Beyond Music Unveils First Two Songs From Definitive Global Music Album Same Sky Out August 23rd, Featuring 23 Artists From 17 Countries

LISTEN TO “MA DING WO AVALE ONE” WRITTEN AND RECORDED BY MUSICIANS FROM CAMEROON AND U.S.A. HERE 

BEYOND MUSIC Volume One Same Sky (out August 23) is an album, but it's best to describe it as a social-musical-cultural experiment: 23 artists from 17 countries collaborated together on the digital platform BEYOND MUSIC, www.beyondmusic.org,and met for the first time live in the South of France to create this definitive global music album in just 12 days, all overseen and produced by 2018 GRAMMY of the Year nominee Larry Klein. Today the first two songs from the record have been unveiled and showcase just how transcendent this album is, of borders and genres. 

*“Ma Ding Wo Avale One” - a crisp neo-soul song with a deep groove - was composed and written by American John Lumpkin and Cameroon singer Danielle Eog Makedah: https://lnk.site/ma-ding-wo-avale-one

Watch a video teaser here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b__iz9kMKHE

“Ma Ding Wo Avale” was inspired by singer Makedah’s daughter - who was born with physical and mental disabilities, and cannot sit or speak - but especially loves when her mother sings to her. 

*“El Clavel Del Aire” - a freewheeling hybrid of sounds from South America and East Africa - was composed and written by Argentinian Latin GRAMMY nominee Mariana Baraj and Tanzanian Msafiri Zawose: https://lnk.site/el-clavel-del-aire

Watch a video teaser here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoidVYSWE18

Translated to “carnation of the air,” this song is about freedom and the importance of fostering a free spirit, inspired by a certain type of carnation that doesn’t need soil to grow and blossom. 

The artists featured on the album first shared ideas and created song demos via the online platform BEYOND MUSIC: http://www.beyondmusic.org. Musicians from around the world were encouraged to create a new song on the platform, working with artists they'd never met. BEYOND received 110 submissions, and 10 winning songs were selected. Same Sky is the first volume in what will be an annual project.

The 23 artists included in the project hail from Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Cameroon, Congo, Denmark, Egypt, India, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the USA. 

Artistic Director and producer of the album Larry Klein assembled the core band, of all-star musicians session players including Dean Parks, Ed Harcourt, Adrian Utley, Manu Katché, Clive Deamer and Dan Lutz, who have collectively played with Sting, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Patti Smith, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Radiohead, Portishead and beyond.

BEYOND MUSIC Volume One Same Sky featured artists:

Abdullah Alhussainy, Egypt

Beshar Al Azzawi, Iraq

Mariana Baraj, Argentina

Andreas Bernitt, Denmark

Heather Bond, USA

Moshe Elmakias, Israel

Danielle Eog Makedah, Cameroon

Brice Essomba, Cameroon

Sandro Friedrich, Switzerland

Sheryl Gambo, Congo

Jivan Gasparyan Jr., Armenia

Eduard Glumov, Kazakhstan

Mor Karbasi, Israel

Max Keller, Switzerland

Elly Kellner, Netherlands

John Lumpkin II, USA

Syssi Mananga, Belgium/Congo

Kane Mathis, USA

Kate Northrop, USA/Switzerland

Bijayashree Samal, India

Sasha Shlain, Russia

Ingrid White, Cameroon

Msafiri Zawose, Tanzania

About BEYOND MUSIC:

BEYOND MUSIC, www.beyondmusic.org, is an online platform that invites professional musicians, singers, composers and songwriters from all genres to collaborate worldwide. Cross-genre, cross-culture, cross-generation. The platform is financed by the Swiss BEYOND FOUNDATION, established in 2007 by the couple Regula and Beat Curti, is a registered non-profit organization, supporting projects that unite cultures through music in order to foster cross-cultural understanding, awareness, dialog and respect. With their projects, the BEYOND FOUNDATION wants musicians from all over the world to inspire each other, to work together and to create a worldwide team spirit of togetherness and compassion.