#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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
let's see.
Okay, all right, all right,check, check.
One, two man, yo, what's goodeverybody, welcome back to the
red show podcast, where we shinea light on beat makers and
music culture from around theglobe.
You know we start with therecord and then we recognize the
beats.
But today, listen, we're doingsomething crazy big, like I've

(00:20):
never.
I've never seen or heard ofanything quite like this man and
the homie algorithm c man isthe one that put me in touch
with this gentleman that we'regoing to be talking about and
this amazing, amazing body ofwork that is out there for the
world.
And I don't even think, youknow, it's so much music that we

(00:41):
get released this.
You know it can kind of getswept under the rug or lost in
the in the noise, but I justwant to bring a big spotlight to
this album.
Um, I'm chopping it up withbrandon beckwith, right, the
mind behind the internationalartist project and the world
album, which is a 200 songjourney that literally brings

(01:02):
every country together on onerecord.
We are.
The world is for real, justringing in my head right now.
Um, we're talking, you know,crate digging worldwide,
curating 121 genres in 93different languages, and what it
really means to build communitythrough music on a global scale

(01:25):
.
Man, so listen, internet, y'allin for a treat.
This is going to be a dopeepisode.
Don't go nowhere.
Hit that like, subscribe allthat good stuff.
Let us know, leave a comment ifyou're enjoying the
conversation that we're going tobe having.
But yeah, man, I want theInternet to go ahead and let me
welcome Brandon Beckwith to theshow.

(01:46):
Brandon, how are you today, myguy?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
I'm doing wonderful.
How are you, my friend?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I'm doing great man.
It's Friday, Happy Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, man, it's a pleasure.
Man, um man.
I learned about this projectthrough algorithm C, who's been
a previous guest on the show.
He's always been a supporterfor me.
Man, and um shout out toalgorithm 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.

(02:17):
You know, uh, uh, that you cando 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 myresearch and then boom, that's
when I get in contact with youand I'm, I'm looking up and
doing all the research and I'mlike, holy smokes, like this guy

(02:38):
really pulled all of thistogether.
So I'm glad I get theopportunity to chop it up with
you, man hey, no, thank you forthe opportunity.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
um, I'm glad to be able to connect and, yeah, shout
out to Algorithm C.
So I guess he's actually theartist born from St Vincent and
the Grenadines on the worldalbum.
So it's a pleasure for all ofus to come full circle, you know
.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yes, sir, man, so man , I got All right.
Here's my first question, manyou?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
know we're man.
Here's my first question, manwe're going to start.
It's just you and me, we'rejust homies talking, kicking it.
All.
Right, I like it, I'mcomfortable, I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Exactly Good man.
So go ahead and introduceyourself so the listeners know
who you are, what you do andwhat this world actually is what
this world album actually is.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, so who I am, you know.
First, my name is BrandonBeckwith.
I'm originally from CaliforniaFresno, California, to be
specific, in the United Statesand, yeah, I'm the founder of
International Artists Project.
I mean, it took a lot of us toput this together, but, yeah, I
had the initial idea and I'malso the owner of Keep Clear
Records, which is a music labelbased out of California as well.

(03:47):
So, yeah, ultimately, there wasthis idea that I had, you know
about a little over two yearsago, in June of 2023, to find an
artist born in every country ofthe world and connect them all
and, you know, because we're allconnected through like a social
media group channel where wecan, all you know, share culture
, music and collaborate togetherand build the world album and

(04:10):
do a series of albums leading upto it.
So it wasn't just everyonewaiting for who knows how long
this was going to take, you know.
So we did two albums leading upto it.
That was like a slowprogression, but, yeah, now our
planet has a world album, so wenever 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 thepassion and purpose mixture that

(04:31):
you know made it possible, anda lot of people that saw the
vision.
So there's over 250 peopleinvolved on this project.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
So Wow, Wow, man Like , this is what made you.
What made.
Where did this idea just come?
It just sprung up on you justrandomly, or?

Speaker 2 (04:47):
you know I've tried to figure that out a few times
myself, like, like, like, kindof, 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.
I guess it was over two monthsago now that I'm looking at the
date, but yeah, I had nevertraveled out of the United
States until I was 34.
And the very first place I everwent was to Cairo, to Egypt, to

(05:10):
go see the pyramids.
I was like, because everyone'salways going on European
backpack vacations or toSoutheast Asia, I wanted to do
something different and go seethe pyramids and I went there.
Then I did go through Europeand I fell in love with
Amsterdam along the way.
It really spoke to me, theculture of it, just the vibe,

(05:33):
the music.
When I had left, after going onthat long trip, I said I'm
going to move back to Amsterdam.
I'm going to move to Amsterdamone day, and I stuck my word.
About six months later I left myjob, I went over there and I
knew I wanted to do somethingwith music still over there,
because I was doing Keep ClearRecords here and I think it was
just an embrace like thisoverwhelming nature of freedom
seeing the world for the firsttime, culture, the love for

(05:56):
music and just the opportunity.
And it was this perfect mixturethat scrambled into this idea
and, within the idea, hittingwithin like five minutes.
I knew this was not even fiveminutes, within like about a
minute.
I knew this was something I wasgoing to do and the operation
was possible.
It was just going to take a lot.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
So Wow yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I can go on long about this sometimes, so if I
talk too much, slow me down, butyeah so very passionate about
this project.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's all right, man, cause I can, because I can tell
that you have the passion I wantto hear.
I know the internets are veryinterested because they've never
, at least my audience has neverheard about somebody pulling an
album of this magnitudetogether.
I've seen 45-track albums, youknow, like Flip, a Beat Club, or
you know some of these otherlike lo-fi.

(06:43):
You know record labels, a beatclub or, um, you know some of
these other like lo-fi, um, youknow record labels and stuff
like that.
But yeah, 200, wow, from fromall these different cultures
from around the world, like whenwe say worldwide, that's,
that's worldwide man it's thetrue definition of global music.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
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 tobecome famous.
Like it wasn't anything likethat.
It was really like let's dosomething that's never been done
before.
You know how many thing aboutthis is.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
it took at least one person born in every country of
the world to say yes, to make itpossible, and there's something
beautiful in that you know,right, wow, and they and are
these people that you just knewfrom connections through, like
social media, or you just likeresearch, your team researching
different um, genres of musicand artists and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, so how it started when I had the idea I
had only known artists from bornin three countries.
My good friend that I actuallyoriginally started the label
with before I had taken it overfully for myself.
He was born in California, hewas a hip hop, he did a little
bit of rap but he was more hiphop instrumentalist producer guy
and he would releaseinstrumental albums that were

(08:08):
awesome, like they were fullypacked instrumental albums, and
then he would have like rapperslike get on them.
So.
And then I knew another guythat was born in Armenia, that
had moved to the United Stateswhen he was around three years
old, that I grew up with and healso made music, like
instrumental music, and had alittle bit of like Armenian
flair to it, but he still grewup in Cali.

