09-19-2010, 02:11 PM
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Neil Young + Daniel Lanois
09-19-2010, 05:15 PM
chris Wrote:Word on the internets is that it leaked....
True.
09-19-2010, 07:52 PM
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09-21-2010, 03:46 AM
Daniel Lanois to present Nuit Blanche work
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts...le1715404/
The annual Nuit Blanche installation at Nathan Phillips Square has been a centrepiece of sorts for the soirée, in part by virtue of the site’s architectural gifts. This year figures to be no different with celebrated Canadian music producer Daniel Lanois taking the reins.
Lanois, producer to big-name artists such as U2 and Neil Young, is presenting the immersive multimedia exhibition Later That Night at the Drive-In at Toronto’s annual “all-night contemporary art thing,” from sundown on Oct. 2 to sunrise the next morning. In a departure from the stage shows he’s accustomed to, however, he’s encouraging visitors to do a little exploring.
Lanois and his crew are dotting the square with 24 large speaker towers and 12 video screens of varying sizes. At the heart of it all, Lanois will control a console with a separate input into each tower, so that he “can send sound to any of them in isolation” to produce and perform a soundtrack accompanying films playing on the dozen screens.
“It’s going to be like entering an enchanted forest of sound and picture,” he said Monday at the unveiling of a retrospective exhibition celebrating Nuit Blanche’s first four years.
Lanois has never been to a Nuit Blanche, in Toronto or elsewhere, and says his son Simon, “a big Nuit Blanche supporter,” hooked him up with the organizers. He calls it “the opportunity of a lifetime,” and though he hit some technical snags along the way (initially the sound was to emanate from the screens, until they found the speakers were rattling the projectors), he believes it will be a sight to behold.
Live performances will include some steel-guitar riffs by Lanois and music by his band Black Dub, as well as a dance component. And at “the stroke of midnight,” he’ll mount a series of four songs from Young’s new album Le Noise (to be released Sept. 28 and produced by Lanois), set to film footage of the album’s creation.
Crucially for an event as fluid and unpredictable as Nuit Blanche, Lanois has left wiggle room in the program and plans to gauge the mood of the night.
“We are allowing ourselves a window of flexibility to improvise relative to the demands of our audience,” he said, adding with a chuckle: “If everybody’s high on ecstasy, we’ve got a couple of aces up the sleeve.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts...le1715404/
The annual Nuit Blanche installation at Nathan Phillips Square has been a centrepiece of sorts for the soirée, in part by virtue of the site’s architectural gifts. This year figures to be no different with celebrated Canadian music producer Daniel Lanois taking the reins.
Lanois, producer to big-name artists such as U2 and Neil Young, is presenting the immersive multimedia exhibition Later That Night at the Drive-In at Toronto’s annual “all-night contemporary art thing,” from sundown on Oct. 2 to sunrise the next morning. In a departure from the stage shows he’s accustomed to, however, he’s encouraging visitors to do a little exploring.
Lanois and his crew are dotting the square with 24 large speaker towers and 12 video screens of varying sizes. At the heart of it all, Lanois will control a console with a separate input into each tower, so that he “can send sound to any of them in isolation” to produce and perform a soundtrack accompanying films playing on the dozen screens.
“It’s going to be like entering an enchanted forest of sound and picture,” he said Monday at the unveiling of a retrospective exhibition celebrating Nuit Blanche’s first four years.
Lanois has never been to a Nuit Blanche, in Toronto or elsewhere, and says his son Simon, “a big Nuit Blanche supporter,” hooked him up with the organizers. He calls it “the opportunity of a lifetime,” and though he hit some technical snags along the way (initially the sound was to emanate from the screens, until they found the speakers were rattling the projectors), he believes it will be a sight to behold.
Live performances will include some steel-guitar riffs by Lanois and music by his band Black Dub, as well as a dance component. And at “the stroke of midnight,” he’ll mount a series of four songs from Young’s new album Le Noise (to be released Sept. 28 and produced by Lanois), set to film footage of the album’s creation.
Crucially for an event as fluid and unpredictable as Nuit Blanche, Lanois has left wiggle room in the program and plans to gauge the mood of the night.
“We are allowing ourselves a window of flexibility to improvise relative to the demands of our audience,” he said, adding with a chuckle: “If everybody’s high on ecstasy, we’ve got a couple of aces up the sleeve.”
09-21-2010, 04:02 PM
"Hitchhiker" contains a stanza from "Like An Inca" from 1982's 'Trans':
Well. I wish I was an Aztec,
Or a runner in Peru
I would build such
beautiful buildings
To house the chosen few
Like an Inca from Peru.
Well. I wish I was an Aztec,
Or a runner in Peru
I would build such
beautiful buildings
To house the chosen few
Like an Inca from Peru.
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09-21-2010, 11:41 PM
chris Wrote:Word on the internets is that it leaked....Word. I listened to it last night and wasn't really impressed. Too much studio trickery for me. I'll give it some more listens, though, and I might come around to liking it. We'll see what transpires. As far as producing a Neil Young record, probably nobody will ever hold a candle to the late David Briggs. Lanois, for the most part, strips a lot of soul from the music he produces, IMO. Neil wanted to go down this route and sought out Lanois, so I'm sure he's happy with the music. Neil does what Neil wants, which makes him great. Unfortunately, because he makes SO MUCH DAMN MUSIC, some of the directions he veers off on aren't for everyone. I love the fact that Neil Young keeps putting out music at a fairly rapid pace. I wish more bands/artists did that.
