New York, NY (Top40 Charts) BEYOND MUSIC Volume One / has reached #1 on iTunes' World
Music Chart in the United States and is Top 10 internationally in a number of other countries. The first-of-its-kind music project brought together 23 artists from 17 countries, who met and networked through a new online collaborative platform (https://beyondmusic.org) to create a definitive global music album, overseen and produced by 2019 GRAMMY Producer of the Year nominee Larry Klein.
Recently, the project's producer Larry Klein appeared on Southern California's KPFK, as well as KPCC's The Frame to discuss working on the project. Read more at GRAMMY.com and Forbes as well.
Go behind the scenes with all of the musicians and team that brought these songs to life: https://youtu.be/9KaSX8wWGn8
And learn more about the BEYOND MUSIC PROJECT, the artists involved, and the songs here: https://www.beyondmusicproject.org/
The songs on Same Sky were first created via BEYOND MUSIC's online platform (https://beyondmusic.org) that invited musicians from all over the world to collaborate virtually and to go beyond their borders. Behind BEYOND MUSIC is the non-profit
Swiss BEYOND FOUNDATION, which aims to bring together cultures of the world through music in order to foster mutual dialogue and respect. It was co-founded by Tina Turner. BEYOND MUSIC received 110 song submissions from artists from 48 countries and 55 genres, and selected 10 winning songs to be recorded for the first volume of what will be an on-going project. The 23 artists behind the 10 winning songs were flown to the famous Studios La Fabrique in southern France, and over the course of 12 days brought their songs to live with Klein, a world-class house band, and world-class engineers.
Listen to the album in full here: https://lnk.site/beyond-music-volume-one-same-sky
Artistic
Director and producer of the album Larry Klein assembled the core band, of all-star musicians session players including Dean Parks, Ed Harcourt, Adrian Utley, Manu Katché, Clive Deamer and Dan Lutz, who have collectively played with Sting,
Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Patti Smith, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Radiohead,
Portishead and beyond.
BEYOND MUSIC Volume One Same Sky featured artists:
Abdullah Alhussainy, Egypt
Beshar Al Azzawi, Iraq
Mariana Baraj, Argentina
Andreas Bernitt, Denmark
Heather Bond, USA
Moshe Elmakias, Israel
Danielle Eog Makedah, Cameroon
Brice Essomba, Cameroon
Sandro Friedrich, Switzerland
Sheryl Gambo, Congo
Jivan Gasparyan Jr., Armenia
Eduard Glumov, Kazakhstan
Mor Karbasi, Israel
Max Keller Music, Switzerland
Elly Kellner, Netherlands
John Lumpkin II, USA
Syssi Mananga, Belgium/Congo
Kane Mathis, USA
Kate Northrop, USA/Switzerland
Bijayashree Samal, India
Sasha Shlain, Russia
Ingrid White, Cameroon
Msafiri Zawose, Tanzania
About BEYOND MUSIC:
BEYOND MUSIC, www.beyondmusic.org, is an online platform that invites professional musicians, singers, composers and songwriters from all genres to collaborate worldwide. Cross-genre, cross-culture, cross-generation. The platform is financed by the
Swiss BEYOND FOUNDATION, established in 2007 by the couple Regula and Beat Curti, a registered non-profit organization, supporting projects that unite cultures through music in order to foster cross-cultural understanding, awareness, dialog and respect. With their projects, the BEYOND FOUNDATION wants musicians from all over the world to inspire each other, to work together and to create a worldwide team spirit of togetherness and compassion.
