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At the Shore by Vik Ho, When Guitar Harmony Crosses Borders

What happens when classical rock vocabulary encounters desert modes and Eastern melodic logic? On At the Shore by Vik Ho, the Hamburg-based guitarist and producer, answers that question with confidence and restraint, blending progressive rock textures with Middle Eastern harmonic colourings. Rather than leaning on genre clichés, Vik Ho approaches fusion as a matter of […]

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A Question Asked in Sound, What Kind of World Is This? by NTHNL

Music Reviews / Arashk Azizi

What Kind of World Is This? By NTHNL, is built on a fundamental collision: electronic music against flute. Industrial beats, dense pads, and synthetic textures are constantly set in opposition to the soft, velvet-like timbre of the flute, and this tension becomes the album’s main dramatic force. It is not a decorative contrast, it is

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Felix Mendelssohn: The Lyrical Bridge from Classicism to Romanticism

Composers / Arashk Azizi

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and educator whose prodigious gifts and refined aesthetic made him one of the most celebrated figures of early Romanticism. Blessed with astonishing technical mastery and a preternatural melodic gift, Mendelssohn synthesized classical clarity with emerging Romantic expressiveness, crafting

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The Bell Tower and The Cross, Epic Cinematic Storytelling

Music Reviews / Arashk Azizi

Eight pieces of epic symphonic music form The Bell Tower and The Cross, a cinematic album by Chameleon Music, the pseudonym of UK-based composer and media creator Mark Taylor. Known for his long career in film, television, theatre, games, and advertising, Taylor here steps decisively into the album format, shaping a cohesive narrative experience rather

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the Architect of the Sacred Polyphony

Composers / Arashk Azizi

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 – February 2, 1594) stands as one of the towering figures in Renaissance music and arguably the most influential composer of sacred polyphony in Western history. Revered historically as the “Prince of Music,” his work represents a culmination of Renaissance ideals, balance, clarity, and spiritual depth, while simultaneously shaping

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Philip Glass: A Visionary of Contemporary Music

Composers / Arashk Azizi

Philip Glass (31 January 1937) stands as one of the most revolutionary composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Defying easy categorization, he crafted an unmistakable musical language that reshaped what modern classical music could be. Glass’s work dissolves boundaries between genres, opera, symphony, film, popular music, and world traditions, to create deeply

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Franz Schubert and the Birth of the Sentimental Music

Composers / Arashk Azizi

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) stands among the most important figures in Western music. Though he died tragically young at 31, his output was astonishingly prolific, hundreds of songs, symphonies, chamber works, piano music, and more, and his blend of Classical precision with Romantic expression rewired the emotional potential of

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Eesti Muusikaauhinnad 2026: When Visibility Replaces Value

Concerts and Events / Arashk Azizi

The winners of Eesti Muusikaauhinnad 2026 have been announced at a gala ceremony in Tallinn, once again positioning the event as the most visible annual snapshot of Estonia’s music industry. Yet beyond the celebration, this year’s awards also raise important questions about values, representation, and the direction in which musical culture is being steered. Classical

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Global Music Industry Revenue by Year (1999–2024)

Global Music Industry Revenue: What the Numbers Tell Independent Musicians

independent musician / Arashk Azizi

For more than a decade, the global music industry lived under a cloud of pessimism. Declining physical sales, collapsing CD markets, piracy, and the long hangover from the digital shock of the early 2000s left many wondering whether recorded music could ever truly recover. Yet the latest data from the IFPI Global Music Report 2025

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John Tavener, The Sound of the Sacred in Contemporary Classical

Composers / Arashk Azizi

Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 28 1944 – 12 November 2013) stands among the most distinctive voices of late-20th- and early-21st-century English composition. Renowned for a deep fusion of sacred sensibility and musical innovation, Tavener’s work occupies a unique place in contemporary classical music, one where devotion meets sonic transcendence and where minimalism meets

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