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Rafa Sánchez, Luis Bolin y Mario Martínez forman en 1984 La Uniøn y después de 29 años han editado 16 álbumes, 14 de ellos de estudio, y con los cuales han vendido más de cuatro millones de discos en todo el mundo, recibiendo en 2006 un disco de doble diamante por su trayectoria musical. Además, han sido disco multiplatino, con más de 200.000 copias, los álbumes “Vivir al Este del Edén”, “Tren de Largo Recorrido”, “Tentación” y “Grandes Éxitos”. Obtuvieron disco de platino, con más de 100.000 copias los L.P. “Mil Siluetas” y “4x4”, y disco de oro, con más de 50.000 copias vendidas, los álbumes “Psycofunkster Au Lait”, “La Uniøn”, “El Mar de la Fertilidad” e “Hiperespacio”. Han creado uno de los directos más emblemáticos y conocidos del panorama musical llegando a su momento clímax con su tema estrella “Lobo Hombre en París” el cual vendió como single en 1984 más de 200.000 copias y llegando a ser número 1 de ventas durante 9 semanas consecutivas. HIP-GNOSIS “Hip”, del inglés, que significa moda, tendencia. “Gnosis”, palabra griega que se refiere al conocimiento en su acepción más espiritual, la esencia en sí misma. Es este concepto el que da vida al nuevo trabajo de La Unión, que salió a la venta el 4 de junio de 2013. A lo largo de tres décadas Rafa Sánchez, Luis Bolin y Mario Martínez han sabido ser fieles a ese sonido que les convirtió en una de las bandas más importantes del panorama musical español de los 80 y 90s. Pero a la vez han sido capaces de beber de las tendencias e influencias que las modas han ido trazando, reinventándose, fluyendo, disfrutando del eclecticismo de la época que les ha tocado marcar. HIP-GNOSIS es un nuevo paso adelante en este sentido, que además viene facilitado por la creación a finales de 2012 de su propio sello discográfico, Nut Music. Con este paso, La Unión inició una nueva era y nos propuso un nuevo modelo para las bandas de rock del siglo XXI: un modelo participativo, un colectivo creativo de artistas de distintos ámbitos (musical, tecnológico, diseño…) unidos en un proyecto, aportando y recibiendo en consecuencia. Para ello no estuvieron solos... Contaron con unas colaboraciones de lujo para revisar treinta años de canciones y actualizar clásicos que siguen vivos con aire techno-dark-dancechill y otras tantas etiquetas que al final se traducen en notas. Gitano, Fashion Beat Team, Jonathan Castilla... Un punto y seguido en una carrera que no se ha detenido nunca.
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The Ed Palermo Big Band Flaunts the Union Jack with The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. 3: Run for Your Life
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The Music Outpost Publicity
While pundits and experts debate whether the United States of America has entered an age of decline as a world power, New York saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader and inveterate troublemaker Ed Palermo makes an incontrovertible case for un-American ascendance. With The Great Un-American Songbook Volume 3: Run for your Life, slated for release on guitarist/vocalist Bruce McDaniel’s Sky Cat label on November 6, 2020, he turns his attention to the music of the nation’s former colonial overlords. Focusing on material ...
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Musicians Union Demands Major Increase In Streaming Residuals with SAG-AFTRA Support
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HypeBot
Musicians held rallies across the country calling for streaming residuals for music in television and film even as the American Federation of Musicians and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed negotiations this week. “In made-for streaming productions, we get about 25% of what we get from traditional theatrical or TV film production,” said AFM International President Ray Hair on Monday. “Why should we make 75% less, so everybody else in their big, rich companies can make more? ...
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The Grand Union Orchestra at Shoreditch Town Hall on December 9th at 8pm
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All About Jazz
Uncharted Crossings- The Backstory of the Windrush Generation Uncharted Crossings may well be Grand Union Orchestra’s most powerful and politically committed show in its thirty-year history. The music traces the contribution to British culture of the people who came to these shores from the Caribbean from the late forties onwards. In many ways, theirs was just a chapter in a story that had begun five centuries earlier on the slave ships that crossed the Atlantic carrying human cargo to the ...
