déCollage is performing with of Montreal & Diane Coffee Oct 28th and releasing their Psycholodge EP along with previous Moon Magnet releases by Inner Oceans, Sunboy, Jackson Boone, and Ancient Elk through Moon Magnet’s Lunadrifter, the label’s custom smart phone app from Ghost Time Games. It’s synesthetic and won’t ever play a song the same twice. As the listener draws, kaleidoscopic fractals follow and affect the music with filters, FX… It’s even possible to slow/speed/reverse every song and send a remix video to friends!
Here’s more info:
If Salvador Dali’s paintings were music, they would sound like déCollage. Formed in 2009 by Moon Magnet Studio’s producer/founder Reed Fuchs, déCollage is hardly a four-piece, as over 20 of Denver’s most creative musicians chose to participate, including members of Rose Quartz, Candy Claws/Sound of Ceres, Inner Oceans, and many more. Their shows are theatrical, free-spirited parties; interactive to the point the audience gets doused in space blankets while transcendental artists paint on stage. déCollage has played alongside the likes of Animal Collective, Zammuto {The Books}, Flaming Lips collaborators – Spaceface and Fever The Ghost. Their eclectic Psych Pop incorporates accordion, glockenspiel, etc, over a canvas of found sounds Reed records {typewriters, trains, leaves, zippers, oatmeal, circuit bending}. Reed’s lyrics navigate our fragmented, post-modern world through metaphysics, surrealism, abstraction, and most of all wonder! déCollage is interested in sounds for their own sake; in this way their music is World, the world of sound, the world’s sound.
Psycholodge EP release date: Wed. Oct 28
Psycholodge EP Stream: http://bit.ly/1WVHfKJ (Private link. Goes public Oct 28th)
Lunadrifter iPhone/iPad App: http://apple.co/1jXRjob
Lunadrifter Android App: http://bit.ly/1NNHrtR
“Semicolon Parentheses” Music Video: https://youtu.be/-N96KVmfnks
“Better Things” Music Video: https://youtu.be/atMcZhuZgnU
Cheers,
Reed Fuchs
Moon Magnet
déCollage
720.240.6936
* * * * *
JAY Z, TIMBALAND WIN ‘BIG PIMPIN’ SAMPLE TRIAL
Jay Z and Timbaland have won a lawsuit alleging that they infringed on the rights to a sample used in the former’s 2000 hit “Big Pimpin’.” A judge ruled Wednesday that the nephew of Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi, whose “Khosara, Khosara” birthed the hip-hop tune’s funky flute hook, did not have standing to pursue his claim against the rapper and producer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The composer’s relative, Osama Fahmy, claimed the musicians had continued to distribute the song without regard for Egypt’s moral rights laws.
“Fahmy lacked standing to pursue his claim,” Judge Christina Snyder ruled. “In light of that decision, it will not be necessary to submit to the jury whether ‘Big Pimpin” infringed ‘Khosara, Khosara.’ I had to hear the testimony of Egyptian law experts in order to reach that decision.“
The composer’s nephew filed the lawsuit in 2007. Although Timbaland, who used the hook believing it to be public domain, paid $100,000 to EMI when he learned that the hook originated in the tune – itself a song in the 1960 Egyptian film Fata ahlami – to continue using it, Fahmy sued the producer, rapper and several other associated music companies for violating moral rights. Those rights govern how a work can be altered with respect to an author, who, in this case, died in 1993.
Jay Z and Timbaland’s lawyers claimed that Fahmy gave up his rights in 2002 when he sold the rights to the tune to record label Sout El Phan, causing him to lose his standing in this suit. The matter went to trial on October 13th, and Judge Snyder ultimately agreed with the latter claim.
The defense attorneys representing Jay Z and Timbaland were, as expected, happy with the decision, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “The court correctly ruled that the plaintiff had no right to bring this case and cannot pursue any claim of infringement in connection with ‘Big Pimpin” whatsoever,“ lawyer Christine Lepera said in a statement.
Attorney David Steinberg, who represented Universal Music and Warner Music, expressed similar satisfaction. “After a lengthy litigation, defendants have been vindicated in their position that they have every right to exploit ‘Big Pimpin” wherever they choose, including in records, films and concerts,“ he said.
By Kory Grow | Rolling Stone
[Article includes videos of the songs ‘Big Pimpin” and ‘Khosara, Khosara’.]https://www.yahoo.com/music/jay-z-timbaland-win-big-pimpin-sample-trial-201523159.html
[…] By Barb Dye […]