RLPO/Rivas – Review @houghhough @MelkonianNews
May 21st, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Venezuela continues, it would seem, to turn out young musicians with astonishing potential. We are, of course, already familiar with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.
We now, however, have the phenomenon of Ilyich Rivas, 19 this year and already making a name for himself as a conductor. Unlike Dudamel and the Bolívars, Rivas is not – despite assumptions and the occasional statement to the contrary – a product of
Contemporary classical club night @edgemusiclondon INTERVIEW @HOXTONFM @MelkonianNews
May 18th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
I went down to visit Edge music and had the pleasure of asking Danielle all about this new contemporary classical club night in London.
When and how did Edge Music form?
Olly and Danielle met while studying at the Royal College of Music in the early naughties.We formed our Edge idea towards the end of 2011, with the first gig, The Blue Stage, in January this year.
'Not all audiences are the same' @theoae @southbankcentre @MelkonianNews
May 14th, 2012 § 1 Comment
OAE cellist Jonathan Rees and audience member Gupral
Inverting the tagline ‘Not all orchestras are the same’, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment puts its audience in the picture for its new campaign – designed by Harrison & Co and photographed by Eric Richmond
‘Back in January of this year we put out a recruitment campaign asking audience members with what we called a ‘strong look’ to step forward.
Crouch End Festival Chorus to perform Stravinsky and Eric Whtacre July 7th @thechoir @EricWhitacre
May 12th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Crouch End Festival Chorus
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of watching The Crouch End Festival Chorus perform Haydn’s Nelson Mass. The sound was glorious and brilliantly controlled by David Temple. If any Londoner’s see this group on a programme, GO!
Their next performance I’m very much looking forward to is Bruckner’s Mass in E minor, Stravinksy’s Mass, and a new piece by the American composer Eric Whitacre, Water Night, Sleep.
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Yan Pascal Tortelier @LPOrchestra - Review 5 stars! #Tchaikovsky
April 30th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
I have to admit… I had always considered Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony a great step forward for the composer, but by no way a true representation of Tchaikovsky’s maturity. Well, Yan Pascal Tortelier changed all that for me.
Before the performance he addressed the whole audience directly about a little anecdote which made us, (yes me too) chuckle, rather overtly.
He dedicated the performance to his father and a man in the audience who had conduct…
Premiere of Water Symphony by @VartanMelkonian with @rpoonline @BMGfoundation @MelkonianNews
April 30th, 2012 § 1 Comment
Vartan Melkonian will be premièring his new symphony Water Symphony – Amwaj on 19th June with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogon Hall. Buy Tickets
The piece was commissioned by BMG as part of their ‘Our Water, Our life’ initiative and to raise awareness of shortage of drinking water in developing countries.
Vartan Melkonian is also UN ambassador to the…
Arvo Part / Crouch End Festival Choir - Review @thechoir @ArvoPartFanClub
April 27th, 2012 § 1 Comment
A general scuffling-silence filled the Queen Elizabeth Hall, at Southbank Centre, before any sign of Conductor, David Temple, or Concert Master, Madeleine Easton. The gaze of the apt Crouch End Festival Chorus drew the audience into anticipation. We were all expecting something wonderful. This was, after all, the UK Premiere of Arvo Part’s new work Adam’s Lament, written for voices and strings.
An Essay on Stravinsky
April 24th, 2012 § 2 Comments
Stravinsky in Hollywood
It is not a frequent thing for me to praise other artists. In fact I consciously refrain from doing so. But, as we all know there are some exceptions. This essay was written in relation to my musical studies,
strange that in order to study music, one must write many words… and less music, it often baffles me.
Check out Lunar Lull the new single from @moses_sound – New Album #Thevoids
March 19th, 2012 § 33 Comments
Here’s the new single Lunar Lull from the album The Voids . It’s been an upward journey… but I loved every moment. You guys have seen it all grow from the start. In fact if you scroll down to the my old posts you can see the journey progress…. Thank you guys for all your shares and heart warming comments… this one is for you.
For any reblog, post or review I’ll give away a free download…. for anything super cool that I can’t even think of but only YOU can… you get a private skype performance 
Peace out people
Moses love
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15 track Debut Moses album “The Voids” to be released tomorrow at 6PM GMT
March 18th, 2012 § 6 Comments
Artwork for The Voids
So it’s finally here. 6PM GMT tomorrow… hang tight till then x
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Something for a rainy day…. or a sunny one
March 6th, 2012 § 15 Comments
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Well, it was a rainy day… and this song felt fitting 
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Build up to #Moses album release
March 2nd, 2012 § 9 Comments
So, it’s nearly here guys. And I’m putting out for free for all you people, just to say thanks for supporting.
