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2007 Billboard Latin Music Awards took place with star-studed flair and big wins in Miami, Florida on April 26.
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In the new millennium, degrees of separation have narrowed partly due to fluid global communication. Unlike Stanley Milgram's phrase "Six Degrees of Separation" often the actual degrees are much closer than you might think. At studioexpresso we connect artists and producers and help promote emerging artists. Through this website, we invite you to join our discussion, discover new emerging artists, and network with each other. Thanks for reading.
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Dave Brubeck (above) was recording in Studio A with producer Russell Gloyd and engineer Jack Renner where also Boz Scaggs (right) was recording with producer Gil Goldstein and engineer Jay Newland. Music was arranged and produced by Gild Goldstein for Boz Scaggs' upcoming release scheduled for September. Celine Dion was back recording in Studio C with engineer / producer Humberto Gatica assisted by Anthony Ruotolo. Composer / producer David Byrne was recording in Studio C with engineer Pat Dillet, assisted by Brian Montgomery. The Roots with Fallout Boy's Patrick Stumpf was recording in Studio C with engineer Russ Elevado. The Roots produced the session. The assistant engineer was Justin Gerrish. Star City's
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How do you enhance a world-class facility? For Jeff Glixman, executive vice president of StarCity Recording Company in Bethlehem, PA, the answer was by converting the studio’s existing and underutilized theater room into a performance stage controlled by an SSL Axiom MT Plus (previously owned by producer Mutt Lange who used the console to record Shania Twain’s double-album) to be used for recording tracks, artist showcases, web casts and rehearsals. Constructed from wood and natural products per designer Martin Pilchner, the 28’ x 12’ stage offers greater flexibility to StarCity Recording and the musicians using the facility. The Stage's first recording session: Simone, daughter of legendary singer and songwriter Nina Simone, who begins tracking songs for a tribute project dedicated to her mother. |
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unique experience to see an artist's work within the context of
its creation. The Artwalk is an opportunity to purchase work directly
from the artist and see what is coming up in the LA art scene. Artists
are on hand to answer questions, and it is a rare treat to see new
works in progress in addition to studies and finished pieces. Named
for its' location on Santa Fe Avenue, the colony houses 57 studio
residences. Once a year, over 40 residents of the colony open their
private studios to the public. Also participating are some nonresident
artists and sponsors providing art-related products. You may have
noticed exquisite photos of architect, Isabelle Ulrich chronicling
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Telarc recording engineer Michael Bishop's rare blend of technical aptitude and musical intuition earned him his sixth Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical. Although the Academy recognized his recording of conductor Paavo Järvi and the Cincinnati Symphony's performances of Elgar's "Enigma Variations" and Britten's "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" and "Four Sea Interludes" for the Grammy, anyone who has listened carefully to his work will realize that this is but one gem among many. A reflective and unduly modest craftsperson, Bishop recognizes the importance of his tools and has slowly bzuilt a collection of truly superb equipment that works in consonance. "Almost every classical piece I engineer goes direct to stereo and direct to surround," he said. "So when I record, I'm making decisions that directly impact the final master. There's no second guessing and no safety net. Every piece of equipment in the chain is critical. The tools that I use are like ingredients in a time-tested recipe- they work very well together." Since the mixes are committed to the hard drive at the time of recording, Bishop's ability to hear every fine distinction and shade of timbre is paramount. Whether at home in Cleveland or on the road, he relies on five ATC 150 midfield monitors. The highest of the high-end speakers, ATC 150s are often found in mastering studios. However, Bishop reasons that the qualities that make them ideal in a mastering studio also make them ideal in critical direct recording. "The extreme resolution of the ATC 150s reveals the slightest shift in mic position or the subtle effects of changing atmospheric conditions," he explained. "At the same time, they're very musical and fun to listen to, even after long hours of tracking." Since a single ATC 150 weighs nearly 200 pounds, the fact that all five travel with him says something about