(08:28):
And then I knew a girl that Ihad met that did uplifting
trance electronic music inAmsterdam right before I had the
idea.
So I talked to them three aboutit 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 aconcept album and we dropped it
on the launch date of theproject, which was about a week

(08:49):
and a half after I had the idea.
It was on june 11, 2023 threetrack album, three different
genres, not counting the subgenres, um, and I told them you
keep 100 of your royalties, 100of your ownership.
I take nothing but you.
You are encouraged to use halftowards something good in your
home country or in the worldwhen your royalties build up.
And after those first three,then it just became a deep

(09:12):
search.
I started traveling.
I hit over 30 countries in 14months, 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 inhostels 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, youknow, meeting more people abroad
.
And I built like over.

(09:33):
There was about 24 agents intotal.
Some came, it came and left.
But, yeah, I found about ahundred and ten artists myself
traveling and networking andAgents helped me find 90, and
then some artists would referother artists when it got so big
.
So be like who do we have left?
so yeah, yeah, that word ofmouth, that word about travels,
wow but yeah, took 14 months andthen an extra four months to

(09:55):
find an artist born in northkorea.
That that one took a littlelonger, but we completed it in
14, plus the four for one forthe final artist wow wow, man
like I am, I am justflabbergasted, I'm wow, wow.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
I mean I know, I know you probably had your days
where you were like man, likethis is so I want to die a
couple, but I allowed myself tohave those days.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I learned I was like man, like every so often you're
gonna have those days.
Don't let those be the decisiondays, let those just be the bad
days, like so, and becauseyou're gonna feel good 80 of the
time, 20 of it, you might.
You might be like what am Idoing?
And it was less, it was maybefive percent of the time.
I had some rough days but, um,yeah, I just got through them.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
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, butokay, let me, let me go through

(11:09):
my script.
But okay, um, so we alreadyknow how the world album uh
first came to life.
But uh, why was it importantfor you to include like every
country on one record?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
you know, um, I know a lot of people, when they don't
know about the album like, theysee it in different ways.
Like they see it as like a flagfor peace, or they see it, as
you know, just maybe somethingto try to get world records, or
some people just see it asambitious, like some people
actually see it for the beautyof it.
But when the idea hit it justuh, like I don't want to get too

(11:42):
spiritual, but like like Idon't want to get too spiritual
but like it did feel like itfelt like a passion meets
purpose kind of situationbecause I don't know, like I've
had a lot of weird ideas growingup, like I mean like weird
stuff, like hologram stuff, likeall these weird things like,
but when this one hit I knew Icould do it and I felt like you
know, like I was kind of blessedwith with the idea and was the

(12:04):
right person for it to drop intoand 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 coulddo for the world, you know like
it's, it's crazy to think that,you know, mostly in most in
America sometimes, like we, wedon.
We aren't super educated ongeography, we're not super

(12:27):
educated on all the differentgenres of music.
We're not very educated on allthe different languages that are
around the world.
I mean, there's thousands oflanguages, all the different
cultures, the styles you know,like even the people's Instagram
, how they dress, likeeverything.
I felt like this was a way toexpose the world like to itself,
like everything.

(12:47):
Um, I felt like this was a wayto expose the world like to
itself, um and uh, like throughmusic and get to jam along the
way.
Uh and like what I?
What I mean by that is it wasjust.
It was a way to like just put apicture, put a picture of the
world to an extent in a timecapsule and like hand it off to
everybody and there's feltsomething beautiful about that
and the world needed it.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Um, our planet needed a world album more than I think
we know, yeah, I, I agree withthat.
I definitely wow, man.
Um, yeah, you could getspiritual.
My guy like we don't, we don'tshy away from spirituality.
Well, no, we could talk aboutit, because that's the reason
why I'm even doing this, thispodcast, right here.

(13:25):
Is it just dropped on me?
And then I was like all right,let me just start it.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Let's do it yeah 130.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
This would be 132 episodes later.
Here we are.
We're talking about a worldalbum.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, on some of those bad days, there was
definitely the motivation Likeyou can't stop now, though,
either, like you're this far in,you gotta go, but, um, there
was always light at the end ofthe tunnel, so but, but yeah, I
mean it's.
It's cool because it alsoconnects so many people like you
and I wouldn't be talking ifthis album wasn't here, like
algorithm c wouldn't, and I'd betalking, like, my mom found six
artists like during the artistsearch, because she went through

(14:00):
a phase where she was like I,because she used to live in
hawaii for a while and she'slike I want to help you find the
islands near australia, and Iwas like, okay, have fun.
Like, and she found six artistslike what?
So?
um, it brought so many peopletogether.
A lot of artists have met up,like they're and the artists
from singapore and uh and theartist that was born in cuba

(14:21):
were just hanging out the otherday like I wasn't even there,
you know.
You know, like the artist fromMalaysia and Singapore also met
up.
There's been tons of otherartists that have met up like
all around the world, like when,when I'm not even there and we
do artists gatherings, but it'sjust cool to see how long this
will continue to be like a nexusof connecting people and all
around the world.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
So yeah, what's your?
What's your mom's name?
My mom's name is.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Megan Beckwith.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Megan Beckwith.
Thank you, thank you forhelping out your son Brandon.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Shout out to mom.
Yeah, Shout out to moms Joe.
My dad will kill me if I didn'tsay that he did find one artist
, but it was his barber and herhusband was born in Vietnam and
played the guitar.
And it was, her husband wasborn in Vietnam and played the
guitar, and it was in the earlydays and I was like, hey, if he
can play guitar and he canactually make a good song, let's
make it happen.
And it came out good, so what's?

Speaker 1 (15:12):
your pop's name.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Brent Beckwith.
Yeah, megan, and Brent Beckwithyeah.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Megan and Brent Yo, thank you.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Shout out.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Ok, so listen, I'm gonna play, uh, one of the
tracks from from the album.
Man, I'm gonna just weave inand out of the questions and
we're gonna let the internetshear this album.
But then afterwards, internets,y'all go, because I'm gonna
leave a description, a link inthe description of the show
where y'all can go and listen tothis album.
Man, when I when I say I'venever heard an album like this,

(15:46):
I've literally never heard analbum like this.
So let's start with number one.
This one is called InfiniteUniverse by Izzy.
I'm not sure where this artistis from, but-.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
He's from the Netherlands and it's a collab
with an artist from Peru, Yep.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Nice, okay, all right , let's get into this one.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
The universe.
Infinite, complete infinitecomplete.
No final line, no water drop.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's her neither here nor wow, wow, um yo, I know I
could let it play, but I don'twant to let it play.
I'm only giving y'all snippetsinternet, 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 Iwas like, yeah, this is, this

(17:10):
is what it was like.
I listened to, uh, this type ofmusic when I was in turkey and
I was like, yeah, all right,this is definitely gonna be a
world album, yeah yeah, thatthat song's got a.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Uh, the reason why that song's first is because the
first international artist wastechnically izzy.
That was found in amsterdamwhen the project started.
I knew I wanted to start theworld album with her and so I
let her know like nine monthsbefore the album even came out,
like hey, you're gonna be thefirst track, so also, this isn't
gonna be something as asurprise, let's, let's prepare
for it.
And she did a collab, insteadof just taking it for herself

(17:47):
like she actually made.
It made it a cross-continentalcollab.
And, um, we released an albumbefore the world album called
international artist projectpart two, that had 158 countries
, that's the prelude right yeah,the prelude, so that one had 64
languages and 104 genres.
Uh, but I, I made izzy the finalsong of that album, so it can
flow perfectly into the into theworld album.

