“Strangelove” – and Wicked Gloves

While tending to some routine maintenance of these websites, I noticed that one of the tracks I included in the “Strangelove” playlist I put together a few months ago had been removed by the band, the

Mobidextrous

A few months ago I featured in the Sunday evening round-up a collaboration of the English DJ Mobidextrous (earlier a resident of Beijing, he now lives in

The Soundcloud Round-Up: Some Hours Earlier Than Usual

This time around, the Soundcloud round-up will be more of a brief and a belatedly weekend affair. First off is a new instrumental track, “Saturday Morning Blues,” by a guitarist in

Sweet Random’s New EP: “Untold”

Around a week and a half ago, the Russian sound artist known as Sweet Random issued a new EP, Untold, which, following by a few months his first, Love, and constituting just as much of a unity as

A New Composition by Giovanni Dettori: “Quartetto Doppio”

The composer in Milan whom I’ve written about before, Giovanni Dettori, has just published a recording of a new work, “Quartetto Doppio,” on his Youtube channel, and this ensemble

The Sunday Soundcloud – Dash?

As regards this and the other Musicuratum website, the last week has largely been absorbed by the work after the work, which proved to be somewhat less protracted than the former but

The Work at Last Is Done!

Another Sunday evening’s come, and after several long weeks of work on the websites, I’m happy to announce that both of them are back in order and ready for action again – each now I hope

A New Video from The Shures – “Halo”

Though I’m still in the midst of bringing this site up to grade, a video just crossed my path that’s remarkable, a rendition of Beyoncé’s “Halo” which, as Gabriel Cabrera and

Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud

It’s just before midnight on Sunday, and the vernal season is at last upon us, though I’m rushing to catch up – so tonight’s round-up will be brief with words, but longer on sound.

Adam Cuthbért’s EP: “Dream World”

April is the season for album releases, it seems; several have made their debut on Bandcamp (with parts or the entireties thereof being offered on Soundcloud by way of publicity), and

The Shures Cover Whitney Houston

Gabriel Cabrera and Chris Kennedy of The Shures, though once again without Sophie, the group’s newest member, have ventured an impromptu cover of Whitney Houston’s

Early Bird

Alongside the band Forestears, the producers Tom Peterson and Owen Crouch have recently launched a venture into the realm of experimental hip-hop, under the name Early Bird, and

The Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud

For this evening’s round-up I’ve cast a larger net, and so have one track, one set, and one mixtape to offer. To start with the mixtape, “1n+rødµk+1øn +ø §Y§+(3)m§ øf §øµnd§”: it’s the at times

Spring Is Here, Today

And it’s about time, too – this winter has dragged on and on. Well, on the occasion and to put some sprightliness into everyone’s step, here are three vivacious tracks found on

Pak0

Improbable though it might sound, some memorable dubstep and house music is being created in the very far north, in Russia’s port city of Arkhangelsk, by the artist known only as Pak0 – apart from

The Neil Jansen Playlist: Some of the Bordogni/Rochut “Melodious Etudes for Trombone”

The euphonium player Neil Jansen has recorded several performances of the “Melodious Etudes for Trombone,” drawn from Marco Bordogni’s “Vocalises” and arranged by

Pop Noir

An up-and-coming band based in Huntington Beach, though this fraternal duo, the lead singer Luke and the lead guitarist and producer Joe McGarry, hails from Manchester

The Soundcloud Round-Up: Givan Lötz, Mithatcan Öcal, The Sandman’s Orchestra

Tonight’s round-up begins with “Strutt,” a piece which an artist and composer living in Johannesburg, Givan Lötz, has loaded on his Soundcloud page; and but for its last extra letter, the

Eines Nachts in Berlin

Poised now as we are here on the verge of Spring, I’ve been finding myself ready for a voyage – mainly a nocturnal one, though my hope is to conduct it without nostalgia – into the past and to

A Late Winter’s Night’s Tour Around Soundcloud

After nearly a week in which it seemed the new season was at last arriving in these parts, the winter returned in force during the day and is striking back now in the form of a hailstorm – and

The Sunday Round-Up on Soundcloud

This Sunday, for a change, the Soundcloud round-up is occurring early, very early in the morning; I have a lot on at the moment and may as well send it forth now. First up, thanks to a kind