their indispensability. "Stage crews are seldom happy to see us pack in with half a ton of speakers," he laughed, "but that's what I need to have to do my job properly." In addition to revealing the nuance and magic of a performance, Bishop's guiding philosophy is to capture spatially engaging, three-dimensional sound. "The last thing I want is an orchestra plastered against the front speakers with ambient rattling around in the rear," he laughed. "I need a good bridge between the front and the rear channels, a three dimensional image that places the listener in the center of a very real experience." Consistent with this goal, his stereo signal originates with a Neumann KU 100 binaural dummy head, and his surround signal originates with a set of strategically-placed Sennheiser MKH-series condenser microphones and a Royer SF-24 stereo ribbon microphone. As might be expected, Bishop keeps his signal chain short and minimal. He uses the same Upstate Audio custom mic preamps that are currently being used by Al Schmitt, Chuck Ainlay, and a few others. From the preamps on stage, the signals enter a "heavily modified" Studer 962 via the insert returns. Custom busses allow him to mix for stereo and surround simultaneously. Both masters are recorded on a Sonoma DSD workstation with EMM Labs DSD converters. Since Bishop uses no spot microphones, a crucial component of his successfully engineered recordings is the feedback that he gives to the conductor. "The conductor is entirely responsible for the balance between instruments," he explained. "For the Grammy project, Paavo never questioned what he was hearing on the ATC 150s. He came in after the first take, listened for changes he wanted to make, and went back out and delivered on those changes. That sort of beneficial feedback would be impossible if the monitors colored the recording. Thus, the ATC 150s benefit everyone who I'm collaborating with in ways that are much deeper than most people appreciate."
The summer of
2006 saw the studio's fourth incarnation in a completely new building
created by celebrated designer Martin Pilchner of Pilchner Schoustal
International. The control room centers on a Pro Tools HD Accel
system with an Icon-D Control surface and is brought to life by
five soffit-mounted Acoustic Transducer Company (ATC) 150ASL full-range
loudspeakers and an ATC Sub1/15Pro subwoofer. ATC's drivers are manufactured in-house to exacting tolerances and are legendary for their many design innovations, such as the innovative SL magnet system and the company's renowned Soft Dome mid-range driver, which achieves exceptionally broad and even dispersion to produce a flat response anywhere in the room. Situated in Aston Down in rural Gloucestershire, England, ATC was established in London in 1974 by acoustics engineer and musician, Bill Woodman. For more info
on ATC
Loudspeakers (UK) contact Brad
Lunde at www.lasvegasproaudio.com
or Phone (702) 307-2700 TransAudio has quickly become the premier US importer/distributor for high-end audio with a product line to include Accusound, A-Designs (USA) AEA ribbon microphones (USA), ADT Toolkit, AEA, ATC Loudspeakers (UK), Brauner microphones(Germany), Drawmer (UK), Geoffrey Daking & Co. (USA), Enhanced Audio (Ireland), George Massenburg Labs (GML) (USA), Heil Sound (USA); Mercury Audio (USA) Mission Audio (UK) Phoenix Audio (UK), PAULY Superscreens(Germany), SABRA SOM(Brazil), Soundelux (USA), SoundField Microphones (UK), Z-Systems (USA) and Weiss Engineering (Switzerland) and Z Systems (USA).
Solid State
Logic X-Rack A Winner In Summing Mixer Shootout In an effort to improve mixes in the digital audio workstation realm, film and TV composer/producer Brian Adler and studio tech/engineer John Hartman have conducted an exhaustive, controlled comparison of leading summing mixers. Adler, owner of film, TV and music credits including The ’60s, Twice Upon a Time and Tapeheads, reports that among the seven most prominent products surveyed, Solid State Logic’s X-Rack, from its acclaimed XLogic product range, was the clear winner. 
"I embarked on this comparison because I'm just not happy with in-the-box mixing," says Adler, who came to Los Angeles as a signed singer/songwriter and has written songs performed by Smokey Robinson, Cheap Trick, Sam Moore and Junior Walker. "I'm not happy with digital, to a large degree; I'm missing so much of analog. But I've been a Pro Tools user forever. "I make most of my living in film and TV production now; record production is secondary. You have to move so quickly in TV and film, and make so many revisions, that you really have to work on a digital audio workstation. But while great digital mixes are dazzling left to right, they are two-dimensional. I've always missed the three-dimensional sound that is inherent in analog, along with better natural compression, punch and a cohesive sheen over the top of the whole thing. "I started
having conversations with trusted mix engineers," Adler continues.
