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RCA’s credentials as the leading record label of 2007 were fully endorsed last night when they won MusicWeek’s most prestigious award, Record Company of the Year. The award goes to the company which achieves the most in terms of market share, working successful album projects, and breaking new artists.

The success of RCA, headed up by Craig Logan, was down to a strong focus on A&R, yielding chart topping sales from The Hoosiers, Newton Faulkner, strong international sales from artists such as Natasha Bedingfield, and RCA’s partnership with Syco, achieving international superstardom for Leona Lewis.

While RCA is now building successful international careers for these acts, it is also focussing on the next wave of UK talent with high hopes for new acts like The Script, Sam Beaton and Ida Maria.

International acts on the RCA label also played their part with artists such Justin Timberlake, Pink, The Fray, and Britney Spears. RCA also has a strong line up of artist albums for 2008, including new albums from Usher, Will Young, Beyonce, Rod Stewart and Dido.

“This is a great achievement for Craig and his team,” says Ged Doherty, Chairman of SONY BMG Music Entertainment UK & Ireland. “Sony BMG led the industry in breaking new acts last year. We plan to do the same this year.”

“I’m thrilled that we have won this award” says Craig Logan, MD RCA Label Group, “Over the last couple of years we have built a great team. Our focus is A&R and getting the music right. We now have established a great platform for RCA to go on to even bigger and better things this year as we continue to build up our fantastic roster of artists.”

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The fab team of David Byrne and Brian Eno team up for the first time after 1981’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Byrne does the rich lyrics and vocals, while Eno produced the music. Although each has a stellar reputation in their own right, the duo were behind many of the excellent Talking Heads records in the 1970s, and seem to have lost little of their verve in the intervening years.

The opening track, “Home”, gives a multi-dimensional perspective to the common term, looking at it from a distance, remembering, yet appreciating - even the negative stuff

Home- where the wheels are turning
Home- why I keep returning
Home- where my world is breaking in two
Home- with the neighbors fighting
Home- always so exciting
Home- were my parents telling the truth?
Home- such a funny feeling
Home- no-one ever speaking
Home- with our bodies touching
Home- and the cam’ras watching
Home- will infect whatever you do

The vocals are rather unemotional, as one might expect from David Byrne. This is not to say the song is unemotional or shallow. Rather, the singer lets the lyrics and orchestration create the illusion of home, without layering it with the sentimentality a lesser singer might impart.

“My Big Nurse” seems a geriatric ode to life and to the things that protect and care. The song is deathly slow, creating a languid afternoon mood. The quest is for “all the possibilities/For dancing on this lazy afternoon”. This is something one might do, interestingly enough, “When he shakes the stars above/When we lose the ones we love/When the seasons lose their grip/When the tightrope walker slips”. The security one needs for this kind of carefree, Sufi-ish dancing is derived from being “In the comfort of the world/In the arms of my big nurse.” This is perhaps a song best appreciated in the evening, or even, afternoon, of one’s mortality.

There’s a whole lotta stuff going on in “I Feel My Stuff”. This is as much a vehicle for Eno’s masterful orchestration as for Byrne’s out-there imagery, combining Lebanese Sailors with Christian crimes and fast-paced fretwork with staccato electronica notes. Let the song wash over you, give into a ‘fatafat generation’ vibe and “stuff it, step it, pick it, going bye”.

The title track “Everything That Happens” might be just a build-up to the chorus. Then again, it seems to evoke a post-9/11 vibe, from the very beginning, with the ‘neighbor’s car explode’ on a ‘perfect highway’. There is hope, asking, “Oh my brother, I still wonder, are you alright?/And among the living, we are giving, all through the night”. The signature lyrics are perfectly apt for our times, “Everything that happens will happen today/& nothing has changed, but nothing’s the same/and ev’ry tomorrow could be yesterday/& ev’rything that happens will happen today”.

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An audiophile friend has generously loaned me his new Weiss Firewire DAC2

Hi folks - well the shiny new macbook is sounding great through optical out via airport express and direct into my DAC…but…wheres all this stuff about 24bit/96khz I hear about setting up in Audio Midi? I just get “Output is not supported” with no option of choosing anything other than “Built in output” - am I missing something? Have trawled the Apply forums but it seems audio out and what it does is something of a mystery over there!! Half of them have lost audio altogether and don’t know how to get it back - thought the Mac was easier than a Windows PC

No digs intended, having great fun just thought I had read everything I needed to know ‘before’ going Mac but seems you need to actually have one in your hands ‘before’ things really fall into place!

Off to Ashley at AVI this morning to see/hear the ADM9.1’s, will report back…oops better jump in shower

*** UPDATE *** Ah found it!! If I click on Properties for… I can get to play with outputs instead of inputs!! But it’s a bit counter intuitive to then put ‘Input not supported’ in that bit of the dialogue - but I get what it means now… must get a book on OS X

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