'Vic Serenading' and the Roggio Family Music: Had you known the Roggio family you would have been warmed by their enthusiasm for life. On holidays this large Italian family would gather at Vic Roggio's beautiful estate in Pennsylvania. Picture the wedding scene at the opening of the Godfather movie and you get a glimpse into typical family gathering of the Roggio's, excluding the Don Corleone and his associates. At each family event the men would entertain the guests with guitars, mandolins, violin and piano. Musical harmony was always the backdrop. Each Roggio musician mastered at least one instrument if n ot more. Salvatore,...

TWM wins Chillout Addict Awards!: ENGLISH: another prize for TWM! :-) The Chilloutaddict forum & webradio crowned The Wimshurst's Machine as "Best Electronic Track" in the 1st edition of their "Chillout Addict Awards" with the song "Magic Lights", with a jury of voters formed by selected great indie and professional chillout artists, webcasters & radios around the world. Confront on:
Click here to go on the Chilloutaddict award winners page! ITALIANO: ancora un premio per i TWM! :-) Il forum & internet radio Chillout Addct ha infatti consegnato ai The Wimshurst's Machine il premio come "Miglior Brano di Musica Elettron...

'Test' revisited: Actually, a better title could be "'Test' explained". Two or three days ago, nearly all the Pagan music here at Soundclick suddenly became unavailable. The links were still there, but they did not function. Also, many of the album cover thumbnails were replaced by the '404', which itself becomes uglily stretched in station playlists. In addition to this, most of the protest songs suffered a similar mishap. Almost everything else seemed to work normally. There were a few failures elsewhere, but very few, quite few enough to rule out coincidence. Today I find these items restored, but as ...