Sonific SongSpotting

I found an interesting artist from Sonific

We have more than 200 000 tracks in our catalogue, so obviously I haven't had the time to listen to every artist we have. But that's a good thing ,because life is full of suprises; everyday i find something new that I like. Today's gem is an artist called David Nevue. You can listen to him on  the Songspot  placed on bottom of this post.  David is a real self-made man, who has promoted himself via the Internet since 1995. He has even written a book about it!

Here’s a collection of recent new Sonifized blogs that I stumbled on during my morning round:

Treasures in the attic – Inspirations for the soul by Patricia Wellington from New Zealand. I really like the design, and the selected music truly brings up the mood!

Blog De Caroli, in Spanish which is not my strongest area. But the design is nice,  and Burnshee Thomside rocks like nobody’s business on this site!

Raphael888’s weblog contains some amazing nature images, and a song from Josh Groban. Well chosen! The picture on this post is taken from Raphael's blog. Isn't it great?

Music widgets are exploding in the net!

There are these nice people in the 'net who create lists about music applications in the Internet. I am always checking these lists and I always, yes always, find out new interesting services that I haven't heard about before. And believe me, I live in the net, my Google Reader explodes every day with feeds I subscribe to... I am as updated as anyone can be! Talking about information overflow... Much love to Everything 2.0 who posted this list of 170 music applications!

Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay

The story behind this song is really touching: Otis Redding wrote the first verse of the song, under the abbreviated title "Dock of the Bay", at a houseboat on Waldo Pier in Sausalito, California. He had come off his famed performance at the Monterey Pop Festival just days earlier in June 1967. While touring in support of the LPs King & Queen (collaborations with female vocalist Carla Thomas) and his live set Live in Europe, he continued to scribble lines of the song on napkins and hotel paper.

In December of that year he joined producer and guitarist Steve Cropper at a recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Together, they completed the music and melancholy lyrics of "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay". From those sessions emerged Otis Redding's final recordings, including "Dock of the Bay", which was recorded on 6 and 7 December. The result was a song quite different in style from most of Redding's other recordings, but one with which he was reported to be very pleased.

Redding continued to tour after the recording sessions and, on December 10, the charter plane which was carrying him crashed into Lake Monona, outside Madison, Wisconsin. Redding and six others were killed. Only one passenger survived. Redding's body was recovered from the lake the day after the crash.

This cool version of the song featured here is performed by the Drifters

Most played artist's at Sonific, last week

I took a look into a new tool that our tech wizard Gunnar created a few days ago. It’s a stats tool that counts which artist have been most succesful in Sonific during the last seven days. It’s nice to see that Sonific user’s have such a wide need for different kind of music. Within the most listened artists we have a mixture of children’s music (Junko),  DJ Ideal who does really heavy sounding rap, classical music (The London Fox Players, Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra) tight rock from Plain White T’s, world music Stella, and new age from Frank Defino Jr.

Here’s a playlist I created, with some of the most played songs from Sonific. Enjoy!

Secret Journey

Omar Akram is an artist who encourages listeners to come with him on an exotic Secret Journey. On his first two albums, he was simply known as Omar but now he performs under his full name. Meanwhile, his music continues to change and develop. His first album was Opal Fire, which attained Top 15 on Billboard Magazine’s national New Age sales chart and featured Akram’s piano backed by additional keyboards played by Omar and David Dial. On his second CD Free as a Bird, Omar again composed all of the music but this time produced half the album and utilized top keyboardist Gregg Karukas to produce the other half.

TO promote Omar’s forthcoming third album “Secret Journey”, Omar and his record label Real Music has built a great pre-promotion website around a Sonific Songspot, which allows you to instantly listen to all the tracks from his forthcoming album. Please check it out from http://www.realmusic.com/secretjourney.php This is exactly the kind of activity that we here at Sonific love to see. This is why we built the whole damnn thing! It is very satisfying to see someone using our tools for their own benefit. Much love to Omar and Real Music!

Music Widgets are exploding - embedding music wigdets is becoming a standard

I  guess this is good for Sonific ;)

Nice comment on Sonific's new playlist music widget

Link: Here we go again … (blog)

"As you can see, I’ve been playing on my site again.  Sonific changed their site, so we can add more than 1 song at a time.  How cool is that?  I’ve discovered I enjoy a wide variety of music.  Must be from my parent’s upbringing, music and dance was always a part of our lives. 

Do I have a favorite?   I don’t think I do anymore.  If anyone were to drive in the car with me, I’d probably drive them crazy.   I constantly bounce from country, oldies, soft rock, christian music, jazz, classic rock, etc.  (Hmmmm, must be where my daughter gets it from)  Because of Sonific, I’ve discovered hip hop/rap can be fun to listen to, depends on the artist and the words.  Of course, that is the whole point to rap, you have to listen to the words.  It has a beat and a message, some messages aren’t very good, however, it’s nice to know there are artists out there who still communicate good messages...."

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