"Some said that there is a sonic 'bottleneck' or logjam at
the summing stage that affects things like panning and image, which
is why so many audio professionals are turning to summing mixers." "To our surprise, they were exactly the same, in the same order, and SSL is clearly the leader. The X-Rack has provided the best depth, and has a discrete quality. The separation is fantastic-you can really hear the instruments speak and sustain remarkably. The SSL sounds wider, deeper, tighter, punchier and has more 'wow' factor than the others. What's most impressive is that it sounds like a big SSL console. Wow!" Though the comparison focused primarily on the respective products' summing performance, Adler and Hartman also tracked with the X-Rack's Mic Amp, EQ and Dynamics modules, "and we are very impressed with those as well," Adler says. "As a matter of fact, we're trying that against other good tube and Class A products. The X-Rack is a really magnificent box." The X-Rack is a modular rack system that incorporates a unique Total Recall® capability. Featuring the same SuperAnalogue™ processing as the XL 9000 K Series console, the X-Rack now boasts six optional modules: Eight Input Summing Module, Four Channel Input, Master Bus, Mic Amp, Channel EQ and the original Dynamics module. This combination now makes it possible to configure X-Rack as a standalone mixer and analog summing system, or as a standalone processing solution for studio and live applications or working with the flexible inserts of an AWS 900+ Analogue Workstation System to provide a complete "SSL" channel processing solution for the console. Solid State
Logic is the world's leading manufacturer of analogue and digital
audio consoles and provider of creative tools for film, audio, video
and broadcast professionals. SSL's product range includes the C100,
C200 & C300 Digital Consoles, Duality, the large format analogue
console with integral DAW control, AWS 900+ Analogue Workstation
System, the XLogic range of rack processors & I/O, the Duende
DSP engine for workstation users and the Soundscape Audio Workstation
product line. For more information about our award-winning products,
please visit: www.solid-state-logic.com
This year's NAB was strong with 108,000 registered attendees. HD and numberous studio tools were in the headlines. Previewed at NAB in 2006, Solid State Logic's MediaWAN project has been under development for three years. Collectively, the team has developed products that have won three Emmys® and an Oscar® in this field. More recently Network News Service (NNS) chose SSL's Mediawan Gravity System for joint organization benefits that links NNS' databases for news and satellite operations and allows third-party edit systems to share resources on a closed network.
NNS is owned
by ABC, CBS, and Fox News Channel and provides distribution services
for news content to more than 500 affiliate stations nationwide.
Solid State Logic exhibited the significantly expanded C100 Digital
Broadcast Console product portfolio at NAB 2007, April 16-19 at
the Las Vegas Convention Center. Doubled Channel Count, Increased
Processing Power, New Slimline Console, New Centuri HD-S Processor
Among Updated Features of HD Series. The acclaimed C100 console
has evolved to become the C100 HD with new Version 4.0 software
that delivers an enhanced feature set and a significant boost in
processing power. The C100 HD console is joined by the new C100
HD-S, a smaller form factor console designed for space limited applications.
The new C100 HD range is further enhanced by the addition of a new
smaller front loading Processor option the Centuri HD-S. Solid State
Logic will exhibit its new C Series range at NAB 2007, April 16-19
at the Las Vegas Convention Center Solid State Logic is the world's leading manufacturer of analogue and digital audio consoles and provider of creative tools for film, audio, video and broadcast professionals. SSL's product range includes the C100, C200 & C300 Digital Consoles, Duality, the large format analogue console with integral DAW control, AWS 900+ Analogue Workstation System, the XLogic range of rack processors & I/O, the Duende DSP engine for workstation users and the Soundscape Audio Workstation product line. For more information about our award-winning products, please visit: www.solid-state-logic.com. Studio Suite
from AlterMedia (booth # SL10226 at NAB) is shipping SS8, a ground-up
rebuild of their leading studio management software. This major
new release tackles the complex organizational requirements of today's
production facilities with a slew of new features, better security,
and integration with other software, including QuickBooks, iCal,
Pro Tools, FinalCut, and more. Studio Suite 8 manages all kinds
of media production: Audio, Video, Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production,
Animation, Graphics, Film, TV, Radio, DVD, Internet, Games, Duplication,
Mastering, Rentals, etc. Studio Suite 8 manages everything - schedules,
contacts, communications, projects, inventories, libraries, labels,
invoices and more. It is user-customizable, relational, and networkable
across Mac/PC platforms. Pricing is $749 for the initial License,
and $449 for each additional networked workstation. Upgrade prices
are available. These prices include FileMaker Pro 8.5, which is
required. Bundles including FileMaker Server are also available.
