Cultura Voice

Karolina Pasierbska – Album Beautiful Creation Emotional Vocal jazz Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Distribution Sergent Major Company Ltd The Orchard Beautiful Creation (descriptive) Beautiful Creation is a melodic jazz album dreamed up by Michael Shepstone and Stephen Ennever both of whom have been involved in many other musical projects. After writing the songs they searched for the right vocalist who could inject the warmth and feeling into the tracks, and after hearing Karolina Pasierbska singing in a club in Munchen they invited her to join the project. Her smooth vocals compliment the songs and the lyrics and add a dreamy feel to songs such as “ Beautiful Creation “ and “Too Good For Me “ Her rendition of “Good Morning Boss” and “Tomorrow Tonight” add a sparkle Whereas in the song “ Human Rights” and “If I Were Her” you can feel the desperation of the lonely heart. “Emotional” is one of the highlights of the album and is sure to secure a lot...

This quote didn’t come from a particular friend of music. It’s from Margaret Thatcher — the free-market-loving British prime minister (1979-1990) who happened to authorize some of the severest cuts in arts funding the UK has ever seen. Still, the point stands. And if you needed further evidence to back it up, the modern music industry has just provided it in abundance. On June 20th, a powerful group of industry organizations — including the three major labels plus publishing groups owned by Universal, Sony and Warner —  inked a “Code of Best Practice”  designed to tackle the blight of “fake streams” in the modern music business. Fake streams, in a nutshell, cover any instance — whether for monetary or industry/charting benefit — whereby one party pays another party to rack up illegitimate plays of an artist’s music. This is often achieved via bots or “stream farms,” where banks of devices all running services like Spotify continually play the music of the paying party...

WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director Robbie Moffat Music composed and performed by Pascal Isnard, William Marx, Leila Macavoy Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Distribution Sergent Major Company Ltd The Orchard SCREENING ON CANNES FESTIVAL Fnalink Walking with Elephants is about the last great herds of elephants in Africa. With a population of barely 350 000 Savanah elephants left, the biggest of the planet’s land animals face extinction within our life time. Half of these elephants during the dry season are densely populated in northern Botswana as they are protected by the government there. However, across the border into Namibia, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe – where many of the elephants return to in the wet season, their future is fraught. In Kenya and Tanzania and South Africa, nearly all of the surviving elephants are enclosed in game reserves and no longer roam the wilderness that once saw them travel up to one hundred mi...

How much does being No.1 on the weekly industry album charts really matter in a streaming world where the concept of an LP ‘sale equivalent’ is as nebulous and debatable as it comes? Literally: how much does it matter? Like, what financial number would you put on it? We might be about to find out. According to the (notoriously tabloid-y) Page Six, one artist who just missed out on a US chart-topping album is planning to hit Billboard with a “monster lawsuit” in retaliation. That artist is DJ Khaled , signed to Sony’s Epic Records. His latest album,  Father Of Asahd , landed at No.2 on the Billboard 200 chart two weeks ago, underneath the No.1 record that week,  Igor , by Tyler, The Creator The breakdown of those albums on that Billboard chart, for the week ending May 23, were as follows:  Igor  was credited with  165,000  weekly equivalent sales, broken down into 74,000 ‘real’ sales (of physical and digital albums), plus 90,...

Lillabox a le plaisir de vous présenter son deuxième album signé chez Plaza Mayor Company Ltd et produit dans son studio à Paris . Après un premier album world music, Lillabox se réinvente en prenant un virage artistique orienté trip hop, tout en conservant la créativité du duo acoustique guitare/violoncelle . Les percussions du premier album " Faidherbe Street ", ont laissé place à un univers électronique puissant, tantôt ambiant, tantôt dynamique accompagné d'une voix féminine profonde et envoûtante... La chanteuse Maïna, soeur du guitariste Alexandre, lui a transmis très jeune sa passion de la musique, et a naturellement rejoint le duo dans son exploration musicale. LillaBox - Album "In the Moment" on Spotify Après quelques répétitions, l'enthousiasme de ce nouveau trio est si fort qu'il décide de collaborer en vue d'un nouveau projet. Cet opus réalisé avec frénésie, plaisir et énergie pendant près de deux ans, a permis...

It’s always an interesting debate within record labels: with all the resources dedicated to ‘frontline’ A&R in the music business how much is new music actually worth versus catalog material – i.e. the stuff that’s already been recorded, and is already popular? Last month we discovered, via the IFPI, that global record company A&R expenditure – the money that goes on signing an act, then recording and mastering their music – has greatly escalated in recent years. According to the data, record labels spent $4.1bn on ‘A&R’ in 2017, significantly more than the equivalent figure in both 2015 ($2.8bn) and 2013 ($2.5bn). This isn’t the only eye-popping stat about A&R to arrive from the record industry of late. An RIAA-backed report, published earlier this year, showed that US-based major labels signed a total of 658 acts in 2017, up 12% on the same figure from 2014. It’s worth pausing on that number for a second: six hundred and fifty eight. It means ...