This is an incredibly exciting and proud moment for me, and I hope for everyone who played a part helping Pandora get here. The Music Genome Project is off on its maiden voyage!
This is a product born of a passion and respect for music, and for those who create it. It is truly a collective creation of so much musical talent, from individuals too numerous to mention. There are players who’ve shared the stage with Charles Mingus, Steve Miller, the Grateful Dead, Public Enemy, and Sheryl Crow; musicology PhD’s with published orchestral works; high school teachers; and independent musicians of all stripes who’ve ploughed the interstates in vans full of gear. There are guitarists, drummers, singers, fiddle players, bassists, piano players, rappers, DJs, saxophonists, trombonists, trumpet players, flutists, percussionists, even someone who spent a year in a barn writing a concerto for two pipe organs!
I hope that as you use Pandora you will feel and hear this passion. Each song in the Genome has been carefully, dare I say lovingly studied. 15-30 minutes spent on each composition capturing the hundreds of musical nuances that give each song its unique sound. From the big name artists to the most indie of the indies… It’s not perfect, how could it be… but we’ve put everything we have into it.
Enjoy.