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Music Marketing: Effective Strategies for Promoting Your Music
This guide offers crucial strategies for emerging artists to effectively promote their music, emphasizing personal growth, strategic planning, and active audience engagement.
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Felt Piano, Nylon Strings and a Sardinian Hymn: Seven October Releases
Explore seven Raighes Factory releases from 16 and 23 October 2026, including felt piano, nylon-string guitar, jazz-influenced music and Sardinian song.
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Three Ways to Hear the Piano: Ananda Ave and Maya Sand’s October Releases
Three recordings, two releases and a closer look at how rhythm, arrangement and musical space can change the way we hear a piano. A piano melody can change character considerably depending on what surrounds it. Add a bass line and a restrained drum pattern, and it becomes part of a groove. Remove those elements, and suddenly the gaps between phrases, the weight of individual notes and the instrument’s natural resonance come into focus. Two recent Raighes Factory releases provide an interesting opportunity to explore these differences. Released on 2 October 2026, Ananda Ave’s It Was Midnight includes two versions of the same composition. A week later, on 9 October, Maya…
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September 2026: A Month of New Instrumental Music
Eight new releases, four Fridays and a month spanning acoustic guitar, contemporary piano and meditative instrumental music. Explore Raighes Factory's September 2026 releases.
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Two Ways Through the Piano: Lingering Memories and Pathways
Two new piano releases from Raighes Factory explore repetition in different ways: Lingering Memories looks back through memory, while Pathways transforms repetition into movement.
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Neil Mukherjee – Precious Peace | Single Review
Neil Mukherjee's Precious Peace focuses on melody, resonance, and careful phrasing, bringing Indian classical influences into a refined solo guitar performance.
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Ananda by Pablo Montanelli. When Tango, Travel and Piano Become One Story
Pablo Montanelli's Ananda is a solo piano album inspired by travel, memory and cultural exchange. Blending tango roots with contemporary piano, blues influences and memorable melodies, it offers a rewarding listening experience that goes far beyond the typical neo-classical formula.
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James Filkins, listening as a way of being
Spending time with James Filkins’ music, the first thing that becomes clear is its pace. Nothing is rushed. The guitar moves carefully, as if each note is placed after listening to the space around it. This feeling is echoed in the conversation shared in James Filkins – Voices from Raighes Factory,where attention, patience, and daily life appear again and again as quiet foundations of his work. When James describes his music as “organic acoustic guitar based instrumentals… like a steaming cup of cappuccino for your soul,” it feels less like a metaphor and more like a description of function. His recordings belong to lived spaces. They feel at home in…
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Gary O’Slide and the Poetry of Dust and Distance
Gary O'Slide plays landscapes, not just notes. His Weissenborn and tenor guitars tell stories shaped by reverb, solitude, and slow-burning emotion. This is blues folk stripped to its essence, echoing Ry Cooder and Kelly Joe Phelps.
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Mauro Caprile and the Wind That Carries Us Home
Discover the intimate, poetic guitar music of Mauro Caprile. From Mediterranean folk to ambient blues, his compositions evoke landscapes, silence, and emotion. Explore highlights like A Place to Call Home and Grecale, and let his strings carry you across Ligurian dreams.
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Sola Voz – The Guitar as a Quiet Confession
A poetic, first-person review of Sola Voz, the serene nylon-string guitar album by Juan Alberto Castillo and composer Carlo Matti, blending contemporary classical, flamenco colors, and meditative stillness.
