record club

Tausendsassa Beck Hansen startete dieser Tage ein äußerst bemerkenswertes musikalisches Projekt mit dem Namen "Record Club". Auf beck.com heißt es dazu:

"We've been working on changes to the website for the last few months. We'll be adding new sections as they're ready. The first one to be added is called Record Club, an informal meeting of various people to record an album in a day. An album will be chosen to be reinterpreted and used as a framework. Nothing rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track will be uploaded once a week on beck.com as well as through the web sites of those involved with the project.

For this first edition, after lengthy deliberation and coming close to covering Digital Underground's Sex Packets, all present voted in favor of the 'other' Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico. Participants included this time around are Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Holmes, and from Iceland, special guest Thorunn Magnusdottir, and myself. Thanks to everyone who helped put this together, and to all of you for indulging in this experiment. More soon."

Der erste Song, der online geht, ist der vielleicht schönste Track (die Mitkonkurenten "There She Goes Again" und "I'll Be Your Mirror" sind aber eigentlich gleichauf...) vom legendären The Velvet Underground & Nico Meilenstein mit der Banane: "Sunday Morning".

Beck - Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground & Nico) (2009)