(18:10):
So it was all set up, you know.
So there was a method behindthe madness of the ordering.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
So man, man, all of these songs.
I was like I was playing themfor my stepson, right, so he's
outside.
We got it on the big speaker.
The quality of this album isamazing as well.
I'm listening to it and I'mlike yo, how did he decide to

(18:39):
sequence all of these songs likethis?
Because there's no love in it.
It's.
It takes you like on a truelike.
I felt like I was on anairplane just going to all these
different countries.
That's the plan.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
That's the goal.
Yeah, that was.
That was where I got to becreative 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 anymusic on here, you know.
So it was one way I was able tolike get involved and getting
to know all these artists for solong and seeing how they
connect, to like witnessing itthrough like the group channel
and through artist gatherings,because we got 225 people in the

(19:18):
group channel, like alwaysmessaging, like around the world
.
So in a way, it was able to seehow they fit together.
You know, um, instead of justjust it was, it wasn't just
always feeling the music, it wasalso like another layer to it
to where how these artistsconnect.
If you picture them allstanding in a circle holding
hands, you know.
So it wasn't look like astraight line, like one to 200,

(19:39):
it was like a circle, like theperson that song one was holding
the song 200's hand and it waslike one big circle.
So that was the way to order it, man wow man um so okay, let me
um man, because we can keeptalking um.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Let me get to these questions.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
yeah, all good, go ahead.
Yeah, I don't know if it's agood thing or a bad thing when
someone talks too much in apodcast, so yeah, Nah, it's
alright, man, it's alright.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yo Like I gotta take it down from Spotify because
there wasn't enough talking, butyeah, it's all good.
So, okay, we know, we alreadyknow the answer to that.
Like, how many songs, how manygenres, ended up on the album?
Um, I think you already talkedabout what you know the biggest

(20:27):
challenge and challenge ofputting this album together
already how did you keep thisalbum or this project, like
authentic without turning itinto a, like you know, like a
world music stereotypical album?
You know, like I don't knowwhat the heck that means, but it
just came in my head Like howdid you?

(20:48):
how did you keep it authentic?

Speaker 2 (20:50):
well to answer that.
Uh, I would say a lot of itwent down to the artist search.
So, instead of always justtrying to go after because we
have some huge, as you haveclicked on your screen right now
, it shows queen omega.
Queen omega is giant, you know,from trinidad and tobago.
Um, you know, very blessed andlucky to have someone with
millions and millions of Spotifylisteners.

(21:12):
But that was never the goal,even though we have some great
popular artists on the project.
It was to find an artist thatwas talented from each country
and the first one you find thatsees the vision, that has good
music and you keep moving andyou don't tell them hey, just
because you're from this country, you need to use these
instruments or a song needs tobe like this.

(21:34):
I would always just tell theartist be yourself, because the
more you are yourself and evenuse your own language or your
own style and you don't try tofit a mold, that is how you'll
be successful in this projectand this album and, you know,
just constantly communicatingthat to everybody.
Um, along the way, it allowedpeople to submit a song that

(21:56):
felt like it was arepresentation of themselves and
where they're from, and, um,there were some artists that
didn't have the budget to do abrand new song, so we released
it as a compilation because, um,not much, but about maybe five
to ten percent of songs had beenpre-released.
Some songs were made for theproject, some songs artists had,
you know, wanted to docollaborations with other

(22:18):
artists.
So just going about it in themost natural, genuine way
possible with all these artistswas a way to keep it authentic
and not just say, hey, you know,we need to have, you know,
congos in this country, we needto have Congos in this country,
we need to have a flute in thiscountry.
So just let the artists bethemselves, and I think I feel
like that was the recipe.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
That's the perfect recipe.
Just let them be themselvesauthentic.
Let them show what theyrepresent, Let the world hear
their influences.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Man, you can never, go wrong.
One of the most common questionsI got asked was does my song
need to be in English?
Everyone always asked me thatand I was like man, what does
the world come to that?
Because there's so much likedominated music in English like
you still got Spanish, you stillhave French, but like they're
English dominates so much oflike, the, the streaming, like
that artists from all around theworld that they feel like they

(23:11):
have to make english musicsometimes in order to get to
that.
You know, grand level, or so wecall it, depending on how we're
looking at things.
So it was good for people to beable to do like.
The artist from south africa didall his music in english and
then he did one in easy zulu orzulu or Easy Zulu, um and uh for
the first time, and his fanslove that song more than

(23:32):
anything and he's like thank youso much.
I would have never done my ownlanguage if it wasn't for the
world album.
So it's uh, it was good to justlet people be themselves.
So hopefully that breathesbigger in the world too and
shows people.
Hey, let's not try to narrowdown into one area, let's,
there's tons of music out therewe can all enjoy and love.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
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 likewe're listening to the album and
I'm like, listen, we don'tunderstand nothing that they're
saying, but you feel whatthey're saying, like yeah,
exactly yes yes, yeah, like thatemotion came through on these

(24:13):
tracks on his album, man.
So you know he's, he's 30, youknow I'm, I'm uh, 40 something,
but um, he's yeah, and I'm, youknow, 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'ssome part in some, some part in
Africa, I know that's French, Iknow that's German, like, okay,

(24:35):
I know certain things but Idon't know exactly what they're
saying.
But you feel the feeling ofthis album is amazing, man.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Amen yes.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Wow, okay, let me, let me play.
Let me, that's a good segue.
Let me play a little snippet ofthis Queen Omega song.
It's called Fittest.
Yes, let me play this and thenwe'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 (25:31):
One thing I know the most I never felt the fittest,
fittest of the fittest shallsurvive.
My people, open, open, open upyour eyes, wake up no compromise
.
Come make me slew the beast ina disguise.
The fittest of the fittestshall survive.
My people, open, open, open upyour eyes, wake up no compromise

(25:52):
.
Come make me slew the devil ina disguise.
When iniquity fills up theearth beyond the God, look out
for the worst Plagues anddisasters.
Mama, she a purge.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Ooh.
So you didn't even get startedyet.
No's getting warmed up she'sjust getting warmed up.
Yeah, I'm like, oh man, I wishI man listen queen omega sheesh
man.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Trinidad and tobago is where she is from.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yes, shout out to trinidad and tobago man man, wow
, yo, man, ok, let me.
Let me get to this nextquestion.
Man OK, was there a, was therea country or scene that
completely just surprised youwith it, with the sound?

