Metallica/ Reed avslöjar låtlistan till "Lulu"

De släppta låttitlarna är:

* Brandenburg Gate
* Frustration
* The View
* Cheat On Me
* Junior Dad
* Little Dog
* Mistress Dread
* Pumping Blood

10 låtar kommer att finnas på det färdiga albumet

Idén för att dessa två jättar av modern musik att arbeta tillsammans föddes efter 25-årsdagen för Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame konserten i New York i oktober 2009.
Metallica - sångaren / gitarristen James Hetfield, trummisen Lars Ulrich, gitarristen Kirk Hammett och basisten Robert Trujillo - spelade med Reed  Velvet Underground-klassikern "Sweet Jane" och "White Light / White Heat"."We knew from then that we were made for each other" , har Reed sagt.

Efter ett triumferande uppträdande, föreslog Reed de alla skulle göra en skiva tillsammans. Först planerade de att spela in ett album med Reedfraven med äldre material, som Ulrich beskriver som
"some of Lou's lost jewels — songs that he felt he'd like to give a second spin, and we could do whatever it is we do to some of those songs." Idén "hung in the air for a couple of months." Then, a week or two before that session was to begin, "Lou called up and said, 'Listen, I have this other idea.'"

Idén var att spela in en serie låtar Reed hade skrivit för amerikanska avantgardistiska teaterregissören Robert Wilson och den tyska teatergrupp Berliner Ensemble produktion av "Lulu Plays", som hade premiär i april på Theatre am Schiffbauerdamm i Berlin, som grundades av Bertolt Brecht. Låtarna är inspirerade av den tyska expressionistiska Frank Wedekind uppförande av  "Earth Spirit" och "Pandora's Box" och var en omskrivning av Edgar Allan Poes "The Raven", som uppstått som en grafisk roman på Fantagraphics Press.

"We were very interested in working with Lou"  har Hetfield sagt. "I had these giant question marks: What's it going to be like? What's going to happen? So it was great when he sent us the lyrics for the 'Lulu' body of work. It was something we could sink our teeth into. I could take off my singer and lyricist hat and concentrate on the music part. These were very potent lyrics, with a soundscape behind them for atmosphere. Lars and I sat there with an acoustic and let this blank canvas take us where it needed to go. It was a great gift, to be asked to stamp 'TALLICA on it. And that's what we did."

"We had to bring 'Lulu' to life in a sophisticated way, using rock," säger Reed. "And the hardest power rock you could come up with would have to be METALLICA. They live on that planet. We played together, and I knew it: dream come true. This is the best thing I ever did. And I did it with the best group I could possibly find. By definition, everybody involved was honest. This has come into the world pure. We pushed as far as we possibly could within the realms of reality."

"It's definitely not a METALLICA album, or a Lou Reed album," tillägger Hammett. "It's something else. It's a new animal, a hybrid."




 

Av Christina Grönlund 03 sep 2011 08:48