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BB King the brand lives on at 96. Music Press Asia
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B.B. King The Brand Lives On At 96

The B.B. King Music Company, owner of all rights to B.B. King likeness and related trademarks and copyright on behalf of the King Family Trust has recently announced a revitalized partnership with American guitar brand, Gibson. An initiative with the aim of preserving the life legacy of B.B. King, this partnership was announcement rather timely following the 96th birthday anniversary of the songwriter. “It has been a pleasure working with the Gibson team in developing a new line of B.B. King Signature Lucille guitars,” said Vassal Benford [Chairman, B.B. King…

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'Gitara', a film by anthropologist Stefan Williamson Fa will be screened at Middle East & Central Asia music forum. Music Press Asia
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Middle East & Central Asia Music Forum

The Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum has been running since 2007 and is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdisciplinary, the issues discussed attracts a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researches in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Today, its…

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Music & Culture to play a big role on the Silk Road. Music Press Asia
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Culture & Music To Play A Big Role On Belt And Road

While many more songwriters believe that there may be commercial sense to how things are being run in the digitalized world, the purpose of music making remains best performed in its cultural sense, I mean LIVE. Why? To transcend creative perspective and understanding of people from the specific communities and tribes to the world. Tourism wouldn’t come to a halt…

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88rising produced the music soundtrack to Shang-Chi, Marvel's latest blockbuster movie starred by top Asian casts including Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung and Michelle Yeoh. Music Press Asia.
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88rising Executive Produced Shang-Chi Soundtrack Album

Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings: The Album is now released as the soundtrack album to Marvel’s latest blockbuster movie. Adding another level of wholesomeness targeting a growing film industry involving audiences from Asia, its official motion picture soundtrack album – released by Interscope Records – is executive produced by 88rising; a record label that primarily focuses on…

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Juilliard Evening Division Has A New Name. Music Press Asia
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Juilliard Evening Division Is Now Juilliard Extension

Juilliard’s flagship program for non-matriculated students is coming full circle as it forges into the future—what was formerly the Evening Division has become Juilliard Extension, a return to the program’s original name. According to the performing arts school, the renaming occurs in tandem with an expansion of program offerings that has broadened during the pandemic and that will be offered…

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Artbook World Musical Instruments by Pepin Press. Music Press Asia
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Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments

Perhaps the most striking feature of all is its overarching methodised principle. With musical instruments arranged along a timeline, the book provides from beginning to finish, from earliest to most recent; a perspective on the evolution of musical instruments that would otherwise not be noticeable. These musical instruments, although hard to date such things confidently, were among the earliest of…

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August 21 Artist Feature. Music Press Asia [Image courtesy of Rock Records YouTube]
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Taiwan Classic/August Feature: Wakin Chau

With the Golden Melody Awards underway, we dive into some of the award show’s most prominent winners and finds one whose amazing connection with his fans since early 1980s was just the tip of the iceberg. Forward to the present day, Emil or more notably known as Wakin Chau is a household name in the region. Having carved a name…

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Music Press Asia Reading of the Month Kazuo Ishiguro
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Reading Kazuo Ishiguro: “Nocturnes”

Nobel prize winner and one of the most celebrated Japanese writers of our time, Kazuo Ishiguro gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly depicted, interconnected dramas in which music is a vivid character that drives the essential expressions via the first person. Why nightfall? While most of the stories take place mainly at night, Kazuo Ishiguro’s intention…

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Lo Ta-You to receive special award from Golden Melody Awards. Music Press Asia
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Golden Melody Awards To Award Lo Ta-You

The 32nd Golden Melody Awards, after some delays, was recently announced for 21 August 2021, on a Saturday at the Taipei Music Center.  Nominees totalling 171 works was released by the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development, MOC for 27 awards. Having already announced the receiver of the Special Contribution Award going to Lo Ta-You, the long list of…

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The BBC Proms, after playing to an empty hall last year, will host audience at full capacity and unsocially distanced in 2021. Music Press Asia.
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BBC Proms 2021: The 7 Best Events To Watch

The BBC Proms returns to the Royal Albert Hall this year for a summer of live music, as it has done every year since 1941. Carrying the Covid-19 theme, one prom – the opera on 16 August – will focus on painfully topical theme about loss, separation, and coming together. Featuring fifty two concerts over forty four days, the Proms is also hosting thirty orchestras and…

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