Cultura Voice

  MARIO HOFFMAN & MANOUCHKA MEYER Album “MANOUCHKA” Gypsy time… Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Cd Digital – Cd Physical                                                             GYPSY TIME….                                       Concert in l'Alhambra - Paris on 1st April 2022 A journey into the eternal Gypsy soul through words and music. A journey around a known and unknown world. Mario Hoffman: Thanks to his father, from an early age he became acquainted With the chords, the famous guitarist, DJANGO REINHARDT. His mother sings, and he often accompanies her at a very young age On the terraces of the cafes. Mario is a singular artist, self-taught. Today he tells himself that the time has come to sing in the langu...

  Which big-money music catalog will Hipgnosis Songs Fund boss Merck Mercuriadis add next to his company’s $2.2 billion-valued portfolio? The ever-reliable (ahem) Daily Mail rumored this week that Mercuriadis has been in conversations with Noel Gallagher about buying up the Oasis writer’s publishing rights. Gallagher, meanwhile, told the Daily Mirror his song rights will all come back to him by 2025, that he’s happy to flog them for £200 million, and that – rather than give this cash to his children – he’s going to use it to buy a super-yacht and a Learjet and, in his own words, “f*****g have it”. A bit of silliness in a relatively quiet week for the music business? Sure. Either way, Hipgnosis has revealed it’s targeting a new raise of £150 million ($210m) via a fresh share issue on the stock market. It’s also told investors it intends to up its credit facility to make its war chest even larger Hipgnosis is doing so not only to buy beautiful songs, but to compete in an increasingly...