Michael Levy
My musical mission is to literally "carry on where the ancients left off" in continuing to create new music, for the recreated ancient lyres & kithara of antiquity, using the distinctive expressive qualities of the ancient musical modes, heard in the pure focus of authentic, ancient just intonation.
This channel is my essential vehicle for this 'musical adventure in time travel' - it is entirely thanks to the video comments & suggestions of you, my much valued subscribers, that my new music has been continually forged, refined and ultimately released on my many albums, available from all the usual digital music platforms, painstakingly indepenently produced since 2008.
Michael Levy
Special thanks to my awesome followers & listeners on Spotify - yesterday, I hit 10,000 streams of my new album in just under a week since it's release! Each & every new playlist featuring my music makes such a difference. #spotifyplaylist #spotify #ancientmusicalinstruments #lyre #meditativemusic #Enchantment #ancientgreece
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Michael Levy
Join the exclusive Bandcamp Listening Party at 7pm GMT today to hear with me the premier of my new album & ask to any questions you like:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/live/enchantment-of-the-t…
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Michael Levy
My lyre music once again forms the soundscape to the new English translation of the original podcast series, "Beyond the Marble" - produced by the Borghese Gallery in Rome!
open.spotify.com/episode/5XnbQRvvCTWtuKUoQa9iWW?si… #sculpture #Borghese #art #ancientrome
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Michael Levy
Regrettably, my recent attempts to try creating CD's manufactured on demand hit a technical brick wall 😞
If only I had been born a few decades earlier (& maybe could even text with 2 thumbs etc!), I might have been able to work through these issues, but with what wil be 40 releases in June, it would take the rest of my life to put all my digital albums onto CD & Vinyl.
Studio quality audio from all my releases with accompanying PDF booklets of my detailed album notes are still thankfully always going to be available from Bandcamp - thanks again, everyone, for all your invaluable support!
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Michael Levy
New review on Bandcamp of my ultra-experimental album, "Ascension of the Lyre"! Inspired by Spock's 'Vulcan Harp', this album aimed to boldly go where no other lyre player has gone before... #experimentalmusic #lyre #scifimusic #otherworldlymusic #spacemusic #startrek #spock
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Michael Levy
The best things in life are worth waiting for! My upcoming new album can be pre-saved on Spotify from today:
open.spotify.com/prerelease/5k5aYzgTCYa7tx68c8L0OH…
#Spotify #ancientmusic #earlymusic #lyre #mythology #meditationmusic #meditation #mysterious
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Michael Levy
What type of video presentations do most of my subscribers prefer?
1) 'Live from my spare room' type, or
2) Mixed & mastered lyre & kithara music with dreamy, ancient imagery slide show overlaid with explanatory annotations?
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Michael Levy
Wow! With no record company & doing nothing other than creating music and 'putting it out there', today I surpassed 50,000 monthly listeners on Spotify!!
Special thanks to all my YouTube subscribers for enabling me to achieve this milestone - without your feedback & comments over the years to my ideas, I would never have recorded ANYTHING & would still be jamming to myself in my spare room!
#spotify #meditativemusic #ancientmusic #lyre #ancientgreece #earlymusic #kithara #ancientmusicalinstruments
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Michael Levy
Dear awesome subscribers,
I'm delighted to reveal that in just over 4 days since release, my new album "Magic of the Kithara" has smashed over 11K streams on Spotify! (When I released my first album on CD back in 2008, I was lucky if I sold 20...per year!)
In case you missed it, you can add & share it to your Spotify playlists here:
open.spotify.com/album/3d52Tmhn9198gW5dAPVR3g?si=W…
For studio quality audio plus a PDF booklet of the detailed album notes (and to seevthecalbum's first ever review!), please also find the album on Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/magic-of-the-kithar…
Thanks once again for all your support over the years - if it was not for you, my YouTube audience, I would have never have been inspired to record anything & would still be just performing in my spare room for the benefit of my neighbours!
Wishing each & every onecof you a happy & healthy 2025.
Warmest wishes
Michael
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Michael Levy
Dear much valued subscribers,
As always, your feeback is invaluable to all my future album releases - I am in the process of completing my 2025 album for tortoise shell lyre & can't decide to call it "Enchantment of the Tortoise Shell Lyre" with the foggy background (option 1) or the shorter, maybe more punchy title, "Enchantment of the Tortoise Lyre", with the more vivid misty blue background (option 2)?
This album will be being released on 1st June, to compliment my album, "Magic of the Kithara", out on all the usual digital platforms on 1st January 2025...the best things are worth waiting for!
Seasons Greetings,
Michael
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