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Jordan Reyne – New Album Preview
Jordan Reyne returns next month with her latest album “The Annihilation Sequence” and HPM is a huge fan. Jordan popped up a preview track showing…
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Utada Hikaru Gives Back with “Kuma Power Hour”
Oh Kuma-chan is quickly becoming a celeb! Utada Hikaru’s beloved Kuma (teddybear) is the titular character in Utada Hikaru’s latest project. “Kuma Power Hour” is…
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Higher Plain Music: Top 10 Game Soundtracks of 2012
Game music continues to spread its wings and blur into all kinds of mediums. It’s strange but in 2012, in some ways I’ve struggled to…
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Live Vault – Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch is a new band I came across last night. The band are from Perth, Australia and this wonderful live acoustic version of one…
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Kara McGraw’s New Charity Album Released Today
Kara McGraw makes some wonderful piano/vocal based music and I absolutely admire her new album “The Hound & The Hare”. Like an old vinyl songs…
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Ian Narcisi – New Album KickStarter
We are big fans of Ian Narcisi here and he has so much musical ability in so many instruments it’s actually amazing to just sit…
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BetaCast Episode #2 Available to Download
Ben and Simon return with BetaCast Episode #2 – The Molyneuxs and Don’ts of gaming! You can click to download the episode here, or visit…
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OverClocked ReMix: “Final Fantasy Random Encounter” Trailer
OCR continue to break new ground as they release their first album covering the original Final Fantasy NES/Famicom titles. Some of the arrangements sound absolutely…
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Tori Amos to Release Collection “Gold Dust”
Tori Amos certainly has gone all things orchestral lately and it seems to suit her. Now she’s revisiting old songs for a fully orchestrated re-imagining. The album…
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Indie Game Music Bundle 3 is Out!
We here at Higher Plain Music love ourselves some indie games and as an avid game music collector, this latest indie game music bundle is…
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Sam Hulick scores Baldurs Gate: Enhanced Edition
In something that has completely passed me by, Balders Gate is getting an Enhanced Version. That’s awesome news in its own right. Interestingly, Sam Hulick…
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Introducing… Lauren Edman
Lauren Edman has some beautiful music that straddles fragile electronic led piano pop and introspective thoughts. She has a wonderous voice too. There’s very little…
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Whispers of the Plains – Stereo Alchemy
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…
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Amos Releases “Sin Palabras”
In a lovely twist, Tori Amos has released in digital format only an instrumental version of “Night of Hunters”. Removing all the voice, all that’s…
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New Single from Kate Bush
Kate Bush returns with the fantastic single “Wild Man” from the upcoming album “50 Words for Snow” and despite being a Christmas album of sorts,…
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Video Vault – Down the Machine
Featured as a new band a few weeks ago UK based rockers Down the Machine return with a new single “Know Your Place”. A perfect…
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Dirtblonde – “Token Rose” Review
Dirtblonde are a UK rock duo that hammer their sound right up to the speakers and chug away like the 90’s grunge and 80’s overkill…
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Jesper Kyd Returns for Assassin’s Creed Revelations Soundtrack
The Kyd’s certainly got it. Jesper returns again for the new Assassin’s Creed game subtitled Revelations. Jesper’s previous scores for the series have garned a…
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Adam Fielding – New Music Peak
Adam Fielding has a couple of new things up his sleeves and has also recently been signed to a label too. Whilst he works on…
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Video Vault – My Brightest Diamond
My Brightest Diamond is returning and here is her new single “Be Brave”. That is one very disturbing mask. As ever, Shara’s music is intricately…
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Gregory Douglass to Release “Remixed”
Gregory Douglass is to release a new digital album for Christmas. “Remixed” is a revisiting album, going back over older tracks, redoing them, revamping and…
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Kate Bush New Album!
Kate Bush is going to be releasing a new album full of new material! Going from one extreme to the other, we have our second…
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sosogood – New Track
sosogood lives up to his name with his new track released on YouTube. Listen to Gravity Lost and tell me you are not in awe.
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Sarah Slean “Making of Land and Sea” Videos
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…
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Calling All Podcasters ~ Eloquent Gamers Wanted!
Higher Plain Music is looking at branching into a weekly or bi-weekly podcast as part of the proceedings going forward. As a result I am…
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Video Vault – Tori Amos’ “Carry”
Freshly released today, “Carry” is absolutely beautiful and if you share it via her facebook you’ll get a treat with “Shattered Sea” too. If you…
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Introducing… Laura Distasi
Laura Distasi’s music is generally quite minimal with interaction between piano, percussion and fragile vocals which slowly evolve and build into something more emotive than…
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Video Vault – Ladytron
Ladytron’s new album Gravity the Seducer is released 12/09/11 and this is the latest video “White Elephant”
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Video Vault – Bjork
Crystalline is the new video for Bjork and its directed by Mr Gondry. How could it go wrong?!
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Dead Can Dance Announce Reunion!
Brendan Perry announced today that he and Lisa Gerrard will reform Dead Can Dance for a new album and world tour in 2012! We’ve been…
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Whispers of the Plains: Marcus Singletary
Marcus Singletary released the excellent “Smokin'” earlier in the summer which we loved here at HPM. We were able to get to chat with Marcus…
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St Vincent ~ New Album Tracklistings
St Vincent returns for her third album entitled “Strange Mercy”. Apparently going to a more rockier instrumentation she will be banging out the tunes on…
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Video Vault – Imogen Heap
Heapsong2 is released and entitled “Propeller Seeds”. More experimental than Lifeline but equally as beautiful and featuring a great bubble music video, there’s only one…
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Video Vault – Patrick Wolf (Plus free album stream)
Patrick Wolf’s new album Lupercalia is out monday and “House” is the latest single from it. You can firstly view the music video below where…
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Immortal 4 Released!
“Immortal 4” has finally been released, five years after the third volume was released! Produced by Jan Zottmann, this album has an impressive running time…
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Laura Shigihara Talks “Play for Japan”
The adorable Laura Shigihara talks on her YouTube channel about the excellent Play for Japan Charity CD that’s being spearheaded by Akira Yamaoka. The full…
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Video Vault – Jordan Reyne
The excellent Jordan Reyne has a new album out on 19th of May. Entitled “Songs of a Factory Nation” we expect more eeriely crafted instrurial-darkfolk.…
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Tori Amos Announces “Night of Hunters”
Tori Amos today announced “Night of Hunters”, a new album that’s penciled in for a release in September this year. The concept appears to be harking…
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Heavy Melody To Contribute to EA’s Shift 2 Soundtrack
Heavy Melody have been busy of late – remixing and recomposing ten tracks from big name bands for the latest soundtrack to come from EA…