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#132 - International Artists Project with Brandon Beckwith
“Be a homie & let us know what you think”
Imagine traveling to every country on Earth without leaving your headphones. That's the revolutionary experience of The World Album, featuring 200 songs from artists born in every nation on our planet.
Brandon Beckwith, founder of International Artist Project, joins us to share the extraordinary journey of creating music's first truly global compilation. After his first international trip at age 34 sparked a vision, Brandon embarked on a two-year mission that took him across 30+ countries, building a worldwide network of musicians and agents to make the impossible possible.
This isn't just another compilation – it's a cultural archive capturing humanity through sound. From a 70-year-old Vatican priest singing in Latin to Madagascar's first-time recording artist delivering an unforgettable hip-hop track, the album spans 93 languages and 121 genres across its 12-hour runtime. Most remarkably, artists retain 100% of their royalties, with many pledging to use earnings for positive initiatives in their home countries.
The conversation explores the challenges of sequencing such a massive project, the surprising musical discoveries from unexpected places, and how authentic representation was prioritized over commercial appeal. Now Grammy-considered, the album has transformed into a movement that continues to connect artists across borders, with some meeting in person after collaborating virtually.
What began as one person's vision has evolved into something much greater – proof that music truly can unite us despite our differences. As Brandon eloquently puts it: "I want people to feel like they traveled the entire world while listening... I think if everyone would listen to the World Album even one time in their life, it could change how we see each other."
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let's see. Okay, all right, all right, check, check. One, two man, yo, what's good everybody, welcome back to the red show podcast, where we shine a light on beat makers and music culture from around the globe. You know we start with the record and then we recognize the beats. But today, listen, we're doing something crazy big, like I've never. I've never seen or heard of anything quite like this man and the homie algorithm c man is the one that put me in touch with this gentleman that we're going to be talking about and this amazing, amazing body of work that is out there for the world. And I don't even think, you know, it's so much music that we get released this. You know it can kind of get swept under the rug or lost in the in the noise, but I just want to bring a big spotlight to this album. Um, I'm chopping it up with brandon beckwith, right, the mind behind the international artist project and the world album, which is a 200 song journey that literally brings every country together on one record. We are. The world is for real, just ringing in my head right now. Um, we're talking, you know, crate digging worldwide, curating 121 genres in 93 different languages, and what it really means to build community through music on a global scale.
Speaker 1:Man, so listen, internet, y'all in for a treat. This is going to be a dope episode. Don't go nowhere. Hit that like, subscribe all that good stuff. Let us know, leave a comment if you're enjoying the conversation that we're going to be having. But yeah, man, I want the Internet to go ahead and let me welcome Brandon Beckwith to the show. Brandon, how are you today, my guy?
Speaker 2:I'm doing wonderful. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 1:I'm doing great man. It's Friday, Happy Friday.
Speaker 3:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, it's a pleasure. Man, um man. I learned about this project through algorithm C, who's been a previous guest on the show. He's always been a supporter for me. Man, and um shout out to algorithm c. Man, he's, uh, yes. So he told me on instagram hey, this is there's this album that I think would be a great. You know, uh, uh, that you can do an episode and just put a spotlight on it. It's a massive album. This guy is cool. I'm cool with this guy. So I'm, you know, I'm doing my research and then boom, that's when I get in contact with you and I'm, I'm looking up and doing all the research and I'm like, holy smokes, like this guy really pulled all of this together. So I'm glad I get the opportunity to chop it up with you, man hey, no, thank you for the opportunity.
Speaker 2:um, I'm glad to be able to connect and, yeah, shout out to Algorithm C. So I guess he's actually the artist born from St Vincent and the Grenadines on the world album. So it's a pleasure for all of us to come full circle, you know.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, man, so man, I got All right. Here's my first question, man you?
Speaker 2:know we're man. Here's my first question, man we're going to start. It's just you and me, we're just homies talking, kicking it. All. Right, I like it, I'm comfortable, I'm ready.
Speaker 1:Exactly Good man. So go ahead and introduce yourself so the listeners know who you are, what you do and what this world actually is what this world album actually is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so who I am, you know. First, my name is Brandon Beckwith. I'm originally from California Fresno, California, to be specific, in the United States and, yeah, I'm the founder of International Artists Project. I mean, it took a lot of us to put this together, but, yeah, I had the initial idea and I'm also the owner of Keep Clear Records, which is a music label based out of California as well.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, ultimately, there was this idea that I had, you know about a little over two years ago, in June of 2023, to find an artist born in every country of the world and connect them all and, you know, because we're all connected through like a social media group channel where we can, all you know, share culture, music and collaborate together and build the world album and do a series of albums leading up to it. So it wasn't just everyone waiting for who knows how long this was going to take, you know. So we did two albums leading up to it. That was like a slow progression, but, yeah, now our planet has a world album, so we never had one before. I don't know how we did it. You know, I'm not a major label, I'm not a heavy finance individual, but it was just the passion and purpose mixture that you know made it possible, and a lot of people that saw the vision. So there's over 250 people involved on this project.
Speaker 1:So Wow, Wow, man Like, this is what made you. What made. Where did this idea just come? It just sprung up on you just randomly, or?
Speaker 2:you know I've tried to figure that out a few times myself, like, like, like, kind of, do you know reverse engineering on it. And you know I'm 37 years old, I just turned 37 on July 4th, and um well thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2:I guess it was over two months ago now that I'm looking at the date, but yeah, I had never traveled out of the United States until I was 34. And the very first place I ever went was to Cairo, to Egypt, to go see the pyramids. I was like, because everyone's always going on European backpack vacations or to Southeast Asia, I wanted to do something different and go see the pyramids and I went there. Then I did go through Europe and I fell in love with Amsterdam along the way. It really spoke to me, the culture of it, just the vibe, the music. When I had left, after going on that long trip, I said I'm going to move back to Amsterdam. I'm going to move to Amsterdam one day, and I stuck my word.
Speaker 2:About six months later I left my job, I went over there and I knew I wanted to do something with music still over there, because I was doing Keep Clear Records here and I think it was just an embrace like this overwhelming nature of freedom seeing the world for the first time, culture, the love for music and just the opportunity. And it was this perfect mixture that scrambled into this idea and, within the idea, hitting within like five minutes. I knew this was not even five minutes, within like about a minute. I knew this was something I was going to do and the operation was possible. It was just going to take a lot.
Speaker 1:So Wow yeah.
Speaker 2:I can go on long about this sometimes, so if I talk too much, slow me down, but yeah so very passionate about this project.
Speaker 1:It's all right, man, cause I can, because I can tell that you have the passion I want to hear. I know the internets are very interested because they've never, at least my audience has never heard about somebody pulling an album of this magnitude together. I've seen 45-track albums, you know, like Flip, a Beat Club, or you know some of these other like lo-fi. You know record labels, a beat club or, um, you know some of these other like lo-fi, um, you know record labels and stuff like that. But yeah, 200, wow, from from all these different cultures from around the world, like when we say worldwide, that's, that's worldwide man it's the true definition of global music.
Speaker 2:yes, yeah, now so, but I'm grateful. It's a lot of great artists too, and we did it for a good reason too. You know, it wasn't just like, you know, let's do this big thing and, you know, try to become famous. Like it wasn't anything like that. It was really like let's do something that's never been done before. You know how many thing about this is.
Speaker 1:it took at least one person born in every country of the world to say yes, to make it possible, and there's something beautiful in that you know, right, wow, and they and are these people that you just knew from connections through, like social media, or you just like research, your team researching different um, genres of music and artists and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so how it started when I had the idea I had only known artists from born in three countries. My good friend that I actually originally started the label with before I had taken it over fully for myself. He was born in California, he was a hip hop, he did a little bit of rap but he was more hip hop instrumentalist producer guy and he would release instrumental albums that were awesome, like they were fully packed instrumental albums, and then he would have like rappers like get on them. So. And then I knew another guy that was born in Armenia, that had moved to the United States when he was around three years old, that I grew up with and he also made music, like instrumental music, and had a little bit of like Armenian flair to it, but he still grew up in Cali. And then I knew a girl that I had met that did uplifting trance electronic music in Amsterdam right before I had the idea. So I talked to them three about it first, about my idea, and they all said this is dope, let's do it. And I said okay, let's do it. And I said okay, let's do a concept album and we dropped it on the launch date of the project, which was about a week and a half after I had the idea. It was on june 11, 2023 three track album, three different genres, not counting the sub genres, um, and I told them you keep 100 of your royalties, 100 of your ownership. I take nothing but you. You are encouraged to use half towards something good in your home country or in the world when your royalties build up.
Speaker 2:And after those first three, then it just became a deep search. I started traveling. I hit over 30 countries in 14 months, but I built a global A&R team along the way. So when I would go to Thailand, I would meet people in Thailand and tell them I'd stay in hostels or I could talk with multiple people at once. And it's not weird, you know, it was cheaper on the pocket but also it was better on the, you know, meeting more people abroad. And I built like over. There was about 24 agents in total. Some came, it came and left. But, yeah, I found about a hundred and ten artists myself traveling and networking and Agents helped me find 90, and then some artists would refer other artists when it got so big. So be like who do we have left?
Speaker 2:so yeah, yeah, that word of mouth, that word about travels, wow but yeah, took 14 months and then an extra four months to find an artist born in north korea. That that one took a little longer, but we completed it in 14, plus the four for one for the final artist wow wow, man like I am, I am just flabbergasted, I'm wow, wow.
Speaker 1:I mean I know, I know you probably had your days where you were like man, like this is so I want to die a couple, but I allowed myself to have those days.
Speaker 2:I learned I was like man, like every so often you're gonna have those days. Don't let those be the decision days, let those just be the bad days, like so, and because you're gonna feel good 80 of the time, 20 of it, you might. You might be like what am I doing? And it was less, it was maybe five percent of the time. I had some rough days but, um, yeah, I just got through them.
Speaker 1:So but the artist helped or the love from the artists helped, so yeah, man, okay, man, wow, so many. I got so many questions, bubba, I already wrote down questions, but now I got more questions. All good, all good, but uh, but okay, let me, let me go through my script. But okay, um, so we already know how the world album uh first came to life. But uh, why was it important for you to include like every country on one record?
Speaker 2:you know, um, I know a lot of people, when they don't know about the album like, they see it in different ways. Like they see it as like a flag for peace, or they see it, as you know, just maybe something to try to get world records, or some people just see it as ambitious, like some people actually see it for the beauty of it. But when the idea hit it just uh, like I don't want to get too spiritual, but like like I don't want to get too spiritual but like it did feel like it felt like a passion meets purpose kind of situation because I don't know, like I've had a lot of weird ideas growing up, like I mean like weird stuff, like hologram stuff, like all these weird things like, but when this one hit I knew I could do it and I felt like you know, like I was kind of blessed with with the idea and was the right person for it to drop into and it felt like a purpose over time and like that. That was like the internal, like you know, flame, like for me. But as far as for what it could do for the world, you know like it's, it's crazy to think that, you know, mostly in most in America sometimes, like we, we don.
Speaker 2:We aren't super educated on geography, we're not super educated on all the different genres of music. We're not very educated on all the different languages that are around the world. I mean, there's thousands of languages, all the different cultures, the styles you know, like even the people's Instagram, how they dress, like everything. I felt like this was a way to expose the world like to itself, like everything. Um, I felt like this was a way to expose the world like to itself, um and uh, like through music and get to jam along the way. Uh and like what I? What I mean by that is it was just. It was a way to like just put a picture, put a picture of the world to an extent in a time capsule and like hand it off to everybody and there's felt something beautiful about that and the world needed it.
Speaker 1:Um, our planet needed a world album more than I think we know, yeah, I, I agree with that. I definitely wow, man. Um, yeah, you could get spiritual. My guy like we don't, we don't shy away from spirituality. Well, no, we could talk about it, because that's the reason why I'm even doing this, this podcast, right here. Is it just dropped on me? And then I was like all right, let me just start it.
Speaker 2:Let's do it yeah 130.
Speaker 1:This would be 132 episodes later. Here we are. We're talking about a world album.
Speaker 2:Yeah, on some of those bad days, there was definitely the motivation Like you can't stop now, though, either, like you're this far in, you gotta go, but, um, there was always light at the end of the tunnel, so but, but yeah, I mean it's. It's cool because it also connects so many people like you and I wouldn't be talking if this album wasn't here, like algorithm c wouldn't, and I'd be talking, like, my mom found six artists like during the artist search, because she went through a phase where she was like I, because she used to live in hawaii for a while and she's like I want to help you find the islands near australia, and I was like, okay, have fun. Like, and she found six artists like what? So?
Speaker 2:um, it brought so many people together. A lot of artists have met up, like they're and the artists from singapore and uh and the artist that was born in cuba were just hanging out the other day like I wasn't even there, you know. You know, like the artist from Malaysia and Singapore also met up. There's been tons of other artists that have met up like all around the world, like when, when I'm not even there and we do artists gatherings, but it's just cool to see how long this will continue to be like a nexus of connecting people and all around the world.
Speaker 1:So yeah, what's your? What's your mom's name? My mom's name is.
Speaker 2:Megan Beckwith.
Speaker 1:Megan Beckwith. Thank you, thank you for helping out your son Brandon.
Speaker 2:Shout out to mom. Yeah, Shout out to moms Joe. My dad will kill me if I didn't say that he did find one artist, but it was his barber and her husband was born in Vietnam and played the guitar. And it was, her husband was born in Vietnam and played the guitar, and it was in the early days and I was like, hey, if he can play guitar and he can actually make a good song, let's make it happen. And it came out good, so what's?
Speaker 1:your pop's name.
Speaker 2:Brent Beckwith. Yeah, megan, and Brent Beckwith yeah.
Speaker 1:Megan and Brent Yo, thank you.
Speaker 2:Shout out.
Speaker 1:Ok, so listen, I'm gonna play, uh, one of the tracks from from the album. Man, I'm gonna just weave in and out of the questions and we're gonna let the internets hear this album. But then afterwards, internets, y'all go, because I'm gonna leave a description, a link in the description of the show where y'all can go and listen to this album. Man, when I when I say I've never heard an album like this, I've literally never heard an album like this. So let's start with number one. This one is called Infinite Universe by Izzy. I'm not sure where this artist is from, but-.
Speaker 2:He's from the Netherlands and it's a collab with an artist from Peru, Yep.
Speaker 1:Nice, okay, all right, let's get into this one.
Speaker 3:The universe. Infinite, complete infinite complete. No final line, no water drop.
Speaker 1:It's her neither here nor wow, wow, um yo, I know I could let it play, but I don't want to let it play. I'm only giving y'all snippets internet, so y'all y'all gotta go, uh, tap into the album, man, and just listen to that whole thing. It started with this and then I was like, yeah, this is, this is what it was like. I listened to, uh, this type of music when I was in turkey and I was like, yeah, all right, this is definitely gonna be a world album, yeah yeah, that that song's got a.
Speaker 2:Uh, the reason why that song's first is because the first international artist was technically izzy. That was found in amsterdam when the project started. I knew I wanted to start the world album with her and so I let her know like nine months before the album even came out, like hey, you're gonna be the first track, so also, this isn't gonna be something as a surprise, let's, let's prepare for it. And she did a collab, instead of just taking it for herself like she actually made. It made it a cross-continental collab. And, um, we released an album before the world album called international artist project part two, that had 158 countries, that's the prelude right yeah, the prelude, so that one had 64 languages and 104 genres.
Speaker 2:Uh, but I, I made izzy the final song of that album, so it can flow perfectly into the into the world album. So it was all set up, you know. So there was a method behind the madness of the ordering.
Speaker 1:So man, man, all of these songs. I was like I was playing them for my stepson, right, so he's outside. We got it on the big speaker. The quality of this album is amazing as well. I'm listening to it and I'm like yo, how did he decide to sequence all of these songs like this? Because there's no love in it. It's. It takes you like on a true like. I felt like I was on an airplane just going to all these different countries. That's the plan.
Speaker 2:That's the goal. Yeah, that was. That was where I got to be creative outside the operational part, like. So it was the one thing, because because I don't like I make music but I don't have any music on here, you know. So it was one way I was able to like get involved and getting to know all these artists for so long and seeing how they connect, to like witnessing it through like the group channel and through artist gatherings, because we got 225 people in the group channel, like always messaging, like around the world. So in a way, it was able to see how they fit together.
Speaker 2:You know, um, instead of just just it was, it wasn't just always feeling the music, it was also like another layer to it to where how these artists connect. If you picture them all standing in a circle holding hands, you know. So it wasn't look like a straight line, like one to 200, it was like a circle, like the person that song one was holding the song 200's hand and it was like one big circle. So that was the way to order it, man wow man um so okay, let me um man, because we can keep talking um.
Speaker 1:Let me get to these questions.
Speaker 2:yeah, all good, go ahead. Yeah, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing when someone talks too much in a podcast, so yeah, Nah, it's alright, man, it's alright.
Speaker 1:Yo Like I gotta take it down from Spotify because there wasn't enough talking, but yeah, it's all good. So, okay, we know, we already know the answer to that. Like, how many songs, how many genres, ended up on the album? Um, I think you already talked about what you know the biggest challenge and challenge of putting this album together already how did you keep this album or this project, like authentic without turning it into a, like you know, like a world music stereotypical album? You know, like I don't know what the heck that means, but it just came in my head Like how did you?
Speaker 1:how did you keep it authentic?
Speaker 2:well to answer that. Uh, I would say a lot of it went down to the artist search. So, instead of always just trying to go after because we have some huge, as you have clicked on your screen right now, it shows queen omega. Queen omega is giant, you know, from trinidad and tobago. Um, you know, very blessed and lucky to have someone with millions and millions of Spotify listeners.
Speaker 2:But that was never the goal, even though we have some great popular artists on the project. It was to find an artist that was talented from each country and the first one you find that sees the vision, that has good music and you keep moving and you don't tell them hey, just because you're from this country, you need to use these instruments or a song needs to be like this. I would always just tell the artist be yourself, because the more you are yourself and even use your own language or your own style and you don't try to fit a mold, that is how you'll be successful in this project and this album and, you know, just constantly communicating that to everybody. Um, along the way, it allowed people to submit a song that felt like it was a representation of themselves and where they're from, and, um, there were some artists that didn't have the budget to do a brand new song, so we released it as a compilation because, um, not much, but about maybe five to ten percent of songs had been pre-released.
Speaker 2:Some songs were made for the project, some songs artists had, you know, wanted to do collaborations with other artists. So just going about it in the most natural, genuine way possible with all these artists was a way to keep it authentic and not just say, hey, you know, we need to have, you know, congos in this country, we need to have Congos in this country, we need to have a flute in this country. So just let the artists be themselves, and I think I feel like that was the recipe.
Speaker 1:That's the perfect recipe. Just let them be themselves authentic. Let them show what they represent, Let the world hear their influences.
Speaker 2:Man, you can never, go wrong.
Speaker 2:One of the most common questions I got asked was does my song need to be in English? Everyone always asked me that and I was like man, what does the world come to that? Because there's so much like dominated music in English like you still got Spanish, you still have French, but like they're English dominates so much of like, the, the streaming, like that artists from all around the world that they feel like they have to make english music sometimes in order to get to that. You know, grand level, or so we call it, depending on how we're looking at things. So it was good for people to be able to do like.
Speaker 2:The artist from south africa did all his music in english and then he did one in easy zulu or zulu or Easy Zulu, um and uh for the first time, and his fans love that song more than anything and he's like thank you so much. I would have never done my own language if it wasn't for the world album. So it's uh, it was good to just let people be themselves. So hopefully that breathes bigger in the world too and shows people. Hey, let's not try to narrow down into one area, let's, there's tons of music out there we can all enjoy and love.
Speaker 1:So exactly, man I love that um yeah, I, I, um, I was telling my, my son, zane man. I was telling him I'm like we're listening to the album and I'm like, listen, we don't understand nothing that they're saying, but you feel what they're saying, like yeah, exactly yes yes, yeah, like that emotion came through on these tracks on his album, man.
Speaker 1:So you know he's, he's 30, you know I'm, I'm uh, 40 something, but um, he's yeah, and I'm, you know, I've been around the world a few times and I'm like, okay, I know, I know that's turkish, I know that's uh, I know that's some part in some, some part in Africa, I know that's French, I know that's German, like, okay, I know certain things but I don't know exactly what they're saying. But you feel the feeling of this album is amazing, man.
Speaker 3:Amen yes.
Speaker 1:Wow, okay, let me, let me play. Let me, that's a good segue. Let me play a little snippet of this Queen Omega song. It's called Fittest. Yes, let me play this and then we'll go to the next question. Man Cause man, I love this man. Thank you for being a guest man, no matter how life goes.
Speaker 5:One thing I know the most I never felt the fittest, fittest of the fittest shall survive. My people, open, open, open up your eyes, wake up no compromise. Come make me slew the beast in a disguise. The fittest of the fittest shall survive. My people, open, open, open up your eyes, wake up no compromise. Come make me slew the devil in a disguise. When iniquity fills up the earth beyond the God, look out for the worst Plagues and disasters. Mama, she a purge.
Speaker 1:Ooh. So you didn't even get started yet. No's getting warmed up she's just getting warmed up. Yeah, I'm like, oh man, I wish I man listen queen omega sheesh man.
Speaker 2:Trinidad and tobago is where she is from.
Speaker 1:Yes, shout out to trinidad and tobago man man, wow, yo, man, ok, let me. Let me get to this next question. Man OK, was there a, was there a country or scene that completely just surprised you with it, with the sound?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that's. I mean I can go down the list when we're talking 200, but the one that just popped in my mind immediately I would actually say, uh, it's actually track 22. Um, I think it's 20, no, no, 23, 23. So this is madagascar. Uh, interesting situation here.
Speaker 2:So this artist is named kanto and, uh, he's from madagascar, he had never released before and I met him through an agent team I built, like in Nigeria, along the way, and I actually said no at first and usually I'm pretty open. But like I was like, oh, this guy doesn't have any music. Madagascar is pretty big, like I don't know. But like he kind of just caught me in the situation where he's like I'll, you know, I'll do everything I can, I'm going to work, I'm passionate about music, I promise you, I won't let you down. I was like I was like you know what, let's, let's, let's make it happen, let's make it happen. I, you know, let's do it.
Speaker 2:It felt right. And from him never releasing something before to what he came up with and how passionate, and he even started helping find artists in Azerbaijan and Rwanda and other countries, in Kuwait, he got so deeply involved and his music just spoke for it and that was one of those stories where it's like they made a movie about it or something. He'd be one of those characters like that, you know, or that was maybe doubted in the beginning and came through on top at the end. But he has a song called Andalagna and it's in Malagasy, which is the language in Madagascar, and yeah, man, he just he came through.
Speaker 1:So, and I feel like us from the United States can kind of turn to it too, because it's got a little bit of a hip hop vibe to it too. It's like afro pop, but it's got a little hip-hop vibe to it as well. Wow, man, um, did I, did I listen to this one man? I think I, I think I listened to this one. I think this was one of the ones I was like okay, yeah, we definitely, we got hip-hop, we got reggae, we got, you know, we got techno, we got everything Almost all of it, yeah, Everything man.
Speaker 2:But man shout out to I don't know how to pronounce his name Kanto, even though the A is flipped, so it's like the V, but it's the A, so Kanto.
Speaker 1:Kanto. Okay, Yep, Shout out to Kanto man. I want to say this right man, Andalagna.
Speaker 2:I think it's Andalagna, but we're both probably pronouncing it wrong. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, we're trying, we're trying man.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let me see this. Let me see about this one man. Did you, um, how did you make sure every artist on here like got heard and not lost in the in the size of this album and like, was that intentional for you to do that?
Speaker 2:yeah. So when we did that prelude album last november, november 2024, um, we kind of used it as a test. I wanted to see what would happen if we didn't put any money into that last one, if we just saw what the artists came up with. I gave them, like you know, simple graphic packages and things, but nothing, nothing too crazy, and kind of use it as a measure to see what were the strengths and weaknesses no-transcript, I mean, we were contacting, like the project and the artists individually. We were contacting media in every single country, every country like so, and we had hundreds and hundreds of articles. There's over 300, I've found now that can be found on our website, internationalartistprojectorg. They're all linked.
Speaker 2:But it got to a point where it got out of control and every artist was having like their own moment, like you know, and not every artist, of course, but like at least like 70% had like a moment, you know like where. Um, that was really good and you know now that we were able to. You know something else we can get into. But but because now we are in the consideration for best global music album at the grammys, uh, that are coming up the votes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's uh now for the first time in history, an artist from every country in the world are a grammy considered artist. And you know like so them to all be able to now go back around after the album's released and, you know, re-contact their media or post on their socials or even tell their friends like they become like little legends in this little area. And, um, you know, and we're going to be on billboard here on the grammy contenders issue, on octenders issue, on October 4th. We had a mention in Rolling Stone, but it wasn't huge Rolling Stone, mena, the Middle East, north Africa, but just all these little collections of different Everyone's success was beneficial to someone else.
Speaker 2:There'd be an artist in Monaco that would get a newspaper article and then on the bottom it was saying also featuring artists from this country and their name. And then on the bottom it was saying also featuring artists from this country and their name. So that press blitz and like the testimonial videos and the collaborative stuff on social media, gave every artist an opportunity to get into the project and help push the project and their own, you know, career. So, and that's what we're doing now.
Speaker 1:Now we're trying to do the podcast, trying to do the, you know, more newspaper articles, trying to get the grammy, you know, the guinness world or just all the stuff you know. So, wow, yeah, this is gonna be big.
Speaker 2:This is gonna be like this was already big, but this is, this is becoming like super, like mega, mega impact, you know because in the end, even though, like that, the true meaning behind the world album is like there's some like the world's connected through music, at the end, even though, like the, the true meaning behind the world album is like there's some like the world's connected through music, at the end, that that has to stay number one. Like it's it's the world being connected through music period. Everything else is secondary. But in order to make that message clearer and also, like, give back to the artists and make it worthwhile, like there needs to be some rewards along the way and things like awards or art minute article mentions or, you know, big benchmarks and stream counts, like these are things that are good for them in general and get them taken more seriously on the project.
Speaker 1:So man, congratulations on being, you know, submitted for best global music album yes, yeah, very grateful so wow man, just no internet.
Speaker 1:This is a clear example him, him, what he's doing and what I'm doing and what probably millions of other individuals are doing. Other other humans are doing, spirits are doing. Other humans are doing, spirits are doing. It's just taking one idea and then going forward with it knowing that, hey, whatever is going to work out, I can get a team behind me, people that support me, boom, and it just gains momentum. And that's what's happening with this international artist project, the World Album. It's gaining momentum to now on, not not just Grammy, grammy's cool, but the world has a world album. How can you not be happy about that? Like yeah.
Speaker 1:Wow, man, like man yo I'm. I'm proud of you, man. This is the first time hearing from you, but I'm proud of you, man. This is the first time hearing from you, but I'm proud of you, man, wow thank you, man.
Speaker 2:So, and yeah, I mean I may have had the idea and like kept pushing this, but, man, it took so many of us to make this possible. If it, if I was just trying to do it on my own, like I would have. It's not a one person thing, it has to be, you know, over 200 people to make it possible. So, you know, I know I gotta, I know I gotta to lead this and and and and and be the face of talking about it. But in the end, man, there's, when I talk, it's also 200 people like right right here standing beside me. You know, so I'm grateful. And now the whole world's connected. It's not just the artists now. Now it's the whole planet.
Speaker 1:Everyone can tap in work for real. Yeah, wow, okay, before we play this next track, man, I just want to go over and correct me if I'm wrong when I'm saying these like these different countries that this album has touched.
Speaker 1:I got the Netherlands, armenia, the United States of America, poland, spain, turkey, the United States of America, poland, spain, turkey, antigua and Barbados, canada, argentina, united Kingdom, england, israel, france, Jamaica, chile, uruguay, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which we were just talking about in the last episode, um uh, algeria, italy, georgia, hong kong, mexico, thailand, india, cuba, south africa, and like so many more man every country and and territories that aren't even and they're kind of in a battle to be a country sometime.
Speaker 2:Right now too, like everywhere.
Speaker 1:So yeah, wow, nothing missed, nothing missed all right, let me, uh, let's play this next track. Um, from kanto. Uh, on the on the lagna. Let's, let's play this and uh, we'll come right back.
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Speaker 2:And he had not even released anything before Like, so he came hard.
Speaker 1:so yeah, wow, kato what's up. Man like yo, that's um man, madagascar to the world, yeah madagascar to the world. Man, like these are some of the countries that I, I want to, you know, step foot on and but, um, man, this is a great way to experience different cultures. Internets, man, like you get to literally listen to all of these different cultures. Like get away from what you see on TV and stuff like that. Like music is like number one besides, like foods right, yeah, that's how we share Right.
Speaker 1:So music, food they go to? They go hand to hand man, like if you go to a different country, it's all about the food, it's all about the music, it's all about you. Know how they interact with each other like man. Just go ahead and support this album, the world album from the international artist project, featuring 200 tracks, 91 countries is that is. That, is that 200 artists?
Speaker 2:200 tracks, 197 plus countries, and then, yeah, so, over every country in the world, plus some Wow, we can call them disputed territories or whatever is the politically correct term. There, for example, in the UK, we didn't just do one from United Kingdom, we got one from Northern Ireland, scotland, wales and England. And then, you know, we did Palestine, we did Israel, we did not just China, but we also did Macau, hong Kong and Taiwan. You know Vatican City, you know, like I slept outside Vatican City for two days, refused to leave until, like, I got a meeting with the culture and education department, and that was, that was hard, that was second hardest, other than North Korean born artist, but yeah, it was. But they gave me the meeting and then, sure enough, we, we had a priest that was born in Rome, right outside of Vatican City. That it's on the product. He's the oldest artist on the project. He's 70. Youngest is about 11 years old, oldest is 70.
Speaker 1:So okay, who is that? What's the name of that individual?
Speaker 2:For Vatican City. Marco Versina, I think it's Song 9.
Speaker 1:Song 9?
Speaker 2:Wow yeah it should be Song 9. Yep Passaminteris, which means peace on earth. Yeah, and this is actually in Latin as well. Latin and Italian, and Latin is the second oldest language on this album. The farthest back is Sanskrit, which is the track number six. That artist is from Belarus. She sang in Sanskrit and English, but the second oldest language is in Latin, which is in this, and it's the choir of the Vatican.
Speaker 1:Okay, yes, I remember this one. Yeah, because, yeah, I got. I felt something emotional with that one. You know, I was like, wow, like they really getting it even crazier too, right on top of that song.
Speaker 2:So song number eight, that uh, uluwaki fepaki. Uh, I probably pronounced that a little wrong, but that's from tonga, like one of the islands, uh, near kind of australia. Well, that was actually. That artist found his grandpa or great-grandpa's archived uh island song in some like conservatory or something and rebirthed it from like the 1920s into a modern song. So it also has this like date, historical concept, this album, not just the grand of all the artists but timelines. There's even stuff from Bach on here because it's in the public domain. And the one track, number seven, burra Udyr, is the only well-known commercial release out of the country of Djibouti and it's actually the band of the government like. So it's really crazy album like so yeah, so very interesting stuff.
Speaker 1:So wow, um, before we get to this, um this, uh Pacam in Terrace, yes, from, uh, marco Frisina, um, I want to ask you, like, what do you want listeners to walk away with after hearing the world album?
Speaker 2:I want them to feel like they traveled the entire world, like while listening, like it was like a music and physically you have to go and get on a plane, you got to go walk around, you got to go to all these countries. Like I want people, at the simplest term, like beyond, just you know, togetherness and community and everything like in the simplest fashion that everyone can relate to. I would love to for this to be like a music tour in your hole, like around the world, like you're tapping into everywhere at that in 12 and a half, 12 hours and 38 minutes. Like you know whether you do the listening in one day, or you do the listening 20 songs a day, or you just go as far as you can, or you listen to it on shuffle. You have an opportunity to embrace the entire world to an extent in one album. So at the minimal, take that from the album.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow, okay. Okay, let's get into this and then we're gonna come back after we listen to uh, pakam and terrace from marco frisina and we're going to the lightning round questions. All right, lightning round.
Speaker 2:All right, I'll be ready, all right.
Speaker 1:Let's see.
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Speaker 1:The Holy Spirit is with you.
Speaker 2:Wow, wow, that was beautiful, very beautiful.
Speaker 1:Very beautiful, wow, I am. Oh, my baby just got high baby. But yes, marco, for this scene, because I know that that's how you probably pronounce it. But, man, thank you for your contribution to this album. The world album, man. Okay, lightning round for the world album Okay, all right, all right. Number one 200 songs, 93 languages, 121 genres. I hope I got all of those statistics right. Yep, okay, which?
