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The Most Essential Tool - Op-ed Excerpt

When it comes to loving music to the point in where you let it guide your everyday life, you know there ought to be a different filter placed over everything you see through your eyes. Music makes the world less lonely for me. It opens a gate to a fictional panorama I like to travel to. One I can condense so into. Timeless and free. The breakaway begins once the first note hits a run through ear to ear, tapping something in my consciousness, I accept the trance the rhythm is willing to take me on and my hour long train ride no longer feels so bitter.

Riffs, lyrics, vocals, bass lines, and everything else involved in a musical composition serve me as stimulants. Music might be someone’s energy booster when working out, a symbolic anthem in a relationship, or just something to listen to for fun. For me, it is my ruler. It is there for the good and bad times. I am the child passenger and music it’s the adult driver. When I believe in a lyric, I suddenly come to senses with my thoughts. It is then that I feel understood, and learn to understand. No, it doesn’t matter if it is meant to have a completely different meaning than what I’m making it out to be. But that’s the poetic part about music. A few words can resonate with millions of different realities and minds.

We can’t always fully see what others see most of the time, like for example I don’t get to experience what it was like in Aldous Huxley’s mind. As he himself said in his essay “The Doors of Perception” how in a mescalin experience, he came to the realization that one person is this sole giant universe and we can’t never get to see what it was like in such people’s minds, as he mentioned, Johann Sebastian Bach’s world. However mescalin opened that consciousness to him, an opportunity to know what it was like to be someone else. A powerful song filled with rawness and emotion can do a similar magic trick in my mind. It transcends me into a fantasy of my own.

As the music accompanies the words, a magnetic power grasps a hold of my behavior. I get inspired. And suddenly my consciousness drifts way to this far away land away from this structured concrete jungle world.

As humans we crave companion. If we were to be put in a room with nothing visually stimulating, no sound and completely in solitude, the human mind will go mad. Music is my only friend. It has been in my live for 19 years and nothing compares to the unconditional support it has given me. From high school afternoons after a long day of trying to get away from its corruptions to walks home from a movie-like day experience it has been there. Thanks to it, I dance my way through life. Which is why with even more fusion I yell “I danced myself right out womb!” as Comic Dancer by T-Rex plays. And I truly believe I did.

Today the music considered popular doesn’t really spark an interest in me. Personally, I can’t stand radio music. The music that plays in stores is beyond commercial for my ears. Most of the music I listen to come from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Lyrics that spoke truth. Music that was creative and original. Singers with identity. Musicians who were in it for their love of music not for chasing after a label. Who had the gift of composing and give an alien performance. I watch videos of them and listen to their music like my life depends on it. And at a certain degree it does.

Sometimes letting a song rain on me during the mornings helps me get my foot out the door and face my responsibilities. Plugging headphones to my phone is like an immediate hug from the hundreds of songs I love. With the electric feel music transcends through me, I feel as if I am standing with what seems to be this invisibility blanket over me. With it, I have this powerful tool. I could now stand in a forty minute to hour long train ride without a bother, avoid the noise of chatty meaningless conversations by others in the streets or school, shut out the discomfort the weather is giving me, change my mood and roll.

As I let various artists and songs send me into wonderland, I take something valuable from it. It can be a lyric that’s so touchy, I now become more empathetic. Or when I listen to something so creative that my mind just blooms with pleasure that my eagerness to be creative expands. Music is my map.

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Press Release Excerpt

For Immediate Release

COMMUNION RECORDS’ RECORDING ARTIST TAMINO TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM AT ROUGH TRADE WITH INTIMATE PERFORMANCE

New York, NY, September 16: Today, Communion Records announced that recording artist Tamino will be doing an intimate performance held at Rough Trade to promote and celebrate the release of his new album. The big event will be on September 16, 2020 at 7:00pm at the Rough Trade record store in New York City. The show will also be broadcasted in an online live stream in Rough Trade’s Instagram.

“I am extremely happy to spend my album release day with my fans celebrating” said Tamino, Communion Records. “They are the ones who have gotten me so far in my career and I’m looking forward in putting on a show that I hope they will like.”

“Tamino is one of our big rising talents.” said Ben Lovett, Founder, Communion Records. “His music has made such a big debut in today’s music scene and it will only continue to grow through his unique powerful vocals and soulful talent.”

“As a music record company and store we are always looking for new artists to support.” said Mark James, Staff, Rough Trade. “An artist like Tamino holds so the true nature of what real music is, and we are beyond grateful to have him host his album release at our facility and have us be apart of this big event.”

Tamino will perform the whole record for the first time at the intimate live event. The event will grant entrance at a first come first served manner with an album purchased. The fans will experience an intimate live performance and get to listen to the songs be performed for the first time.

About Communion Records

Communion was born in the Summer of 2006 as a monthly live music night at London’s Notting Hill Arts Club, and quickly grew into an active and supportive community of musicians and fans.

Over a decade later Communion Music Group has grown into a leading independent Record Label, concert Promoter and Publisher, with a firmer than ever focus on artist development and the artist experience.

Rough Trade first opened in 1976, West London, on the doorstep of punk. Forty years on, we continue to celebrate and focus on simply the most exciting music. As our stores have grown in size and popularity, so has their scope and ability to embrace a wider celebration of independent thinking, creativity and fearless self-expression, from literature to DIY technology. Fundamentally, our stores provide creative, independent minds a shared place of discovery and congregation.

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Media Contact

Ariana Prudencio

AC 321-703, Tuesdays 2:10-5PM

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Jake Bugg 2016 performing at The Bowery Ballroom

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Video Edit Excerpt

Using clips from the film Abzurdah and Radiohead’s hit song Creep, I composed a “music video” filled with parallels between song and scenes. Storytelling through cinematography is one of my passions, and I adore editing. I focused a lot of timing with the music to match the scenes. Hope you guys enjoy it! xxxx

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Theo Ellis in his element giving us a hell of a show - Wolf Alice live at Barclays Center NYC opening up for The 1975 - May 2016

#theo ellis #wolf alice #music photography #excerpt #photography #photography exhibition #music #musicians #guitarrists #bassist #bands #alternative rock #indie rock #indie bands #alternative bands #music journalism

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News Story - Van Leeuwen (journalism excerpt)

Van Leeuwen’s cashless policy leaves employees tip-less

Van Leeuwen’s employee and current FIT student Abbey Zucker, spoke out about the outcome on the company’s adoption of the “cash-free” system on a press conference interview with FIT journalism students on March 12. Van Leeuwen stores are now safer at 1:00 a.m. however employees are being affected from the lack of tips.

Ms. Zucker is a current employee at the Van Leeuwen Ice Cream store located in the West Village. Employees working at the store are loosing $10 to $15 of cash during every shift at the cost of now benefiting from zero chances of robbery, faster lines, counterfeit money, or giving the wrong change. Tipping has been part of the life of the employees, but they are aware of the set of advantages and the safety it serves to the staff. “Employees are willing to stay, but the change is dissatisfying,” she said.

Labeled best in the city by New York Magazine, Van Leeuwen is known for having a unique selection of delicious vegan ice cream and is dearly loved by their loyal vegan consumers. Due to their prioritization on customer service, consumers who were uninformed about their cashless policy were excused from paying at registry. “It has caused a lost of profit,” said Ms. Zucker. “We react by saying, ‘don’t worry it’s on us’ to avoid awkward rejection”.

Van Leeuwen has four stores in Manhattan, four in Brooklyn, one in Los Angeles and a pop-up shop in Amsterdam. The growing company decided to go cashless in the beginning of November, as more stores across the U.S. also begin to take on with the innovative form of payment.

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