Tag: Rok by Rok

Eastern Music Awards 2020 Nominations Officially Opened

Eastern Music Awards 2020 Nominations Officially Opened Hi5 empire, the organizers of the Eastern music awards have officially opened nominations for this year’s edition. The event which has been active for the past four years is known to be the biggest music event in the Eastern region that honors the best performing artistes together with legends across the length and width of the region. The fourth edition...

Magdi Aboul-Kheir Explores Human Intimacy in “Slow Heat”

I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...

From Pac-Man to Pop Culture: “Rok” and the Art of Emotional Synth

If the Pac-Man arcade cabinet at the corner of a musty Scottish pub could talk, it might recount something akin to Rok's self-titled odyssey....