Secret, Profane & Sugarcane: Difference between revisions
From The Elvis Costello Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
(start of page) |
(+temporary news update link) |
||
| Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
A "temporary news update" appeared 2008-03-20 on the official Elvis Costello website. The list of upcoming events included some preposterous details: | A [http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/images/f/f0/Closed_for_Reconstruction.gif|"temporary news update"] appeared 2008-03-20 on the official Elvis Costello website. The list of upcoming events included some preposterous details: | ||
:March 31st: New Coward Brothers session. Live studio recording of the soundtrack for a stop-frame animation feature adapted from the James Ensor painting, "Christ's Last Entry Into Brussels". | :March 31st: New Coward Brothers session. Live studio recording of the soundtrack for a stop-frame animation feature adapted from the James Ensor painting, "Christ's Last Entry Into Brussels". | ||
Revision as of 03:21, 29 April 2008
Henry and Howard's Last Entry Into Brussels is the name Elvis has used to refer to an album he and T Bone Burnett — or perhaps their alter egos The Coward Brothers — recorded in Nashville between March 31 and April 2, 2008.
It is unclear how much of the little that has been revealed about the album is accurate, since some of Elvis' remarks are obviously tongue in cheek.
A release date has not yet been announced.
Background
A "temporary news update" appeared 2008-03-20 on the official Elvis Costello website. The list of upcoming events included some preposterous details:
- March 31st: New Coward Brothers session. Live studio recording of the soundtrack for a stop-frame animation feature adapted from the James Ensor painting, "Christ's Last Entry Into Brussels".
- April 1st: Formal announcement of the release of "Henry and Howard's Last Entry Into Brussels". U.S. edition of record will be released on a state-by-state basis, in alphabetical order.
- Due to problems with piracy, only one copy will be manufactured for issue in each state or international territory.
- Individual copies will be encoded with the new, KNARP discriminators and secreted in the racks of selected stockists.
- Those discovering each unique disc will be free to do with it as their conscience deems fit.
A MarketWatch profile of T Bone Burnett dated 2008-03-28 was more straighforward:
- When we talked about music, Burnett was cheerful and relaxed, even though he must've been somewhat preoccupied by the massive workload awaiting him.
- He was a few weeks shy of relocating to Nashville, where he and his old friend Costello planned to complete work on an album in only three days...
Elvis added in a 2008-04-22 post on his official website:
- On Monday morning [March 31], I was in Sound Emporium with my brother Henry Coward and an incredible group of musicians including, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton, Dennis Crouch and Jim Lauderdale.
- We successfully recorded the more than 35 pieces of "Henry and Howard's Last Entry Into Brussels" in three days and about which I'm sure you've already heard quite enough. The release of this soundtrack will be announced at this location in due course.
