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  • Endlessly

    Show notes for the 209th Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast.

    Nina Wright – Waiting
    Maltese and Canadian born and raised in Canada but now living in Arizona. This R&B singer clearly deserves to grace the line up on the MMI podcasting series. I’ll be keeping a look out for new material from her and promise to play it on future editions of my weekly podcast.

    The Myth – Crazy
    One of Malta’s longest running bands returns with another radio-friendly pop rock song. It seems that they’ve now found their sound and even though (to my ears) it sounds a little too 90s Brit pop there’s still room for this sort of thing on the Maltese music scene.

    Manwel T – Tonight
    Following up on 2009’s Virtual Dub, Malta’s dub master Manwel T has just released Virtual Dub 2 through his Dubkey Records net-label. This free download should go down well with all lovers of reggae and roots music. I’ve selected a track written and recorded by Germany-based Phil Harmony with Boomrush Backup. Manwel T’s remix is quite delightful and it’s among the highlights on this collection.

    Carrie Haber – You Need to Reconsider
    ReverbNation.com is fast becoming the online network of choice for many Maltese musicians, even if MySpace remains a strong presence on the scene and Facebook continues to be the most excellent way to reach and audience. After enjoying the music of many local acts through this relatively new website, I’ve finally been drawn to register my own account on it by Carrie Haber who seems to be working her mojo through her RN pages. It’s also the only place online where you can hear some of Carrie’s new songs in full. The one I’ve picked is one of them, of course.

    Paul Giordimaina – Voyage (Part 1)
    It’s Paul’s birthday on the 28th of April. This year he turns 50, so I think it’s appropriate to pause for a minute and wish him many happy returns. Although he is best known as a pop singer, he probably prefers to be remembered as a jazz musician. So I’ve picked a track off last year’s Letter To Bernie double CD to sample his keyboard style. Happy Birthday Paul!

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  • Brand New Day

    Blogger is about to stop letting its users publish their blogs via FTP. This is how I’ve used Blogger for my blog since the very first day I started blogging back in April 2004. So now it’s time to move on, or rather move it all to WordPress. By contrast, WordPress not only lets its users publish their blogs via FTP but it also allows users to host their own WordPress engine on their server or private web hosting account. The two companies simply have a different philosophy on who owns what.

    Anyway, I guess this is the first proper blog entry on Toni Sant’s Blog driven by WordPress. The main address remains the same. You’ll always find me at ToniSant.com – and I hope that it will be some time again until I even need to think about whether this is one of the few constants in my life or not. All previous posts and comments remain online too, of course. I have chosen not to import them into the WordPress database, simply because they already exist as flat HTML files under the tonisant.com domain and I prefer to leave all web pages as close as possible to the way they were to when they were originally published.

    My blog’s design and layout had hardly changed since I first created it, so I think it’s about time to refresh it all, especially it’s still very alive and it’s much clearer (at least to me) what blogging is really all about after all these years.

  • Moving blog to WordPress

    This is the very first post I’m writing on WordPress for my blog. It’s actually just a little note to say that Toni Sant’s Blog will soon be driven by WordPress. ToniSant.com is now driven (almost entirely) by WordPress, so it makes sense that the Blog is also on WordPress.

    Blogger has served me well since April 2004, and I have a feeling I’ll still be using it for several other projects for quite some time to come.

    UPDATED (February 2010): Blogger is discontinuing its FTP service. This means I’ll have less use for it and will be moving my entire blogging activities to WordPress very very soon.

    Meanwhile, Toni Sant’s Blog remains here.