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Peter Gabriel's Scratch My Back Tracklisting, Details

Peter Gabriel is doing a covers project in which there will be an album made of him covering various bands, and various bands covering him.  Pretty cool.  The first album titled Scratch My Back features Gabriel's orchestral takes on Radiohead, Bon Iver, The Arcade Fire, David Bowie, and more.

Composer John Metcalfe commented on the Scratch My Back project back in September on the official Peter Gabriel site.

"I have been busy working closely with Peter Gabriel on his 'Scratch My Back' project. This is a song swap with some of the world's most legendary artists and is due for release in the Spring. My role has been to re-interpret the music of the song's he has chosen to cover - quite honerous as some of the songs are among the best known in the last 40 years. The album will be acoustic, using only orchestral instruments (no guitars, drums or world instruments) and range in size from sparse chamber music to a much fuller orchestral sounds. We recently recorded the orchestra at Air Lyndhurst studios (George Martin's studio) in London which was an enormous thrill hearing my arrangements performed by some of the best performers in the UK. The producer of the album is Canadian legend Bob Ezrin who has recorded dozens of classic albums including Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' We performed one of the songs, Paul Simon's 'Boy In The Bubble' at Womad back in July. I have been working a lot down at Real World studios editing and mixing and will be continuing with that in the Autumn and it's been a huge privilege to work with the great man."

Sounds good to me, the album is set to be released January 25th and the official tracklisting is as follows

Heroes (David Bowie)
The Boy In The Bubble (Paul Simon)
Mirrorball (Elbow)
Flume (Bon Iver)
Listening Wind (Talking Heads)
The Power Of The Heart (Lou Reed)
My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire)
The Book Of Love (The Magnetic Fields)
I Think It’s Going To Rain Today (Randy Newman)
Apres Moi (Regina Spektor)
Philadelphia (Neil Young)
Street Spirit (Radiohead)

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Volcano Choir Unveil Island, IS Video

 

Here is the first video Island, IS off the recently released album [amazon B002ON6L2C] by Volcano Choir.  If you haven't heard of Volcano Choir yet, fret not, for they are somewhat new, and you are probably familiar with part of them anyway, Justin Vernon from Bon Iver.

Per the band's myspace

Volcano Choir is an assembly of Wisconsinites Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Jim Schoenecker, Daniel Spack, Justin Vernon, and Thomas Wincek. You might find these old friends also frequenting records and stages under different monikers, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Bon Iver. The collaboration predates the meteoric rise of Justin Vernon's Bon Iver project, with original songwriting dating back to the summer of 2005, right around the time the Bees first toured with Vernon's previous band DeYarmond Edison.

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Twilight: New Moon Soundtrack Details

Here is the rather impressive list of bands that will be on the upcoming Twilight: New Moon soundtrack.  Keep in mind this is an abstinence movie for girls about vampires. 

  1. Death Cab For Cutie – “Meet Me On The Equinox”
  2. Band Of Skulls – “Friends”
  3. Thom Yorke – “Hearing Damage”
  4. Lykke Li – “Possibility”
  5. The Killers – “A White Demon Love Song”
  6. Anya Marina – “Satellite Heart”
  7. Muse – “I Belong To You (New Moon)”
  8. Bon Iver and St. Vincent – “Roslyn”
  9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Done All Wrong”
  10. Hurricane Bells – “Monsters”
  11. Sea Wolf – “The Violet Hour”
  12. OK Go – “Shooting The Moon”
  13. Grizzly Bear – “Slow Life”
  14. Editors – “No Sound But The Wind”
  15. Alexandre Desplat – “New Moon (The Meadow)”

Pretty impressive right?  Of course you are already familiar with Meet Me On The Equinox, and you've had your share of Thom Yorke recently, what are your thoughts on the album that appears to be shaping up as this fall's [amazon B001KVW574], on which SHA favorites and New Moon soundtrack participants Grizzly Bear and Bon Iver also appeared.  The soundtrack is set for an October 20th release, the movie a month later, Nov 20.

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New York Guitar Festival To Celebrate Charlie Chaplin

Talk about awesome. The New York Guitar Festival recently announced the following

The New York Guitar Festival returns to Merkin Concert Hall in 2010 for its 10th anniversary season from January 14-February 4, 2010. This year’s festival celebrates one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent film era. Each night an artist or ensemble will give the world premiere of a New York Guitar Festival commissioned score for early silent classic films by Charlie Chaplin including The Immigrant, Modern Times, City Lights, The Gold Rush and The Kid. They’ll be shown along with short films by Buster Keaton and others. The festival is curated by New York Guitar Festival founder and artistic director David Spelman and features artists David Bromberg, Marc Ribot, Bon Iver, Alex de Grassi, Gyan Riley, James Blackshaw and others.

The Silent Films/Live Guitars performances will take place on Thursday nights at the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center from January 14th until Febuary 4th.

Jan 14 - David Bromberg & Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant (1917, 20 minutes) , Marc Ribot & Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921, 68 minutes)
Jan 21 - Bon Iver & Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925, 82 minutes) , Steve Kimock & Buster Keaton’s Cops (18 minutes)
Jan 28 - Alex de Grassi & Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936, 87 minutes) , James Blackshaw & Fall of the House of Usher (1928, 14 minutes)
Feb 4 - Chicha Libre & Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights (1931, 86 minutes) , Gyan Riley & shorts by Harry Smith

I am very jealous of people that are going to be at the January 21st edition. Tickets are on sale now and can be found here

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