Danger Mouse’s Next Album Will Be A Blank CD-R
EMI has told Danger Mouse that his latest CD won’t see the light of day due to “legal issues,” so he’s responding by releasing the disc as a blank CD-R in a jewel case with art and liner notes. Fans can just download the music off a P2P site and burn it to the CD-R. – from Boing Boing
A spokesperson for the producer said: “Danger Mouse remains hugely proud of Dark Night of the Soul and hopes that people lucky enough to hear the music, by whatever means, are as excited by it as he is.” He added that the album, which comes with a limited edition, “100+ page book” of David Lynch photographs inspired by the music “will now come with a blank, recordable CD-R”. “All copies will be clearly labelled: ‘For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.’” – from BBC
Being fans of both artists I was automatically intrigued and excited to see what these two brainiacs of programming and production had in store for the masses. Well, that wait is finally over. The entire album is streaming at NPR right now and it not only features some of music’s greatest voices – i.e. Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Vic Chesnutt – but it also includes a book of photography from the king of weird and obscure, David Lynch. It’s a package that, in my opinion, will fail to disappoint. – from Creative
It all started back in March, at the South by Southwest music festival and conference. A number of us on the NPR Music team had noticed strange posters around downtown Austin, Texas, that read “Dark Night of the Soul.” They looked like movie posters and had David Lynch’s name on them, alongside names of some of our favorite artists, like Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, Vic Chesnutt, Jason Lytle and more. We wondered if it was some sort of musical film. It turns out Dark Night Of The Soul is an album and the songs were written by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, though the myriad singers featured on each track also had a big hand in composing and producing the work. The album was initially going to be packaged with a book of photos taken by David Lynch. But now there’s word that the music may never be officially released at all. – from NPR