Higher Plain Music

Despite Nirvana, and by extension Kurt Cobain featuring a massive role in my early musical life, I really didn’t pick up much on Kurt’s own life as I was a child that found music on the music channels on TV and didn’t have access, nor want to buy music magazines. As a result, the music, […]

Behind the scenes of her latest orchestral odyssey

We do love a bit of Adam Fielding and as a musician whom uses Reason themselves, one of the things that inspired me to choose that program was Adam’s music. Here’s a fascinating insight into how he uses the program and a bit about his own musical journey too.

HPM has the opportunity to chat to Penka Kouneva, the genius behind A Warriors Odyssey which is a wonderful CD taking all the trimmings from a game or film soundtrack and making it a standalone story. Let’s see what tasty titbits we got! Congratulations on your latest work. It’s beautiful. How do you feel now its out […]

Lauren Edman’s debut solo CD “It’s Always the Quiet One” is quite fantastic – as we’ve said below. We got the chance to chat to Lauren about her first solo album and the processes and thoughts behind it… Firstly, congratulations on the fantastic album “It’s Always the Quiet One”! How do you feel now your […]

With their début album God of Love about to hit the stores in the next few days, we grabbed Stereo Alchemy’s Christopher Tin for ten minutes to go over what is undoubtedly a smashing album in waiting and all the juicy bits behind it: Stereo Alchemy is a collaborative effort. Tell us how you came into being […]

  With new downloadable title I Am Alive about to burst onto our consoles, composer of the game Jeff Broadbent took a few minutes to chat to HPM about exactly what to aim for when creating a rich atmosphere for a game where tension is key. I Am Alive has been a game that has […]

Ian Narcisi – whose going to quickly become the man that plays every instrument in the world, is a new singer/songwriter whose songs just take off into some ad-lib freefall of progressive rock. Here’s a video of Ian making his new EP.

Having released his first full album Metrocrity Vol.1, we speak to 12 Followers / Meteo Xavier about putting out his new baby. So tell the readers little about 12 Followers/Meteo Xavier and how you came into being? Well, the real origin here is so ridiculous I almost feel like it should be something I’m ashamed […]

Imogen Heap and Vishal-Shekhar collaborate for the fantastic track “Minds Without Fear” – a fantastic song for what will hopefully end up on the third album. A whole programme has been made about the process of making the track and is the first in a series that follows artists around the world making music together. […]

Higher Plain Music has been lucky enough to snag a few minutes with the insightful Brian Grainger, composer for Eufloria the new indie PSN game (previously on Steam too). Here Brian talks about the project itself, how he composes, the problems, the rewards and how he feels on the end result itself. So now Eufloria […]

Sarah Slean has been posting video clips of the making of her new album Land and Sea, due on 27th September. Here’s a preview to “Life”, Sarah’s favourite song on the album

The awesomeness that is Imogen Heap has compiled a great video about the process of her new album Heapsongs (working title) and documented the whole public process of writing and recording from snippets of stuff send in by her fans. It’s such a fantastic concept – here’s “Lifeline”

  Congratulations on recently completing the soundtrack to the game Kung Fu Panda. Thanks! Now the projects finished, how do you feel about it as a body of work? Is there anything that stands out as a particular piece you’re proud of? I am really pleased with the score – I love a lot of […]

The Wonderful Heavy Melody, recently showcased in the latest Shift 2 soundtrack for their excellent remixes of various artists. They kindly agreed to answer a few of my questions about their latest project. Here’s what the trio had to say: How did Heavy Melody come together as a trio? Dave: Neil and I met back […]

Higher Plain Music is delighted to publish our little interview with the fantastic Esselfortium regarding his new album “Seventeen More Times”. Read on for an insight into his new album, song writing processes and technologies involved in crafting an album. For those whom aren’t familiar with you, tell us a little bit about Esselfortium. I’m […]

Adam Fielding, whom we had the pleasure interviewing when he released his second album Lightfields earlier this year, will be doing a webcast next thursday as part of Propellerheads Music Making month. Adam will be revealing exactly how he creates music and the processes involved. To get a rare insight into a mind of a […]

In a second find of the day, “Under Review” – covering Kate Bush’s career to date is now also available to watch online for free. It’s the pull of the bush I tell you!

While details of a rerelease of reworkings from The Sensual World and The Red Shoes are slowly trickling through, a great documentary about Kate Bush entitled “Hounds of Love” is now available to watch in its completion on YouTube. Very informative, if slightly bias towards following what was commercially successful, its a great insight into […]

Hotels and Highways released their debut album digitally this week. Entitled “Lost River”, the trio have captured whimsical folk in a glass bottle of dreams. Here we get to chat to the band about how it all came into being: All three of you are experienced performers in your own right. How did Hotels and […]