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WALKING ON A DREAM is the debut studio album by Australian electronic music duo Empire of the Sun, released on 3 October 2008 by Capitol Records. The album was produced by band members Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore, along with Peter Mayes and Donnie Sloan. A special edition of the album, containing a bonus disc of remixes, B-sides, and unreleased tracks, was released on 20 November 2009.

WALKING ON A DREAM is the debut studio album by Australian electronic music duo Empire of the Sun, released on 3 October 2008 by Capitol Records. The album was produced by band members Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore, along with Peter Mayes and Donnie Sloan. Empire of the Sun's debut offering of experimental electro-pop and dance-rock is very well-timed, hitting the market just as the buzz surrounding MGMT's Oracular Spectacular has started to recede. …

Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne is a veteran blues and boogie piano player, raised in New Orleans but a long-time Vancouver resident. In uenced by Fats Domino and Johnnie Johnson, Kenny has worked in the past with Joe Louis Walker, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, Billy Preston and members of Sly & The Family Stone. His bass-heavy boogie piano work and original songs makes for powerful live performances, enhanced by the sartorial splendor of his boldly colored, French custom-tailored stage suits. An Old Rock On A Roll, was produced by Duke Robillard who says, “He’s a monster pianist, a soulful singer, and he captures the essence of old school blues and boogie while sounding totally fresh and contemporary”.

Like buds about to bloom, like the changing of the seasons from spring to summer, the Symphony No. 2 by Johannes Brahms is full of energy and vitality in quiet yet powerful transformation. As I started my sixth season with the Tonkunstler Orchestra, the recording we created together seems to symbolise our footsteps and friendship over the years. This recording was made during the extremely difficult period when Vienna was under lockdown because of Covid-19, but I‘m confident we managed to express in our sound our determination not to forget the joy of playing music, as well as the pain and prayer portrayed in the second movement. It is noble yet full of feelings, which is exactly the sound of my favourite orchestra.

Just five years ago when he took a leave of absence from the acclaimed indie-folk band, The Head and the Heart, the question was less where Johnson’s star would take him and more whether his struggles with addiction would end his music career. But then, he wasn’t supposed to be there, either. Prior to co-founding the band, Johnson studied math and computer science in graduate school. But the magic of song led him to an open mic that changed his life. At Seattle’s Conor Byrne Pub, Johnson sparked collaborations with fellow musi- cians who would eventually form The Head and the Heart. The group’s rise was rapid.

If there were an international style of conducting Vaughan Williams', Bernard Haitink would be its foremost practitioner. But although there have been international conductors who have taken up Vaughan Williams' very, very English music, virtually all of them took him up with English orchestras. Slatkin, Stokowski, even Rozhdestvensky used English conductors when they led their Vaughan Williams, and Haitink, the most international of international conductors, used the London Philharmonic for his Vaughan Williams. Ultimately, no matter how international Haitink's interpretations may be, his Vaughan Williams performance sounds as English as shepherd's pie.