What happens when a musician is asked to take an idea from outside the music industry and turn it into sound? Artists and corporations have collaborated for decades. The interesting question is not whether a company can work with a musician, but what happens when the artist is given room to interpret rather than simply promote? A recent collaboration between…
A Film Story That Isn’t About Film YouTube has overtaken The Walt Disney Company to become the world’s largest media…
When former U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Kuala Lumpur for the 47th ASEAN Summit, global media turned its gaze…
Few symbols in music are as enduring as the rose. A flower that has inspired poets, painters, and lovers for centuries, the rose has also found a permanent home in…
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly has long held a central place in the global opera repertoire—a sweeping, tragic love story set in early 20th-century Nagasaki, Japan. Yet, for more than a century,…
In the world of late 90s television, few shows dared to blur the line between courtroom drama, emotional introspection, and musical fantasy quite like Ally McBeal. Created by David E.…
Allow me to elucidate why it is most beneficial for us all to indulge in the mellifluous strains of jazz music post-labour. Furthermore, it is equally advantageous to immerse oneself in such harmonious melodies whilst engaged in the culinary arts at home. Should we consider the animated character Snoopy, one might ponder his preferred jazz compositions for a leisurely afternoon…
Detusche Grammophon release Leonard Bernstein conducts Mahler’s Resurrection video December. A month of twinkling lights, festive cheer, and, for us music lovers, the sweet anticipation of discovering the year’s most…
Lo-fi is identified as low-fidelity music or DIY music. Already fast becoming a genre deliberately recorded to magnify its imperfections, it is the low sound quality that stands out. However,…
Do you have plans to promote your music in 2023? If yes, do you have long-term plans and goals to do this for many more years to come? If the…
In an effort to relieve huge environmental challenges facing Jakarta and redistribute wealth, President Joko Widodo has recently announced the plan to move Indonesia’s capital – a plan that could…
For the first time, Music Press Asia is curating Friday evening listening lists for stay-at-homes as part of the November series programme. The Friday program is made especially for autumn…
Let’s cut to the chase. Monday is all about being direct and multi-tasking. If you have a whole week’s worth of work waiting, who wouldn’t want to be in a…
Tea is where we’d like to begin. If tea isn’t a reason to bring people together, then what does? While our editorial editors may like a gau (thick) cup of…
Monica Tong, editor-in-chief at Music Press Asia shares her Tuesday listening rituals starting from an hour before dawn to midday and why Bossa Nova, and ultimately, birdsongs are her life-saving…
While many more songwriters believe that there may be commercial sense to how things are being run in the digitalized world, the purpose of music making remains best performed in its cultural sense, I mean LIVE. Why? To transcend creative perspective and understanding of people…
