Hancock’s 70th birthday, which was April 12, will be celebrated during special concerts Thursday (June 24) at New York City’s Carnegie Hall and September 1 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. He’ll dedicate a portion of his shows this year to the album and will include the recording’s musical guests via videos synchronized with the live band “so that it’s possible to take people on a real journey into the music,” he says. Hancock also plans to incorporate the footage into his concerts. The various sessions for “The Imagine Project” were filmed and will become the source material for a documentary and Web-based applications, possibly including a site where fans can remix tracks from the album. “To me the path toward peace is through global collaboration, so the heart of this record is the idea of making a global record or an international record, in multiple languages and in a variety of places.” “It’s a record that’s basically about peace,” explains Hancock, crediting his attorney with inspiring the concept. Khan, Shorter and Anoushka Shankar teamed up with Indian musicians for the Klein original “The Song Goes On,” while Diabete, the Chieftains, Lionel Loueke and Lisa Hannigan were part of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” and John Legend and Pink joined forces for Peter Gabriel’s “Don’t Give Up.” With its global orientation, “The Imagine Project” includes a version of John Lennon’s “Imagine” with Beck, Pink, Seal and India.Arie, as well as the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” with Matthews. In the past you had to buy whole albums now you can buy song by song, so people buy what they want and (build) their own compilation in a way. It’s in keeping with what’s being practiced today by the general public, which is that people buy songs. “But I like the fact that everything on the record is different from everything else.
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