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, I mean that's.
I mean I can go down the listwhen we're talking 200, but the
one that just popped in my mindimmediately 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.
So this artist is named kantoand, uh, he's from madagascar,

(27:08):
he had never released before andI met him through an agent team
I built, like in Nigeria, alongthe way, and I actually said no
at first and usually I'm prettyopen.
But like I was like, oh, thisguy doesn't have any music.
Madagascar is pretty big, likeI don't know.
But like he kind of just caughtme in the situation where he's
like I'll, you know, I'll doeverything I can, I'm going to

(27:30):
work, I'm passionate about music, I promise you, I won't let you
down.
I was like I was like you knowwhat, let's, let's, let's make
it happen, let's make it happen.
I, you know, let's do it.
It felt right.
And from him never releasingsomething before to what he came
up with and how passionate, andhe even started helping find
artists in Azerbaijan and Rwandaand other countries, in Kuwait,

(27:55):
he got so deeply involved andhis music just spoke for it and
that was one of those storieswhere it's like they made a
movie about it or something.
He'd be one of those characterslike that, you know, or that
was maybe doubted in thebeginning and came through on
top at the end.
But he has a song calledAndalagna and it's in Malagasy,
which is the language inMadagascar, and yeah, man, he

(28:18):
just he came through.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
So, and I feel like us from the United States can
kind of turn to it too, becauseit's got a little bit of a hip
hop vibe to it too.
It's like afro pop, but it'sgot a little hip-hop vibe to it
as well.
Wow, man, um, did I, did Ilisten to this one man?
I think I, I think I listenedto this one.
I think this was one of theones I was like okay, yeah, we
definitely, we got hip-hop, wegot reggae, we got, you know, we
got techno, we got everythingAlmost all of it, yeah,
Everything man.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
But man shout out to I don't know how to pronounce
his name Kanto, even though theA is flipped, so it's like the V
, but it's the A, so Kanto.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Kanto.
Okay, Yep, Shout out to Kantoman.
I want to say this right man,Andalagna.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I think it's Andalagna, but we're both
probably pronouncing it wrong.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Yeah, we're trying, we'retrying man.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Okay, so let me see this.
Let me see about this one man.
Did you, um, how did you makesure every artist on here like
got heard and not lost in the inthe size of this album and like
, was that intentional for youto do that?

Speaker 2 (29:39):
yeah.
So when we did that preludealbum last november, november
2024, um, we kind of used it asa test.
I wanted to see what wouldhappen if we didn't put any
money into that last one, if wejust saw what the artists came
up with.
I gave them, like you know,simple graphic packages and
things, but nothing, nothing toocrazy, and kind of use it as a

(30:01):
measure to see what were thestrengths and weaknesses

(30:31):
no-transcript, I mean, we werecontacting, like the project and
the artists individually.
We were contacting media inevery single country, every
country like so, and we hadhundreds and hundreds of
articles.
There's over 300, I've foundnow that can be found on our
website,internationalartistprojectorg.

(30:52):
They're all linked.
But it got to a point where itgot out of control and every
artist was having like their ownmoment, like you know, and not
every artist, of course, butlike at least like 70% had like
a moment, you know like where.
Um, that was really good andyou know now that we were able

(31:12):
to.
You know something else we canget into.
But but because now we are inthe consideration for best
global music album at thegrammys, uh, that are coming up
the votes.
Yeah, so it's uh now for thefirst time in history, an artist
from every country in the worldare a grammy considered artist.
And you know like so them toall be able to now go back

(31:33):
around after the album'sreleased and, you know,
re-contact their media or poston their socials or even tell
their friends like they becomelike little legends in this
little area.
And, um, you know, and we'regoing to be on billboard here on
the grammy contenders issue, onoctenders issue, on October 4th
.
We had a mention in RollingStone, but it wasn't huge

(31:53):
Rolling Stone, mena, the MiddleEast, north Africa, but just all
these little collections ofdifferent Everyone's success was
beneficial to someone else.
There'd be an artist in Monacothat would get a newspaper
article and then on the bottomit was saying also featuring
artists from this country andtheir name.
And then on the bottom it wassaying also featuring artists
from this country and their name.
So that press blitz and likethe testimonial videos and the
collaborative stuff on socialmedia, gave every artist an

(32:17):
opportunity to get into theproject and help push the
project and their own, you know,career.
So, and that's what we're doingnow.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Now we're trying to do the podcast, trying to do the
, you know, more newspaperarticles, trying to get the
grammy, you know, the guinnessworld or just all the stuff you
know.
So, wow, yeah, this is gonna bebig.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
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, eventhough, like that, the true
meaning behind the world albumis like there's some like the
world's connected through music,at the end, even though, like
the, the true meaning behind theworld album is like there's
some like the world's connectedthrough music, at the end, that
that has to stay number one.
Like it's it's the world beingconnected through music period.
Everything else is secondary.
But in order to make thatmessage clearer and also, like,

(33:02):
give back to the artists andmake it worthwhile, like there
needs to be some rewards alongthe way and things like awards
or art minute article mentionsor, you know, big benchmarks and
stream counts, like these arethings that are good for them in
general and get them taken moreseriously on the project.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
So man, congratulations on being, you
know, submitted for best globalmusic album yes, yeah, very
grateful so wow man, just nointernet.
This is a clear example him, him, what he's doing and what I'm

(33:40):
doing and what probably millionsof other individuals are doing.
Other other humans are doing,spirits are doing.
Other humans are doing, spiritsare doing.
It's just taking one idea andthen going forward with it
knowing that, hey, whatever isgoing to work out, I can get a
team behind me, people thatsupport me, boom, and it just

(34:02):
gains momentum.
And that's what's happeningwith 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 worldalbum.
How can you not be happy aboutthat?
Like yeah.

