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Nov 27, 20193 min read

MUSIC AND GOING BACK TO THE KINDERGARTEN OF INSPIRATION

By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com Ray Charles singing, “I Got A Woman” was playing in the background while speaking...

Dec 26, 20185 min read

HORSE RACING, “YOUNGER PEOPLE” AND THE GIFT OF GIVING

By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com If someone who follows horse racing religiously and does the form, understands handicapping, track...

Dec 20, 20184 min read

GETTING TO KNOW THE WORLD OF MUSIC ALL OVER AGAIN

By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Yesterday, popular record store HMV announced that it’s closing its doors in Hong Kong after being...

Nov 12, 20187 min read

ALGORITHMS IS NOT MUSIC, OK?

By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Let’s try to make some sense out of all this. Or at least find solutions. We know the problems. One...

Oct 20, 20185 min read

IT’S TIME FOR SOME FUNTING

By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It was exactly what was needed. Fun. Infectious fun. So infectious that the dancing magically morphed...

Sep 17, 20165 min read

BACK TO THE BASICS

By Hans Ebert It’s the technique not the idea. It’s something my mentor in advertising- Keith Reinhard- used to make all his creative...

Mar 23, 20168 min read

FORGOTTEN HEROES OF MUSIC: THE SONGWRITERS

By Hans Ebert Listening to “Work”, the new recording by Rihanna, and then hearing a brilliant Remix of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” recently...

Mar 22, 20166 min read

THE LOSERS, CHEATERS AND SIX-GUN USERS IN LIFE AND THE MUSIC WORLD

By Hans Ebert In the Rant section of the SCMP’s Sunday Magazine, the writer mentioned being hit in the face last Friday and thrown out of...

Oct 10, 20157 min read

THE PLASTIC HALLWAY OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY‏

By Hans Ebert It takes a lot for a train to cry and it takes a lot for a dam to burst and, gawd knows, it takes having to sidestep so...

Aug 25, 20143 min read

THE LASTING POWER OF A GREAT SONG

A friend of mine sent me a link to John Denver singing his own song, Leaving On A Jet Plane, first a hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in the...

Nov 20, 20111 min read

WHY DANIEL EK MADE US GO “EEK!”

When around two years ago, we asked Daniel Ek, co-founder of Spotify, how artists make money through his streaming service and he had...