I have created a new facebook page for my music. If you want to stay in the Moses loop, and keep up to date with latest news, trivia and random musings… click the Image below and ‘like’ the facebook page 
Thanks for the support… More soon x
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Memoria – chapter one @AaranLeaman
February 25th, 2012 § 4 Comments
As many of you know. Aaron leaman has helped me massively with my music, directed my videos and been a great friend…. Check out his new visual poem and journey through x
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A Picture for a Poem
February 20th, 2012 § 18 Comments
Firstly, sorry no content has been posted recently… I’m working hard on the album and it’s getting closer and closer to completion with each week that goes by – not so long now.
Anyway, a week or so ago, a thick layer of snow covered the ground like icing on a cake. I took some pictures, this being one of them… and a short poem.
A cold winters walk
Charcoal edges of black leafless tree’s cut through misty voids.
The silence is thick with foreboding, but everything is still.
A clump of melting snow falls and explodes effortlessly in to the stone cobbled ground – it’s bits finding nice warm corners, among the stone engraved cement valleys, or the cobbled edges of what once was a curb – before the snow came.
Birds fly from tree’s, alarmed at this minor sound, amongst the mass of quiet.
The woodland is like a criss-crossed-maze of sticks standing upright falling orderly into the unknown whiteness of the mass of morning dew, laying stagnant here in this valley – it will stay in to the day.
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Ghost of the Gully – Pieces EP
February 9th, 2012 § 8 Comments
Ghost of the Gully in the Studio
Last year, before I started my solo material… I used to be in a band. I sung / spoke and played guitar… here’s our e.p. Free Download for everyone!
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To every Syrian man and woman…
February 6th, 2012 § 5 Comments
My heart today goes out to all those suffering in Syria. A country of great people, who were hospitable to me, open and warm. It makes me very sad to see such a ruthless regime killing their own people. Yesterday they bombed a hospital, with all the doctors in it all the nurses, all the patients…
How long will Assad’s bloody reign continue…
Below I am copying an old post from my travels in Syria… the Syria that should be remembered, the Syria that I remember.
Aleppo
The Great Bazaar by night
Aleppo, (Halep) is an ancient city in the north of Sryia. Traders and merchants have travelled through this city for over a thousand years. And during Ramadan, as I wondered through the Great Bazaar. Men haggle over cuts of meat, women find new hijabs for their daugters, boys sell coffee and pistacio cake, donkey ridden by beduins carry exotic birds and cases of burgul wheat to sell – he see’s his frend selling saffron by the street.
“Asalem alakum keef halcum habiby!”
“Alhumdulilah, lesh, Ramadan!”
All comes to life at night here in this maze that is the Great Bazaar!
The Dead Cities
The Dead Cities of Aleppo
Ruins of the Byzantine Empire lay scattered on this heat scortched earth, like ghosts of the past, where Crusaders came, and Arabs, and now Tourists. The land is vast and flat here. The people who inhabited these lands must have been enduring people with dark skin and heavy wrinkles like the rocks they built their houses on.
The Persian Mosque
The Persian Mosque of Aleppo
Outside the ancient Old City of Aleppo, among the towering apartments that look as if they have risen out of the very desert itself there is a grand monument. A massive new mosque built in the enchanting Persian style of Iran. We exlpore it’s vast rooms and are able to walk on top of the roof, witnessing the obscure skyline of Aleppo.
Aleppo’s Skyline
The Skyline of Aleppo
Aleppo looks as if it has risen out of the desert iteslf. This dry land echoes with calls to prayer and the clatter of mule’s hooves on dusty cobbled floors.
The Souq
The Souq of Aleppo
The charming souq of Aleppo is situated next to the cities central citadel. Aromas of perfume from the Gulf enchant the nostrils, and rugs from Iran fill tiny shops with an array of warm colours. Shop keepers great me and invite me in for tea. They expect nothing in return except for a good shake of the hands and an honest smile.
The New Town
The Jigsaw building
The new town roads choke with traffic all moving at an easy un rushed pace. People barter and sell on just about every street corner, tiny shops are packed into every nooke and crany of the city, coffee stalls,news agents, ciggeratte vendors, and falfel stands. It’s a bombardment to the senses, you have to keeon your toes.
