Michael Thallium

Today is a special day. I will be very brief. Today is 20 years since Freddie Mercury passed away and today is also a very special day in the USA, the Thanksgiving Day, the day when families get together to celebrate and give thanks. So, I would like to take the chance to [...]

There are things that happen “naturally”, without you searching for them intentionally. This is what happened to me when I came across “The Middle Path”, a song by a very young artist from Holland: Michelle van Min.

Michelle is a singer-songwriter with her own and particular sound and a fresh and deep voice. In my opinion [...]

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I got to know about György Sebök thanks to the wise comments that the pianist and coach Eliane Lust makes on her Facebook wall, which I recommend you to follow. Around one year ago, Eliane posted a comment and a video about her old master. I watched it and I [...]

Last night I was chatting with a Scottish friend of mine via Facebook and she told me she would like to get me introduced to a friend of hers. My dear friend said I would really, really fancy her because: a) she was from Sardinia, b) she was 35 and c) she plays guitar and [...]

“Azrial” is one of my favorite pieces to play by The Nice. I was combining a few versions of this song, mostly the early ‘69 version from their third album called Nice, America the BBC Sessions and a little of the original from ‘67 which is slower. I quoted a lot of ideas from songs [...]

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Here is what Rachel Flowers does for fun on her down time. She had a hard time when her instruments where stolen some weeks ago, but things changed for better now.

She began formulating this arrangement of Keith Emerson’s Piano Concerto No. 1 about two weeks ago on the day after she received her new flute. Apparently [...]

Just a couple of minutes ago, on the Facebook wall of the Argentinian organist Cristina Ayala de Zudaire, I found a beautiful video of a composer I had never heard of: Eric Whitacre. This video, I guess, is the result of an arduous and ingenious work full of creativity and, in my opinion, very, very original. Eric Whitacre [...]