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Aberdeen Creates Unique Wall of Sound with Album 'Held Together'

Aberdeen Creates Unique Wall of Sound with Album 'Held Together'

Source: All About Jazz

With its massive, one-of-a-kind sound, Aberdeen is proud to announce the release of its second album Held Together. It’s Aberdeen’s brand of jazz with pop inflections that contributed to their selection in the U.S. State Department’s American Music Abroad program—in this case a tour to Central Asia—where Aberdeen performed. Held Together includes folk songs from around the world, featuring collaborators the band met while traveling, including Mongolian throat-singer and beatboxer Beatbox Ray and the children's ensemble Ayalguu, featuring traditional Mongolian ...

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Larry Levine "Wall of Sound" Engineer

Larry Levine "Wall of Sound" Engineer

Source: All About Jazz

Larry Levine: Gold Star recording engineer who played a crucial role in the building of Phil Spector's “Wall of Sound"

Larry Levine, the recording engineer who helped translate the grandiose sonic vision of record producer Phil Spector into some of the biggest-selling and most influential recordings of the rock era, died Thursday, on his 80th birthday, at his home in Encino.

The announcement by his wife, Lyn, gave no cause of death, but he had suffered from emphysema and heart ...

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