Produced by Devendra Banhart and Noah Georgeson, Smokey features a rotating assembly of Devendra’s friends and neighbors including:

Andy Cabic on vocals and guitar.
Pete Newsom (Yes, that’s Joanna Newsom’s brother) on piano , Keyboard and singing.
Luckey Remmington on Bass, guitar, singing, water drum, and freedom chime.
Greg Rogove on drums, Tablas, singing, geese and duck calls, pots and Pans, mop stomp.
Noah Georgeson on Zither, Guitar, singing, Organ, bass, and some other thangs.
Rodrigo Amarante“from the amazing Brasilian band Los Hermanos on guitar, singing, and the best vibes this side of the Orinoco!”

Even Devendra Banhart makes an appearance on it; where you’ll find him singing, playing guitar, piano, Cuatro and psaltery.

and many more!

Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon on September 25th and put out by XL records. The album will feature 16 songs in all. Some of the track names include: “Cristobal, “So Long Old Bean”, “Samba Vexillographica” and “Seahorse.” As for what to expect on the album, Devendra had the following to say in a correspondence I had with him last month:

“As for the new songs, he said to expect lots of surprises and that being where they are recording has allowed for some interesting friends to come in and add to it all. While saying that many of the songs are very direct lyrically, he also mentioned that his Spanish songs in particular were, from what I gathered, increasingly expanding the ideas of a universal spirituality beyond what he ever had written before in the language. I think what he was getting at was the interconnectedness of man, animal and his surroundings. There’s also a song that is sung in Portuguese. Keeping true to his mentioning last year of recording parts of the album on a boat, several of the songs were recorded on a sailboat on the way to Catalina. Finally, he told me one thing he’s certain of, “i will say , its more……. musical!””

Sietse schreef:
en dat na zijn vorige album wat toch wel een grote teleurstelling was?

Sietse schreef:
Cripple Crow vind ik een grote teleurstelling...
je merkt dat hij zoekende is naar iets nieuws na die zeer vreemde folk liedjes van hem op de voorgaande albums...en als je het mij vraagt slaat hij plank helemaal mis.

the viking schreef:
September The Cult,October The Cure. De vooruitzichten zijn zo slecht nog niet

deric raven schreef:
Blijkbaar in September ook een album van Siouxsie.

Scarlett Johansson Works With Sitek, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Talk about In Good Company!

Oh my god. As if it wasn't shocking enough that starlet Scarlett Johansson was working on an album of Tom Waits covers (read Tom's reaction here), and sang with the Jesus and Mary Chain at Coachella. Apparently, her album is being produced by David Sitek of TV on the Radio and features members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Celebration!!!

According to Lafayette, Louisiana's Daily Advertiser, the Ghost World and Lost in Translation star spent "33 days in Maurice [Louisiana] recording her debut CD at Dockside Studio."

Studio owner Steve Nails described the music as "like a theater, big screen. Lots of heavy bass tones in it. Without a bass guitar, we used all kind of different instruments to create these sounds. It was a great experiment. Very avant garde. She sounds like Marilyn Monroe." He also "predicts her CD will go platinum and win a Grammy," according to the Daily Advertiser.

Man, now that we know this, could indie dudes possibly find Scarlett Johansson any more attractive?! Oh, wait: the article mentions that "boyfriend Ryan Reynolds visited for two weeks." Yeah, thinking about her getting it on with the dude from Van Wilder can be kind of a boner killer.

bron: pitchforkmedia.com

deric raven schreef:
Blijkbaar in September ook een album van Siouxsie.

Justinx schreef:
Na alle snabbels komt Antony (met natuurlijk the Johnsons) in januari '08 eindelijk met een nieuw album, aldus zijn website. Goed nieuws lijkt mij