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Ayumi Hamasaki announced Asian tour for year 2021 and 2022. Music Press Asia
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Avex Reissued Ayumi Hamasaki’s Trance Masterpieces

Available for download and streaming for the first time is Ayumi Hamasaki’s trance remixes by prominent DJs including Moogwai, Ferry Corsten, Armin van Buuren, and Above & Beyond. Shout out to all trance fans out there. The classic Cyber TRANCE series featuring Japanese popular artists Ayumi Hamasaki is back. In September, Cyber TRANCE released the complete edition of ayu trance. And two months after followed up with ‘ayu trance 2’ which is also the complete edition of the tracks from the 2002 release. It even included additional versions, which are…

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Mamak Khadem collaborates with Chris Martin. Music Press Asia
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A Transcendental Tribute To Loss

Iranian singer Mamak Khadem has recently released a new single. Titled ‘Across the Oceans’, the single is a collaboration with Chris Martin (Coldplay), and is released by Six Degrees Records. It is also Khadem’s first song from her upcoming album, titled Remembrance. A work, attributed to her late father, expresses themes of loss and supreme virtue. Khadem’s work singing and…

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Laurent Ballesta named Photographer of the Year 2021. Music Press Asia
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021

Music Press Asia selects three highlights from the winners of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021. The Natural History Museum (NHM), London, has announced the winning images for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 competition. This year, the competition attracted over 50,000 entries from 95 countries. Underwater, and Overall Wildlife Photographer of the YearCreation, by Laurent Ballesta (France). Ballesta…

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Eden: Untamed Planet is now available on Astro. Music Press Asia
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BBC Earth Is Now Available on Astro Malaysia’s Pay TV

BBC Earth, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Studios’ on-demand channels BBC Brit and BBC First have launched on Malaysia’s Astro. BBC Studios has finally extended its relationship with Malaysia’s pay TV giant Astro. Launching together its linear channels BBC Earth and BBC Lifestyle with on-demand channels BBC First and BBC Brit. Astro made BBC Earth and BBC Lifestyle was made available…

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November Recommend World Music. Music Press Asia
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World Music Album Selections November 2021

What makes November this year so special? In the World Music Charts, we’re seeing some spectacular songs and albums charting for very good reasons. Its hard work rarely recognised in the mainstream music world is making transcendental effects. And we’re highlighting these spectacular work here at Music Press Asia simply because it is too good to ignore. Monsieur Doumani’s Pissourin…

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Purbayan Chatterjee Release Diwali Single. Music Press Asia
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Purbayan Chatterjee: A Diwali Release

After a huge release of the album Unbounded (Abaad) just two months ago, Purbayan Chatterjee has a new single. Today, he released Raga SahasraDeep, a self-composed Raga composed in 2020. As we clicked to watch the video on YouTube, our eyes were immediately focused on the lights. Inspiring the visual of this Raga is the 1,000 lamps being lit at…

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Elevation Worship Performed at GMA Dove Awards 2021. Music Press Asia
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Gospel Music Association 52nd Dove Awards

On October 22 (Friday), The GMA Dove Awards fifty-second edition was exclusively aired on TBN (Trinity Broadcast Network) and simulcasted on SiriusXM The Message. Honouring outstanding achievements and excellence in Christian Music since 1969, this year’s GMA Dove Awards was recorded in Nashville. It featured performances by artists including Dante Bowe, CAIN, Lauren Daigle, Hope Darst, Elevation Worship, The Isaacs,…

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Leaf Yeh Birth and Death Album Review. Music Press Asia
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Leaf Yeh 葉穎: Birth & Death 生滅

Leaf Yeh has deliberated rather subserviently a subject anathema to many of us. While Birth itself observes the regeneration of new life, Death is directly the pragmatic conviction of all things mysterious and haunting. And since this celestial ultimatum cannot escape our mortal world, therefore, after-life itself takes precedence in Leaf’s expression of the present. If there’s one way how…

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R&B trio Khaizhen CLARY zeauk released Way Up. Music Press Asia
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Southeast Asia Release: A Nonchalant Blithe of Youth

R&B Music Release: A year after the release of their first collaborative R&B single, ‘Mad At You’, trio – zeauk, CLARY and Khai Zhen – reunited to release ‘Way Up’, their second collaborative single. The single’s music video, premiered on 24 October 2021, defines the set of values they held in high esteem. The lyrics speak loudly of their incurious…

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Blood of the Blue Creative Century Entertainment. Music Press Asia
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Taiwanese Film: ‘Blood of the Blue’

Environment highlight: Ocean Continuing our efforts to highlight the awareness of the ocean on the Environment theme. We’ve selected the film Blood of the Blue / 東經北緯, a Taiwanese production for our October film selection. The story goes like this. More than 300 years ago, the legendary pirate captain Yen buried a large amount of treasure in the blue sea.…

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