new info about the new record, <quextionmark>, 07.07.2004 14:55
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REAL GONE: Tom Waits Has Completed Groundbreaking New
CD for Anti Records
Wednesday June 30, 11:10 am ET
- Titled 'REAL GONE' - Out October 5
LOS ANGELES, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Academy Award
nominated and Grammy
Award winner, Tom Waits has been long considered one
of music's most
influential artists because he has continuously
created music outside of fad
or fashion. With REAL GONE, his off-road adventures
are taken into the
further beyond. Mixing and mashing: worlds both sonic
and ethnic, musical
traditions both new and old, and rhythms both mouth-
made and sampled from
his own instruments, Waits has reached a new pinnacle.
Written and produced by Tom Waits and Kathleen
Brennan, his wife and long-
time collaborator, REAL GONE features 15 tracks of
funk, Jamaican
rock-steady, blues both urban and rural, rhythms and
melodies both Latin and
African and, for the first time, no piano.
The crash and collide of rhythms and genres within a
song creates a hybrid
unlike any music he has made before. The comic,
funky, hip-hop/r&b inspired
instructional dance number, "Metropolitan Glide"
("now show your teeth, bray
like a calf/Then kill me with your machine gun
laugh") and the sonic mayhem
and nonsense rhyme ride to "Top of the Hill" (why
don't you give me another
cup of that soup?/Turn a Rolls Royce into a chicken
coop") are both
punctuated by a live band and turntable playing along
to Waits' home
recorded voice percussion.
Lyrically and musically the kinetic songs play
against the haunting lull of
the ballads. The epic, ominous and hypnotic Jamaican
rock-steady groove of,
"Sins of the Father," follows the dark trails of
straying, passed on from
generation to generation, from those at the top to
those at the bottom and
back around again, echoing a theme of the record.
While Waits has traditionally used his voice as an
actor, inhabiting each
song with a different vocal character, on numerous
songs here, he also uses
it as chugging, sputtering, wheezing syncopated
engine of sound and rhythm
that can explode like a string of sidewalk
firecrackers or sound like the
indecipherable incantations of a street corner shaman.
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."
REAL GONE is also a musical expression, the
experience of playing and losing
yourself to the place where you can finally be found.
In a musical career that has spanned four decades and
over 20 albums "Waits
has," according the Los Angeles Times Robert
Hilburn, "come through it all
with a body of work that stamps him clearly as one of
the most important
figures of the modern pop era." REAL GONE adds more
weight to that claim.
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Source: Anti Records
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