More details, a downloadable trial version, and a video demo, are
available from http://www.studiosuite.com.
or by calling 800.450.5740 (outside the US and Canada call 1.818.752.3900).
An international
bass legend, Anthony Jackson has performed on over 500 albums, many
of which have become classics and gold or platinum recordings. Harper-Ferrari
introduce the release of Bass VI- The Anthony Jackson Contrabass
Guitar Library. Featuring definitive recorded performances by the
internationally acclaimed bassist Anthony Jackson, the library contains
the largest, most powerful bass palette ever commercially offered
to the industry. The 37 Gigabyte (10 DVD) collection includes Open
and Flat Pick Attacks, Harmonics, and Palm Mute articulations using
every note over the entire six string range of the instrument. State-of-the-art
components were used during every phase of the production, with
both direct and live versions of each articulation included. Five
velocities, multiple versions of every note, and switchable string
and fret positions (when using the unique Mod Wheel program), offer
the user flexibility, subtly, and realism in every production. Another
powerful feature the user will discover is the ability of playing
chords in the standard guitar range. The direct and live programs
can be used individually or in unlimited combinations to produce
an astounding range of sound: from thunderous lows to ethereal highs.
From Rap, Rock, and Funk to Film, Pop, and Jazz, The Anthony Jackson
Contrabass Guitar Library delivers the fundamentals in a one-of-a-kind
collection
Get The Silver
Sound Arguably the world's finest cabling manufacturer, Accusound's cables use hybrid, silver-plated copper conductors and silver compound solder to reproduce the purest sounds from every piece of gear. Every possible electro-magnetic imperfection has been hunted down and eliminated through clever design, carefully selected materials, a proprietary winding technique and fanatical attention to detail. As a result, Accusound cables boast phase shift and distortion that is unmeasurable between 0 and 200kHz. It may come as a surprise that even though they sound better, Accusound's cables cost almost half as much as other silver cable, a happy consequence of Accusound's reliance on word of mouth instead of wasted marketing dollars. Like the other brands distributed by Las Vegas Pro Audio, Accusound will benefit from the truthful representation and continuous promotion. It seems only fitting that the world's most advanced silver cable manufacturer should be represented by the Silver State's only audio distributor! "Our mission is to find new companies that have an edge, a fundamental advantage over the competition; companies that are driven by an owner who has a unique mission," commented Brad Lunde, president of TransAudio Group, the parent company of Las Vegas Pro Audio. "Accusound certainly meets that high standard. Their cables are built right, convey noticeably greater fidelity, yet are reasonably priced. On top of that, they build everything in the USA using strict testing protocols and stand behind their work with an impressive lifetime warranty. Accusound is the right cable company to come forward in the US market after studying everything available."
For more info
on Accusound
contact Brad
Lunde at http://www.transaudiogroup.com/
or TransAudio has quickly become the premier US importer/distributor for high-end audio with a product line to include Accusound , A-Designs (USA) AEA ribbon microphones (USA), ADT Toolkit, AEA, ATC Loudspeakers (UK), Brauner microphones(Germany), Drawmer (UK), Geoffrey Daking & Co. (USA), Enhanced Audio (Ireland), George Massenburg Labs (GML) (USA), Heil Sound (USA); Mercury Audio (USA) Mission Audio (UK) Phoenix Audio (UK), PAULY Superscreens(Germany), SABRA SOM(Brazil), Soundelux (USA), SoundField Microphones (UK), Z-Systems (USA) and Weiss Engineering (Switzerland) and Z Systems (USA).
