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50 Year After Abbey Road: Two Worlds Of Music Listening
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HypeBot
With the Beatle's Abbey Road near the top of the charts 50 years after release, MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan explores how older, physical-focused music fans remain the quickest route to high-value, large-scale revenue, as well as, much and how little has changed in the music industry. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry blog Half a century after it first after it first topped the charts, the Beatles’ Abbey Road is back at the summit of the UK charts. With the ...
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The Beatles: Abbey Road
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Abbey Road was the last Beatles album on which all four members recorded together. By the time they gathered to work on their 11th studio album at the Abbey Road Studios between February and August 1969, they had done it all, seen it all and owned virtually everything they ever wanted. In fact, they had become so famous they were detached from the culture they helped start back in '64. Giving up touring in 1966 to become studio cobblers, the ...
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Abbey Rader Releases Two Diverse Albums On Bandcamp; The Fiery "Ritual" And The Meditative Soundtrack "Phenobarbital Sessions"
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Kai Rader
Legendary free jazz drummer, Abbey Rader, is back with two new albums. Ritual is a burning trio set with bassist Kyle Motl and saxophonist Drew Ceccato. Phenobarbital Sessions is a deeply moving set of 16 improvised tracks recorded for a short film by Jorge Rubiera. It features Abbey on drums, percussion, and gongs, while longtime collaborator, John McMinn stretches out on saxophone and piano. These albums follow 2016’s successful Reunion that paired the Abbey Rader Quartet with Kidd Jordan. Initial ...
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Abbey Road Graduate CloudBounce Closes $250K Seed Round
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HypeBot
Abbey Road Red Incubator graduate CloudBounce, an instant digital audio mastering service, has raised a $250,000 seed round. Investors in this round include UK-based VC Ascension Ventures, and a group of Finnish business angels. CloudBounce offers instant feedback on an audio track using AI. The (artificially) intelligent machine, unlike Shazam or Echo, makes processing decisions based on context and to deliver the most relevant mastering. For example, mastering Pucci’s Tosca would require very different enhancing to Black Sabbath’s War Pigs). ...
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Abbey Road Adds 3 Promising Music Tech Startups To Incubator
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HypeBot
Abbey Road Red, the music tech accelerator based at the iconic Abbey Road Studios has named its latest group of startups. It's the second class for the only music tech incubator in Europe. The latest 3 music tech startups named to the Abbey Road Red accelerator program are: Audio Hunt- an online marketplace and community that gives musicians, engineers, producers and everyone in between access to the greatest audio gear and services on the planet. Users can search the online ...
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Pianist Erik Sondhy releases "Abbey Road Sessions Volume 1" on IndoJazzia Musik
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All About Jazz
Erik Sondhy is a Balinese jazz composer and pianist with a unique voice. In July last year (2015), he realized a childhood dream by spending six hours improvising on a Steinway piano in the world famous Abbey Road studios. He left with enough material for four albums. IndoJazzia Musik, a new label, was tasked with handling the international distribution rights to the first release, Abbey Road Sessions Vol.1. We hear echoes of Fats Waller, Philip Glass, Keith Jarrett and Iiro ...
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Abbey Rader & Kidd Jordan Release First Album Together - "Reunion"
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Kai Rader
In a busy summer, Abbey Rader has released his second recording in as many months. Reunion is a collaboration with saxophonist Kidd Jordan. The album is their first together. It follows the June release of It's Time, a duet session with Abbey and longtime collaborator Peter Ponzol. The chain of events that led to Reunion can be traced to the early 2000s. Abbey was on tour with Billy Bang and Frank Lowe when the band performed at the Zeitgeist Arts ...
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Spirit Of Abbey Lincoln Invoked Through Up And Coming Jazz Singer's Theatrical Tribute And New Album Release
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Akosua Gyebi
For two weekends in March, up and coming jazz singer-songwriter Kosi, accompanied by a four-piece band of world class musicians (Brendon Biagi, Aron Marchak, Christopher Hall, and Isaiah Pierce), will be performing a tribute to recently departed jazz icon Abbey Lincoln at the WOW Cafe Theater in New York City. This tribute, called Ghosts Appearing through the Sound, will feature original interpretations of the musical compositions, lyrics, and poetry of Abbey Lincoln, in addition to some more contemporary compositions to ...
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Universal Music Group's Abbey Roads Studios Launches Music Tech Incubator
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HypeBot
The Beatles have long since decamped, but their Abbey Road Studios is still very much alive. Last night the UMG owned company launched a new initiative focused on music technology and innovation at an event in the iconic Studio Two. Universal Music Group owned Abbey Road Studios has launched Abbey Road Red, a music tech incubator that it says is the only such program in Europe. Based in the building where such breakthroughs as stereo music were invented, Abbey Road ...
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Abbey Rader Releases First Album With West Coast Quartet
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Kai Rader
The Abbey Rader West Coast Quartet was formed in January 2015 when Abbey Rader, Peter Kuhn, Kyle Motl and Drew Ceccato met in California for the first time. Rader and Kuhn are both practicing Buddhists, and the common ground created an ever-present air of spirituality. First Gathering was born out of Rader’s desire to create music based on the Four Noble Truths, the guiding principles of Buddhism. These teachings speak to fundamental truths about human existence and provide a path ...
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