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  • Mużika 21 – numru 014

    Mużika 21 – numru 014

    IVVOTA: MMI 2021 Listeners’ Picks Poll

    L-għażliet jintlaqgħu sal-31 ta’ January 2022.


    Is-sensiela Mużika 21 tidħol fit-tieni staġun bl-erbgħatax-il programm, li huwa l-ewwel wieħed għall-2022.

    1. Nibdew inħallu warajna s-sena 2021 b’dawn is-sliet:

    DjunFil-Pjazza tar-Raħal mis-sensiela Il-Medda tal-Ħoss ta’ Smash TV mill-2000, b’tifkira ta’ Enzo Gusman li miet fis-17 ta’ Diċembru 2021.

    Dawn huma xi personalitajiet oħra mix-xena mużikali li ħallewna matul is-sena li għaddiet:

      • Tony D’Amato (3 ta’ Jannar)
      • Sammy Galea (18 ta’ Jannar)
      • David Murphy – kitarrist ma’ The Graduates (21 ta’ Jannar)
      • Cynthia Turner (1 ta’ Frar)
      • Pawlu Grech (10 ta’ Frar) l-għada ta’ Chick Corea
      • Jon Lukas Woodenman (11 ta’ Ġunju)
      • Mikis Theodorakis ta’ 96 sena (2 Settembru)
      • Colin Grech – drummer ma’ Ivory Cross (5 ta’ Settembru)
      • John Manicolo tal-Exotique (11 ta’ Settembru)
      • Fr Karm Borg mssp (23 ta’ Novembru)
      • Laurie Simpson (27 ta’ Novembru)
      • Gilbert Jill St John – bassist ma’ The Echoes (29 ta’ Novembru)

    Chellcy Reitsma – Happy New Year

    Kyle George – Back to You

    The Clintess – Angel

    DiggerThings ft Blaze Bayley – Ruby Eyes

    2. Min hu Joseph Aquilina? Kantant Malti bbażat fl-Ingilterra. Mingħandu nisimgħu żewġ sliet li jidher fihom mill-album ta’ Chicane, li jismu Everything We Had To Leave Behind. Apparti t-title track, is-silta l-oħra hija 1000 More Suns.

    Immorru lura fis-snin ukoll u nsibu lil Aquilina mal-grupp tiegħu li jġib kunjomu bis-silta oriġinali More To Ask. Din kont daqqejtha l-ewwel darba f’April tal-2006 waqt il-21 edizzjonii ta’ Mużika Mod Ieħor. Dan kont skoprejtu fuq il-MySpace, dak iż-żmien, imma issa erġajt sibtu ukoll fuq Soundcloud.

    Sandro Zerafa - Last Niight When We Were Young3. L-album tal-lum huwa Last Night When We Were Young ta’ Sandro Zerafa. Dan ħareġ f’Jannar tas-sena l-oħra u fih diversi standards tal-jazz irranġati minn dan il-kitarrist Malti bbażat f’Pariġi. Minnu għażilt dawn l-erba’ siltiet: You Do Something to Me (Cole Porter), Love is a Many Splendored Thing (Sammy Fain u Paul Francis Webster), If I Had You (Jimmy Campbell + Reg Connelly + Ted Shapiro), u Last Night When We Were Young (Harold Arlen u Yip Harburg).

    Dan l-album jinbiegħ bħala CD u/jew download fuq Bandcamp.

    Mużika 21 huwa produzzjoni tal-Fondazzjoni M3P u jixxandar fuq Campus FM kull nhar ta’ Tnejn f’12:00pm u l-Ħamis fis-6:00pm.

  • New Year’s Day

    New Year’s Day

    CAST YOUR VOTE on the MMI 2021 Listeners’ Picks Poll

    Do it now…before 31 January 2022.

    Show notes for the 640th Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast featuring music by performers from or in Malta:

    Digital BlackDistant Light

    Chellcy ReitsmaHappy New Year

    Claire MaranteBurn This Fire Out

    Chicane feat. Joseph Aquilina1000 More Suns

    The ClintessAngel

    Diggerthings feat. Blaze BayleyRuby Eyes

    The RSS feed for the Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast is available here or you can simply click here to subscribe directly with iTunes. You can also follow each new episode through the MMI Podcast: Facebook Fan Page. An archive of MMI podcast is also available on Mixcloud. If you have no idea what any of this means, just enjoy listening to the podcast on the player right below this text.

  • MMI 2021 Listeners’ Picks Poll

    MMI 2021 Listeners’ Picks Poll

    MMI 2021 PollYou can now vote for your top picks from the 2021 music releases featured during the Mużika Mod Ieħor podcasts from last year in the following categories:

    Top Album
    Top EP
    Top Music Video (bil-Malti)
    Top Music Video (non-Maltese Language)
    Top Online Release
    Top Overseas-based Artists

    You must vote on all six categories for your top picks to count.

    You may only vote once – click the start survey button below to vote. Scroll down!

    A full list of nominations is available through the M3P wiki, as in previous years. No further nominations are being accepted at this point and any suggestions or omissions will be considered for inclusion in next year’s poll. Please note that you must vote on all the six categories on the poll for your picks to count…and spread the word though Facebook, Instagram, and/or Twitter.
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    This poll is open until 31 January 2022. Results will be announced during the first MMI podcast in February 2022.

  • Malta Eurovision Song Contest Resurrection

    Malta Eurovision Song Contest Resurrection

    Here are some first thoughts from Toni Sant’s Blog on the return of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest:

    Someone somewhere saw it fit to decouple Malta’s Eurovision Song Contest entry from Malta’s X Factor. So far, so good.

    Malta Eurovision Song Contest

    A slew of singers, songwriters and lyricists rejoiced at the opportunity to churn out a number of new pop song onto the Malta music scene once again. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you take the product as it comes, without reading the warning label.

    A number of old-timers still call the re-booted Malta Eurovision Song Contest by its former name: MaltaSong, or worse, Malta Song for Europe. The latter is a political remnant from the time the government of Malta pandered to pro-EU sentiments as well as a misguided idea that the Eurovision Song Contest is somehow aligned with the European institutions led from Brussels. Enough of this, please.

    The Malta Eurovision Song Contest is little more than a television show designed to help (if that’s the right word!) PBS (Malta) Ltd. pick the next entry for the EBU’s Eurovision Song Contest. And I’m quite sure it will be quite a televisual spectacle, by pop music standards.

    As the 2022 Eurovison Song Contest will be taking place in Torino, many in Malta are already hailing Emma Muscat as “the best option” for Malta’s entry to this year’s contest. I can see why they’d think and say this, even if not necessarily in that order. Emma has many talents but, in my book, these only make her “the best option” for Malta, if the goal is to do little more than take part in this year’s contest.

    My money is on Aidan Cassar and his Rimtu. He’ll need to clear the significant local hurdle first – i.e. competing against 21 other local pop star wannabes singing songs in English, some of whom are singing English-language songs written by Aidan himself. Not only is Aidan the freshest kid on the block (as a songwriter) but he has also dared do something that to many seems unspeakable: propose a song in Maltese as the Malta entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

    I haven’t heard any of the songs yet, of course, but I’m mindful that this is ultimately a television show we’re talking about here. I’m also aware that Aidan’s Ritmu is not the only Maltese-language song.

    I’m sure I’ll hear (most of) the songs over the coming weeks before the February broadcast. It’s also likely that I’ll be back with more comments around the time the 22 become 16, or just after the one has been picked. I’m voting for Neo.

    (This blog post is partly intended to preclude me from being involved in the official selection of Malta’s entry to the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest.)