Cultura Voice

  GRAND FRERE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) WISDOM TOOTH (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 日光之 下 （原創電影原聲帶） Ri Guang Zhi Xia Director Liang Ming Cast Lyu Xingchen, Wu Xiaoliang… Music composed by Ding Ke 丁可 Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd   BRIGHT FUTURE COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM 2020 44 TH HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM BEST DIRECTOR – BEST ACTOR PRIZE Young adult Guxi lives with her half-brother Guliang in a somewhat depressing fishing village. They have a good life, almost like a couple. She is a maid at a hotel, he fishes. When an oil spill threatens heir income, a friend gets him work and he meets the attractive Qinghang. She brings fun, adventure and a hint of luxury to their lives, but also causes unrest. Her father is a mob boss and Guxi has trouble with budding romance. Things come to head when a fisherman dies at sea under suspicious circumstances.   Grand Frere on Apple Music Debut filmmaker Liang Ming fluidly...

  Spotify rival Gaana, which announced in August that it had surpassed 185m monthly active users, has just raised 3.75bn INR (approximately $51m) in debt to help finance its growth. The money comes from two existing Gaana investors – Tencent, and the platform’s majority-owner Times Internet – in the form of optionally converted debentures at a price of 63,761.93 INR (around $870) per share. The majority of this cash (approximately $41m) has been handed over by Tencent’s European entity, Tencent Cloud BV, with the remaining amount coming from Times Internet. According to financial filings in India, the move has seen Tencent’s ownership stake in Gaana increase to 34.44%, while diluting Times Internet’s stake to 60.18%. The third stakeholder in Gaana, ESOP Pool, owns 5.38%. Entrackr estimates that, as a result of the new debt raise, Gaana is now worth around $530m – with Times Internet’s stake worth $319m, and Tencent’s stake worth $182.5m. Racism Again on Music Apple Tencent initiall...

  L’OISEAU DE PARADIS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director Paul Manate Music composed by Olivier Mellano Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Distribution Digitale The Orchard Distribution Physique Sergent Major Company Ltd CD Digital & CD Physical Limited Edition A young Métis, amoral and seductive parliamentary assistant, Teivi once saw Yasmina, a distant Maori cousin with mystical powers, who made a strange prediction. But in the grip of hallucinatory malaise and entangled in a real estate corruption case, Teivi loses his footing. Convinced that Yasmina can cure him, he goes in search of him and walks to the phantasmagorical peninsula of Tahiti. The Bird of Paradise tells of an intimate and legendary Tahiti, Métis and alive. A mystical and contemporary tale about the most beautiful of lost paradises.   https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1512114211 "In composing this soundtrack, I wanted to invent a traditional fantasy music that quickly became that of na...

  Republican Senator Josh Hawley has written to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella seeking clarification on the company’s plans regarding its potential acquisition of TikTok. Hawley used the letter to encourage Microsoft to “sever all links” with TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, if an acquisition were to go through. “Let me be clear,” he writes. “Any resolution of the TikTok investigation that fails to sever all links between TikTok and potential proxies for the Chinese Communist Party, including but not limited to ByteDance, is unacceptable.” Microsoft confirmed on Sunday (August 2) that it was in talks with ByteDance and that the companies had notified the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) about their discussions, which potentially involve the purchase TikTok’s operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Microsoft added that it “may invite other American investors to participate on a minority basis in this purchase”. https://...

MOSQUITO (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director Joao Nuno Pinto Music composed by Justin Melland Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd A Portuguese soldier gets lost in the African jungle, in 1917… Music Soundtrack on CD Digital & Vinyl Collector Limited Edition STATEMENT FROM JUSTIN MELLAND: Working with Joao on MOSQUITO has been the greatest highlight of my career.  He is a master auteur and knew exactly what to say to me to inspire my finest work.  The palette I was presented with when starting to work on this amazing film was so rich and inspired, the score nearly wrote itself.  I formulated my analog based, electronic pallet the same way I would an acoustic orchestra.  I thought of the structures like orchestral music, and I blended the textures much the same way I do when writing for more traditional forces.  The thing I love about writing scores, is the process of diving deeply into an instrument to find i...

India’s government has blocked Bytedance’s TikTok and Tencent Music Entertainment’s QQ Music from devices in the country, as it officially bans 59 Chinese-owned mobile apps. Other apps now banned in India, per a government announcement today (June 29) include Baidu’s Baidu Map and Alibaba’s UC Browser, in addition to social video app Kwai and filesharing app ShareIt. India’s Ministry of Information Technology claims that the blocked apps are “prejudicial to [the] sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”. Relations between India and China worsened earlier this month, after 20 Indian soldiers were killed on the disputed Himalayan border with China. The Indian army claimed that these deaths were the result of a “violent face-off” with Chinese soldiers. In April, data monitor SensorTower reported that TikTok had surpassed 2 billion downloads worldwide. Its data suggested that India had been the biggest driver of this growth, with 6...

MASAE GIMBAYASHI – Album « Je te veux » Classic variations Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Distribution Sergent Major Company Ltd – The Orchard “In this album improvisation is integrated between Satie and Gershwin, a sign of her unique musicality cultivated in jazz. The music of the past and its "now" light up like a mirror. The selection of music, and of course the performance itself are perfect. The excellent quality of the recording that captures the sound of the piano undoubtedly increases its value. ”- Shin-ichi Numabé music critic, Japan Masae Gimbayashi - Album Je te veux - on Apple Music Masaé GImbayashi Masaé performs in Europe and Japan, USA, invited to the Festivals such as Normandy Impressionist, Albert Roussel Festival, Bray Norman jazz festival, 150th anniversary of Franco-Japanese friendships, 150th opening of the port of Yokohama, Festival des Bell towers... Winner of national and international competitions, student of Jay Gottlieb and...