Neil Young has announced a forthcoming book co-written by himself and Phil Baker (CEO of the Neil Young Archives). It’s called To Feel the Music: A Songwriter’s Mission to Save High-Quality Audio, and it’s out September 9. Young made the announcement today (May 3) on the NYA’s website. Of the new text, Young wrote:
My new book To Feel the Music, co-written with Phil Baker, has been announced and is now available for preorder on numerous book sites. To Feel the Music is the story of my efforts to improve the quality of audio that you hear. It takes you through how the sound was and is compromised by the tech and record companies, and instead of improving over time like other technologies, it has become worse.
Our book also tells the business and development story behind Pono, and then, when people wanted the convenience of streaming, how we developed Xstream high resolution streaming, the highest quality streaming in the world, as you hear it at NYA. The issue of improving audio quality has been one of the most important things we’ve been doing for decades, and something I focus on every day. We spent a year writing this and I think you’ll find it interesting and informative. The book will be released September 9 and I hope you enjoy it.
Neil Young launched his massive online archive back in 2017. The Neil Young Archives include all of his music, released and unreleased, for free in high quality audio via his XStream Music streaming service. Back in 2014, Young announced plans to create PonoMusic, a high quality digital streaming service with its own device (the PonoPlayer). The platform shuttered in 2017, however, and Young later revealed that the “record labels killed” the project.
Read “Listening to Neil Young’s Live Archives” over on the Pitch.
https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-announces-new-book-to-feel-the-music
