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Boris Smile
Boris Smile was an American indie-pop collective from Long Beach, California, Long Beach, California, United States. Started in 2004 by leader A. Wesley Chung, the band's hallmark characteristic was its blend of singer-songwriter pop with orchestral arrangements. Their style is often compared to David Bazan, Page France, The Long Winters, and Sufjan Stevens. The band was signed to Count Your Lucky Stars Records. They disbanded in the summer of 2011. Music Boris Smile was formed in 2004 by A. Wesley Chung. While originally created as a solo project named after his young Russian neighbor, it quickly became a band with a rotating door of musicians. Boris Smile released their first full-length record entitled "Chapter I" in the summer of 2007. The album follows Chung's personal experiences in high school, documenting the angst, self-doubt, and absurdity of youth. During the final stages of "Chapter I," the band began working on the next full-length record, a collection of lo- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California. Incorporated in 1897, Long Beach lies in Southern California in the southern part of Los Angeles County. Long Beach is approximately south of downtown Los Angeles, and is part of the Gateway Cities region. The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is among the world's largest shipping ports. The city is over an oilfield with minor wells both directly beneath the city as well as offshore. The city is known for its waterfront attractions, including the permanently docked and the Aquarium of the Pacific. Long Beach also hosts the Grand Prix of Long Beach, an IndyCar race and the Long Beach Pride Festival and Parade. California State University, Long Beach, one of the largest universities in California b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrangements
In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestration in that the latter process is limited to the assignment of notes to instruments for performance by an orchestra, concert band, or other musical ensemble. Arranging "involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings. Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety".(Corozine 2002, p. 3) In jazz, a memorized (unwritten) arrangement of a new or pre-existing composition is known as a ''head arrangement''. Classical music Arrangement and transcriptions of classical and serious music go back to the early history of this genre. Eighteenth century J.S. Bach frequently made arrangements of his own and other composers' pieces. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockets EP
''Rockets EP'' is an album released by the Long Beach, California band, Boris Smile. The album was released by Count Your Lucky Stars Records in 2010. Track listing All songs written by A. Wesley Chung and Boris Smile, except "Satellites" and "Life for Science" written by Seth Shafer. #"Satellites" – 3:00 #"Adventures with Rockets (Revisited)" – 4:52 #"Apollo" – 3:36 #"Aurora" – 5:15 #"Are We Alone?" – 2:12 #"8.24.06 (The Humbling of a Planet)" – 12:20 *Bonus: "Apollo (Acoustic Version)" *Bonus: "Life for Science" Personnel *A. Wesley Chung: vocals, acoustic guitar, bass drum *Abigail Davidson: vocals, clarinet *Andrew Chen: violin *Ashley Bradford: harmonica *Avi Buffalo: electric guitar, vocals *Beth Balmer: accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beartooth EP
''Beartooth EP'' is an album released by the Long Beach, California band, Boris Smile. The album was released by Count Your Lucky Stars Records in 2008. Track listing All songs written by A. Wesley Chung and Boris Smile. #"Beartooth (spooky version)" – 3:35 #"Hour of the Wolf" – 2:49 #"Tut Tut" – 5:54 #"Program me to Love" – 4:14 #"Books of Blank Pages" – 3:39 Personnel *A. Wesley Chung vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, piano, saxophone *Abigail Davidson: vocals, percussion *Amy Sundahl: vocals *Avi Buffalo: electric guitar, looper, vocals *Beth Balmer: violin, viola, cello *Doug Brown: bass *Hannah Ellis: vocals *Jessie Flasschoen; vocals *Jonathan Holden: vocals *Jon Palsgrove: drums, vocals *Meagan Christy: trumpet *Rebecca Coleman: vocals *Ryan Smernoff: vocals *Seth Shafer: keyboard/synth A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young And It Feels So Good
''Young and it Feels So Good'' is the full-length studio album released by the Long Beach, California band, Boris Smile. The album was self-released in 2008. Track listing All songs written by A. Wesley Chung and Boris Smile, except "Seasons" (written by A. Wesley Chung, Jon Palsgrove, and Stevie Kugelberg). #"Young and It Feels So Good" – 2:43 #"Seasons" – 4:13 #"A Cruel Time in Life" – 3:21 #"Leper King" – 4:00 #"False Words and Hummingbirds" – 4:01 #"Birthday" – 1:51 #"Home ing Along – 4:41 #"Keep It Safe" – 3:56 #"Beartooth" – 3:45 #"Marco Polo" – 2:57 #"Love's Gotta Come from the Heart" – 4:25 #"Megan Eve of Destruction" – 2:09 #"Kids Wearing Business Casual" – 2:05 #"Will It Last" – 2:17 #"Las Aventuras Con Cohetes" – 6:35 #"True Colors" – 2:50 #"Goodnight Moon (Revisited)" – 2:26 #"When We Found the Truth" – 7:12 Tracks "Love's Gotta Come from the Heart," and "Seasons" have been used on PBS's Roadtrip Nation. Personnel *A. Wesley Chun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glockenspiel
