Some uplifting synth songs for your Thursday. Howard Jones has posted live footage from his Transform Tour at Leicester’s De Montfort Hall. The band features Howard Jones, Robbie Bronnimann, Dan Burton and Robin Boult Recorded and mixed by Stephen W Tayler. Here is Part 1. The First three songs from Howard Jones’s critically acclaimed Transform…
Modulate This! – Synth Tech & Technique Artilcles by Mark Mosher
Howard Jones just posted a video where he discusses new material he’s composing and producing just for upcoming 30th year celebration events. Right now there are two events scheduled in the UK. More at his official web site http://www.howardjones.com/tour_dates.html. Mark Mosher Electronic Musician | Composer | Sound Designer | Performer Boulder, CO
Modulate This! – Synth Tech & Technique Artilcles by Mark Mosher
Howard Jones is playing a series of dates in North America this fall . On most of the dates, he’ll be performing Humans Lib & Dream Into Action albums in their entirety. I’ve copied the basic info from his tour page and pasted it below. Both albums were remastered in 2010by Howard Jones and Robbie…
Modulate This! – Synth Tech & Technique Artilcles by Mark Mosher
Last Friday I attended Howard Jones concert at the Boulton Center or the Performing Arts in New York. Here are a notes from the show. Duncan Sheik Duncan Sheik was the opening act. He sang and played his own accompaniment on acoustic guitar with some stories in between. Note – Duncan collaborated on Howard’s song,…
Robbie Bronnimann dropped me an email recently letting me know about a very cool series of videos he’s posting over at Sonic State. First off, if you're not familiar with Robbie’s work, he’s a London-based composer and producer. He also has released music under the name dba with vocalist Shaz Sparks and acted as a…
Modulate This! – Synth Tech & Technique Artilcles by Mark Mosher
I found this series of vides via pedx1ng’s post on the Ableton Live forum, who found it on Matrixsynth. These videos by Sonic State cover Howard Jone's tour in Australia. I've re-blogged them here with annotation. I've always liked Howard Jones's music and the fact that he's not all about nostalgia but is still writing…
It’s been 20 years since the 80s synth-pop icon Howard Jones exploded on to the music scene.What’s he been up to? Well, back in 1997 he started his own label, dtox. He is releasing new material on this label as well as material from other bands such as dba. I think it’s quite inspirational to…
Modulate This! – Synth Tech & Technique Artilcles by Mark Mosher
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