Speaker 2:track still makes you shake your head, like a track that I'm just blown away by. Yes, sir, all right. Well, there's one I could say for sure. Actually, walk in the Light. I believe it's track what? 14 or 15 on there. Let's see track 14. Yeah, so that's a collab between togo and africa, which is kind of near nigeria, and myanmar, which is in southeast asia. Those artists clapped on a song. It's got. It's got metal, rock, hip-hop, pop, uh, african instruments and also southeast asian instruments and they did like a little mini documentary between behind making the song and this individual song is going up for best global music performance at the grammys. This is the most diverse song in my life like, and it's also in three languages burmese, uh, ue. And english, uh, so crazy song like crazy song.
Speaker 1:This is the one I was listening to and I was like yo, it took, like it's three different parts to it because you know I'm oh yeah I was like, okay, it started off with like this, like punk rock feeling, and then it went to a different feeling and it went to a.
Speaker 2:I'm like oh, my god if you, I mean, still blessed to every artist. But man, if every artist on the project sat down and was like I want to do a collab, the way these artists did, because there were lots of collabs like there were, you know, netherlands, peru, uh, mozambique and hawaii did one together, like there was a bunch of mixtures, venezuela and India, but these artists really went ham. So if I had to put the whole world album into one song, collabalize it would be this one.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the light. Yeah, all right, let's play this before we go to the other quick lightning rounds. These are supposed to be quick answers, but we're just going in, I don't care.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm slowing down.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, and then it starts going into like death metal and rap, like it's like I don't know about death metal but it's like heavy metal and then rap, like the whole song just changes all the way through it's. It's like a. I don't know if you listen to mac dray, but mac dray did like the cutthroat soup. You put like five songs in one like it was like it was like a global cutthroat soup.
Speaker 1:So yeah, wow, wow man, oh my gosh man okay, let's, let's, let's. Go into these next ones real quick. Um man, which track almost didn't make the deadline but turned into like a must-have track?
Speaker 2:um, so like we're so the deadline. So we launched production on the world album in october uh of last year that was a little bit after the artist search and when we finished the previous album and the goal was to get all the songs in by may 1st. I only was missing 24 songs on may 1st and I didn't have all the songs until june 2nd. So, um, I'm not gonna call out any artist or anything, but there there was some situations personal, like that happened with some people and one of them, um, uh, it, uh. It ended up working out to the better. Um, because they ended up using a song that they had used with someone else, uh, in in the past.
Speaker 2:Uh, it was recorded about a year before and it actually ended up being the final song of the album. Uh, it was called homecoming and it felt like the perfect way to end the album because it's called homecoming. Um, it was on an island, like you know, and my mom loves the island. She helped find artists. It felt like when all the noise was done at the end, you could just go sit on a peaceful island at home.
Speaker 2:There's a big documentary behind that song too, about how the artists came back to Marshall Islands for the first time in their lives. It just made sense. It ended up being the final song of the album. I was stressing about the final song because, like, the final song is just as important as the first song. So and uh, so it was a little past the deadline, but it was meant to be, because if it hadn't came in that moment maybe I wouldn't have been thinking about the final song. So, but all things happen for a reason. I know it's a saying people say it all the time, but that one worked out, so good um one country scene.
Speaker 1:You think listeners are sleeping on?
Speaker 2:um, all of them, man people, yeah, all of them listen to all of there's. There's more than just united united kingdom and united states music. And you know, africa isn't just lagos, nigeria, like, there's 54 countries out there, you know. So everything's different. Uh, I think, I think people are sleeping on world music in general. So, yeah, so tap in, yeah okay, exactly, it's now.
Speaker 1:You heard him. Yeah, all right, um, let me go, let me go. Uh, if somebody's got 20 minutes, which three tracks give them the passport stamp experience the beginning.
Speaker 2:Uh, the first 20 songs well, about 21 um are built as a worldwide thing to where, if, if I was only able to fit? And it's not because of the they're the best song, it's just it made sense to travel the world with those first 20 songs. Geographically wise, you hit every continent, but also you hit tons of different styles of genres, tons of different languages. So try to listen to like.
Speaker 1:Just start listening from the beginning, you know, and after you've listened to the album all the way through once, then listen to it on shuffle so nice, yeah, okay, sequencing a 12-hour record which you did um it taught you what about how people actually listen to music I like that question actually a lot.
Speaker 2:Um, well, how I mentioned, the prelude album had 158 tracks, like 80 of the world. That was a good practice run again for myself to learn strengths and weaknesses of ordering an album and, um, I picked up a lot of things from those and the. The big thing was don't just focus on the genres and the languages and geographically, focus on how the artists connect with each other. Like, um, it was just some weird way of going about it and it just felt like if, if I connected the artists through the, through the album, it would naturally serve as a foundation for the listening experience. Um, versus just saying, okay, let's do hip-hop and let's do rock and let's do pop, it's like if you picture all the artists together and you and you put them together like holding hands, like I was saying, like that that could be a way to to do this right. Um, and yeah, I don't know if I answered your question directly there, but yeah, yeah, so, um, yeah, yeah um all right, last two quick, uh lightning round questions.
Speaker 1:Um so one artist you're convinced is about to blow internationally?
Speaker 2:see, this is always a, because I always look at every artist individually, you know, like it's never like one man or one woman above the crew. So I will just say that I hope that every artist I know they already have, but I hope that every artist somehow just gets a benefit, whether it's minute or gigantic, from this project, not just in music, but like in life, you know. Um, so yeah, just naturally, I can't, I can't just call it she's a one or one artist or not, so but uh, but yeah, I would just say I hope they all somehow benefit and continue to benefit of it.
Speaker 1:Last question what's your metric for success for this album? Is it streams? Did these artists get new collabs, new bookings, new shine? What would it be your metric for success?
Speaker 2:How much better does the world become because of this album? And that's just straight up. Yeah, if, if, if. Everything in this world, for example, is energy. How much positive energy can this album be? And to, to change the percentage towards a little bit better? Um, not saying the world's a bad place, just can it. Can it be even better because of this album? Right yeah, man okay um I felt that one when I said it too. I felt it so yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, I want people to enjoy and jam out to the music too. But like in the end, like if people, if this became something that they would, people would read in history books. I'm saying this humbly, like if people read about this thing in history books. I would hope that it was like a defining moment that connected the world a little closer.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah. We gotta let that breathe, man, we gotta let that.
Speaker 2:It's gotta breathe. We shot it out into the world as hard as we could and now it's like we're still pushing, but we gave it to the world. We'll see what the world does with it, you know.
Speaker 1:So, all right um, man, let's put, let's play one more, and then I'll have, uh, one more question, and then you know, know, I'll let you go, man, because you got things to do. Man, I'll let you record which track do you think?