The Museum of Television and Radio (MTR), which has locations in Midtown Manhattan and Beverly Hills, is upgrading its Ralph Guild Radio Studios with the assistance of Geoff Daking and Dave Thibodeau of DakingPlus. The company is donating Daking audio equipment for use in the two radio studios, while the company principals are lending their design expertise to the renovation project, working alongside original benefactor, Ralph Guild of Interep, Norm Pattiz of Westwood One, with Doug Warner, MTR's director of engineering, acting as project manager. Daking and Thibodeau are sourcing new audio equipment to bring the studios up to date with current technology. The museum's New York building was originally completed in 1991 and the Beverly Hills branch in 1996. "We're going to give them a Daking Mic-Pre IV, two Mic-Pre/EQs and two FET Compressor/Limiters," Daking reports. A Sierra Audio Systems digital audio mixing console has been selected for both studios and Daking and Thibodeau are working with the manufacturer to provide total integration of the Daking Mic-Pre IV with the system. "Dave and I have a company called DakingPlus, the digitally-controlled side of the company," Daking explains. "We're developing a product hand-in-hand with SAS, taking the Mic-Pre IV and making it remote controlled." Thibodeau elaborates,
"SAS does not offer a mic preamp for their console. The fully digital
audio setup at the radio studios will allow fast changeovers from
one operator or program to the next. "It's a fabulous system,
the way SAS has set it up. It can address any of the Mic-Pre IV
settings on the front panel, so they'll be able to change settings
from one user to another, or show to show. They'll just click one
button and everything is set, with the equipment routed where it
needs to be routed," "Although the price point may not necessarily meet the budget of every radio station," continues Thibodeau, "the new digitally controlled DakingPlus product offers a lot of potential. It's a transformer input, transformer output design that is particularly well suited to driving tougher loads. If they're doing anything with mic pres that need to be very far away, it's a perfect solution." The multi-use rooms, which will continue to host guest radio stations and operators for live broadcasts and will also offer editing functionality, will additionally be outfitted with a small Digidesign Pro Tools system, Telos telephone hybrids, CD players and 360 Systems digicart machines. Bob Heil of Heil Microphones is supplying his popular model PR40 radio microphone as well as mic stands for the rooms. Daking and Thibodeau will also oversee the expansion and relocation of the radio studio at the MTR's Beverly Hills branch to a street-side position. "It's going to be like the old 'Today Show,' with a window onto the street," explains Daking, who was involved in the original radio studio design and equipment choices at the two locations. The design of the studio at the New York branch will remain largely unchanged, he says. The Beverly Hills location will additionally include video equipment. Norman Pattiz of broadcaster Westwood One is overseeing that part of the project, according to Daking. The renovation is being sponsored by Ralph Guild, who is head of Interep, the country's largest independent national sales and marketing organization specializing in radio, the Internet and new media. Guild is a broadcast industry hall of fame inductee and the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2001 Gold Medal from the International Radio and Television Society. He is also on MTR's board of directors. The MTR, formerly known as the Museum of Broadcasting, maintains a duplicate archive of over 120,000 television and radio programs and advertisements at both of its locations. The collection covers nearly 90 years of broadcast history from around the world and encompasses all genres. For more info on Geoffrey Daking & Co. call Brad Lunde at (702) 307-2700 Las Vegas Pro Audio (www.lasvegasproaudio.com) a division of TransAudio Group, the exclusive U.S.source for Accusound, ATC studio monitors(UK), Accusound Silver Audio Cables, Digital Audio Denmark AD/DA DXD/DSD converters, Daking electronics, Enhanced Audio mic mounts, and Pauly Superscreen pop-filters. The goal of LasVegasProAudio.com is to provide unique equipment, useful information and long term support. TransAudio has quickly become the premier US importer/distributor for high-end audio with a product line to include , A-Designs (USA) AEA ribbon microphones (USA), ADT Toolkit, AEA, ATC Loudspeakers (UK), Brauner microphones(Germany), Drawmer (UK), Geoffrey Daking & Co. (USA), Enhanced Audio (Ireland), George Massenburg Labs (GML) (USA), Heil Sound (USA); Mercury Audio (USA) Mission Audio (UK) Phoenix Audio (UK), PAULY Superscreens(Germany), SABRA SOM(Brazil), Soundelux (USA), SoundField Microphones (UK), Z-Systems (USA) and Weiss Engineering (Switzerland) and Z Systems (USA).
