Super Heavy set to release in September
8 07 2011Details about the Mick Jagger-Dave Stewart supergroup SuperHeavy have been released slowly and the first public introduction of the music was almost as cagey. Jagger, Stewart, soul singer Joss Stone, reggae artist Damian Marley and film composer A.R. Rahman gathered to speak about the making of the album after about half of it was played — no song titles provided — Thursday (June 30) afternoon at the Jim Henson Studios in Los Angeles.
Their chat emphasized the unique nature of the project and the random way in which the music, a multi-cultural free-for-all at the start, came together.
They entered the studio with “ideas, a few guitar riffs and a few snippets of lyrics,” Jagger told the small group assembled to hear the tracks. “It’s not my usual sort of way of working. You always want to leave some room for improvisation, but you need to have something, some songs, when you walk into the studio.
“It evolved very quickly. We sat around with our little pads (writing). We did do a lot of jams but it’s all coherent and arranged. We just wrote them quickly.” ”I wasn’t really familiar with everyone else’s music before,” Marley added, “but you observe how they work. It was a great experience.”
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