(34:23):
Wow, man, like man yo I'm.
I'm proud of you, man.
This is the first time hearingfrom you, but I'm proud of you,
man.
This is the first time hearingfrom you, but I'm proud of you,
man, wow thank you, man.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
So, and yeah, I mean I may have had the idea and like
kept pushing this, but, man, ittook so many of us to make this
possible.
If it, if I was just trying todo it on my own, like I would
have.
It's not a one person thing, ithas to be, you know, over 200
people to make it possible.
So, you know, I know I gotta, Iknow I gotta to lead this and
and and and and be the face oftalking about it.
But in the end, man, there's,when I talk, it's also 200

(34:54):
people like right right herestanding beside me.
You know, so I'm grateful.
And now the whole world'sconnected.
It's not just the artists now.
Now it's the whole planet.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Everyone can tap in work for real.
Yeah, wow, okay, before we playthis next track, man, I just
want to go over and correct meif I'm wrong when I'm saying
these like these differentcountries that this album has
touched.
I got the Netherlands, armenia,the United States of America,

(35:26):
poland, spain, turkey, theUnited States of America, poland

(35:46):
, spain, turkey, antigua andBarbados, canada, argentina,
united Kingdom, england, israel,france, Jamaica, chile, uruguay
, the Democratic Republic of theCongo, which we were just
talking about in the lastepisode, um uh, algeria, italy,
georgia, hong kong, mexico,thailand, india, cuba, south
africa, and like so many moreman every country and and
territories that aren't even andthey're kind of in a battle to
be a country sometime.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Right now too, like everywhere.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
So yeah, wow, nothing missed, nothing missed all
right, let me, uh, let's playthis next track.
Um, from kanto.
Uh, on the on the lagna.
Let's, let's play this and uh,we'll come right back.

Speaker 6 (36:23):
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a rapper.
I'm a rapper, I'm a rapper, I'ma rapper, I'm a rapper, I'm a

(36:45):
rapper, I'm a rapper, I'm arapper, I'm a rapper, I'm a
rapper, I'm a rapper, I'm arapper, I'm a rapper, I'm a
rapper, I'm a rapper, I'm arapper, I'm a rapper, I'm a
rapper, I'm a rapper, I'm arapper, I'm a rapper, I'm a
rapper, I'm a rapper, I'm arapper, I'm a rapper, I'm oh man
.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
And he had not even released anything before Like,
so he came hard.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
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 thecountries that I, I want to,
you know, step foot on and but,um, man, this is a great way to

(37:56):
experience different cultures.
Internets, man, like you get toliterally listen to all of
these different cultures.
Like get away from what you seeon TV and stuff like that.
Like music is like number onebesides, like foods right, yeah,
that's how we share Right.

(38:18):
So music, food they go to?
They go hand to hand man, likeif you go to a different country
, it's all about the food, it'sall about the music, it's all
about you.
Know how they interact witheach other like man.
Just go ahead and support thisalbum, the world album from the
international artist project,featuring 200 tracks, 91

(38:42):
countries is that is.
That, is that 200 artists?

Speaker 2 (38:48):
200 tracks, 197 plus countries, and then, yeah, so,
over every country in the world,plus some Wow, we can call them
disputed territories orwhatever is the politically
correct term.
There, for example, in the UK,we didn't just do one from
United Kingdom, we got one fromNorthern Ireland, scotland,

(39:10):
wales and England.
And then, you know, we didPalestine, we did Israel, we did
not just China, but we also didMacau, hong Kong and Taiwan.
You know Vatican City, you know, like I slept outside Vatican
City for two days, refused toleave until, like, I got a
meeting with the culture andeducation department, and that

(39:33):
was, that was hard, that wassecond hardest, other than North
Korean born artist, but yeah,it was.
But they gave me the meetingand then, sure enough, we, we
had a priest that was born inRome, right outside of Vatican
City.
That it's on the product.
He's the oldest artist on theproject.
He's 70.
Youngest is about 11 years old,oldest is 70.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
So okay, who is that?
What's the name of thatindividual?

Speaker 2 (39:58):
For Vatican City.
Marco Versina, I think it'sSong 9.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Song 9?

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Wow yeah it should be Song 9.
Yep Passaminteris, which meanspeace on earth.
Yeah, and this is actually inLatin as well.
Latin and Italian, and Latin isthe 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 andEnglish, but the second oldest

(40:24):
language is in Latin, which isin this, and it's the choir of
the Vatican.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Okay, yes, I remember this one.
Yeah, because, yeah, I got.
I felt something emotional withthat one.
You know, I was like, wow, likethey really getting it even
crazier too, right on top ofthat song.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
So song number eight, that uh, uluwaki fepaki.
Uh, I probably pronounced thata 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 grandpaor great-grandpa's archived uh
island song in some likeconservatory or something and
rebirthed it from like the 1920sinto a modern song.

(41:04):
So it also has this like date,historical concept, this album,
not just the grand of all theartists but timelines.
There's even stuff from Bach onhere because it's in the public
domain.
And the one track, number seven, burra Udyr, is the only
well-known commercial releaseout of the country of Djibouti

(41:27):
and it's actually the band ofthe government like.
So it's really crazy album likeso yeah, so very interesting
stuff.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
So wow, um, before we get to this, um this, uh Pacam
in Terrace, yes, from, uh, marcoFrisina, um, I want to ask you,
like, what do you wantlisteners to walk away with
after hearing the world album?

Speaker 2 (41:55):
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 andget on a plane, you got to go
walk around, you got to go toall these countries.
Like I want people, at thesimplest term, like beyond, just
you know, togetherness andcommunity and everything like in
the simplest fashion thateveryone can relate to.

(42:16):
I would love to for this to belike a music tour in your hole,
like around the world, likeyou're tapping into everywhere
at that in 12 and a half, 12hours and 38 minutes.
Like you know whether you dothe 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 onshuffle.
You have an opportunity toembrace the entire world to an

(42:43):
extent in one album.
So at the minimal, take thatfrom the album.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Wow, wow, okay.
Okay, let's get into this andthen we're gonna come back after
we listen to uh, pakam andterrace from marco frisina and
we're going to the lightninground questions.
All right, lightning round.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
All right, I'll be ready, all right.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Let's see.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
The American Pronunciation Guide Presents
''How to Pronounce St Louis''.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
The Holy Spirit is with you.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Wow, wow, that was beautiful, very beautiful.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
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 yourcontribution to this album.

(45:17):
The world album, man.
Okay, lightning round for theworld album Okay, all right, all
right.
Number one 200 songs, 93languages, 121 genres.
I hope I got all of thosestatistics right.
Yep, okay, which?