Speaker 2:Well, because we've been given all the love in the beginning, maybe, maybe, let's go towards, towards like the middle or something here. Let me think here, let's actually OK, let's do scroll up a little bit more, maybe towards like 100. We'll do. I think it's one, oh one I'm looking for, yeah, one. Oh, scroll up a little bit more, maybe towards 100. I think it's 101, I'm looking for, yeah, 101. Excuse the name, but yeah, this artist, I was like you sure you want to use that name, man. I was like, technically I know it's not a cuss word, but this is from the artist from Northern Ireland, which is technically a part of the United Kingdom. There's Ireland, there's Northern Ireland, but this is off like a flute and a piccolo flute and just a live recording and super dope, super worldly.
Speaker 1:Wise bastard, it's what it's called, so let me get that queued up.
Speaker 2:It's the world album, folks. We got everything. There's even a smoking song on the world album, folks. We got everything. Exactly there's. There's even a smoking song on the world album. You can't not have a smoking song on a world album. Come on, people smoke and listen to music sometimes, so exactly exactly that's.
Speaker 1:You know what's crazy I? I was like yo when people put this on. That's exactly just lay back, sit back and just smoke, or just sip on something and just chill and just listen.
Speaker 2:Could it make this too commercial? It can't be like. You know, we have to fit a certain. The best way is just what is the world right now? Let's fit that. It has to have a smoke song, it has to have a kid's song, it has to have animation style songs, classical hip-hop, pop, new stuff, everything, Just everything Got you classical hip hop, pop, like new stuff, everything, like just everything.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, Gotcha, all right, wise bastard, everybody, let's, let's get to it. Thank you, I'm sorry boy, listen, listen. I had to get a little more early on the world album. Yeah, yeah, listen, man, if the yo I know it's some some of my fellow mutants on this podcast that follow this podcast they gonna listen to that. They're gonna be like, hey, maybe I can flip. That you know, because we in a this whole flipping remix culture right oh, yeah, like so, I encourage, I encourage people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go for it. So, like you know, remix, let's do it. Just shout out the artist if you remix it. That's a lot, that's all you know, so yeah, right, man?
Speaker 1:okay, so, uh, final two questions for you, man, um, and I, once again, I want to say thank you for allowing me to talk to you about this world album from international artist project.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you. Thank you for giving an opportunity for more people to hear about it, you know, thank you.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, man, it's my pleasure. Man, this, this is what I love to do. Man, this is, this is one of those things it's like you know, when you like, kind of questioning, you know what you're doing and you know if anybody's paying attention. Like this is one of those. Another wake up call like okay, yeah, keep going, man, cause this is that. This gives me that goose bump feeling just for something like this man, I love this man. Yes, sir, so okay, what's the bigger, the bigger picture when it comes to this? Where do you see, like international artist project going from here?
Speaker 2:well, um, it's been announced informally, should I say. The reason it hasn't been announced formally is because of the timeline. Um, you know, the world album I thought would take four years, it took two. It took nine days, short of two years, um, but it's international artist festival, the first festival to feature artists from every country of the world. And, uh, two, it took nine days, short of two years. But it's International Artist Festival, the first festival to feature artists from every country of the world. And you know I can go down how it would work operationally. I have it, but we'll just save the time for the lightning round. But ultimately, international Artist Festival is the second era of this project. It's not released in another world album.
Speaker 2:However, if International Artist Festival is able to be managed successfully, I think it could be cool, just like how we have FIFA World Cup, we have the Olympics, we have the Super Bowl, we have the Tour de France. It'd be cool if, every 10 years and the reason I say 10 years is because music needs to breathe sometimes, but imagine a world where every 10 years, you know 2035, you had another world album and you had it that it dropped on the same day as international artist festival, a week long festival and no matter what was going on in the world every 10 years. You know, you always knew that there was going to be a festival featuring artists from every country of the world and a new world album. I think that'd be pretty cool. The only problem is, god, let's not let it get too commercial.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, because there's some beauty in the way the artists were found this time. Some were homeless, some are millionaires. You know, everything in between um and uh, to avoid the commercial aspect of it and make, continue to make it meaningful. I think that could be a beautiful, beautiful way for world and the music to connect deeper on a global scale. So, yeah, and of course, like documentary stuff, like that, you know, would be cool too, but yeah, but ultimately, like the vision as far as like what's in our hands. International artists festival.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 2:That's something I would definitely come in and travel to to see man. It's going to be a big undertaking but luckily there's levels on artist involvement. You know, like level one, to get as many artists there as possible. If they're not able to get there, the second level would be virtual. There'd be a stage for the virtual performances. The third level would be that it's actually another stage dedicated to music videos and pre-recorded DJ live sets and pre-recorded acoustic sets, because if the artist can't meet number one, they can do number two. If they can't do number two, number three and if worse comes to worse, you have a DJ playing music from the world album. So, no matter what, international Artist Festival features artists from every country. It's just there's four levels of involvement from artists around the world. You know, like I feel like that's the key to build it first and maybe doing it again the second time around. It could actually have artists there physically, you know, but sometimes you got to do the path of least resistance, to lay the breadcrumbs first, you know.
Speaker 1:Mr Beckwith, you've thought about this. Yes, you've thought about this.
Speaker 2:Yes, you've thought about this man. I know so lightning rounds are tough for me, man, we're going to have to call them thunder rounds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, no, it's okay, no, but you've thought about this world stage of having all of these acts come to this event, man. That's forward thinking man. So I feel like it's gonna come.
Speaker 2:when it does, if it does happen, when it no, not if when we gotta keep saying when, even even though we want to say if I know, I know let me know.
Speaker 1:Let me know because I would love to, to come and experience it, but then for my family to come experience something like this. I don't think we've ever had something like that happen.
Speaker 2:We haven't. I've done a lot of research After I came up with the idea for the World. I've constantly researched what has been done, what hasn't, just to make sure I'm not wasting my time. What would be cool is just how we had pay-per-view. Growing up on fights, I'm watching it. It'd be cool if people would just pay-per-view, or whatever you know, streaming in to where the whole world can watch it, even from home. You know it's like it's a grand event, you know, but whoever can be there in person would be great. So, but yeah, so that's the vision for the future. That's what I'm it the second era, you know.
Speaker 1:So I got you, I got you. I'm a marvel fan too, man yeah, I love it. I love marvel yeah um, okay, so listen, uh, how can, how can people support you and your this movement that you're doing with international artists project, and how can people find you and email you or, you know, tap into uh or contact you and stuff like that?
Speaker 2:Yep, yeah. So as far as just for direct, the easiest webs, like the website internationalartistprojectorg now it's org, cause it's it's, it's an organization, Um so, but yeah, internationalartistprojectorg is the main website. Or you can follow us on Instagram. If you really want to feel the culture and see the artists and the testimony videos and music videos, go to at international underscore artist underscore project. On. Instagram.
