Miscellaneous

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New Prog for Dummies - Progressive adventures after 1980

Twenty-five albums to explore the shifting shapes of the new prog galaxy

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San Fedele Musica - Classicism beyond the academy - Interview with Francesco Zago

The new season of San Fedele Musica is about to get underway: to introduce its "premiere" we caught up with one of its key figures, guitarist Francesco Zago

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Ariano Folk Festival - Ariano Folk Festival: a heritage worth preserving

We had a chat with the organizers of this now-historic festival in Campania

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Power to the festivals - Interview with Pietro Fuccio (Dna Concerts)

"Only festivals will change the way music is thought about in Italy." So says Pietro Fuccio, director of Dna Concerts, one of Italy's leading concert agencies

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OndaLabel #6 - Woodworm: independence from the majors

Andrea Marmorini explains what Woodworm is and the principles it's built on

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Light defeats shadow - An imaginary compilation

On the occasion of a historic and special exhibition, OndaRock offers its readers a musical journey from darkness into rebirth

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Is "new" music also "green"? - Streaming and sustainability

The world of physical music formats is disappearing: are we sure that what awaits us is a more sustainable world?

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OndaLabel #5 - Garrincha Dischi: the central role of the word

Interview with Alberto Guidetti and Filo Q on the label's past and future

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Robert Wyatt - The Communist

The story of the relationship between the English composer and politics, between enthusiasm, passion and identity crisis

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Record Store Day - Ten Artworks Explained – RSD 2015

Focus on 10 artworks from new or reissued albums for Record Store Day 2015

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Auditorium San Fedele: Multimedia Project - Interview agli Otolab

We meet the Milanese collective, the next act in the celebrated series curated by Centro Sal Fedele

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The 10 best songs of 2014 - Read and listen to the playlists

Does the big chart page leave you overwhelmed? Discover the albums of the year with the editorial staff's playlists

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Keyboard or Orchestra? - Mellotron – The 80 Essential Songs

A selection of eighty tracks exploring the use of the Mellotron, one of the most distinctive keyboards on the rock planet, capable moreover of reasserting itself in recent times

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Leonard Cohen - We love to speak with Leonard

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Leonard Cohen - We love to speak with Leonard

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Leonard Cohen - We love to speak with Leonard

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Leonard Cohen - We love to speak with Leonard

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Leonard Cohen - We love to speak with Leonard

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Leonard Cohen - We love to speak with Leonard

Leonard Cohen turns 80: we asked fifteen songwriters to wish him happy birthday exclusively for OndaRock. And to let us hear their covers of the Canadian chansonnier again

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Magyar Wave - Blues from the "Pearl of the Danube"

From post-punk to jazz, from electronica to the films of Tarr Béla. A short journey into the heart of the gentle "Eleganz und Dekadenz" from the city of fourteen bridges...

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Non-music - An invitation to listen to the inaudible

A short primer for anyone looking to approach some of the most extreme fringes of contemporary experimentation, from electroacoustic improvisation to Japanese onkyô. Different ways of lending an ear to silence

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Flannery O'Connor - In the guts of southern gothic

Fifty years ago Flannery O'Connor died, but the influence of the Georgia-born writer is more alive than ever in American music. Let's go in search of her traces at the heart of folk songwriting and southern gothic

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Contronatura Festival - Small Italian festivals are growing

Joys and pains of organizing festivals in Italy: our interview with the people behind the festival in the Lecce area

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Matteo Guarnaccia - The Psychedelic Shaman

We meet Matteo Guarnaccia, grappling with shamanism in a magical, labyrinthine book, amid alien abductions, ancient Amazonian tribes, subversive philosophies, sacred poisons and talking animals