09-22-2010, 12:46 AM
tigerthelion Wrote:chris Wrote:Word on the internets is that it leaked....Word. I listened to it last night and wasn't really impressed. Too much studio trickery for me.
Funny, I had the opposite reaction. I listened to it once through and liked it right away. After a few more spins I liked it even more. For a Lanois produced album, it's actually pretty stripped down for the most part. The entire record is basically just Neil and his guitar (acoustic and electric) with small doses of studio trickery on some of the tracks. Personally I've always enjoyed Lanois' work. The guy produced two of my favorite albums of all time (Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind and U2's Achtung Baby), so I'll always have a soft spot for him. I'm also a big fan of his solo records, particularly his beautiful 1993 album "For the Beauty of Wynona". As for Neil's album, I think it's definitely better than his last two efforts.
09-22-2010, 03:11 AM
Daniel Lanois to present Nuit Blanche work
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts...le1715404/
James Bradshaw (Globe and Mail)
The annual Nuit Blanche installation at Nathan Phillips Square has been a centrepiece of sorts for the soirée, in part by virtue of the site’s architectural gifts. This year figures to be no different with celebrated Canadian music producer Daniel Lanois taking the reins.
Lanois, producer to big-name artists such as U2 and Neil Young, is presenting the immersive multimedia exhibition Later That Night at the Drive-In at Toronto’s annual “all-night contemporary art thing,” from sundown on Oct. 2 to sunrise the next morning. In a departure from the stage shows he’s accustomed to, however, he’s encouraging visitors to do a little exploring.
Lanois and his crew are dotting the square with 24 large speaker towers and 12 video screens of varying sizes. At the heart of it all, Lanois will control a console with a separate input into each tower, so that he “can send sound to any of them in isolation” to produce and perform a soundtrack accompanying films playing on the dozen screens.
“It’s going to be like entering an enchanted forest of sound and picture,” he said Monday at the unveiling of a retrospective exhibition celebrating Nuit Blanche’s first four years.
Lanois has never been to a Nuit Blanche, in Toronto or elsewhere, and says his son Simon, “a big Nuit Blanche supporter,” hooked him up with the organizers. He calls it “the opportunity of a lifetime,” and though he hit some technical snags along the way (initially the sound was to emanate from the screens, until they found the speakers were rattling the projectors), he believes it will be a sight to behold.
Live performances will include some steel-guitar riffs by Lanois and music by his band Black Dub, as well as a dance component. And at “the stroke of midnight,” he’ll mount a series of four songs from Young’s new album Le Noise (to be released Sept. 28 and produced by Lanois), set to film footage of the album’s creation.
Crucially for an event as fluid and unpredictable as Nuit Blanche, Lanois has left wiggle room in the program and plans to gauge the mood of the night.
“We are allowing ourselves a window of flexibility to improvise relative to the demands of our audience,” he said, adding with a chuckle: “If everybody’s high on ecstasy, we’ve got a couple of aces up the sleeve.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts...le1715404/
James Bradshaw (Globe and Mail)
The annual Nuit Blanche installation at Nathan Phillips Square has been a centrepiece of sorts for the soirée, in part by virtue of the site’s architectural gifts. This year figures to be no different with celebrated Canadian music producer Daniel Lanois taking the reins.
Lanois, producer to big-name artists such as U2 and Neil Young, is presenting the immersive multimedia exhibition Later That Night at the Drive-In at Toronto’s annual “all-night contemporary art thing,” from sundown on Oct. 2 to sunrise the next morning. In a departure from the stage shows he’s accustomed to, however, he’s encouraging visitors to do a little exploring.
Lanois and his crew are dotting the square with 24 large speaker towers and 12 video screens of varying sizes. At the heart of it all, Lanois will control a console with a separate input into each tower, so that he “can send sound to any of them in isolation” to produce and perform a soundtrack accompanying films playing on the dozen screens.
“It’s going to be like entering an enchanted forest of sound and picture,” he said Monday at the unveiling of a retrospective exhibition celebrating Nuit Blanche’s first four years.
Lanois has never been to a Nuit Blanche, in Toronto or elsewhere, and says his son Simon, “a big Nuit Blanche supporter,” hooked him up with the organizers. He calls it “the opportunity of a lifetime,” and though he hit some technical snags along the way (initially the sound was to emanate from the screens, until they found the speakers were rattling the projectors), he believes it will be a sight to behold.
Live performances will include some steel-guitar riffs by Lanois and music by his band Black Dub, as well as a dance component. And at “the stroke of midnight,” he’ll mount a series of four songs from Young’s new album Le Noise (to be released Sept. 28 and produced by Lanois), set to film footage of the album’s creation.
Crucially for an event as fluid and unpredictable as Nuit Blanche, Lanois has left wiggle room in the program and plans to gauge the mood of the night.
“We are allowing ourselves a window of flexibility to improvise relative to the demands of our audience,” he said, adding with a chuckle: “If everybody’s high on ecstasy, we’ve got a couple of aces up the sleeve.”
09-30-2010, 08:05 PM
One of the best interviews I've ever seen, Neil's got some funny in him too. Jian never ceases to impress me with his interviewing skills.
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10-01-2010, 07:59 PM
One of the best interviews I've ever seen. Great stuff.
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