Vanessa Holthausen

LATEST ARTICLES ( 195 )

• Album: High/Low - Stuck In A Void. A Diamond in the Rough?! Raw Yet Refined...

  

  A diamond in the rough. Raw at core, unpolished but dimly glinting with potential, the potential to glare radiantly once cut, to engulf its observer in a... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• EP Review: Henry Maybury - Lost Days. A Hopeful, Lively Moreover Soulful,...

  

  'I do music for the passion that it brings' - an auspicious remark that sees fruition whilst listening to Henry Maybury's debut EP 'Lost Days': quaint and... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• EP Review: Liam McClair - Honey. A Mellifluous and Soothing Jar of Heartfelt...

  

  'How do I enchant this girl?' - Liam McClair has already charmed his listeners, and not only his female ones, with lyrical love vows and candid contemplations... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• No Alternative but Rock - 4 Incisively Striking Pieces of Rock Glory: 2 EPs. 1...

  

  Broken Witt Rebels Birmingham based 4 piece blues-infused alternative rock outfit Danny Core (vocals/rhythm guitar) - Luke Davis - (vocals/bass) - James... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• EP Review: Ali Ingle - A Life Unlike Yours. Imaginative and Heart-rending,...

  

  A haunting yet elusive symphony echoes, lures with mellifluous quality, casts a spell with thrilling and emotive tonal intensity. Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Carmina Charm #3

  

  Do you know that your soul is composed of harmony? - Leonardo DaVinciIt's harmony that your soul and mind embraces again when listening to music. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Video Spotlight: Martin Luke Brown - Nostalgia. A Haunting, Ambient and Shining...

  

  Do you ever feel nostalgia? There lies something inevitably beautiful in remembrance - long gone moments flare before our very eyes, awoken by a picture, a scen... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Interview with the Bedroom Hour - a Band with Vision and Ambition Who Creates...

  

  Rousing and atmospheric anthem-smiths the bedroom hour sat together with carpe carmina and took time to answer some questions about their debut album and its... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Live Music is Coming to Your Living Room ...

  

  The tingling anticpation when the first chord is struck, the tense thrill when the chorus rises along with the haunting vocals of a musician only a short... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Album Review: The Fireflys - Embers of The Autumn // Song Review: The Fireflys...

  

  Pureand natural. Artless and genuine. With its inimitable sentiment, its engaging honesty and warmth in sound, acoustic music strikes a chord in us. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Carmina Charm #2

  

  Do you know that your soul is composed of harmony? - Leonardo DaVinciIt's harmony that your soul and mind embraces again when listening to music. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Lovely Liverpool 5-piece Little Grace Graces 'Burn The Manual's 'The Critics...

  

  Little Grace are ambitious artists you'll find yourself quickly warming up to, being most certainly on fire for the compositions they put forth shortly after... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• A Gig Review: Passionate Psychedelic Bliss - The Brew & Kismet Ryding in Bochum...

  

  It's dark, the venue is crowded and 'Last Night Stains' imbues the air, echoes energetically and sets in as a sonorous torrent of sound ... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Carmina Charm

  

  There are these never-tiring, always fascinating and highly atmospheric, poignant songs you rapidly warm up, you inevitably lose your heart to and ever since ar... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Gig Review: Nightmares Become Me Presents Carpe Carmina Live at The Enterprise,...

  

  Live shows are the crowning of music making. It's where musicians prove themselves, excel and grow. It's where passion and energy is staged, literally. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Carpe Carmina Live - a Collaboration with The Knievel Dead, The Unassisted, No...

  

  Do ut des. I give so that you give back. A saying that beyond any doubt sounds familiar to the most, and even if this aphorism is unacquainted to some, it's har... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• A Single Shot: 10 Single Songs Are Staged in an Absorbing, Convincing and Solid...

  

  'Single songs are sweet little kisses, but albums are sloppy, wet kisses from the one you love.' (Eric Alper, Toronto)This assertion caught my eye and... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Wild Young Hearts - California Dreams: Let California Dreaming Begin with...

  

  'I want you to move to California for yourself, I want you to find whatever your heart needs, I want you to move to California for yourself, but not for me'. -... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Puppet Rebellion - 'No Means Yes': No Puppets on a String, Authentic and...

  

  Music has its own voice. One that speaks up, stirrs and fascinates with intensity, one that moves and lingers on with smooth vibrancy. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Caves. One Band. One EP. One Word: Invigorating.

  

  Tracklist: 01. Oh Amy - 02. Swim - 03. Newark There is this one question most bands and musicians have trouble to answer, even though it's an essential one,... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC