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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Arts / News Ben Folds releases new album
Posted By Anita Overcash on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Ben Folds' new album University A Capella was released on Tuesday. Read more about it in the CNN story below.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Ben Folds didn't realize how great his music was until he heard a bunch of college students singing it.The singer-songwriter says he was beyond impressed when he stumbled across videos of university a cappella groups singing covers of his songs on YouTube.
"I was really moved," he says. "I thought it was better than what I had done when I first heard it. That's how it struck me because it was so fresh."
And so an idea was born: Folds would travel to university campuses around the country and record an entire album of a cappella covers.
The North Carolina native picked 15 ensembles from 250 submissions for "Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!" (Epic), which came out Tuesday. And to give the music a "field recording" feel, he kept the process simple: Each performance was recorded using six wide-range microphones, and most of the groups got it down in one or two takes. To read more, click here.
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