Showing posts with label Giles Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giles Martin. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2016

New Beatles Project Set For September Release:Film/Record

Grammy Award-winners producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell have teamed up on a new Beatles project,a companion record for noted director Ron Howard's authorised documentary feature film "The Beatles:Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years,"chronicling the Liverpool lads' live performance career.The record focuses on The Beatles' three sold out concerts at the Hollywood Bowl,Los Angeles in 1964-65.
For this recording,Martin and Okell have mastered and remixed the original three-track concert tapes at Abbey Road Studios in London;in addition,they are including four previously unreleased bonus tracks from the Hollywood Bowl performances.The unreleased material includes:
14.You Can't Do That
15.I Want To Hold Your Hand
16.Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
17.Baby's In Black*
Both the film and record are scheduled for release on 16 September 2016.The record may be pre-ordered now from The Beatles website.It will ship on or around 9 September 2016.The CD version will come with a 24 page booklet with new liner notes by David Fricke.It costs 18.95 US and the LP version is 24.98.*
Academy Award winner Ron Howard has been at work on the film since at least 2014.Giles Martin's father,the late producer George Martin,had also produced a live recording of the Hollywood Bowl concerts,but Giles Martin and Okell have utilised today's more advanced technology and an expanded playlist for their new project.

Friday, October 23, 2015

About "The Beatles 1" Project

Featured tonight is The Beatles' "Revolution" video,the first release from their video restoration project "The Beatles 1." The project is being released in several formats by Apple Corps Ltd./UMG.It is a compilation of promotional videos and films for The Beatles' 27 number one UK/US hits. "The Beatles 1+" version of the project contains an additional disc of 23 specially selected and restored films and videos,many of which have never been commercially released before,for a total package of 50 selections-plus a 124-page illustrated book.*
The "Revolution" video was filmed on 4 September 1968 at Twickenham Film Studios,England.Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed.The restoration is of such quality,it lends new excitement to the song.*
The videos were carefully restored frame-by-frame by an 18-person team of technicians and restoration artists.The frames were cleaned,colour-graded,digitally enhanced and newly edited over a period of months,round-the-clock.The audio remixes in new stereo and 5.1 surround sound were done at Abbey Road Studios,London by Grammy winners Giles Martin and Sam Okell.*
The products may be pre-ordered from amazon.com or thebeatles.com and are not exorbitantly priced.Release date is 6 November 2015.