The glockenspiel ( or , : bells and : set) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the vibraphone. The glockenspiel is played by striking the bars with mallets, often made of a hard material such as metal or plastic. Its clear, high-pitched tone is often heard in orchestras, wind ensembles, marching bands, and in popular music. Terminology In German, a carillon is also called a , and in French, the glockenspiel is sometimes called a . It may also be called a () in French, although this term may sometimes be specifically reserved for the keyboard glockenspiel. In Italian, the term () is used. The glockenspiel is sometimes erroneously referred to as a xylophone. The Pixiphone, a type of toy glockenspiel, was one such instrument sold as a xylophone. Range The glockenspiel is limited to the upper register and usually covers about to 3 octa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame), colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The concertina , harmoneon and bandoneón are related. The harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family, but are typically larger than an accordion and sit on a surface or the floor. The accordion is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing ''pallets'' to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called '' reeds''. These vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block.For the accordion's place among the families of musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandolin
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 strings, although five (10 strings) and six (12 strings) course versions also exist. There are of course different types of strings that can be used, metal strings are the main ones since they are the cheapest and easiest to make. The courses are typically tuned in an interval of perfect fifths, with the same tuning as a violin (G3, D4, A4, E5). Also, like the violin, it is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass. There are many styles of mandolin, but the three most common types are the ''Neapolitan'' or ''round-backed'' mandolin, the ''archtop'' mandolin and the ''flat-backed'' mandolin. The round-backed version has a deep bottom, constructed of strips of wood, glued togethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keyboard Instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings. Today, the term ''keyboard'' often refers to keyboard-style synthesizers. Under the fingers of a sensitive performer, the keyboard may also be used to control dynamics, phrasing, shading, articulation, and other elements of expression—depending on the design and inherent capabilities of the instrument. Another important use of the word ''keyboard'' is in historical musicology, where it means an instrument whose identity cannot be firmly established. Particularly in the 18th century, the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lap Steel
The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional acoustic guitar, in which the performer's fingertips press the strings against frets, the pitch of a steel guitar is changed by pressing a polished steel bar against plucked strings (from which the name "steel guitar" derives). Though the instrument does not have frets, it displays markers that resemble them. Lap steels may differ markedly from one another in external appearance, depending on whether they are acoustic or electric, but in either case, do not have pedals, distinguishing them from pedal steel guitar. The steel guitar was the first "foreign" musical instrument to gain a foothold in American pop music. It originated in the Hawaiian Islands about 1885, popularized by an Oahu youth named Joseph Kekuku, who became known for playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talip Peshkepia
Talip Paul Peshkepia (born January 3, 1986) is an American film composer and songwriter. He is best known for his work on ''Shining Stars'' (2010). Early life Peshkepia was born in Los Angeles, California. Talip grew up in Pico Rivera, California. Talip attended high school in Downey, California at Warren high school up until his junior year when he then went to El Rancho High school in Pico Rivera, California. Talip played in multiple bands during his middle and high school years. He started Crop Circle with his neighbor Marco Gutierrez, and friend Andrew Lujon. Later adding Marcos friend Anthony Marquez. Talip also was in Ska bands by the name The Apathetics and The Briefcases. Talip went to First Presbyterian Church of Downey, where he played in the band for service and worship. He also attended The First Church of Downey where his band Crop Circle would play in after hours. Career From 2009 to 2011, Peshkepia performed and recorded the orchestral pop albums ''Opportun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
