Music Richard Green on the “very special feeling” of creating ‘The Circle Closes’ by Happy “Instruments for a composer are like brushes for a painter,” Richard Green says of the creation of his new EP ‘The Circle Closes’ Richard Green showcased the diversity of neoclassical…
Music Richard Green adds to his neoclassical trilogy with new EP ‘The Circle Closes’ by Tom Disalvo On new EP The Circle Closes, composer Richard Green brings an instrumental flair to pop, jazz and rock Richard Green has released his new EP The Circle Closes, a stirring…
Music PREMIERE: Moon and Bike journey through an enchanted forest on new single ‘Mythago’ by Happy Mystical woodlands and shimmering oases abound on Mythago, the new single from Oregon trio Moon and Bike. Moon and Bike have explored the reaches of their sound on their new…
Music Homemade Soundtracks creates a mythical soundscape on new EP ‘Acoustic Gardens’ by Happy On new EP Acoustic Gardens, Homemade Soundtracks creates the kind of audiovisual score usually reserved for a cinema epic. Homemade Soundtracks has released Acoustic Gardens, a blissful three-song EP that…
News Study confirms which genres of music the smartest people listen to by Happy Think you’re smarter because you listen to instrumental music? According to a new study, you might actually be right. All hail jazz! If you’ve ever stuck up your nose and claimed…
News WATCH: Brekky Boy – ‘Húsavík’ by Cassia Briscoe Taylor Davis, the pianist and composer for Bondi jazz trio Brekky Boy, has written an ode to the Icelandic town of Húsavík. Watery and full of reverie, Davis implores the full skill…
Music PREMIERE: Dutch Falconi send us on a sonic journey on his new single ‘Scattered Pearls’ by Emily Elvish On his latest single, Dutch Falconi spins the far corners of instrumentation into a masterclass of tone and composition. Dutch Falconi has an incredible ability to create densely visual, cinematic…
Music PREMIERE: SLOMO’s debut single is a sprawling and intense offering of instrumental grunge by Jessie Wilson Meet SLOMO; a Melbourne-based group creating wild paintings of sound with woozy and abrasive instrumentation. With the release of their new single Then I Said, the trio have immediately built…
Features Get instrumental and get emotional with Fait’s track-by-track runthrough of her dreamy Sonder EP by Tom Cameron Perth’s Fait is known for building climactic, atmospheric instrumentals. Elise Higgins is her name, and she spends her production time solo while enlisting the help of three instrumentalists to create…
News PREMIERE: The bloody imagery in The Shapeless Night by Moxie will be stuck in your head for days by Shayen de Silva There’s a lot to be said for moody, instrumental music. It’s certainly not winning the hearts and minds of younglings discovering new music outside of what their parents like. It’s…
