Journey of Sound 2013

The “Journey of Sound,” the musical experience that has brought together famous names such as JBL, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, produced Steve Levine and Ferrari, on a trip inspired by symbolic places from the history of the Beatles, stopped off at Mason’s home, where he keeps his amazing car collection, which features Ferraris above all others. The star is definitely the 250 GTP, the car that set an outright record at an auction for historic cars, alongside many other Maranello masterpieces, which all look their best at Rendcomb Airfield.

“My passion for the Prancing Horse came from my father, who took me to watch them race at the start of the Fifties,” Mason told “Journey of Sound.” I knew my father had driven a Ferrari in the 1953 Mille Miglia thanks to help from Enzo Ferrari himself. No other car company has been so ever present and involved in motor sport throughout my entire life.”

Mason also spoke of the significance of the Beatles for him and his musical journey. “I would not be here without them. They changed the face of the music industry, introducing the concept that the album was more important than the single and transformed the way we could work. “Piper At The Gates of Dawn’ was recorded at the same time and place where Sgt. Pepper was made. Before then, it was unheard of for a band to spend as much time as they wanted in a studio.”

One of the most avantgarde recording studios is the AIR Lyndhurst Studios, home of the third leg, which took place on board an FF, fitted with a Harman Hi-Fi system, producing a spectacular sound, as befits this type of trip. Created in 1969 by Beatles producer, George Martin, AIR Studios moved from the fourth floor of a building in Oxford Street to this new fantastic setting of Lyndhurst Hall in the north of the English capital and is used bt the biggest names in contemporary music. It hosted the recording sessions for the musicians taking part in the “Journey of Sound,” – Kate Nash, Jonas & the Massive Attraction, Natalie McCool, Jamie N Commons and the band, WILHELM TELL ME, all produced by Steve Levine.

Maranello, 25 November – A special voyage is starting today: the “Journey of Sound”, a musical experience that brings together some extraordinary names: JBL, the leader in the field of sound reproduction, the Pink Floyd drummer and great car collector Nick Mason, the producer Steve Levine and Ferrari. Together they will create something unique in music, bringing together some musicians from different genres such as Kate Nash, Jonas & the Massive Attraction, Natalie McCool, Jamie N Commons and the band WILHELM TELL ME.

Inspired by the places which gave life to the Beatles, the “Journey of Sound” consists of a series of events, both live and in the studio, in which these artists will play together and bring to life new and original pieces of music. In the tracks of the Fab Four there could only follow a car that takes the initials of the Beatles: the Ferrari FF, the first car with four-wheel drive produced in Maranello.

Today is the first night. At Liverpool’s Cavern Club, a place where the Beatles performed 292 times in their history and the first venue to host one of their concerts in their home country, there will be a concert featuring the travelling Kate Nash, Jamie N Commons, Jonas & the Massive Attraction and Natalie McCool. In the coming days they will be heading to Hamburg, the city where the Liverpool quartet first played together. There will also be a recording at London’s AIR Lyndhurst Studios, founded by the Fab Four’s producer George Martin.