Post by Ginnie on Sept 30, 2010 21:46:44 GMT
This new Neil Young album can be listened to free until its release on Oct 5
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This is a unique album from Neil Young. As producer Daniel Lanois puts it, there is no band, no overdubs, just "a man on a stool and me doing a nice job on the recording." The result is a stunning sonic adventure.
Le Noise is, fittingly, the product of two men fascinated by sound. Ask anyone who has been to a Neil Young show, and they will tell you that you feel the music as much as you hear it. Listen to a Daniel Lanois album — or one he's produced with Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan or U2 — and you hear a sonic stamp. To record the album, Lanois gave Young an electro/acoustic guitar; he'd spent years perfecting the instrument's electronics. In a press release for Le Noise, Lanois explained:
"I wanted to give him something he'd never heard before. He picked up that instrument, which had everything — an acoustic sound, electronica, bass sounds — and he knew when he played it that we had taken the acoustic guitar to a new level. It's hard to come up with a new sound at the back end of 50 years of rock 'n' roll, but I think we did it."
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129955938
This is a unique album from Neil Young. As producer Daniel Lanois puts it, there is no band, no overdubs, just "a man on a stool and me doing a nice job on the recording." The result is a stunning sonic adventure.
Le Noise is, fittingly, the product of two men fascinated by sound. Ask anyone who has been to a Neil Young show, and they will tell you that you feel the music as much as you hear it. Listen to a Daniel Lanois album — or one he's produced with Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan or U2 — and you hear a sonic stamp. To record the album, Lanois gave Young an electro/acoustic guitar; he'd spent years perfecting the instrument's electronics. In a press release for Le Noise, Lanois explained:
"I wanted to give him something he'd never heard before. He picked up that instrument, which had everything — an acoustic sound, electronica, bass sounds — and he knew when he played it that we had taken the acoustic guitar to a new level. It's hard to come up with a new sound at the back end of 50 years of rock 'n' roll, but I think we did it."
