Cultura Voice

  SHADOW OF THE WOLF (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director Alberto Gelpi Cast; Christopher Lambert, Ettore Belmondo… Original Music by Sandro Di Stefano Dnipro Philharmonic Orchestra – Conductor Sandro Di Stefano Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd   A series of mutilated corpses is upsetting a town in central Italy. Police believe that this is a wolf, but it might not be a wolf as others… SHADOW OF THE WOLF Statement about the OST   Music in Movie, for me, has always had an actor role. I never think of music as such but of an actress I imagine and direct in the Movie. In fact, I feel more a Film Director than a Musician because from music I look for what words don't say. In "Shadow of the wolf", I tried to put a face to this invisible actress and have her act alongside the other actors and actresses. In short, I put her in the cast, giving her an antagonist role. She participates in the dialogues, anticipates and delays emotions, sometimes s...

  Tencent and its majority-owned subsidiary, Tencent Music Entertainment (TME), are facing a potential battering in China as part of an antitrust clampdown by the nation’s regulators. Tencent was investigated a couple of years ago by anti-competitive watchdogs in China for striking exclusive licensing agreements with the three major record companies in the territory. Tencent Music’s previous deals with Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, enabled TME – the owner of China’s largest music streaming services – to license the majors’ music for its own platforms, but also to exclusively sub-license these catalogs to local rivals. However, the anti-competition investigation into Tencent was paused after the firm agreed to strike differently-structured music deals. In TME’s latest licensing agreements with Universal and Warner, each announced in the past eight months, Tencent no longer possesses an exclusive sub-licensing right, allowing these companies to also strike separate di...

  THE SONG OF SCORPIONS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director Anup Singh Music composed by Beatrice Thiriet Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd A story of twisted love, revenge and the redemptive power of a song. A story of twisted love, revenge and the redemptive power of a song. Nooran, carefree and defiantly independent, is a tribal woman leaning the ancient art of healing from her grandmother, a revered scorpion-singer. When Aadam, a camel trader in the Rajasthan desert, hears her sing, he falls desperately in love. But even before they can get to know each other better, Nooran is poisoned by a brutal treachery that sets her on a perilous journey to avenge herself and find her song. The Song of Scorpions on Spotify Statement from Beatrice Thiriet The song of scorpions is my second collaboration with the director Anup SINGH.   He proposed me this magnificent story in which the music is the main actress.    In this scenario the music is redem...

  The world’s biggest music publishing company is no longer called Sony/ATV. It’s now Sony Music Publishing. The re-brand of the US-headquartered pub co sees the Sony Music Publishing name return for the first time in over two decades, complete with a new logo. The move marks 25 years since Sony/ATV was first established in 1995 through a joint venture with Michael Jackson. That merger brought together the original Sony Music Publishing with Jackson’s ATV Music, which the late artist acquired in an astonishingly smart buy for just $47.5m in 1985. (ATV owned the Northern Songs catalog, including the majority of Lennon/McCartney songs written for The Beatles.) A process of modern unification at Sony Music Publishing began in 2016, when Sony acquired the Michael Jackson estate’s 50% share of Sony/ATV for $750m, making it a wholly owned Sony company. In 2018, Sony further consolidated its position at the largest music publisher – and further simplified its structure – via the purchase ...

  AKELARRE (COVEN) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Director Pablo Aguero Music Composed by Aránzazu CALLEJA and Maite ARROITAJAUREGI (MURSEGO) Performed by ALOS QUARTET & Various Artists Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd   GOYA 2021 Nominee   Basque Country, 1609. The men of the region are at sea and Amaia takes part for the first time in the nightly dances in the woods with the other villager girls. She is only 20. At dawn, they are all arrested. 1609, Basque Country (north to Spain). In a land full of pagan legends and ancient traditions, Judge Rostegui belonging the Spanish Inquisition is chosen by king Felipe III to be sent with a notary and a group of soldiers to purify all the region, traveling town by town to burn any woman with signs to be a witch. Obsessed to disclose the secrets of the infamous Sabbat (a theoretical feast where the witches make a ritual not only to summon The Devil, but to promise loyalty and mate with him) and denied to bel...

  Spotify’s share price hit an all-time high on Friday (January 8), rising 7% at the bell on the New York Stock Exchange to end the day at $353.11. This jump translated into a market cap valuation of $66.94bn, according to YCharts. That share price – and that market cap – were both more than three times bigger than Spotify’s value back in mid-March 2020. The lowest point of Spotify’s share price that month came on March 16, when it closed at $117.64 – resulting in a market cap of $21.68bn. Friday’s bump in Spotify’s share price came in the same week that Bank Of America increased its Spotify share price target from $357-per-share to $428. Bofa’s Jessica Reif Cohen raised that share price target while suggesting that Spotify’s Q4 2020 results – announced early next month – are likely to show “sequential improvement in average revenue per user”. Spotify’s current share price (sitting at around $346.80 at the time of publication) is higher than the majority of analysts quoted on eToro...

  THE LIFE AHEAD (La vita davanti a se) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) A Film by Edoardo Ponti With Sophia Loren & Ibrahima Gueye Original Soundtrack Composed by Gabriel Yared Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Plaza Mayor Company Ltd will release a soundtrack album for The Life Ahead – Director Edoardo Ponti, Starring: Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye… Original Music Soundtrack composed by Gabriel Yared. A Holocaust survivor running a daycare business forms an unlikely friendship with a bitter street kid when she takes him in after he robs her. The Life Ahead on Apple Music Gabriel Yared' s short text about the film: “I began my work on The Life Ahead shortly after it was shot, but it was not yet fully edited or completed. Edoardo Ponti (director) came to see me in Paris in December 2019 to discuss what he was after in terms of the music. I watched the film and loved it straight away. It has a gentle sweetness and melancholia, which is very unique. I firstly start...