Roberta Flack collaborates with AI soundscape firm Endel to launch reimagined variations of her traditional hit, ‘Killing Me Softly With His Music,’ to rejoice its fiftieth anniversary.
To rejoice the fiftieth anniversary of Roberta Flack’s legendary hit, “Killing Me Softly With His Music,” the retired singer has collaborated with AI sound firm Endel to launch three reimagined soundscape variations of the music for focus, rest, and sleep.
“Killing Me Softly With His Music” is steadily cited as one of many biggest songs of all time, a definitive interpretation of a music that has been lined over 130 occasions — together with the long-lasting 1996 model by The Fugees. Along with Rhino Leisure and Roberta Flack, Endel has launched three soundscape albums constructed from the unique stems of the music, every with a definite sonic type in line with its operate.
By respectfully repurposing the wealth of sounds in Flack’s unique recording through AI, the soundscapes deliver out new sides of a beloved traditional, enabling followers to expertise the music in a completely new means. In November final 12 months, Roberta was recognized with ALS, and subsequently retired from performing, because the illness has made it “unimaginable to sing.”
“Roberta Flack’s music is a Soul masterpiece, and that is the primary time that Endel has reworked a traditional music on this means,” says Oleg Stavitsky, CEO and co-founder of Endel. “We strived to deal with the supply materials with the utmost respect and needed to create one thing particular for the music’s fiftieth anniversary. We love the tip outcome, and we see this as additional proof that Endel can create practical music that advantages each artists and their listeners.”
“Roberta has at all times believed within the energy of music to form and encourage change. In 2010, when she created the Roberta Flack Basis, she by no means dreamed of a world the place she may take part in a practical music program that might assist folks enhance the standard of their lives,” provides Roberta’s private supervisor, Suzanne Koga. “The brand new frontiers of AI and practical music give Roberta a brand new door of alternative to step by way of as part of the way forward for music and know-how in a means that helps the world to develop.”
The three soundscape releases in collaboration with Rhino Leisure are additional fruits of the strategic partnership between Endel and Warner Music Group, with Endel remodeling iconic music previous and current from WMG’s expansive catalog. Extra reimagined classics from Rhino Leisure will comply with, with Endel releasing three new variations of WAR’s 1972 album, “The World is a Ghetto,” on November 10, a part of the album’s fiftieth anniversary celebration.