Mons – Dreaming in Sepia (Album Sample)
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I’m in the depths of the final preparations for my album release (October 31st!), but I thought I would throw up a short clip from one of the new songs on the album.  This is music inspired by a beautiful poem written by [...]

To give you an idea of what I’ve been working on, I’ve included the (beta) album version of Dandelion at the top of the post. It represents what I’m doing with the album, which will be a mix of re-recorded/re-mastered existing material that you may have listened to before, and some new material that you have not. The original version of Dandelion was only about 2 minutes long, and an incomplete vision of the song. A sketch if you will, as are many of the bits and pieces I post online. The album versions are the complete vision, and so Dandelion is re-imagined in its full 6-minute length with a lot of new material and revision of the old material.

Amethystium is the solo project of Norwegian composer Øystein Ramfjord. Besides having the most Norwegian name in all of Norway, he writes gorgeous atmospheric chilled-out/ambient electronica/worldbeat music ala Enigma, Delerium and Deep Forest.

Today’s MSMOTD
Celldweller – Birthright (Beta 1.0) (buy this song)
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Celldweller isn’t a band so much as a one man army.  It’s the multifaceted, crazed and brilliant creative output of just one oddly-coiffed individual -> Klayton Scott (real name: Scott Albert).  Klayton has fronted various musical ventures over the last decade [...]

Mons – Dancing in the Light (Doreen’s Theme)
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When I announced that I would write a theme song for the winner of my Unnamed Melody Contest, I was intending to do a short, simple and memorable fanfare like the opening of the Superman Theme.  Sometimes I get carried away with [...]

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Edvard Grieg – Aase’s Death (from “Peer Gynt” – buy this song)
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I haven’t done any Classical music yet, so this seems like a good place to start.  Grieg was a Norwegian “Romantic” composer who lived from 1843 until 1907.  He trained in Germany and became very famous, with [...]

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Loreena McKennitt – Dante’s Prayer
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Ok, this MSMOTD is something special.  Loreena McKennitt has probably had the most significant musical influence on my life of any artist.  It’s doubly special because she’s actually from my area.. One of the few Winnipeg artists who’ve made it internationally (A few others [...]

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Gustavo Santaolalla – Iguazu (from the “Babel” film score)
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Santaolalla isn’t a household name, but there’s a good chance that you’ve heard his music.  While he’s had a lengthy career, fronting several bands, his greatest success has come in film scoring.  He has written award winning scores for movies [...]

Mons – Last Night
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This is a Piano piece I recorded several years ago.  It, like the other “rambles” is an unplanned, unedited live performance (as is the bulk of my piano work).  This is a quieter, slower song than the previous songs that I’ve posted – the upbeat piano [...]

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E.S. Posthumus – Isunova (from 2008’s “Cartographer”)
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Ok, now you’ve definitely heard these guys before.  E.S. Posthumus are actually two brothers out of California who began releasing music around 2000, getting a lot of exposure due to a local radio station.  Their music is a truly epic blend of [...]