Sometimes, the social network does actually bring some very interesting people and in this case, music, to me. A couple of years ago I got hooked up to Hippie Tendencies through MySpace. I really loved a couple of demos they had posted. This music has charm to spare on top of excellent composition, thoughtful lyrics, [...]
Magic Brook Concert at Avonova. “Magic Brook has paid a lot of attention to what he’s crafting,…very steeped in the direction modern acoustic guitar has been taking, prizing sophistication but not trickery or grandstanding.” Mark S. Tucker, FAME Reviews
Jazz compilation includes Brook with the Joyce Baker Group playing “Autumn Leaves” featuring singer, Opie Bellas. The collection includes Diana Krall, Eva Cassidy, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra.
Tomorrow Afternoon, I’ll be doing a neighborhood show at my local market place. How cool is that? I do a lot of my grocery shopping at Farmer Joes Marketplace. It’s in my neighborhood (biking distance! Yeah!) It’s a locally owned family business who source locally as they can, with eco-conscious ethos. I feel blessed to [...]
“magic brook plays Brazil” Well, not quite. “The Source” has made it onto the play list of a Live365 podcast from Brazil, Animalumen. “Animalumen folks, thank you, thank you. I love it. Any chance there’s a gig or two somewhere your way? I’d love to see Brazil – especially if my guitar would take me [...]
A few days ago, I was feeling a bit down – this continuous ride of “Up, people noticing & enjoying my music”, “Down, is the ride over?” is taking a bit of a toll. Then, I received an email from my publicist, Curtis Smith of Maelstrom Music PR, about his trip to Vermont. At some [...]
I finally upgraded my wordpress blog so that spammers who’d been able to comment without my permission will no longer have access. Whew! I didn’t lose any posts; I didn’t lose any content from my old version of WordPress. But I sure hated offering any help to folks who sell fake drugs and fake anti-virus [...]
I had a rehearsal for my second Saturday gig last night. Amazing Evelie Säles brought over a great keyboard player, “Brett”. with James Bianchi, percussionist and myself. Evelie wants to do Brazilian tunes in Portuguese. She’s got a gig at an Italian restaurant in Sausalito. Great. I’ve played restaurants in Sausalito before. These have all [...]
I’m deeply grateful for the attention that DJs around the world have given “The Source”. In January, “The Source” closed the month at number 18 on the NewAge/ambient/world radio chart. That’s 18 out of 193 albums listed from playlists that were reported during the month. (only a fraction of airplay is reported) At the beginning [...]
Today, I got an email (not the first) from Moozikoo.com. There are soliciting artists for a fan contest. The reward is inclusion on a college radio promo CD***. When Melusine Records was doing pre-release review distribution, another site, musicemissions.com told me to try and win their fan contest. They only review the winners I’ve thought [...]