It was announced earlier this month that the new Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be 26-year-old, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel. His five-year contract will start with the 2009/10 season (actual start date is September 21, 2009), and he will be Music Director Designate during the 2008/09 season. In his first season as MD (2009/10), he will conduct 10 weeks, plus summer concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. Dudamel is the MD of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, and Principal Conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in Sweden. His symphonic guest engagements take him to the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, among others, with operatic engagements at La Scala and Berlin Staastsoper. "Gustavo 's remarkable talent, intelligence and energy are the absolute right match for the orchestra and Los Angeles. While I intend to continue my relationship with the LA PHIL, I am peaceful and joyous about the artist to whom we will pass the baton," says Salonen who plans to dedicate himself more fully to composing. "Deborah Borda commented, "Esa-Pekka Salonen has built an orchestra of the 21st century - vital, of our time and in forward motion... I cannot imagine a person better suited than Gustavo Dudamel to carry on our important work: reaching out to new audiences, championing music of our time and dreaming of what can be," says President Deborah Borda. "I felt a special connection and deep feeling from the players. They are wonderful. I am very honored to be chosen to succeed the great conductor/composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, who has been so warm to me and has given me so much support," says Dudamel. New West
Symphony Discovery Artist Recital & Music For The Kids Gala
Joshua Hong
gave a riveting performance playing violin and piano repertoires
by Prokofiev and Carl Vine at the Lutheran Church in TO last Friday
night with 4 other New
West Symphony Discovery Artist musicians under the direction
of conductor Boris Brott. Hong began studying both violin and piano
in 1996 with Shu-wei Liu and Elinor Martin, respectively. "I
now take private violin lessons regularly with Joyce Osborn and
Alexander Treger, and occasionally with Maurice Sklar. I take piano
lessons regularly with Edward Francis," says Hong, a high school
junior at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica who will be applying
only for music schools. Katrina Bobbs 17 who played works
by JS Bach and Chopin is currently a high school junior in the Young
Artists Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music and studying
with Alvin Chow and Angela Cheng at the Oberlin Conservatory. Most
recently, she was selected toperform the Ravel Piano Concerto with
the Cleveland Orchestra in their Education Series. She has received
1st place in numerous categories of the Southwestern Youth Music
Festival, MTA Baroque Concerto Competition and Emerging Artists
Festival of Southern California. Katrina has spent her summers at
the Aspen Music Festival, Innsbrook Institute and Indiana University
Academy as a scholarship student. Also an accomplished violinist,
Katrina is a student of Paul Kanto and serves as Co-Concertmistress
of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. She plans to attend
a conservatory and make music her career. Other talented musicians
included: Ben-Han Sung on piano, the beautiful Michaela
Shaw on harp and Gary Chan on piano who concluded the
concert with a mezmarizing Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise
, Opus 22 by Chopin. Order tix for Season Finale Friday, May 18,
2007 8:00 pm Oxnard Performing Arts Center and Saturday, May 19,
2007 8:00 pm Countrywide Performing Arts Center at the Thousand
Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Program includes: Antonio
Pompa-Baldi, piano Los Robles Master Chorale ; Master Chorale of
Ventura County Rachmaninov and Prokofiev Concerto No. 2007/08
Season resumes in September. Support Music
Education - Purchase
a raffle tix for $100 before May 20 for a chance to win a MercedesE350
or attend For The Kids Gala at the Regency Club (Brentwood)
on Sat June 9 -- Fine dining, live auction and wonderful music.
For more info call: Carl Schurtz at (310) 694-3550 or visit NewWestAuction.com
Auction
includes celebrity pained and authographed violins by Herb Alpert,
Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson, Melanie Griffith & Antonio Banderas.
Acclaimed Rapper Calls On Memphis Roots
Al
Kapone, one of the originators of the Memphis underground rap
explosion and known as a pioneer of the Dirty South Crunk/Buck style
of Hip-Hop, has been mixing at Ardent Studios with engineer Jason
Latshaw. Kapone, who is a 2006 Critic's Choice Award-winner, previously
mixed material at Ardent for the hit film "Hustle and Flow."
For his new album, with the working title "What About the Music?",
Kapone has been experimenting with a number of different styles,
including Rock, Soul, and R&B. Kapone revealed during sessions
at Ardent that he's interested in incorporating the music of Memphis
in its earlier days into the album, referring to Stax artists and
the unforgettable soul music that came out of the 50's and 60's.