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Music Cities: State Of The Union
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HypeBot
In this piece Shain Shapiro catches us up on the the state of music cities, a somewhat nebulous term which came about as a term to recognize the cultural role of music in cities. Here he looks at what the Music Cities are doing right, what needs to improve, and where they're headed from here. Guest post by Shain Shapiro of Medium A few years ago, a new term emerged to explore the role of music — industry and otherwise — on how our ...
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Join The Discussion: How A UK Exit From European Union Would Affect The Music Industry
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HypeBot
Recent polls show that this Thursday's referendum on the UK exiting the EU could go either way. We've been getting reaction to this post on how a Brexit could affect the music industry. Ticketbis looked at the impacts, from touring artists to fans travelling to gigs. READ AND COMMENT: The major aspects of the music and events industries which could be affected by Britain leaving the EU include: working visas, tax paid on records and merchandise, the touring ability of smaller acts, travel ...
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Union Sues Universal, Sony, WMG, Others For Failing To Fund Musician's Pensions
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HypeBot
The American Federation of Musicians pension fund is suing Atlantic Records, Hollywood Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Brothers Records for failing to make pension fund contributions. A lawsuit filed in New York today by The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) claims that all three major label groups have failed to make pension fund payments due from foreign audio streams and foreign and domestic ringbacks. Named in the suit were Atlantic Records, Hollywood Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal ...
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Jazz Great Barbara Morrison To Be Honored in "A Benefit Evening of Jazz Legends For Barbara Morrison" at Local 47 Musicians Union in Hollywood, CA on September 11th
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Chris M. Slawecki
Music producers Stuart Elster and Richard Simon will present A Benefit Evening of Jazz Legends for Barbara Morrison, co-hosted by Helen Borgers, on-air talent for KJAZZ 88.1 FM and James Janisse, on-air talent for KCRW 89.9 FM for One Night Only on Sunday, September 11, 2011 at Local 47 Musicians Union; 817 Vine Street; Hollywood, CA 90038 from 7:00㬆:00 p.m.
Richard Simon, one of the producers of the event, said: “Singer Barbara Morrison is a nationally treasured jazz artist. Barbara ...
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Brian Settles/Central Union - Secret Handshake (2011)
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Something Else!
There's something odd I noticed about this record from the opening moments: there's a piano on it. Why is that so bizarre you ask? I don't think there's ever been a piano before on an Engine Studios recording. Then again, there hasn't been a Brian Settles record before either. Last June, both of these firsts made their way to the public when Settles' Secret Handshake album went on sale. Saxophone specialist Settles first got notice here as a key component ...
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Aftra Union Demands Money for Artists from $105m Limewire Settlement
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HypeBot
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL-CIO—a national union of more than 70,000 professional recording artists, performers and broadcasters—praised the recent $105 million copyright infringement settlement against LimeWire, and said it will fight to make sure that the labels pay all artists fairly. “AFTRA is moving quickly and aggressively to ensure that the settlement monies are apportioned fairly and disbursed timely to ensure that all artists, including AFTRA members get their rightful share," according to said Randall Himes, ...
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Help Celebrate Pianist Willie Pickens' 80th Birthday at the Hyde Park Union Church on April 15
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Solitaire Miles
Can you believe it? Willie Pickens is 80 and he is still playing like crazy! Nobody believes it, but it's true... Willie is turning 80 this month and Chicago has some very special events planned for him. Willie has been a working pianist on the scene in Chicago and around the world for the past 60 years. He has worked with great band leaders including Elvin Jones, Eddie Harris, Bunkie Green, Quincy Jones, Clark Terry, Louis Bellson and Red Holoway ...
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