lepeep Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 Tom Waits Reveals Details of Next AlbumGuest spots from Gordon, Maria, Mr. Hooper to round out the castJohn Herman reports:The forthcoming new album from Tom Waits, Real Gone, now has a release date: October 4th. But watch out, Rahzel! According to the folks at Waits' label, Anti, the record will replace the legendary songwriter's piano with his own brand of vocal percussion. Oh, sweet Jesus.But don't fret, lovers of actual music-- as we reported in April, a whole bevy of instrument spankers are on board: guitarist Mark Ribot will be collaborating for the first time since 1985's Rain Dogs; Larry Taylor, a veteran of several Waits recordings, will be on bass and guitar, Brain Manita (Primus, Buckethead, the most recent Guns 'N' Roses tour) will man the drums, Waits' son Casey X will handle percussion and turntables, Primus founder Les Claypool will slap the electric bass, and Harry Cody's got the guitar and banjo.Of the album's sound, Anti's website stated that "Real Gone is a place, a time beyond reach: a lost mind, a renegade leader, war love sublime, love lost, death, desire, escape. These are the themes of the record inspired by the giddy lust, high voltage, out of orbit times-- a vertigo of splash and trash popular culture spinning alongside the gun to our head and the knife in our heart political times, or as 'Shake It' says, 'I feel like a preacher waving a gun around.'" We had to check to be sure they weren't referring to Timecop.Speaking to NME, Waits said "Real Gone is an electric pill box... a homogeneous concoction of mood elevators, mind liberators and downers, an alchemical universe of rattling chains, oscillating rhythms and nine-pound hammers." That had to be rehearsed. With tracks like "Circus" and "Trampled Rose" all recorded in an old Mississippi school house with longtime collaborator and wife Kathleen Brennan, it sounds like fans can expect a true Waits album. Please God, let him sing of a one-eyed dwarf. Tracklist:01 Top of the Hill02 Hoist That Rag03 Sins of My Father04 Shake It05 Don't Go Into That Barn06 How's It Gonna End07 Metropolitan Glide08 Dead and Lovely09 Circus10 Trampled Rose11 Green Grass12 Baby Gonna Leave Me13 Clang Boom Steam14 Make It Rain15 Day After Tomorrowhttp://www.anti.com/artist.php?id=86678PS, I think ANTI just became my favourite label !http://www.anti.com/artist.php?id=86741 (elliot smith LP)http://www.anti.com/artist.php?id=86729 (nick cave LP's)AND...tom waits is going to play berlin in november...cheap flights with easy jet again ?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullmouse Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 Woo, can't Wait.Ahahahah... hahah.. ha.I'll get my coat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 I would seriously consider going to Berlin to see Tom Waits, he fucking rules! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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