Jammin Squirrel's Blog

I swear it’s not my fault that I had to do a follow-up to the first post, no, it’s all the “fault” of Facebook and a friend and follower of this blog (Luis Henriques – Atrium Musicologicum) who happens to have interesting acquaintances who seem to have even more interesting connections. So, he commented on [...]

In the first post of this series I’d like to introduce to you a project that describes it’s music style as “nu-jazz, electro-jazz or electronic breakbeat jazz” and their name is: Revolution Void Having been founded by producer and jazz pianist Jonah Dempcy, their recordings also feature a number of guest musicians including among others [...]

Went to a concert tonight, called “Brazilian Piano”. Two brazilian pianists (Bernadete Castelan Póvoas and Mauren Frey – here is the link to the program of the concert) I’d never seen before around here giving a nice performance, I enjoyed a good part of the concert and what was especially interesting for me was to [...]

Some days ago, on a Friday evening when I was driving home from work, once again, 250 km like every week, listening to the radio, feeling tired and far away in my mind, suddenly a song was played that got my attention, because I hadn’t heard it for some time… so I thought I’d do [...]

At university, we had a test in musical analysis last week, so I dedicated myself a little bit to studying for it. As it mainly concerns analysis of orchestra music regarding instrumentation, timbre, articulation and so forth, some of us definitely needed some “upgrade” regarding knowledge in orchestration, so I started reading the book of [...]

Some time ago I had the inspiration for the next song, and have since then been collecting some ideas and material. One of these things are little voice snippets I’ve been recording or asking people to record, of always the same words, trying to get the most variated voices and some different accents, too. Those [...]