Neoclassical Suite is a column that will present 7 recent, distinctive tracks of the neoclassical-modern classical-contemporary -and beyond!- music field.
The Players
No Mindless Scroll
(neoclassical, cinematic)
No Mindless Scroll borns in May 2019, a project started as a dream come true of its two creators: the composer, producer and musician Carmelo Emanuele Patti and the violinist Isabel Gallego Lanau.
Its music creates different atmospheres and emotions through the sound of classical strings blended with the last elements of pop and electronic music.
The first serie of pieces that is starting to grow describe the most intimate feelings as well as strong, positive and evocative moments. A multisensorial experience made of music, videos and soundcapes… a trip for the soul, ears and eyes.
Shane Thomas
(neoclassical)
Shane is a 21-year old artist/composer from London, who makes music in a similar world to Nils Frahm and Ludovico Einaudi. ‘Without A Lion’ is the title track from his debut EP, due for release on 11th June.
Shane was hailed a “mini-Mozart”, having started composing his own piano pieces from aged 7. He’s had quite a remarkable upbringing; there wasn’t an ounce of privilege, he was in fact living in poverty for most of his childhood, raised by his father (his mother is in prison). He’s a truly gifted individual and has now, still so young, honed the sound he wishes to make his own.
Sun Rain
(neoclassical, ambient)
Sun Rain is the solo alias of Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and electronic producer Chad Skinner. Sheets marks his debut solo album, yet he’s been active within the music community since 2014, releasing two albums as one-half of electronic production duo Snowday. In 2017 he conceptually launched the Sun Rain project, fusing his versatile compositional talents to explore his own expansive sonic ideas.
William Ogmundson
(neoclassical, epic music)
William Ogmundson is an award-winning pianist, lyricist and composer. He has performed all over North America and Europe (including the Vatican) and released nine solo CDs to date. For more information, go to WilliamOgmundson.com
Jacco Wynia
(neoclassical, ambient)
Jacco Wynia – Composer/Pianist – born April 17th, 1989, the Netherlands. Jacco wants to share the powerful effect he perceives in his music, wishing that more people can find joy, hope and peace through it. After doing a range of big performances, Jacco found out that for him playing in an intimate setting was the most touching experience. He realized this when playing a lay-down-concert for elderly people in later stages of dementia. The response was so intense and the atmosphere was one of connecting with each other in both tears and laughter, being freed by the power of music. This inspired to go more and more for an intimate sound and to create settings to connect with the listeners. This way of making music a personal communication medium is how Jacco wishes to continue and grow. So that more people experience the sheer joy of the music, and this connection with the listener will inspire the music in return. Inspiration comes from friendships, nature, challenges, love.
Karl Thesing
(neoclassical, contemporary music, minimal electronic)
Karl Thesing is an explorer on a journey through sound worlds. The 30-year-old autodidact understands his music as a snapshot that has no limits. Through the fusion of various media and art forms, the Cologne based artist sets out in search of new, but also well-tried musical forms. Karl Thesing experiments by composing new works as well as by rebuilding instruments or striving for new recording techniques.
The multi-instrumentalist learned to play the piano in the castle extension of his boarding school – in the halls where Brahms resided and played music in 1896. Karl Thesing combined his passion for classical music with the dissolution of boundaries and experimentation with various art forms. He creates an inspiring, neoclassical sound world that lives from harmony as well as contrasts and contradictions.
Klaus Sahm
(neoclassical)
Klaus Sahm has been working with other artists for years but never released any music by himself – until now.
Now he releases his first Single “Isolement”, an immersive and slow 9-min impression of how he sounds when no one is around.
It was recorded at night, it is improvised, it captures the moment of thoughts transforming into music.
“maybe this piece of music can calm you down, help you fall asleep, make you feel less anxious in difficult times or do anything you’d expect music to do. because that’s why i listen to music – it moves me”
The Music
Christos Doukakis