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Brian Wilson Re-Records Smile for Fall Release
Recent acid trips only result in nightmarish visions of Kokomo
Ryan Schreiber reports:
According to his official website, wily old Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson is preparing to finally issue his legendary Smile album nearly four decades after it was originally scheduled to hit stores. There's just one catch: It's an all-new recording! Surprise, Beach Boys fans! You all are suckers, who suck. Yes, defying reports in late February that Wilson would compile the original tapes from the Beach Boys' well-documented 1966 and 1967 sessions into a cohesive, definitive LP version at last, Wilson's pulled the old switcharoo and decided instead to re-record all of the material.
Smile has been something of a fantasy for Beach Boys fans since its recording, with countless bootlegs in circulation, speculated tracklists, and not a few books published recounting its legacy. Over the years, it has often been rumored that Wilson would finally issue a completed version, but as release dates came and went, so did hope that the album would ever exist as anything but a jumbled series of studio outtakes. Yet, like the current Pixies reunion that most imagined would never happen, Wilson is now promising the record its day in the sun-- just not in the way he first intended to present it.
Wilson pored over the vaulted Smile tapes with his original collaborator Van Dyke Parks last November in preparation for the re-recording, which inspired the two to create a few scraps of new material with which Wilson could tie the songs together on tour. After premiering the final piece at London's Royal Festival Fall last February, Wilson entered Los Angeles' Sunset Sound studio, where he remains to this day, toiling away to finish the record in time for its newly scheduled September 28th release via Nonesuch Records. Here's hoping these sessions go better than the last
Source : Pitchfork
Ben on va finir par l'entendre, ce Smile définitif...
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