Speaker 2 (45:38):
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 sayfor 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 collabbetween togo and africa, which
is kind of near nigeria, andmyanmar, which is in southeast

(46:00):
asia.
Those artists clapped on a song.
It's got.
It's got metal, rock, hip-hop,pop, uh, african instruments and
also southeast asianinstruments and they did like a
little mini documentary betweenbehind making the song and this
individual song is going up forbest global music performance at
the grammys.
This is the most diverse songin my life like, and it's also

(46:24):
in three languages burmese, uh,ue.
And english, uh, so crazy songlike crazy song.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
This is the one I was listening to and I was like yo,
it took, like it's threedifferent 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 (46:49):
I'm like oh, my god if you, I mean, still blessed to
every artist.
But man, if every artist on theproject sat down and was like I
want to do a collab, the waythese artists did, because there
were lots of collabs like therewere, you know, netherlands,
peru, uh, mozambique and hawaiidid one together, like there was
a bunch of mixtures, venezuelaand India, but these artists

(47:11):
really went ham.
So if I had to put the wholeworld album into one song,
collabalize it would be this one.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Welcome to the light.
Yeah, all right, let's playthis before we go to the other
quick lightning rounds.
These are supposed to be quickanswers, but we're just going in
, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Yeah, I'm slowing down.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
All right, let's go be able to do it and they were
told of the fact, for now, long,that he got him, he had me.

(48:17):
We thought that he had the bestof all.
She did put it in easy Lovethat I thought I'd more hang out
.
Now pull it in.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, and then it starts going into
like death metal and rap, likeit's like I don't know about
death metal but it's like heavymetal and then rap, like the
whole song just changes all theway through it's.
It's like a.
I don't know if you listen tomac dray, but mac dray did like

(48:52):
the cutthroat soup.
You put like five songs in onelike it was like it was like a
global cutthroat soup.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
So yeah, wow, wow man , oh my gosh man okay, let's,
let's, let's.
Go into these next ones realquick.
Um man, which track almostdidn't make the deadline but
turned into like a must-havetrack?

Speaker 2 (49:15):
um, so like we're so the deadline.
So we launched production onthe world album in october uh of
last year that was a little bitafter the artist search and
when we finished the previousalbum and the goal was to get
all the songs in by may 1st.
I only was missing 24 songs onmay 1st and I didn't have all
the songs until june 2nd.
So, um, I'm not gonna call outany artist or anything, but

(49:39):
there there was some situationspersonal, like that happened
with some people and one of them, um, uh, it, uh.
It ended up working out to thebetter.
Um, because they ended up usinga song that they had used with
someone else, uh, in in the past.
Uh, it was recorded about a yearbefore and it actually ended up
being the final song of thealbum.
Uh, it was called homecomingand it felt like the perfect way

(50:01):
to end the album because it'scalled homecoming.
Um, it was on an island, likeyou know, and my mom loves the
island.
She helped find artists.
It felt like when all the noisewas done at the end, you could
just go sit on a peaceful islandat home.
There's a big documentary behindthat song too, about how the

(50:26):
artists came back to MarshallIslands for the first time in
their lives.
It just made sense.
It ended up being the finalsong of the album.
I was stressing about the finalsong because, like, the final
song is just as important as thefirst song.
So and uh, so it was a littlepast the deadline, but it was
meant to be, because if ithadn't came in that moment maybe
I wouldn't have been thinkingabout the final song.
So, but all things happen for areason.
I know it's a saying people sayit all the time, but that one

(50:48):
worked out, so good um onecountry scene.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
You think listeners are sleeping on?

Speaker 2 (50:56):
um, all of them, man people, yeah, all of them listen
to all of there's.
There's more than just unitedunited kingdom and united states
music.
And you know, africa isn't justlagos, nigeria, like, there's
54 countries out there, you know.
So everything's different.
Uh, I think, I think people aresleeping on world music in
general.

(51:16):
So, yeah, so tap in, yeah okay,exactly, it's now.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
You heard him.
Yeah, all right, um, let me go,let me go.
Uh, if somebody's got 20minutes, which three tracks give
them the passport stampexperience the beginning.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Uh, the first 20 songs well, about 21 um are
built as a worldwide thing towhere, if, if I was only able to
fit?
And it's not because of thethey're the best song, it's just
it made sense to travel theworld with those first 20 songs.
Geographically wise, you hitevery continent, but also you

(51:58):
hit tons of different styles ofgenres, tons of different
languages.
So try to listen to like.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
Just start listening from the beginning, you know,
and after you've listened to thealbum all the way through once,
then listen to it on shuffle sonice, yeah, okay, sequencing a
12-hour record which you did umit taught you what about how
people actually listen to musicI like that question actually a

(52:29):
lot.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Um, well, how I mentioned, the prelude album had
158 tracks, like 80 of theworld.
That was a good practice runagain for myself to learn
strengths and weaknesses ofordering an album and, um, I
picked up a lot of things fromthose and the.
The big thing was don't justfocus on the genres and the

(52:52):
languages and geographically,focus on how the artists connect
with each other.
Like, um, it was just someweird way of going about it and
it just felt like if, if Iconnected the artists through
the, through the album, it wouldnaturally 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 likeif you picture all the artists

(53:14):
together and you and you putthem together like holding hands
, like I was saying, like thatthat could be a way to to do
this right.
Um, and yeah, I don't know if Ianswered your question directly
there, but yeah, yeah, so, um,yeah, yeah um all right, last

(53:37):
two quick, uh lightning roundquestions.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Um so one artist you're convinced is about to
blow internationally?

Speaker 2 (53:48):
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 hopethat every artist I know they
already have, but I hope thatevery artist somehow just gets a
benefit, whether it's minute orgigantic, from this project,

(54:12):
not just in music, but like inlife, you know.
Um, so yeah, just naturally, Ican'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 somehowbenefit and continue to benefit
of it.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Last question what's your metric for success for this
album?
Is it streams?
Did these artists get newcollabs, new bookings, new shine
?
What would it be your metricfor success?

Speaker 2 (54:48):
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, forexample, is energy.
How much positive energy canthis album be?
And to, to change thepercentage towards a little bit

(55:12):
better?
Um, not saying the world's abad place, just can it.
Can it be even better becauseof this album?
Right yeah, man okay um I feltthat one when I said it too.
I felt it so yeah.

(55:32):
I mean, I want people to enjoyand jam out to the music too.
But like in the end, like ifpeople, if this became something
that they would, people wouldread in history books.
I'm saying this humbly, like ifpeople read about this thing in
history books.
I would hope that it was like adefining moment that connected
the world a little closer.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
So yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah.
We gotta let that breathe, man,we gotta let that.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
It's gotta breathe.
We shot it out into the worldas hard as we could and now it's
like we're still pushing, butwe gave it to the world.
We'll see what the world doeswith it, you know.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
So, all right um, man , let's put, let's play one more
, and then I'll have, uh, onemore question, and then you know
, know, I'll let you go, man,because you got things to do.
Man, I'll let you record whichtrack do you think?

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Well, because we've been given all the love in the
beginning, maybe, maybe, let'sgo towards, towards like the
middle or something here.
Let me think here, let'sactually OK, let's do scroll up
a little bit more, maybe towardslike 100.
We'll do.
I think it's one, oh one I'mlooking for, yeah, one.
Oh, scroll up a little bit more, maybe towards 100.
I think it's 101, I'm lookingfor, yeah, 101.

