Neil Young has announced the forthcoming arrival of his second book, which looks to share the story behind the rock guitarist’s past efforts to save the world of audio.
According to the announcement shared to the Neil Young Archives website on Friday, Young has teamed up with writer Phil Baker to co-pen a book about his now-defunct Pono audio player, which launched in early 2015 but has since been shut down. The book will be titled To Feel the Music: A Songwriter’s Mission to Save High-Quality Audio, and is scheduled for a September 10th release on BenBella Books.
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The 242-page book will take readers into Young’s past attempts to save high-quality audio and the journey leading up to his Pono Player launch in January 2015. Young’s music-playing device was initially developed as a “purpose-built, portable, high-resolution digital-music player designed and engineered in a no-compromise fashion to allow consumers to experience studio master-quality digital music at the highest audio fidelity possible.” The sale of the small audio player was shut down in 2017.
“It takes you through how the sound was and is comprised by the tech and record companies,” Young said in a statement about his forthcoming book to go with Friday’s announcement. “Instead of improving over time like other technologies, it has become worse … We spent a year writing this and I think you’ll find it interesting and informative.”
The book will be Young’s first since his autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream, arrived in 2012.
Earlier this week, Young announced a forthcoming album alongside his former collaborators, Crazy Horse. The currently-untitled album will consist of 11 new songs ranging from three minutes to 14 minutes, and is set for release in the early fall of 2019. Until then, fans can click here to pre-order To Feel the Music.
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