with a great lighting and atmosphere!

In his latest song “Without You” Avicii is combining two music styles in one song: It starts as a vocal and acoustic guitar song and then builds up slowly to become an instrumental trance-style song at 2:27 min. Very cool idea.

For some reason the plucked octaves in “Without You” e.g. at 2:31 – 2:33 min. remind me of a Tella 2XLC remix of the song “Spring” from the German music producer RMB (Rolf Maier-Bode).

The Norwegian a-ha lead singer Morten Harket is 58 in the meantime but his voice remains unchanged. This month they have published a beautiful “MTV Unplugged” session, in which they performed again their 1985 hit “The sun always shines on TV” with assistance from the Ingrid Helene Håvik, the lead singer of the Norwegian band Highasakite. The venue took place at the Øygardshallen, close to the Ocean Sound Recordings studio on the small island of Giske nearby Alesund.

In this session they also presented their beautiful new song “This is our home”, with the pure voice of Marten Harket.

As a music publisher it’s necessary to announce that your new song is available in music stores. The announcements can be done in Social Media as image posts or video teasers or in any other media. In this context it is helpful to understand the guidelines of the music stores because it get’s tricky when you use their logo in your own artwork or video teaser.

Each music store has different requirements and it is recommended to read them all before you use their logo.

It’s totally impressive that one pitched word is causing a thunderstorm in music stores. This version of “Thunder” by All Saints points out that one word is the key component of the song.

Imagine Dragons themselves are very successful with the song, currently at 310 million streams on Spotify. The video has nice impressions of the Dubai Marina and Sheikh Zayed Road.

Remembering July 22, 2017 in Croke Park. We were watching U2 from Cusack Stand but the U2 fan Paulo Vetri has created a great memory of this “Beautiful Day” from many different perspectives.

As mentioned earlier in this article I’m a very happy user of the music distribution service of DistroKid, which allows artists to expose their music to the huge audience of the big music services like Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Deezer, etc. DistroKid is amazing simple to handle, has an amazing low yearly fee of $19.99 and will give the artist 100% of the royalties collected by the big stores. All in all an amazing offer for home musicians like me who want to expose their music to a big audience. Make sure to check out the 7% discount code, see below, if you’re interested to sign up with DistroKid.

One of the big success stories of DistroKid is the band Jack & Jack. Watch Philip J. Kaplan, the owner of DistroKid, unboxing the Gold Record of the Jack & Jack song “Like That”.

This is the song behind the Gold Record. Jack & Jack are very popular in Social Media, they have 2,5 million Followers just on Instagram. A Gold Record means that they have sold more than 500,000 copies of “Like That” through the music distribution service of DistroKid, keeping 100% of their royalties. Respect!

Hearing the radio today I immediately fell in love with a new song from Alecia Beth Moore alias Pink. Different to previous Pink songs “What about us” is now almost a dance song with beautiful melodic phases throughout the whole song. Co-written by Johnny McDaid (who produced e.g. for Snow Patrol, Paul van Dyk and Ed Sheeren) and Steve McCutcheon (who also produced for Ed Sheeran and e.g. Robin Schulz and Clean Bandit), this song has a wonderful build-up phase with a low-pass filtered piano and then releases its full power after the break at 2:32 min. The original video distracts too much from the music and could have been even more in a dance style but the lyrics video is just perfect, it keeps the focus on the music. Great work of Alecia, Johnny and Steve!