ITR - Hope Album by Fluid Audio 50% of Sales Go to Homeless Street Kids - ITR - UK
Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net (UK)
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Michael
ITR - UK
We are pleased to announce that 'Hope' is now available in Digipak format from the Fluid Audio web site.
www.fluidaudio.co.uk
Digital release will follow on 29th June available in all formats from the Fluid Audio digital store.
Below is a link that will allow you to download a full press release which includes comments from the artists involved in the project, samples of all the tracks from the album, artwork and an unreleased exclusive remix of 'Forever' by Ishq.
Press Kit Download:
www.box.net/shared/rl39lt97s4
We thank you for your patience and support and hope that you will enjoy the album.
A big thanks goes out to all the artists involved in the project, and to those that helped make the dream come alive x
Genre: Electroacoustic, Electronic, Ambient
Label: Fluid Audio
Format: CD Digipak/Booklet, Digital
Reference Number: FluidAudio 001
EAN Code: 3760180500178
Mastering: Vincent Villuis - Ultimae Studios
Release Date:
Digipak - 8th June 2009
Digital - 29th June 2009
Fluid Audio kick starts it’s catalogue with ‘Hope’, a compilation sprawling across 13 tracks from established artists, Digitonal, Hol Baumann, Ishq, Bersarin Quartet and James Murray, as well as up and coming producers, Field Rotation, Iambic, Snakestyle, Playb, Halogen and Ben Beiny.
As suggested by its title, ‘Hope’, embodies a concept of positivity and the alleviation of strife “through the creative translation of emotion into sounds sent to soothe [and] images formed to inspire”. Artists were asked to create compositions that reflected their interpretation of the term Hope, producing varied yet cohesive results with a profound resonance. 50% of the profits are donated to Toybox, a charity providing aid, shelter and support for homeless children in Latin America, the majority of which are estimated a life expectancy of around four years on the street.
Coupling all of this with the CD’s bespoke artwork and carbon neutral manufacture provides a consumable and tangible product that serves to aid a constructive cause through the medium of music.
Although we are living in a world of injustice - where the rich get richer, while those in need get left behind - there is often an inherent hope in those who suffer the most. Where people have the least they value more, the simple things that others take for granted. While some are disconnected from the true meaning of life, there are others who appreciate the beauty and awe of the world and what is has to offer. In these souls is a spark of light that no corrupt power can extinguish. Despite the negativity that we are all faced with in life, the human spirit can always overcome. Whether this is in the innocent laughter of a child, the compassion shown from one suffering human being to another, or through the creative translation of emotion into sound, the joy of life is communicated all around us - we need only be willing to open our hearts to it.
Track List:
1.Forever - Ishq
2.Hopeful - Snakestyle
3.Regenzeit - Field Rotation
4.Fingersand - James Murray
5.Turn The Seasons - Iambic
6.Was uns Bleibt - Bersarin Quartett
7.Acoustics Of The Piano - Playb
8.Sunriser - Halogen
9.Start Again - Ben Beiny
10.Flags - Iambic
11.We Three - Digitonal
12.Time To Change - Hol Baumann
13.A Part Of You - Ben Beiny (Digipak bonus track)
What The Artists Say:
Iambic:
My two tracks, Flags and Turn the Seasons, were intended to give the listener a blank canvass to paint their emotions of Hope on. It occurred to me before writing the tunes that each individual lives in hope for some thing or other, hope is what prevents many peoples lives from becoming mundane, or keeps them hanging on when times are tough. So my two tunes - both being quite different - represent each aspect of Hope.
Playb:
When I was asked to contribute to this compilation it quickly came to my mind to remix 'Acoustics Of The Piano' because of the special circumstances with which it was created. I was experiencing hard times, the kind when you feel that there is no way out though you cling to some kind of hope regardless of how difficult things get. Children who are born in disadvantaged situations stir up so much admiration within me. I see sadness in their eyes but at the same time a passion to live. I am proud to be associated with this project, and proves that music is a tool to make people aware of social injustice.
Field Rotation:
Regenzeit (German for rainy season) describes the meaning of rain from different points of view. In the temperate zone of the earth rain is part of the daily weather, nothing special. For millions of people in tropical and subtropical regions rain gives hope – the hope for a better life after the aridity, an efficient harvest and the end of starvation, the hope for enough rain to refill the fountains and riverbeds to survive the following dry season. Regenzeit is about all the people who pray and hope for rain.
Ishq:
Hope for me rests in a belief and remembrance that we are all eternal beings and live forever. When we die we do not - we awake into a new world and all we take with us is the love and essence of ourselves whether positive or negative. The false prophecy we call death is simply that - one of the root causes of mankind's drive toward destructive selfish materialism and consumption. To 'take', 'have', 'be', 'want' NOW.....at the expense of others with no consideration for the whole or the future or the planet is the result of a hopeless belief in death which motivates many to build castles made of sand and seek unnecessary levels of wealth and power so in turn they may feel 'protected' from death. Fear fundamentally of death make humans greedy. Greed - the opposite from sharing is a result of a hopeless belief in death deep within us and breed into us and taught to us. We are told and taught a lie from birth....Fear creates greed which results in many living lives of hopelessness as others live like kings.
My hope is people will remember more 'before' this life and remember the eternal self which lives forever
as this will help free us from the slavery of materialism and the selfishness which misleads us. We can build a world of equality where we all share and we all profit and all rise as one.
Its very simple - Share and we create HOPE and love. HOPE and faith in eternity leads to us to want for nothing more than to help others and so we may all evolve.
I hope we eventually realise this on earth and share and remember who we really are when the body is left behind.
Snakestyle:
With the music I make, I try to create something that gently catches your attention, hypnotises you, helps you think, and takes you to a place where you feel reassured. It's great that there are people out there who genuinely believe in music and its ability to give people hope and make a difference. It inspires me to keep going, to keep doing what i do, and I hope that people find a sense of hope while listening to this project. Best wishes. Snakestyle
Some Facts:
An estimated 40 million children live on the streets of Latin America's densely populated cities (unicef).
Observers from our partner in Guatemala say that street children there have a life expectancy of around four years on the street.
Unicef reported in 2004 that in Guatemala in the first 10 months of 2002, gangs or security forces killed 408 children and youths, but most street children were killed by drive by shootings.
THINK ABOUT IT!
More about Toybox Charity here
Michael Dixon
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