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 [...]

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Porcupine Tree – Lazarus (buy this song)
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And through the whirling sentry drones of academic responsibility, guns blazing and engines a-fire, erupts the newest MSMOTD: the mighty Porcupine Tree!  Leaving assignments, readings and constructive musings as so much burning wreckage in its wake, it streaks into the sky and [...]

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Imogen Heap – 2-1 (buy this song)
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Imogen Heap, an English singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from London, has a really distinctive sound and an even more distinctive name.  I had assumed it was some artsy-fartsy assumed name for her musical endeavours (sort of like how Celldweller’s “Klayton” was actually born Scott Albert), [...]

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.

I now have use of a decent dv camera, so I hope to record and post some video of my live performances, playing and improvisation.  I’m hoping to get a decent mic so that I can do video of my playing a real piano, as my style with a weighted keyboard is quite different than [...]

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 [...]

Mons – Silhouettes
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Wow, the response to the contest to name “The Unnamed Melody” that I posted last week was much greater than I expected! I got a lot of emails and messages with suggestions along with the comments on the post itself. I’m really happy that the [...]

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Barcelona – Please Don’t Go (buy this song)
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Can you have too much of a good thing?  I’m a big fan of Piano-Rock ala Coldplay, Keane etc, and Barcelona is one of the newest and most talented entries into this genre.  They’re from Seattle and were originally just one [...]