| Valle Venia Art and music are not mutually exclusive The name of Valle Venia is the brandname chosen for an out-of-the-ordinary concept created by the couple of doctors called Johanna Michel and Hermann Schmidt. They combine practicing medicine ind their Pain Center and working in their recording studio and workshop on an enormous variety of projects - multi-media events. Valle...... read more |
| Press releases from: Playboy Classical Music Tip of the Month Leo Schmidt: Contemporary X Label: Valle Venia Mouldbreakingly eclectic: under the aegis of his aural playground, the Valle Venia label, Leo Schmidt publishes music from all genres. The "Contemporary" series subsumes his ventures into modern-day classical music. With up-tempo string quartets and polyp...... read more |
| >> We are interested in the connection between art, nature and science Johanna Michel and Hermann Schmidt bring to the point. In everyday life, both are practicing doctors in the field of orthopedics, pain therapy and hand surgery - they change their white coats with the robes of the concept artists. They are authors and operators of the label >> Valle Venia <<. It's not just mu...... read more |
| Valle Venia Music connecting different worlds Neustadt/Weinstraße (mw) - The music published under the Valle Venia label does not fit the traditional patterns used for describing music. it refuses to be categorised and classified, which is why it takes the listener on a multi-facetted and fascinating journey of sound. To quote Dr Hermann "Leo" Schmidt and his wife Dr Jo...... read more |
| Together with the British singer Sam Brown the label Valle Venia has created into being a quite special project. Fragile connects Sams sensory voice with different sound constellations of the songs ,written by Leo Philipp Schmidt,and all under the most melodic aspect. Cello, piano, cembalo, loops, violins and percussion evoke the complete emotion spectrum of her voice. There is a whole qua...... read more |
| You just want to sit back and relax? Close your eyes and insert the CD Fragile with Sam Brown: It enchants with a voice reminiscent of Kate Bush - strong tones between classical and soul. |
| Sam Brown can't be stopped By her soul pop hit Stop Sam Brown became world-famous. The British singer is starting an unusual comeback now in central Europe. Together with the label Valle Venia of Leo Philipp Schmidt and Hanna Michel she recorded the new album Fragile. The result is captivating. Cello, piano, cembalo, violin, guitar and drums would slip out to a sound worl...... read more |
| Painting with sounds would approximately paraphrase the philosophy of the artist couple Leo Schmidt / Hanna Michel. And probably not by chance "Leo" Philipp Schmidt does create sculptures and also knows handling the color palette. Long ago, the activity of the educated person defined itself in the so-called seven free arts the "Artes liberales", which count amo...... read more |
| One could almost think the duo Leo Schmidt / Hanna Michel are Icelanders. The music of their vehicle Valle Venia is so different and interesting. One must inevitably think at the fluent and partly strange sounds of Acts like Björk or Sigur Ros. Leo Schmidt and Hanna Michel created with Fragile a pop music album, but by the instrumentation and the song structures they created far more; they almos...... read more |
| With Stop Sam Brown landed one world hit. Now she ennobles Fragile with her distinctiv voice. Valle Venia's album Fragile is an excursion to the melancholy domain of pop music with a partly unusual instrumentation: Cello, cembalo, violins? Beautiful !!! |
| "The artistic interactions of Hanna and Leo`s B.A.S.S. Project find their very special expression in the mix of language, presentation and great music through our own backgrounds talents / abilities from all over the world, and end up for us artists and the audience in a very special experience. I believe that is Hanna and Leo`s secret too, to follow their intuition and to trust it, wi...... read more |