Looking at the best apps of 2018 according to Apple and also on growing trends at the CES 2019 in Las Vegas, it looks that the response to the question in the title is a clear YES. Let’s have a look. Best Apps of 2018 according […]
Today I opened the news app in the morning and immediately got saddened by the announcement, that Mark Hollis, the lead singer of the music band Talk Talk has died on February 25, 2019. I am still surprised how this sad new has impacted me. Pure […]
Yesterday we got overwhelmed by snow. It was a real winter snow-storm, this time called the Alberta Clipper. All the media was full of warnings about the upcomming calamity and the best solution was supposedly to stay inside. To stay put! Not to move! For me, […]
As the year 2018 is nearing to its final day, the media is full of endless ‘the best of’ charts in any imaginable cathegory. My interest got cought yesterday by the Robin Denselow’s article in The Guardian titled Music without borders: 2018’s 10 best world albums. […]
It has been many years since I wrote my last music album review – or any music review, in fact. But the group Mumford & Sons hold a special place in my “music heart”. Therefore while listening to their recently released album Delta, I couldn’t resist […]
Today I found an interesting article How Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” Was Born From an Argument Between Roger Waters & David Gilmour at the Open Culture website, describing how members of the Pink Floyd band worked together, when literally ‘constructing’ one of their most famous songs. […]
It is a more than a month since the Make Music Day happened on June 21st. And I have finally time for the retrospective. Following is a summary of what happened here in Markham where with the help of few friends I had organized a one […]
June 6, 2018
“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
It happened like many other things in life – by a serendipity. As I was glancing through my Twitter feed the following grabbed my eyes – Make Music Day celebration. Not ‘listen’, ‘play’, or ‘entertain’ – but MAKE music. That is exactly what the philosophy of […]