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Nexflix Minnal Murali won Best Direction India Asian Academy Awards.Music Press Asia
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Netflix, VIU, Disney, Warner Bros. & Discovery: Big Winners at Asian Academy Creative Awards

Original Press Release SINGAPORE – The Asian Academy Creative Awards announced its winners for the National Round of judging today with Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Asian powerhouse streamer VIU all locked in a battle for top honours. They were joined at the top of the win tally by Singapore’s Mediacorp who garnered 20 National Wins and a further 9 via production partners. Under the Asian Academy’s unique judging system, local judges choose the best programmes or artists to represent their nation or territory at December’s Grand Awards and…

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Anthony Hopkins release NFT Collection Eternality. Music Press Asia
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Anthony Hopkins Launches NFT Collection

Sir Anthony Hopkins, the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Oscar-winning icon of film, television, and theater, has partnered with Web3 media company Orange Comet for an upcoming series of NFT drops showcasing his work as an artist. “NFTs are a blank canvas to create art in a new format,” Hopkins told reporters during an online press conference. According to Hopkins, 84,…

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Anak Datu by Rody Vera at Tanghalang Pilipino. Music Press Asia
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New Play Coming to Cultural Center of the Philippines

Catch Rody Vera’s ANAK DATU at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ new black box theater, Tanghalang Ignacio Gimenez, Cultural Center of the Philippines. This coming September, watch out for Tanghalang Pilipino’s multi-universe, post-pandemic production that banners PEACE through the intertwining of conflicts in a folk tale, a stark social realism, and an all-too-familiar family drama. This inaugural production in…

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Sigur Ros guitarist WORLD TOUR 2022. Music Press Asia
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Ambient Rock Quartet Sigur Ros WORLD TOUR Arrives in Asia

While the return of the world’s biggest and best bands to our shores marks an end to the worst ravages of the pandemic, an all-too-familiar sense of dread and foreboding laces Sigur Ros’ Australia’s concerts. In the reviews that came from the Australian press, there is even something of the locked down, streaming-from-the-artists’-living-room-to-yours intimacy to the show – which is quite…

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HKAF50 ArtTech Laila project. Music Press Asia
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Hong Kong Arts Festival 100 Features Laila

Exactly a month before Laila was due to meet Hong Kong audiences in February, the technical team from Finland were undergoing quarantine in the city, and the first batch of tickets were quickly snapped up. But, unfortunately, the fifth wave of the pandemic caused an unforeseen delay to this eagerly anticipated programme. To keep Laila and Hong Kong audiences connected,…

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Joe Hisaishi with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2020. Music Press Asia
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LIVE With Joe Hisaishi & Hayao Miyazaki

Beginning this weekend, Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert will be performing Music From Films of Hayao Miyazaki at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. The four-night concert if sold out will see a total of over 3,000 attendees enjoy music composed for the films made by Hayao Miyazaki. Hisaishi is now a Japanese composer and musical director known for…

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Jay Chou Release new song Greatest Works of art. Music Press Asia
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Jay Chou Finds New Love In Art

Jay Chou has found his most recent muse in the art world. Having seen him auctioned and exhibited with Hong Kong’s fine art auction house Sotheby’s, it came as no surprise that his next album is spotlighting the art world. And what’s more important than the art world in Paris, you may ask? The new single’s music video ‘Greatest Works…

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Qixi Festival Love Song Playlist. Music Press Asia
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Qixi Festival: Chinese Love Songs Of All Times

This year, the festival falls on the 4 August, which is on the 7th day of the 7th Chinese lunar month. With around 1,5 billion Chinese on the planet Earth, it can be quite a mushy day. Lovers and sweethearts benefit today no matter how creative their loved ones get. But chocolates and flowers would do. The Qixi Festival (Double…

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Ennio Morricone Segreto Album 2020 cover. Music Press Asia
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A Dark & Psychedelic Album: Morricone Segreto

For the feature of the month of August, we are highlighting a short documentary released by CAM Sugar & Decca Records. As we tap our feet impatiently waiting for Morricone’s World Tour to arrive at our shores later this year, let’s start with a brief documentary on what some of his earliest professional counterparts have to say about this composition…

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Wei Luo confirms 10 tour dates in China 2022. Music Press Asia
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China To See Pianist Tour Rachmaninoff

Wei Luo – signed to Decca Gold – is recognised as a significant pianist of her generation. Having already performed on many of the world’s leading stages in her young career, Wei Luo’s self-titled debut album released in 2019 was a momentous event. It is no surprise that Universal Music Group’s Decca Gold was the label to work with. The…

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