Artist: Chris Nielsen

Title: Mystic Holiday

Genre: Instrumental Jazz-Classical-New Age

Label: CNP Creative Group

Chris Nielsen Website

Chris Nielsen takes you on a Mystic Holiday through his music and multimedia experiences on his website. He is a media developer and a music man.

This CD engages your senses with 11 standout tracks of instrumental piano music and various sounds of every day life and nature. Nielsen composed and played all the music on this release. He offers the demanding and astute listener a combination of classical, jazz, new age, blues, and some that sounds like the old time music that they used to play in movie theaters before they had sound, it has a ragtime feel to it.

Connexion Bizarre was updated on February 22nd with new content (reviews, podcasts and links).

A quick overview of this week's update:

Podcast:

"Nightgaunt" with music selection by DJ Istabmyhead and "20100222-0228" with music selection by M.

Reviews: Lewsor "No Error", Everything Goes Cold "vs. General Failure", Dogpop "Jahrmarkt Der Verlorenen Kinder"

All the best,

Miguel de Sousa

(editor, etc @ www.connexionbizarre.net)

Electronic Aid to Ha

Following the initiative of a handful of musicians from the underground electronic arena, a digital compilation has been created, in order to raise funds for Red Cross activities in Haiti.

This project brought together approximately fifty bands of the electro-industrial scene, among them such figures as Front 242 and the frontman of Nitzer Ebb, who is opening for Depeche Mode on their current tour. All participants in this project have offered an original track or a remix to support this worthy cause.

More information at Sigsaly Transmissions

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