Two New Single Releases From Beyond Music Vol. 1 Same Sky Advocating For Hope And Togetherness

LISTEN TO “MATUMAINI” HERE: https://lnk.site/matumaini

LISTEN TO “BETTER TOGETHER” HERE: https://lnk.site/better-together 

 

BEYOND MUSIC Volume One Same Sky (out August 23) is a first-of-its-kind music project that gathered 23 artists from 17 countries via an online collaborative platform (http://beyondmusic.org) to create a definitive global music album, overseen and produced by 2019 GRAMMY Producer of the Year nominee Larry Klein. Today, they’ve released two new genre-defying songs from the album. 

“Matumaini” tells a common and heartfelt story of hope. Through tough times and circumstances of life, receiving or giving, love is the best way to prevail. The song weds African elements as well as dialect with western harmonic elements. "A very sophisticated piece of music that doesn’t lose its simplicity and immediacy," says Larry Klein.

“When fear and doubt have taken a hold of you, When tears are rolling down, when you’re in disarray, You’re not alone, listen, he’s right next to you, Keep hope“, the Belgian-Congolese artist Syssi Mananga sings. 

Syssi Mananga is winner of the 2017 Beat Street Award among many other awards she has received and now lives in the Ivory Coast. Her collaboration partner is the gifted Cameroonian jazz pianist Brice Essomba, who studied piano in Paris.

 

Listen to “Matumaini” here:

https://lnk.site/matumaini 

Watch a video teaser here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fsAJASQGg0&feature=youtu.be

 

“Better Together” is a collaboration between two artists of completely different backgrounds, who connected on an artistic, musical and human level: Ingrid White, a singer from Cameroon, and 18-year-old Max Keller Music, a producer from Zurich. The song merges musical styles as EDM, Hip Hop and Pop. 

The song's message addresses the overcoming of borders on a human level by highlighting a message of unity: "Together we can stand / Together we are stronger / Together we can be better." 

"This song by Ingrid White and Max Keller Music is a gem," says producer Larry Klein. "It strikes right to the heart of what is so valuable about collaboration across all of the imaginary and illusive boundaries that we think divide us. What seems scary and intimidating about collaboration is in fact only a mirage that our minds get caught in. In fact, whether it is between two people, or two cultures, collaboration is inspiring, energizing and takes us beyond the boundaries that we set up for ourselves."

 

Listen to "Better Together" here: https://lnk.site/better-together 

Watch a video teaser here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaI7KXatLnc&feature=youtu.be

 

BEYOND also recently released “Ma Ding Wo Avale One” and “El Clavel Del Aire,” a pair of songs that collectively include a LATIN Grammy nominee from Argentina, as well as artists from Tanzania, Cameroon, and the United States. Last week, they additionally dropped “Saa’t Arahman,” a modern take on a traditional Yemen wedding song that pushes back on forced marriages and expresses solidarity of many young women around the word sung by a Sephardic singer from Israel.

Same Sky / Beyond Music Volume 1 is now available for pre-order: https://lnk.site/beyond-music-volume-one-same-sky

 

Learn more about the project here: 

https://www.beyondmusicproject.org/

BEYOND MUSIC was designed to celebrate the most essential elements of artistic creativity by looking far beyond borders. This record brought together artists on

digital platform BEYOND MUSIC, www.beyondmusic.org to collaborate virtually, and allowed them to meet for the first time live in the South of France to record an original album in just 12 days. It has been created as the definitive global music album and will be released on August 23rd. via the Beyond Foundation’s BEYOND MUSIC initiative. 

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 Music, 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, 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.