Threads time – December 2024

Monthly purchase: Seoul Metro – Under the Same Sky (LP)

https://www.threads.net/@seoulmetromusic

I asked for this as a Christmas present and am yet to meet up with family back in the UK to receive it, but I've been listening on Spotify and greatly enjoying the indie-pop sound and getting into the tracks

It's an on-demand record producer, which seems like a great innovation for independent artists.

Streams on repeat:

Rory Moon - Broken Heart. Rory has a video out promoting her new track F&AN, which is also great, but Broken Heart has become my benchmark for quality. I am not even going to think about trying to stream my music until I am this good at singing, composing and producing. (Purchased on iTunes).

Feralman - Golden Canary. The multi-layered folk is another benchmark. The albums Allegories and Allegories Transcended (multilingual cover versions) are available to download from Feralman's website.

Streaming follows:

Aphelyon - Are We Dreaming. Atmospheric electronic rock to lose yourself in. If you like The Orb or early Pink Floyd you will love this. (Purchased on iTunes - some other tracks on the Aphelyon website.) Caught my attention with the post below.

Top share:

Just a Simple Guy - Oh no I'm in love!! (With You). Singer 4ngelica Divine supplies vocals to the piano in this catchy pop song. They sound like they're having fun! (Purchased on iTunes - also on Spotify and YouTube.)

Music industry wisdom learned:

Aphelyonmusic

Anyone else feel like their original music career is finally ready to liftoff after 15+ years? Let’s talk about it! Where are you on your journey? Share it

* I started shedding guitar at 12

* went to college and grad school for music

* starting teaching/writing music and gigging

* 10 years ago did a massive deep dive in Ableton so I could arrive at the current place of being able to produce/mix/master and release everything independently WHILE creating a dynamic solo live set.

* READY to TOUR

My wisdom shared:

Sharing the above post: Reading this post, all I can say is the commitment and experience shows. I hope it is time for LIFT OFF!

Overnight success is achieved by years of work. A lesson to all with dreams.

Work hard. Study. Play. Create. Don’t quit.

Making music:

Played my composition Christmas on the Moon live in my online piano school Holiday Student Recital.