In continuation of our highly irregular but highly inspiring series spotlighting musicians reinventing traditional music, we spoke to Scottish bagpipe player Brìghde Chaimbeul on the day her newest album, Carry Them With Us was released. We’ve had our eye on Brìghde for quite a while now. Her fresh take on the small pipes, drones, ornamentation, […]
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For the past 5 years, RE:VIVE has been curating sample packs. Full disclosure, when we started, we didn’t really know what we were doing. We just picked sounds based on themes, not always considering their musical or sonic qualities. But as we’ve worked with more and more artists, we’ve learned what makes sounds interesting and
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For this sample pack we dig into the Allan Hancock Foundation Collection housed at the University of Southern California. George Allan Hancock was an oil baron in California which gave him plenty of wealth to donate to the University of Southern California where the Allan Hancock Foundation was formed in 1931. Keen on the cello,
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Hey again! Here’s our second sample pack. This time we’re sticking around Europe and the 20th century with a little trip to Africa thanks to our friends at the National Library of France. We definitely recommend browsing through their Gallica portal. You can find millions of fascinating archival materials there, a lot of which are