His vision includes a new sound that utilizes the legacy of Elvis,
B.B. King, Al Green and Isaac Hayes with the crunk energy of the
Memphis rap scene developed by Three-6 Mafia, 8Ball & MJG, Yo
Gotti, and Project Pat. The album is expected for Fall release.
The Mutato Muzika scoring team has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for their work on "Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!", the #1 show on Kids WB!. The nominees for children's programming were announced February 7 at the Kidscreen Summit in NYC. The winners are to be honored during the Daytime Emmy Award Ceremony at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on June 15. "Creating great music for children has been one of my primary goals since I began composing for film and television," remarked Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of DEVO and composer for such television shows as Rugrats and Pee Wee's Playhouse, and films such as The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore. "It's very cool to be nominated for all the hard work that Albert, John, Silas and myself have put into this show." "Sid
'n' Susie" Begin Second Album Susanna Hoffs
is famed as lead singer, rhythm guitarist and founding member of
The Bangles. Sidney Matthew Sweet has been a mainstay of the pop
scene since his smash 1991 debut, "Girlfriend." The two
are longtime fans of each others work, performing guest vocals at
each others concerts over the years, and collaborating with comedian
Mike Myers as members of Austin Powers on-screen band Ming Tea in
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Austin Powers in
Goldmember.The duo have purchased a pair of Telefunken
| USA Ela M 251F microphone systems. "I helped Susanna
set up a ProTools studio of her own like mine," explains Sweet.
"For our second album together, we are going back and forth,
so it's genius for us to have the 251 in both studios."
As "Sid
'n' Susie," Sweet and Hoffs explored the classic era of 60s
pop music on their 2006 debut collaboration "Under The Covers."
The intricate yet intimate sound of the record reveals the ease
of the sessions. Recorded entirely at Sweets home facility, Lolina
Green, the album features "The Warmth Of The Sun" by The
Beach Boys, Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl," Pete Townsend's
"The Kids Are Alright," John Phillips "Monday, Monday,"
and The Beatles' "And Your Bird Can Sing." Their second
album for Shout! Factory will explore the pop music of the 70s.
On February
27th arguably the most well-known classical musician in modern history
joined the New World Symphony at the Carnival Center's Knight Concert
Hall in Miami, Florida to perform works by the Russian composer
Shostakovich. To thunderous applause, cellist Yo-Yo Ma graced the
newly-renovated stage under the leadership of conductor Michael
Tilson Thomas. NWS serves as an academy that smoothly bridges the
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Mariano
Barba poses backstage with his four awards at the 2007 Billboard
Latin Music Awards in Coral Gables honoring the Latin music artists
with the highest sales and radio airplay as shown on the Billboard
charts from Feb. 11, 06 through Feb. 3, 07. Barba won awards for
Hot Latin Song of the Year, Regional Mexican Album of the Year,
Regional Mexican Airplay song of the Year, Male Solo Artist and
Regional Mexican Airplay Song of the Year, New Artist. Mexican
rockers Mana won twice. Teen pop phenomenon RBD took home three
awards, including best tour, while fellow Mexican pop singer Paulina
Rubio opened the show and picked up two awards for her album, "Ananda."
Colombia's Shakira and Haitian-American rapper and producer Wyclef
Jean won best duet for their smash hit, "Hips Don't Lie."
Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Rakim y Ken-Y, took home only one of
seven nominations, for their song "Down." Singer, songwriter
and actor Miguel Bose received the Billboard Lifetime Achievement
award for his roughly 30-year career. Puerto Rican Toby Love won
in both hip-hop and tropical categories. Venezuelan singer Ricardo
Montaner was also honored for his work with disabled children and
those living in poverty across Latin America. Spanish-language soap
star Marlene Favela and singer-actor Carlos Ponce hosted the event
in Coral Gables, just south of downtown Miami. NBC subsidiary Telemundo
aired the show. The
awards cap off the Billboard Latin Music Conference at the Intercontinental
Hotel in downtown Miami -- three days of panels, showcases, schmoozing
and market navel-gazing.
My
Name Is Buddy As as a Slide-Guitarist Ry Cooder played in Captain
Beefheart's Magic Band, and has also accompanied such artists as
Gordon Lightfoot, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Randy Newman,
John Lee Hooker and many others. Cooder
has composed soundtracks for more than twenty films, among them
