Danger Mouse vs. David Lynch?

[ColoradoCub]

http://www.dnots.com/

David Lynch Goes Hip Hop With Danger Mouse
David Moats, April 22nd, 2009 07:16

Are we about to hear the veteran director rapping? Also, take a look at our gallery of great Lynchian cameos



Strange news arrives in the inbox of The Quietus this morning. It seems that David Lynch, Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse are collaborating on a "project that will be so much more than an album".

All that we can reveal now is that the project — which may or may not feature the veteran film director singing — also includes the talents of The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys from The Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle (ex of Granddaddy), Julian Casablancas, Black Francis, Iggy Pop, James Mercer of Shins, Nina Persson and Suzanne Vega.

We've been told that that more info will be released in dribs and drabs over the coming months but he would neither confirm or deny the suggestion that the director might be singing or rapping on the project.

This is not as wild a suggestion as it might seem. The director has long had ties in the world of pop/alternative music: as well as using the likes of Marilyn Manson, Rammstein and Trent Reznor on the soundtrack of Lost Highway, Lynch's own musical activities have included writing many of Julie Cruise's lyrics and releasing his own wigged out guitar album (in collaboration with John Neff, his regular sound engineer), Bluebob. More recently, the bequiffed auteur and exponent of trancendental meditation sang a number during his last film Inland Empire.

Although the inclusion of Sparklehorse in the project in fact perhaps signals that Lynch will be strapping on an acoustic and singing a dour ballad about the maudlin dudgeon he has endured since the death of his dog.

Either way, Lynch will be in charge of visuals on the project.

A holding site, www.dnots.com, has been set up but currently contains no information.

David Lynch is no stranger to guest appearances and strange collaborations. He's renowned for using and re-using actors such as Jack Nance and Laura Dern, and having them pop up in the least likely places. But he also has a knack for picking unlikely — but highly successful — celebrity guests like Billy Zane and Chris Isaak. Often our background knowledge of the celebrity only adds to their surreal powers onscreen; or, in the case of Robert Blake, the true weirdness of the cameo unfolds much later.

There are too many Lynch cameos to count but here are 10 of our favorites:

10 Most Memorable David Lynch Cameos...

http://thequietus.com/articles/01531-david...h-s-best-cameos

[liner]

looks good. i've always liked the way he uses music, and sound of any kind actually, in his movies. i was looking at that cameos link and just wanted to say that harry dean stanton is the shit.

[ColoradoCub]

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->New Danger Mouse CD Released As A Blank CD-R Due To Legal Fight With EMI
from the now-that's-creative dept

If you follow copyright issues, you're no doubt aware of Danger Mouse. He's the DJ who got quite a lot of attention a few years back for creating one of the very first mainstream mashups -- mixing the Beatle's The White Album with Jay-Z's The Black Album to create the rather unique The Grey Album. Of course, one of the main reasons why the album became so well known was because EMI sent cease-and-desist letters to everyone who posted copies of the album, and then to anyone who posted that they were going to participate in the "Grey Tuesday" protest. The whole thing seemed pretty silly. It's not as if anyone listening to The Grey Album would find it a substitute for either of the other albums.

Since then, of course, DJ Danger Mouse has gone on to even more mainstream success with his Gnarls Barkley project, a collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green. However, it looks like DJ Danger Mouse has another album that he's been working on, in association with Mark Linkous (of Sparklehorse). Yet, due to ongoing legal troubles with EMI, he can't actually release the music. So he's come up with a rather creative solution. Found via Andrew Dubber, the news is that the next album will be released as album artwork with a blank recordable CD.

Yes, a blank CD-R.

There is no music on it. Because if there were music on it, it would get him in more trouble with EMI. Yet, if you have that blank CD and all the artwork, you certainly could (not that they're suggesting you do...) find that music elsewhere and burn it to the CD. The statement from Danger Mouse reads:

Danger Mouse's new project Dark Night Of The Soul consists of an album length piece of music by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and a host of guest vocalists, along with a collection of original David Lynch photography inspired by and based on the music.

The photographs, which provide a visual narrative for the music, are compiled in a limited edition, hand numbered 100+ page book which will now come with a blank, recordable CD-R. All copies will be clearly labeled: 'For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.'

Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to release the recorded music for Dark Night Of The Soul without fear of being sued by EMI.

Danger Mouse remains hugely proud of Dark Night Of The Soul and hopes that people lucky enough to hear the music, by whatever means, are as excited by it as he is.

In some ways, this is reminiscent of what the band Green Day did many years ago, offering up blank CDs with artwork for fans who had downloaded the music from unauthorized sources. Yet, in this case, it's even more interesting since there are no authorized sources at all for the music. It'll be fun to see how EMI reacts. Update: Meanwhile, the folks at NPR alert us to the fact that they're hosting a streaming version of the album for anyone who wants to hear it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Haha... Here's the NPR Link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=104129585

[rok]

The album is quite good from start to finish. There are torrents of it everywhere.