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Technology

Music Sales Launches Blues Writer iPhone Application Designed for Songwriters.

Source: Free Energy Media
January 15, 2011

Creative companion and high quality recording for the iPhone New York, NY—Music Sales group has launched Blues Writer, an iPhone app for both the professional and aspiring songwriter. Rock, folk, indie and blues musicians can all benefit from this application which encourages the creative process. With a built in rhyming dictionary and instrumental backing tracks, the app is designed specifically for songwriters and musicians. When at a loss for words, double click and Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary, the industry standard ...

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Recording

Matt Dickey's "Try This at Home" CD Release Party at the Williamsburg Music Center on December 16

Source: alexander borsody
November 29, 2010

After a production process of nearly four years, Matt Dickey brings you Try This At Home, a collection of original, instrumental jazz/funk infused with latin, african, hip-hop and electronic flavors. Larger sized ensemble arrangements and rhythm section improvisations round out more than 73 minutes of tasty, funky grooves. The recording was done 99% in his basement home studio and he wrote, arranged, produced and engineered it using a laptop. Featuring some of NYC's finest musicians, listeners might find parallels to ...

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