I was listening to Byron’s Pandora station today and this artist came up. Beautiful song (To The Stars). I did some research and found his LastFM station here. All good stuff, but I recommend listening to To the Stars first. This guy, like Saltillo and a few others, has an interesting way of integrating classical music and instrumentation into “modern” music (Saltillo uses the violin predominantly and Ogawa the Cello). These guys are poised to do amazing things if they just stick with it. What I’d like to hear is those two team up with Antony Hagerty (Saltillo clearly is an excellent composer but unacomplished lyricist/singer). In fact, Ogawa mentions on his blog that he is working on something with deeper “heavier” electronic sounds… I have a feeling this will turn out a lot like Saltillo but less gothic.
…love…
The Stars is not my style but Saltillo is AWESOME!!!
I’m still listening to it until now.
=( This is the first “album” I’ve actually bought in a long time. Nick is really talented (and nice, he actually emailed me back when I asked him about the name).
I think Ogawa’s stuff is actually more my style. The technogoth stuff wears thin a little later on the Saltillo album… but Ogawa’s album is pretty good all the way through….
I’ll give it another shot but I can tell that it’s more your style after being in your car a coupla times or listening to the music on your laptop.
Oh, my bad! I listened to the wrong song last time but it was also from Ogawa. I DO like “To The Stars”.
As you can see, I even wrote wrong name on my first comment which has nothing to do with his other song I listened to. How ignorant of me!?
I think I heard you play this song before and was thinking of asking you who it was but I forgot.
yesh, I played it while you were cooking maybe….
by the way, I have to give credit where credit is due… Byron found both of these people.
You kids with your “modern music”! In my day we listened to the bugs and the rocks–that’s the way it was and we liked it, we loved it!