Speaker 2:International Artist Project on Instagram. But I know everyone releases new music, says, tap into my stuff, stream my stuff, get the numbers up. Like the numbers are great. But in reality, like people, like everyone listening, like we have a world album there we're on earth, we just finally have something where you can tap in, listen to the whole world. You don't have to listen to it today, you don't have to listen to it next year. You don't have to listen to it today, you don't have to listen to it next year. But I would encourage everyone, at least once in their lifetime listen to the World Album and open your brain and just mind and heart on what's out there One time. And I think if everyone would listen to the World Album even one time in their life, it could be cool.
Speaker 2:And it supports the artists. They keep 100% of the royalties. I take nothing from this project Zero. And it supports the artists. They keep 100% of the royalties. I take nothing from this project Zero 0%. So you know they're encouraged to use half towards something good in their home country. So the more money they make off royalties, you know, the bigger this gets. That's more money for them to give back to their home countries. You know some artists talk about getting better wells, like you know, for water. Some artists want to do music workshops. You know Some artists want to do music workshops. Some artists want to do simple stuff like disability. There's so many ways that 10 years down the road we can look back and say, wow, look at all this philanthropy that was also done from half of these artists' royalties. But ultimately just experience the world album. Don't worry about supporting us, just experience the world album at the tail end of it.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I couldn't, I couldn't have said it even better. Like, I'm gonna put a link to this album on the uh, the rectual podcast link tree. I'm gonna put it so whenever anybody taps into you know the rectual podcast, that's gonna be one of the links that they see and they go with the world album like what, what?
Speaker 2:is this yes, go go ahead, go and tap into it, man I almost made a mistake and named it international artist project part three. I almost made that mistake and then just one night I was like, bro, you like the world album. Like it was just so simple. It was like just call it the world album, international artist project, like you can't go wrong with that. Like, so that part three is going to confuse people. So yeah, thank God. Thank God for that day.
Speaker 1:Thank God for that day. Listen, oh man. One more question before I go. I forgot that. Okay, you released this project on Emancipation Day. Was that intentional?
Speaker 2:No, it actually wasn't. So I didn't know. I mean, there's so many holidays, especially when you're dealing with the whole world, like there's so many holidays. But I actually was going to release it on July 18th but, as you know, I mentioned, there were some artists that missed the deadline. It took about an extra 30 plus days and I wanted plenty of time to submit the album, do the pre-release. But I was going to release it on July 18th and actually had international artists gathering planned because artists from like almost 15 countries came to Amsterdam. We all celebrated the release.
Speaker 2:That was where the project was birthed, so, but because of the lateness, I had to push it to August 1st the two Fridays from there, because you always want to release on a Friday, like the first of every month is always good for playlisting but I actually had to leave Amsterdamsterdam and and come back, because I was on a travel visa now, um, and I had to leave and went to tunisia and africa for like almost a month and then came back, just so I was able to be there for the release week, uh. But I wanted to release it on july 31st, uh, which was my mom's birthday. As you can tell, I give a lot of dedication to my mom. She helped a lot with this project.
Speaker 3:Shout out to mom too.
Speaker 2:She's born on July 31st. What I'm doing is, even though we released the album on Friday, august 1st, we're going to have something called World Album Day. We've already publicly announced it, but it's not written on paper anywhere. It's going to be July 31st every year because I want to honor emancipation day. Like still, I don't want to like, take anything away from that day, not that we even can like, but, like you know. So I want july 31st to be world album day, and then august 1st can always be emancipation day, even though it was released on on the first, the first time. So I think that just pays respects in both ways. You know right.
Speaker 2:So, but yeah, totally didn't know that oh man so yeah, yeah, I had found out, like last minute, and actually another artist from trinidad and tobago um, not queen amiga, but another one had had mentioned it to me and I said, oh no, so but yeah so well, yes, um, any final thoughts?
Speaker 1:uh, from from the creator of international artist project, mr brandon. You know, I'm saying like any, any, any final thoughts that you want uh people to know or people to do, or anything like that uh, ultimately, just man, music can connect us all.
Speaker 2:I think I think that's one thing I really want to say. It's not even cheesy like music really can connect us all. Um, I think I want to leave it with that, because I guess you can say that with art and everything, but there's just something special about music that just you know, it's quick, um it, uh, so I hope the world can, you know, tap into music as like a way to just connect deeper with people all around the world. Um, it's something beautiful and natural that we've had for so long. So, um, there's a beauty in music beyond, beyond even this project and beyond the world album, and let's, let's continue to chase that and investigate it.
Speaker 1:So, beautifully put man. Um, okay, listen, internets. That is a wrap for today's episode of the retro podcast. Big salute to brandon beckwith, man, and to in and the international artist project, for you know, showing us how music can connect the planet. One track at a time, man and um, if you haven't yet, please go run up the world album, 200 tracks. I mean it's 12 hours of music. Go ahead, put it on like at home and just just enjoy. Enjoy the sounds, enjoy the experience, because I feel like this is definitely a world traveling experience, like you know I'm saying, but, um, man, it's out everywhere now. 12 and a half hours of pure global sound, as always. Keep supporting your local beat makers. Keep your ears open. I know we are.
Speaker 1:Start with the record. Recognize the beats. Count blessings, not problems. I'm gold to mine. This is is Mr Brandon Beckwith, you know what I mean. We'll catch on another one. I mean this is, this is only part one, man, I feel like yo, I'm gonna leave the door open. Man, like you got anything else coming open, coming up, appreciate it. You want to release it? Let me know Like yo, the episode man.
Speaker 2:You got my support man. Hey, thank, thank you for the opportunity man, thank you. So, um, just still super blessed right now, so very happy. So thank you and, yeah, blessings to to your podcast for for everything on the future to come. So great podcast. I listened to many episodes before before this one to prepare, so yeah yes, sir, I I'm.
Speaker 1:I'm learning on a, on a. I'm learning on the on the fly, right now too, man. Even though I've been doing this for like four years, every day I'm still learning something new, man. So thank you for the opportunity to spotlight you in this project. I wish you peace, love, everything man, everything man.
Speaker 2:I know I'll talk to you soon, man thank you, and one last shout out to algorithm C for the connection. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, christopher, yeah shout out to myorithm C for the connection. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, christopher. Yeah, shout out to my guy. Man, algorithm C, we're going to. We're going to talk, man, I got to. He's been telling me about some Grammy stuff and, man, I just been a little too busy. But yeah, I'm a figure it out though, man. But shout out to Algorithm C, mr Mr Beckwith. Man, I appreciate your time. Man, I hope.
