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Kat Violin On the Prowl

You want Classical music; she has that covered. You want Rock or Pop she can deliver that too. Now Beatrix Lőw-Beer who doubles as Kat Violin for those of you who crave a little mystery with your music, has taken classic music by highly regarded composers and blended them with original modern beats and just like Cat Woman transforms herself into Kat Violin the DJ and violinist. Meow. Do not try and label Beatrix Lőw-Beer however, because while the one we have dubbed the Lady Gaga of the violin, for her often breathtaking wardrobe selections can just as easily purr as she can hiss, while playing edgier songs.

Well, she can describe her new persona much better than we can, “I am producing my own music, and it is a combination of Classical music and electronic beats. For instance, music from Classical composers. It is 2.0 and it is transported to the electronic music. The (goal) is to perform it live at festivals or bigger events.

It is not so easy doing my own music versus covers. I thought it would be much faster to get reach, but when you make your own music, it is like you have to convince everybody first. Even the followers you gained over the years, don’t follow you (when you branch out), because it is yours. I think it will be a lot of work to make this successful, but I will try my best. I love the idea, the concept and the character. It is all about the cat identity, but not like the animal cat, but it is about the character of the cat and the behavior and the attitude. Read More

Lucy Gale - It's Never Too Late

_{On
May 24th (2025) in Australia at the JazzLab a sold-out audience gave singer,
songwriter, Lucy Gale a standing ovation as her album
It’s Never Too Late made it’s debut. This collection of
songs plays to Gale’s
soulful, bluesy vocals and for the recorded album, helmed by producer,
composer and keyboardist Dominic Ross, she surrounded herself with some
superb musicians, drummer Darryn Farrugia, bassist David Rosa, organist
Harry Mullany (who also contributed vocal harmonies) and guitarist
Dragan Stanic. They were complimented by saxophonist Gary Deleo,
percussionists Alejandro Vega and Sam Oliveri, as well as guitarists
Eddie De Marchi and Ben Dewhirst. Adam Calaitzis served as the sound
engineer and mastered the record at Toyland Studios.

Songs like “It’s Never Too Late,” seek to rekindle how love first felt
or perhaps get back a love lost, and the
breathtakingly beautiful “Turn Up That Love Song,” remind us of
how we felt or may still feel when we are so in love with another that
those emotions and feelings burn within us. This latter song should be
in a scene for a movie or series,

so pay
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_{Noah Vonne - Heart Of It}

_{_{Noah
Vonne a native of Texas, who has called Nashville and Los Angeles home
was our guest recently at Riveting Riffs Magazine and the reason we were
excited about her joining us is her vocals remind us of a mix of Joss
Stone, Amy Winehouse, and Taylor Dayne, not that she sounds like a clone
of those singers, because she does not. We use those comparisons,
because Noah Vonne’s vocals are powerful, soulful, and emotive and at a
standard that already reflects the vocal abilities of those three
artists. She is a splendid songwriter who can accompany herself on the
guitar or keyboards and she has a knack for knowing what works best with
her music videos.
Most of her
childhood and teenage years were spent growing up in New Braunfels
nestled between Austin Texas and San Antonio, in a family with five
older sisters. All of them were softball players, almost enough to form
their own team.}} _{When asked if she
was spoiled, being the baby of the family, she says while laughing, “ It
is true. All of my sisters would say one thousand percent. In comparison
to some of my friends, maybe not so, because
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Ciara Grace - Earthy and Edgy

A few months back, a publicist friend of mine Mike Farley sent me some information updating me on the artists he represents. I scrolled through the list, some names familiar, others less so and I happened upon the name of Ciara Grace. I was intrigued by the release of an album, Write It Down, that at that time was still three months away. I gave a listen to the music of the blonde, blue-eyed young woman, who I guessed to be late teens or very early twenties and found I was pretty close.

Ciara Grace’s music is earthy, edgy with some of the vocals and music being staccato in nature. The themes we want to say mostly dealt with relationships, but that would not be true, because the songs were all about relationships! Even though they were written between her high school years and the summer immediately prior to entering college, whether you are sixteen years old, twenty years old or forty-two years old, there is something here for everybody to sink their teeth into, both musically and lyrically. Yes, we are hearing the expression of feelings from what was then a teenage songwriter, and from a female perspective, but we think we are correct in saying that many women out there are going to listen and say, ‘I knew a guy just like that!” or ‘I remember that guy who treated me poorly,” and “I can’t believe I fell for that guy.’ Now, just so we do not give you the wrong impression, while some of these lyrics do bear the signs of feeling jaded or angry at the time, it is important to note that these are not angry songs, at least in our view. There are enough images and metaphors that keep this from becoming a dark brooding album and you can sink your teeth into the uneven beats and vocals.

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Electronic Firefly From Spain

_{This
story begins in Spain during the year 2017, when violinist Silvia
Carbajal Sanchez was asked to organize ten musicians and to be the
artistic director for a big New Year’s event in 2017.

Silvia explains
what happened next, “That was not when I met Charlie (Perez-Íñigo now
her husband). I needed an electric cello for the project and another
person recommended that I call him.
It was a difficult
time in my life and Charlie became my friend and he helped me in many
aspects of my life. At the time I was living in a small village called
Villarejo (located in La Rioja, Spain) and he started to visit me often.

He also
recommended me for a show called “Music Has No Limits,” and that is when
we started to work together. We toured with them, and we started our
relationship. We have been together ever since. It was after we left
“Music Has No Limits,” that we started Electronic Firefly.”
In 2023 their daugher was born and for two
performing musicians that has brought its own challenges, but more on
that later.
The two world class

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Robert Watts - Album Interview

Austin, Texas based singer and songwriter _{_{Robert Watts, sat down with Riveting Riffs Magazine recently, over a
zoom call and talked about his current album, BloodWork.}}

It is a collection of songs that he describes as, “Indie Pop. The album BloodWork was named, because of the copious amounts of liquid that have exited and entered my body in the last year. Also, BloodWork is the composing and the writing and all of that. For me it is like my blood and something that I am very attached to. On the inside of the CD cover there is a picture of one of my heart graphs.”

Robert there is obviously more to this story.

“The making of the record was brought to a halt when I had emergency heart surgery last year. I am one hundred percent now. When I got out of the hospital and I started feeling better is when “On & On,” (the song) hit me. I had five or six songs ready and some of them I ended up using and some of them I didn’t. “On & On,” just is one of those songs that came out really easily.

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