Barren Lands
Olive Trees
I leave Aleppo, bound for Hama. And I pass through barren lands where olive trees grown through tumbling ruins and the ground is red and dry. A few birds circle above, hoping to find some morsel of food. Dust blows around, small tornadoes form far off on the horizon, this land is alien to me, but great.
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Moses Melkonian – Beirut Lights
February 4th, 2012 § 24 Comments
I’m back in the UK after a great trip with my family to the French Alps (more later…)
For now I wanted to give you guys the back story to the folk song ‘Beirut Lights.’
I wrote it in a little hostel in Beirut, the melody kept creeping into my mind throughout my trip…
All these photo’s were taken with my canon 300D in 2010
Road tripping is a casual thing in Lebanon. The sun sets on a long drive east, to the mountains…
We stop off for a coffee. A Bedouin and Beiruti exam out attire, we get talking and drink together… A cultural crossroad, A place of many secrets.
Epic ruins of a by gone age stand tall in empty plateau’s among mountains carved out by great storms many ages ago… Lebanon is a land of great history.
We navigate our way back to Beirut, through narrow mountain passes, and across open plains.
We picked up some soon-to-be buddies and hit the famous Beirut rooftop bars for a night I will never forget.
The next morning was hazy. I wondered Hama and admired the elegant Parisian / Maronite architecture… only in Beirut.
Lebanese families greet the morning, very casually, very Lebanese, no rush, just sunshine and smiles
The sun set’s in our palms. The night is ours, we were mighty were young…
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Moses Melkonian Exclusive Interview with IDIOTEQ.COM
February 2nd, 2012 § 8 Comments
Review: Lana Del Rey – “Born To Die”
February 1st, 2012 § 13 Comments
Photo Courtesy of: Interscope Records
Don’t let her failed “Saturday Night Live” performances fool you; Lana Del Rey is one to watch in 2012. The singer has been the center of controversy with people questioning her plump lips to her “manufactured” image and history. The hype over Lana Del Rey was overwhelming.
Media outlets like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum and many more pimped her for months only to frantically type hypocritical reviews that tore the album apart.
A tattered old journal
January 31st, 2012 § 14 Comments
It was one of those errands that linger over your mind, silently nagging until you get it done. A bunch of my old books, candles, magical objects, sketches, letters from loved ones and journals lay in a heap, with no shelf and no owner in my old flat.
So after much procrastinating, I went over with a few empty boxes to collect all my old books, and how good I felt for it. Among the heaps of penguin classics I found, amongst other things, an old journal that i had written in daily during my travels in the middle east. There are some memorable stories in there.
So, having made this important discovery (no really, very important!) I’m going to write out these disjointed entries and rambling into something of a Novella… Just for you guys. I will also include some photo’s I took with my Canon 300D in the relevant entries.
It starts in Istanbul and ends in Byblos, Lebanon…. Good times x
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Triberr shutout
January 30th, 2012 § 3 Comments
Thanks to everywho has have posted my music on their blog. This post is for you!
I don’t know if you guys have heard of triberr.com …. It’s a tool where bloggers can team up into tribers and automatically retweet each other, so everyone’s posts get to a larger audience. Here’s an article about it in more detail:
http://livingthebalancedlife.com/2011/what-is-triberr-and-how-does-it-work/
I’ve set up tribe called Fresh Tunes dedicated to sharing good music. If any curious bloggers would like to try this out with me sign up to triberr.com and join Fresh Tunes.
Big Moses Love to you guys….as always x
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Monthly Round-up
January 27th, 2012 § 19 Comments
So it’s been a busy month.
Thanks to all you guys for showing your support, it really is very humbling… maybe one day we can all have a party in the woods some place…
Here’s a round up of everything I’ve released since December. Big shout out to A.Leaman on this for making all my videos and being a lovely dude…
You can show your support by downloading my singles from below.
We are Mighty, We are Young // From the forthcoming album
Like Gods //From the forthcoming album
Fire//From the forthcoming album
Big Moses Love to everyone x
It was windy in the Sahara
Moses Melkonian – Fire
January 24th, 2012 § 23 Comments
SUPPORT
Wrote this song when I was about 15. One of the first songs I ever wrote… First time it has ever been recorded. Filmed and recorded by Aaron Leaman x
Thanks for all the support people… Big Moses Love x
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Moses Melkonian – Like Gods (Live)
January 13th, 2012 § 15 Comments
live, stripped back. How this song began… Thanks as always to Aaron for making this video….
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