Post by amaneti on Apr 13, 2006 15:37:17 GMT -5
Parashqevi Simaku’s Albanian world music album Echoes from Iliria (Jehone nga Ilria) is now available for digital download through the iTunes virtual store (www.itunes.com).
Albanian Star Simaku Releases Her First US Album and Donates CDs to Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia
Parashqevi Simaku’s Echoes from Iliria (Jehone nga Ilria), her new Albanian world music album, is now available for download from iTunes, the leading online distributor of digital music in the world. iTunes is owned by US computer giant Apple. This is in addition to Sony/BMG Entertainment’s distribution of Simaku’s new CD in US record stores such as Tower Records, Virgin Megastores and Borders.
Simaku’s Echoes from Iliria (Jehone nga Iliria) is also now being featured at Virgin Megastores’s listening stations where her music can be previewed with headphones. World music is one of the top sellers in their Manhattan stores due New York’s international profile with Virgins’s flagship store located in the infamous Times Square.
Simaku recently performed live at Borders in Manhattan where over 100 fans attended and Albanian music was shared with a cosmopolitan public including Stan Dragoti, Fadil Berisha, Donika Bardha, Gary Kokalari and Tony Dovalani, who recently starred on ABC Television’s spektaklin amerikan “Vallezim me yjet”. With her husband Robert Nolfe on guitar, Simaku perfromed songs from the new CD and signed autographs.
A promotional tour for Echoes from Iliria (Jehone nga Iliria) is continuing sponsored by Sony/BMG and Borders as Simaku makes special appearances performing at Borders in various US cities.
In an extraodinary event, Parashqevi Simaku has given her new album, Echoes From Iliria (Jehone nga Iliria), to Albania, Kosova and Macedonia for free. When Simaku signed the music contract in Hollywood, she retained the rights for the territories of Albania, Kosova and Macedonia.
Parashqevi Simaku has made the following statement: “At this time, I would like to announce that without hesitation I grant the rights to manufacture and distribute my new 10-song album in Albanian language, Echoes From Iliria (Jehone nga Iliria) to Albania, Kosova and Macedonia for free. The folk songs belong to my people and these songs have made me who I am. I, Parashqevi Simaku, give to all the music stores and radio televisions of Albania, Kosova and Macedonia the rights to sell, use, and distribute my album Jehone nga Iliria (Echoes From Iliria). In Albania, I have already given away 250 original masters of the CD that were manufactured by Sony/BMG in the United States. This is a gift from me and my husband and producer Robert Nolfe as a contribution to preserve Albanian music.”
Simaku’s new song Anes Lumenjve is a special song dedicated to all immigrants around the world. The lyrics from this new original song are based on the honorable poet Fan S. Noli’s famous poem.
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>Degjoni Jehone nga Iliria<
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>Bleni CD’n ne Amazon.com<
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>Degjoni Zërin e Amerikës<
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