Year: 2023

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group has seen many personnel changes over the years, with Froese the only constant member until his death in January 2015. The best-known lineup of the group was its mid-1970s trio of Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann. In 1979, […]

With only 8000 Chapman Sticks worldwide, they are one of the most seldom seen and rarely heard instruments in the world. Today Mark White and Stefanie Barthel, known as Cascade, are the only Stick-Duo in the world. With the elegant sound of the Chapman Stick, they specialize in such music as Celtic, Romantic and Classic […]

5000 Volts is the name of a British disco recording act that achieved success throughout Europe during the 1970s. The group consisted of vocalists Tina Charles and Martin Jay, with a changing group of session musicians. They released several singles in the mid-1970s, but did not achieve success until radio stations began playing the B-side […]

The Amadeus Electric Quartet is a classical crossover quartet consisting of two violinists, a cellist and a pianist. The all female group is an internationally successful project especially among the fans of new classical music. Their constant and ingenious combining of classical and modern elements has certified this group as one of the most popular […]

The “Black and White Rag” is a 1908 ragtime composition by George Botsford. The song was recorded widely for both the phonograph and player piano, and was the third ragtime composition to sell over one million copies of sheet music. The song was first recorded in 1909, as performed by the Victor orchestra for a […]

Park Yun-a better known as Yoyomi is a South Korean trot singer-songwriter and actress. Park was born in October 1994, in Cheongju, South Korea. She is a graduate of Cheongju Girls’ High School. As a child, she became interested in trot music (a genre of Korean popular music known for its use of repetitive rhythm […]

The word Galop has the usual significance in the most rapid pace of a horse and the word Gallopade referring to a similar movement in dancing, Gallopade is really the correct term. The term Galop came from the Waltz-like turning of the dance, which also has a version called a “Galop-waltz” in 3/4 time. The […]