Tag: Umberto

Live Concert Photography: TheWhen at Piano’s 6/24/15

Live Concert Photography: TheWhen  Piano’s June 24, 2015 If you’ve been frequenting JOVM over the past few months, synth pop artist, songwriter and producer Matt Kourie may be familiar to you.  Kourie is a grizzled New […]

Lawrence Curry is  Halifax, NS-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer, who shifted from classically-based compositions to digital audio workstations and a MIDI keyboard to produce original music and sound design for film and media art […]

Since their formation in 2011, the Seattle, WA-based electro pop act Nightmare Fortress, comprised of  Alicia Amiri (vocals), Colin Roper (synths), Blair Field (synths), and Cassidy Gonzales (guitar), along with production from Erik Blood, best […]

Albert Ovadia is a Miami, FL-based musician, producer and electronic music artist, who writes and records under the moniker of Red Traces. His latest single “Silver Wave” is heavily inspired by his travels to both […]

As a blogger, I receive several dozen emails daily from a variety of folks trying to put me on to their respective projects. And amazingly, a great deal of those emails are coming from artists […]

“Creature Feature,” the latest single (and video) from Brooklyn-based duo Sensual Harassment is a perfect Halloween release – sonically, the track feels incredibly cinematic, with propulsive and icy synth lines that bears a similarity to […]

Album Reviews: Analog Players Society’s CKY-JFK and Umberto’s Confrontations

  Analog Players Society CKY –JFK Studio Brooklyn Records Release Date: May 16, 2013   Track Listing 1.     Coule’Ba feat. Missia Saran Diabate 2.     Korosi feat. Petite Konde and Mamady Kouyate 3.     Moula feat. Missia […]

Justin Sweatt performs under the Buffy the Vampire Slayer-inspired moniker Xander Harris, and his sound owes a debt to early industrial music, horror movie soundtracks, Italian disco, techno, and 90s television. “Night Fortress” is his forthcoming […]

Classically trained, Kansas City-based musician Matt Hill, a.k.a. Umberto specializes in an electronica that expresses dread and anxious unease – it’s music that’s seemingly perfect for the score of a horror movie or for a […]