Beck And Jack White Rock Out
The music world’s gone collaboration crazy. Following the announcement that Damon Albarn’s working with Marianne Faithfull and the Scissor Sisters are rumoured to be working with Kylie, comes the announcement that after the calmer waters of 2002’s ‘Sea Change’, Beck has been rocking out with Jack White.
For his eighth studio album, Mr Beck Hansen has confirmed he’s been hard at work in the studio with the cream of Detroit and one half of the White Stripes, Jack White. The diminutive hiphoprockaltcountryfunkster has confirmed that he’s already recorded one track with White, although currently it’s untitled and still requires a little more work. However, Beck plans to finish it in time for the October release of the record.
Beck’s publicist has confirmed that, in addition to finishing the Jack White track, Beck intends to put the finishing touches to the LP with help from producers the Dust Brothers over the coming weeks.
So far, possible tracks set for inclusion include ‘Guero’, ‘Brazilica’, ‘E-Pro’, ‘Scarecrow’ and ‘Chain Reaction’. ‘Guero’ is a dancey, autobiographical account of growing up as the only white kid in an East Los Angeles neighbourhood featuring live samples of sounds from ‘the street’. ‘Brazilica’ is rumoured to be more in the vein of ‘Tropicalia’ from 1998's ‘Mutations’.
It would seem Jack White has beaten Graham Coxon to a collaboration. Coxon revealed to Xfm this week that he would also like to work with Beck on some kind of project. To read exactly what he had to say click here.
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