Danger Gorillaz
News on Danger Mouse and the Gorillaz from the press release (see below). [Note, Danger Mouse remixing Dinah Washington verges on sacriledge. Whose idea was this? That said the Gorillaz project sounds cool.]
“Artist and Producer Danger Mouse has recently finished producing the highly anticipated forthcoming Gorillaz album. The album, titled Demon Days, is due out in May.
Danger Mouse was recently honored in GQ’s Man of the Year issue and Entertainment Weekly’s Album of the Year as well as ‘year end’ accolades from SPIN, Vibe, Blender, NME, Wired, Q and Village Voice to name just a few.
In a recent interview with NME, Gorillaz guitarist Noodle said of the album’s Demon Days title: “Its’ interpretation is completed by the instinct of the listener. In one sense the Demon is a disease and the disease is an absence of thought, a state where people make action without consideration. This is the invisible evil, with a million eyes. This is the return of the ogre, the rise of the beats. Its time is now. The moment we live in has agitated this slumbering giant, the dormant illness. These are the Demon Days, and the land it stalks is the on cusp of a thick fog. In another sense it is time to become the Demon. A time for an action, made with less contemplation, but from a disciplined and considered instinct. Strike with perfection and effect.These are Demon days we exist in. We strike to capture the moment. And hope to contain it, in a balance.”
In other news, Danger Mouse has been tapped to produce a Dinah Washington remix for the upcoming Verve Remixed 3 CD. Verve Remixed 3 is due to be released in early April on Verve Records.
Danger Mouse picked the Dinah Washington classic “Baby, did you hear me?” for his contribution to the remix CD.
One of the finest jazz singers of the ’50s and early ’60s, Dinah Washington is best known for her performances of songs including “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes”, “Unforgettable” and “This Bitter Earth”. Her life was tragically cut short in 1963 at the age of 39.”
