Rumor time! HMV has posted up a prerelease page for Radiohead which we would assume is for the new album. Check it out here. Now this is probably nothing at all but in times of slow news reporting, we’ll take anything.
No mention of a release date yet, though rumor has it that it could be coming in November. We certainly hope it comes sooner.
Now back to what you were doing….
A ballet inspired by Radiohead will air in Scotland this summer, it has been confirmed.
Stephen Petronio’s “Ride The Beast” is scheduled for performance at the Edinburgh International Festival and features a number of musical reworkings of their songs.
Opening with “Fitter Happier”, the performance features five songs from Thom and co in total, from across their career.
Explaining the production, Petronio commented: “Radiohead’s music is a brilliant investigation of achingly modern taste.
“They sail through genre and form effortlessly and passionately, and their music demands a physical response from me that by-passes reason.”
“Ride The Beast” takes place at the Scottish Ballet at the Edinburgh Playhouse on August 18+19+20.
Source: Dotmusic
This summer, the Lazarides Gallery will present an exhibition of brand new art by Stanley Donwood. Known internationally for his work on album and poster art for the band Radiohead, he was the recipient of a prestigious Grammy Award in 2001. His first solo show at the Lazarides Gallery received huge interest from the public, and for his second solo exhibition Donwood has created a series of new etchings and paintings, including Home, illustrated above.
If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now includes a series of ten prints that reflect Donwood’s distraught meditations on the issues that have preoccupied the artist over the past three years including the dislocation and alienation of the individual, the morbid state of society, mass conformity, and the proliferation of war.
The prints are made in a complicated and laborious photogravure etching process, using a printing press more than 150 years old. According to the artist, “Photogravure etching is an almost unbelievably complicated, laborious, involved, lengthy and difficult process. I now look upon my endeavours last year with all that London Views linocutting and printing as pretty much a walk in the fucking park.”
Donwood’s work has been represented in numerous publications worldwide, and he has exhibited in provocative exhibitions such as Dead Children Playing in Barcelona in 2006 and Department of Reclusive Paranoia in Rotterdam earlier this year.
Exhibition Dates: Fri 15th of June – Sat 14th of July
More info:
www.lazinc.com
www.slowlydownward.com
On a diligent quest to marry the contemporary classical and indie rock worlds– or at least let them mingle for a few magical nights a season– the New York City-based Wordless Music Series returns this fall with another generous helping of eclectic aural delights, sure to enchant folks from the highbrow to the underground.
Set for the Series’ 2007/08 season are Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood– who’ll oversee a performance of his British Composer Award-winning composition Popcorn Superhet Receiver– along with Beirut, Final Fantasy, Do Make Say Think, and the U.S. debut of indie-friendly modern composer Max Richter.
Other series highlights include Icelandic dream-weavers Múm, ambient loop mistress Colleen, string savant and indie arranger of choice Nico Muhly, experimental electronic artist Jan Jelinek, and Australian avant-jazz trio Triosk. The complete schedule for the new season (with dates and venues) is still shaping up, but scope the events confirmed thus far below, and bookmark the Wordless website for updates.
From Pitchfork.
Check out this link: http://www.wordlessmusic.org/Schedule.html. Read the fine print at the bottom.
It says that Jonny Greenwood will be taking part in the Wordless Music Series for 2007-08. What is this you say? From the website:
The Wordless Music Series is devoted to the idea that the sound worlds of classical and contemporary instrumental music—in genres such as indie rock, free jazz, and electronic music—share more in common than conventional thinking might suggest. To illustrate the continuity between these worlds, the series will pair rock and electronic musicians in an intimate concert setting with more traditionally understood classical and chamber music performers. In so doing, the series will bring together audiences and introduce listeners of both classical and contemporary music to composers that they might otherwise not encounter, for a completely new concert experience. It will also demonstrate that the various boundaries and genre distinctions segregating music today—“popular” and “classical”; “uptown” and “downtown”; “high” art and “low” —are an artificial construction in need of dismantling.
Now obviously we have to tell you that this is all we know and nothing has been announced or confirmed. While this appears like something Jonny may be interested in doing, until we hear it from him or management, this is being filed as a “rumor”.
(thanks to Jason)
Check out this unofficial video for Thom Yorke’s “And It Rained All Night” an art teacher named Raul Gonzo created with his students. Very cool…