Introducing Ellene Masri

Ellene Masri is a franco-lebanese songwriter, guitarist and performer living in the USA. Maybe you've had already the occasion to see her performing as she has performed in various festivals and venues in Paris and accross Europe.

Ellene has self-released her debut album "Music" under her own label "Music Talks" on November, 1st. "This album tells the story of my life and evolution as a person and as an artist from an emotional point of view, beginning from my childhood up to now, the grown-up woman that I am." - said Ellen about her album.

"Music" is a touching album combining Ellene's gorgeous voice and dancing rythms. I don't know why, but the global atmosphere of "Music" evokes me for a summer night on a terrace lighten by fairy lights, drinking a glass of wine and enjoying some good music. Her first single "Secret Lover" has been previewed in the UK on Jazz FM.

It's quite hard to define Ellene's unique music style because we can feel so many music influences in her songs. Her music is mainly composed by soul and jazz music, but also sometimes added by touches of latino and orientals rythms. She has drawn her inspiration on her travels around and her many musical encounters, which probably explains this cultural mix in her music.

If you buy her album or have the occasion to to listen to the whole album on Spotify for example, give a listen to her song "Stay Awhile". It's a beautiful song, one of my favorite songs of Ellene. 

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Twitter : https://twitter.com/ellenemasri

Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/user/ellenemasriOFFICIAL

Richseam : a new website for music discoveries!

When you have the thirst for music discoveries, like me, you're always looking for a way to find new artists to listen to. For that, there are many possibilities :

- websites that also sells music : itunes, spotify, bandcamp, ...

- websites that helps the promotions of different artists : reverbnation, ourstage, noisetrade, youtube, blogs ...

- website used to fund new albums like kickstarter, pledgemusic ...

The other way can also be to look around the artist you like. If you like the music an artist does, you can be sure at 90 % that you'll like the music of their musicians friends. It can be a musician of this artist who also have a solo career, or someone who has opened a show for this artist during a tour, or they could have done a duet ...  Well, that's all about  Richseam  !

Richseam is a new website that lets you discover music through the collaborations and connections of your favorite artists. They've mined the internet collecting together over a million relationships from 100,000 musicians.

Richseam provides a really easy way to find artists. You can browse the website by the name of an artist or a band, by genre and by label and for each person you find, you will have a description of this artist with few songs and all the connection around him.

I think the concept of this website is a brillant idea. I've found so many artists by looking at connexions around few of them by the past and Richseam give us an easy way to do that. Besides it can be useful as much for music fan as for people who want to talk about them. So check out this website and I hope you'll find great music their !