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...Blackstone also set up a separate $1bn fund called Hipgnosis Songs Assets to acquire music rights catalogues. That fund is also managed by Hipgnosis Song Management....
...More than a decade after its release, in 2011, All Songs Considered, US National Public Radio’s flagship music programme, said the album “kick-started an Americana music revival”....
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...On Thursday, Hipgnosis Songs Fund made an unusual offer for bidders to come forward for its music catalogue by promising to cover costs up to £20mn for any recommended offer....
...In pieces such as his Armenian Dances of 1916 and a selection of his songs, included here, we go to the roots of Armenian music, so immediately distinctive in its rhythms and modal inflections....
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund has slashed the value of its music portfolio by more than a quarter, and said it would need to use free cash to pay down debt, in the latest blow to investors in the UK-listed music...
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...The song belies its foreboding title by settling into a warm groove....
...Silvestrov formed part of the programme for the fifth Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, held over three nights at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music....
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