(56:37):
Excuse the name, but yeah, thisartist, I was like you sure you
want to use that name, man.
I was like, technically I knowit's not a cuss word, but this
is from the artist from NorthernIreland, which is technically a
part of the United Kingdom.
There's Ireland, there'sNorthern Ireland, but this is
off like a flute and a piccoloflute and just a live recording
and super dope, super worldly.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Wise bastard, it's what it's called, so let me get
that queued up.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
It's the world album, folks.
We got everything.
There's even a smoking song onthe world album, folks.
We got everything.
Exactly there's.
There's even a smoking song onthe world album.
You can't not have a smokingsong on a world album.
Come on, people smoke andlisten to music sometimes, so
exactly exactly that's.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
You know what's crazy I?
I was like yo when people putthis on.
That's exactly just lay back,sit back and just smoke, or just
sip on something and just chilland just listen.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
Could it make this too commercial?
It can't be like.
You know, we have to fit acertain.
The best way is just what isthe world right now?
Let's fit that.
It has to have a smoke song, ithas to have a kid's song, it
has to have animation stylesongs, classical hip-hop, pop,
new stuff, everything, Justeverything Got you classical hip
hop, pop, like new stuff,everything, like just everything

(57:54):
.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
So, yeah, Gotcha, all right, wise bastard, everybody,

(59:28):
let's, let's get to it.
Thank you, I'm sorry boy,listen, listen.
I had to get a little moreearly on the world album.
Yeah, yeah, listen, man, if theyo I know it's some some of my
fellow mutants on this podcastthat follow this podcast they
gonna listen to that.
They're gonna be like, hey,maybe I can flip.
That you know, because we in athis whole flipping remix
culture right oh, yeah, like so,I encourage, I encourage people

(59:48):
.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Yeah, go for it.
So, like you know, remix, let'sdo it.
Just shout out the artist ifyou remix it.
That's a lot, that's all youknow, so yeah, right, man?

Speaker 1 (59:57):
okay, so, uh, final two questions for you, man, um,
and I, once again, I want to saythank you for allowing me to
talk to you about this worldalbum from international artist
project.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for giving anopportunity for more people to
hear about it, you know, thankyou.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Yes, sir, man, it's my pleasure.
Man, this, this is what I loveto do.
Man, this is, this is one ofthose things it's like you know,
when you like, kind ofquestioning, you know what
you're doing and you know ifanybody'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 bumpfeeling just for something like

(01:00:39):
this man, I love this man.
Yes, sir, so okay, what's thebigger, the bigger picture when
it comes to this?
Where do you see, likeinternational artist project
going from here?

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
well, um, it's been announced informally, should I
say.
The reason it hasn't beenannounced formally is because of
the timeline.
Um, you know, the world album Ithought would take four years,
it took two.
It took nine days, short of twoyears, um, but it's
international artist festival,the first festival to feature
artists from every country ofthe world.
And, uh, two, it took nine days, short of two years.
But it's International ArtistFestival, the first festival to
feature artists from everycountry of the world.
And you know I can go down howit would work operationally.

(01:01:19):
I have it, but we'll just savethe time for the lightning round
.
But ultimately, internationalArtist Festival is the second
era of this project.
It's not released in anotherworld album.
However, if International ArtistFestival is able to be managed
successfully, I think it couldbe cool, just like how we have
FIFA World Cup, we have theOlympics, we have the Super Bowl

(01:01:41):
, we have the Tour de France.
It'd be cool if, every 10 yearsand the reason I say 10 years
is because music needs tobreathe sometimes, but imagine a
world where every 10 years, youknow 2035, you had another
world album and you had it thatit dropped on the same day as
international artist festival, aweek long festival and no

(01:02:02):
matter what was going on in theworld every 10 years.
You know, you always knew thatthere was going to be a festival
featuring artists from everycountry of the world and a new
world album.
I think that'd be pretty cool.
The only problem is, god, let'snot let it get too commercial.
Um, you know, because there'ssome beauty in the way the
artists were found this time.
Some were homeless, some aremillionaires.

(01:02:22):
You know, everything in betweenum and uh, to avoid the
commercial aspect of it and make, continue to make it meaningful
.
I think that could be abeautiful, beautiful way for
world and the music to connectdeeper on a global scale.
So, yeah, and of course, likedocumentary stuff, like that,
you know, would be cool too, butyeah, but ultimately, like the

(01:02:42):
vision as far as like what's inour hands.
International artists festival.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
That's something I would definitely come in and
travel to to see man.
It's going to be a bigundertaking but luckily there's
levels on artist involvement.
You know, like level one, toget as many artists there as
possible.
If they're not able to getthere, the second level would be
virtual.
There'd be a stage for thevirtual performances.
The third level would be thatit's actually another stage

(01:03:13):
dedicated to music videos andpre-recorded DJ live sets and
pre-recorded acoustic sets,because if the artist can't meet
number one, they can do numbertwo.
If they can't do number two,number three and if worse comes
to worse, you have a DJ playingmusic from the world album.
So, no matter what,international Artist Festival
features artists from everycountry.
It's just there's four levelsof involvement from artists
around the world.
You know, like I feel likethat's the key to build it first

(01:03:34):
and maybe doing it again thesecond time around.
It could actually have artiststhere physically, you know, but
sometimes you got to do the pathof least resistance, to lay the
breadcrumbs first, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Mr Beckwith, you've thought about this.
Yes, you've thought about this.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Yes, you've thought about this man.
I know so lightning rounds aretough for me, man, we're going
to have to call them thunderrounds.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Yeah, no, no, it's okay, no, but you've thought
about this world stage of havingall of these acts come to this
event, man.
That's forward thinking man.
So I feel like it's gonna come.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
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 (01:04:23):
Let me know because I would love to, to come and
experience it, but then for myfamily to come experience
something like this.
I don't think we've ever hadsomething like that happen.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
We haven't.
I've done a lot of researchAfter I came up with the idea
for the World.
I've constantly researched whathas been done, what hasn't,
just to make sure I'm notwasting my time.
What would be cool is just howwe had pay-per-view.
Growing up on fights, I'mwatching it.
It'd be cool if people wouldjust pay-per-view, or whatever
you know, streaming in to wherethe whole world can watch it,
even from home.
You know it's like it's a grandevent, you know, but whoever

(01:04:58):
can be there in person would begreat.
So, but yeah, so that's thevision for the future.
That's what I'm it the secondera, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
So I got you, I got you.
I'm a marvel fan too, man yeah,I love it.
I love marvel yeah um, okay, solisten, uh, how can, how can
people support you and your thismovement that you're doing with
international artists project,and how can people find you and
email you or, you know, tap intouh or contact you and stuff

(01:05:36):
like that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Yep, yeah.
So as far as just for direct,the easiest webs, like the
websiteinternationalartistprojectorg
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 onInstagram.
If you really want to feel theculture and see the artists and
the testimony videos and musicvideos, go to at international

(01:06:00):
underscore artist underscoreproject.
On.
Instagram.
International Artist Project onInstagram.
But I know everyone releasesnew music, says, tap into my
stuff, stream my stuff, get thenumbers up.
Like the numbers are great.
But in reality, like people,like everyone listening, like we
have a world album there we'reon earth, we just finally have

(01:06:22):
something where you can tap in,listen to the whole world.
You don't have to listen to ittoday, you don't have to listen
to it next year.
You don't have to listen to ittoday, 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 andopen your brain and just mind
and heart on what's out thereOne time.
And I think if everyone wouldlisten to the World Album even
one time in their life, it couldbe cool.

