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WatchMojo NewsletterAn unprecedented collaboration between Atlanta Ballet and Big Boi, one half of the multi platinum Grammy award winning group Outkast, big is the first time that these two art forms have been combined together. Big fuses the visual experience of Atlanta’s professional ballet company and hip-hop music, performed live by Atlanta’s own Grammy Award-winning visionary. The show also features new & never heard material interwoven with a classical masterpiece such as Verdi’s La Traviata. This unique on stage experience that features a long list of talented artists is playing for a limited time April 10-13, 2008 at the historic Fox Theatre. A fundraiser benefiting the Big Kidz Foundation & and Atlanta Ballet Centre For Dance Education hosted by Big Boi and Queen Latifah will follow immediately.
The music list for big includes tracks such as “Morris Brown” from the Idlewild Soundtrack, the popular hit “ “Church” from Speakerboxx, which won the Grammy Album of the Year(2003), and “Bombs Over Baghdad.” Other music pieces that will be weaved into the tapestry of sound include jazz and opera selections.
“big is the place, the event, and the experience where we leave our inhibitions at the door, and move forward. big is an example of possibilities…a place for the senses to open, and be lifted, setting a new height for creativity and awareness towards ourselves and the people sitting right next to us,” said the choreographer of big, Lauri Stallings.
The show also features other great artist such as Janelle Monáe, originally trained in classical & Broadway she has trademarked her own brand of soul/R&B. Best known to many as the silky voice on several of Big Boi’s popular hits, including “The Way You Move,” Sleepy Brown has garnered a following all his own. He boasts his own Top 40 single, “I Can’t Wait,” featuring OutKast, from his debut album Mr. Brown. Sleepy Brown is set to appear in several tracks for big, including “I Can’t
Wait” and Big Boi’s “Church.” Also lending their talents to big are Scar, Big Rube, Joi Killiam, Rock D and Khujo Goodie, as well as members of the musical group Konkrete.
Keeping in mind that cultural exposure, musical and literary expressions, and the invaluable experiences of travel, makes for a well-rounded person, solidifies the result of Big Kidz’s mission. “The importance of exposure is making a young person part of a conversation that society has been having without them for years,” remarks Big Boi about his foundation. “Creating, and having a positive contribution to the world we’re living in, takes knowledge on another level; takes expression on another level, and I want to be apart of making that happen”, ‘Big’adds.
Founded in 1929, Atlanta Ballet is the longest, continuously operating ballet company in the United States. Atlanta Ballet’s eclectic repertoire spans ballet history, highlighted by beloved classics and inventive originals. Atlanta Ballet opened the Centre for Dance Education in 1996 and is dedicated to nurturing young dancers while providing an outlet for adults to express their creativity. With diverse class offerings and student population, the Centre serves over 150,000 people in metro Atlanta each year. Atlanta Ballet’s roots remain firmly grounded in the Atlanta community and continue to play a vital role in the city’s cultural growth and revitalization.
With movies such as “Idlewild”, “ATL”, million of records sold as half of the supergroup Outkast, Antwan “Big Boi” Patton will be releasing his debut solo album this summer 2008. Enlisting producers Andre 3000, Organized Noize and Danger Mouse, the ATLien also looks to mix up musical styles by collaborating with Raekwon and Mary J. Blige. As he recently told Blender magazine (June 2007), “I’m giving the truth about what’s going on with me, with relationships, and politics. But there’s no set formula. I just want to keep it funky.”
For more information about Big Kidz Foundation, visit www.Bigkidzfoundation.org. For more information about Big Boi, visit www.outkast.com.
In the meantime, heres a classic:
from NME.com:
The Raconteurs - the group featuring Jack White and Brendan Benson - are rush releasing their second album for next week (March 25).
The band have announced that their second LP, entitled ‘Consolers Of The Lonely’, will be “available everywhere” from Tuesday.
This includes vinyl and CD formats as well digital formats, although the band concede not every outlet will be able to meet their rapid release scale and some will have to “join as soon as they can”.
The follow-up to 2006’s ‘Broken Boy Soldiers’ features 14 tracks, and was completed the first week of March this year, and follows The Raconteurs joking last year that it would be a \”drug fuelled\” record.
According to the band the record was “then taken immediately to a vinyl pressing plant. Then to a CD pressing plant. Then preparations to sell it digitally began. March 25 became the soonest date to have it available in EVERY FORMAT AT ONCE. The band have done no interviews or advertisements for this record before this announcement”.
The group added that they wanted the sudden release so that everyone, fans and media, got the record at the same time “so that no one has an upper hand on anyone else regarding it’s availability, reception or perception”.
The Raconteurs denied that the rush release was to counter an internet leak of the album, and they explained they would promote the record after its release.
“In the event that the record leaks, we didn’t want this method of release to be seen as a reaction to such a leak,” they explained. “It’s not. The actual worst thing about a leak is the usual poor sound quality, akin to watching a movie on a wristwatch instead of in a theatre. Which for the album’s creators is a bit of a letdown, but again, it is completely up to the listener.”
A video for the single ‘Salute Your Solution’ will appear online on March 25 as well, although the band – featuring Jack White, Brendan Benson, Patrick Keeler and Little Jack Lawrence – prefer that fans download the album as a whole.
“The band also prefer that fans buy the album as a whole instead of breaking up the tracks, but until iTunes and other digital services allows bands to release their albums with the option of NOT breaking it up, it will be sold in that fashion on those particular sites,” they said. “On the band’s website however, the album will be sold in its entirety as mp3s at 320kb bit rate. Also in Japan, fans will be able to download the record via their mobile phones, as that is how a majority of recorded music is consumed there.”
They concluded: “We hope not to confuse anyone with too many options, or deny them the formats that they like best. The Raconteurs feel very strongly that music has worth and should be treated as such. Thank you to all those who respect music in this fashion, and thank you to our label partners for working with us to get this album to fans in as many formats as possible all at once.”
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