(01:06:45):
And it supports the artists.
They keep 100% of the royalties.
I take nothing from thisproject Zero.
And it supports the artists.
They keep 100% of the royalties.
I take nothing from thisproject Zero 0%.
So you know they're encouragedto use half towards something
good in their home country.
So the more money they make offroyalties, you know, the bigger
this gets.
That's more money for them togive back to their home
countries.
You know some artists talkabout getting better wells, like
you know, for water.
Some artists want to do musicworkshops.

(01:07:07):
You know Some artists want todo music workshops.
Some artists want to do simplestuff like disability.
There's so many ways that 10years down the road we can look
back and say, wow, look at allthis philanthropy that was also
done from half of these artists'royalties.
But ultimately just experiencethe world album.
Don't worry about supporting us, just experience the world

(01:07:29):
album at the tail end of it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
So, yeah, I couldn't, I couldn't have said it even
better.
Like, I'm gonna put a link tothis album on the uh, the
rectual podcast link tree.
I'm gonna put it so wheneveranybody taps into you know the
rectual podcast, that's gonna beone of the links that they see
and they go with the world albumlike what, what?

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
is this yes, go go ahead, go and tap into it, man I
almost made a mistake and namedit international artist project
part three.
I almost made that mistake andthen just one night I was like,
bro, you like the world album.
Like it was just so simple.
It was like just call it theworld album, international
artist project, like you can'tgo wrong with that.
Like, so that part three isgoing to confuse people.

(01:08:09):
So yeah, thank God.
Thank God for that day.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
Thank God for that day.
Listen, oh man.
One more question before I go.
I forgot that.
Okay, you released this projecton Emancipation Day.
Was that intentional?

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
No, it actually wasn't.
So I didn't know.
I mean, there's so manyholidays, especially when you're
dealing with the whole world,like there's so many holidays.
But I actually was going torelease it on July 18th but, as
you know, I mentioned, therewere some artists that missed
the deadline.
It took about an extra 30 plusdays and I wanted plenty of time
to submit the album, do thepre-release.
But I was going to release iton July 18th and actually had

(01:08:48):
international artists gatheringplanned because artists from
like almost 15 countries came toAmsterdam.
We all celebrated the release.
That was where the project wasbirthed, so, but because of the
lateness, I had to push it toAugust 1st the two Fridays from
there, because you always wantto release on a Friday, like the
first of every month is alwaysgood for playlisting but I
actually had to leaveAmsterdamsterdam and and come

(01:09:10):
back, because I was on a travelvisa now, um, and I had to leave
and went to tunisia and africafor like almost a month and then
came back, just so I was ableto be there for the release week
, uh.
But I wanted to release it onjuly 31st, uh, which was my
mom's birthday.
As you can tell, I give a lotof dedication to my mom.
She helped a lot with thisproject.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Shout out to mom too.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
She's born on July 31st.
What I'm doing is, even thoughwe released the album on Friday,
august 1st, we're going to havesomething called World Album
Day.
We've already publiclyannounced it, but it's not
written on paper anywhere.
It's going to be July 31stevery year because I want to
honor emancipation day.
Like still, I don't want tolike, take anything away from

(01:09:53):
that day, not that we even canlike, but, like you know.
So I want july 31st to be worldalbum 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 paysrespects in both ways.
You know right.
So, but yeah, totally didn'tknow that oh man so yeah, yeah,

(01:10:14):
I had found out, like lastminute, and actually another
artist from trinidad and tobagoum, not queen amiga, but another
one had had mentioned it to meand I said, oh no, so but yeah
so well, yes, um, any finalthoughts?

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
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 orpeople to do, or anything like
that uh, ultimately, just man,music can connect us all.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
I think I think that's one thing I really want
to say.
It's not even cheesy like musicreally can connect us all.
Um, I think I want to leave itwith that, because I guess you
can say that with art andeverything, but there's just
something special about musicthat just you know, it's quick,
um it, uh, so I hope the worldcan, you know, tap into music as

(01:11:11):
like a way to just connectdeeper with people all around
the world.
Um, it's something beautifuland natural that we've had for
so long.
So, um, there's a beauty inmusic beyond, beyond even this
project and beyond the worldalbum, and let's, let's continue
to chase that and investigateit.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
So, beautifully put man.
Um, okay, listen, internets.
That is a wrap for today'sepisode 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

(01:11:49):
run up the world album, 200tracks.
I mean it's 12 hours of music.
Go ahead, put it on like athome and just just enjoy.
Enjoy the sounds, enjoy theexperience, because I feel like
this is definitely a worldtraveling experience, like you
know I'm saying, but, um, man,it's out everywhere now.

(01:12:11):
12 and a half hours of pureglobal sound, as always.
Keep supporting your local beatmakers.
Keep your ears open.
I know we are.
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.

(01:12:32):
I mean this is, this is onlypart one, man, I feel like yo,
I'm gonna leave the door open.
Man, like you got anything elsecoming open, coming up,
appreciate it.
You want to release it?
Let me know Like yo, theepisode man.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
You got my support man.
Hey, thank, thank you for theopportunity man, thank you.
So, um, just still superblessed right now, so very happy
.
So thank you and, yeah,blessings to to your podcast for
for everything on the future tocome.
So great podcast.
I listened to many episodesbefore before this one to
prepare, so yeah yes, sir, I I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
I'm learning on a, on a.
I'm learning on the on the fly,right now too, man.
Even though I've been doingthis for like four years, every
day I'm still learning somethingnew, man.
So thank you for theopportunity to spotlight you in
this project.
I wish you peace, love,everything man, everything man.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
I know I'll talk to you soon, man thank you, and one
last shout out to algorithm Cfor the connection.
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
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 goingto.
We're going to talk, man, I gotto.
He's been telling me about someGrammy stuff and, man, I just
been a little too busy.
But yeah, I'm a figure it outthough, man.
But shout out to Algorithm C,mr Mr Beckwith.
Man, I appreciate your time.
Man, I hope.