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Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:29:51 -0500
By Barney Hoskyns
U2 And Brian Eno are past the planning and confirmation stages of the new
Passengers 'soundtrack'. No Pavorati this time, but confirmed are French
New Ager Jean-Michel Jarre, Tricky, and Howie B. The three in addition the
Passenger regular, Brian Eno will work the 'backbone' production aspects of
the new album. The striking contrasts between the four men's music is a
concious attempt at 'experimental new musics'. In the vocal department,
Bono will play opposite Bjork, Maire Ni Bhraonain of Clannad, Miho Hatori
of the New York/Toyko indie Cibo Matto, Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, and
Billy Corgan. It is rumored that Eric Clapton and George Harrison are
being pressured to chip in a song. The new passengers will be devoting a
third of the new album to insturmentals, a third to duets, and a third to
solos featuring Passenger frontman Bono. Though this format will not be
strictly enforeced, for one song will be a sung solo by Bjork who's voice
has
been described by Bono as a "bent verbal limb"; and it is
even rumored that U2 guitarist, the Edge, will be singing his own song.
Bono has said that U2's most resent album 'POP' was ". . .the anti-thesis
to what we were trying to do with the Passengers . . .we hope that the next
[Passengers soundtrack] will be an anti-thesis to both POP and the first
Passengers." He went on to say that he wanted the Passengers 'forum' to be
". . .a place where artists can be artists, without the constant pressure
to market themselves." Ambient sound artist, Brian Eno, who was said he
was inspired by Ticky's last project, 'Nearly God', elaborated on the
concept, "Passengers allows the musicians who are involved to return to
thier roots, to experiment, we got a lot more people involved in [the
second Passengers soundtrack] in the hopes that each persons style could
play off of eachother, to produce something in between, and original at the
same time." Though it is confirmed that Bono will be involved in the
soundtrack to the next Batman istalment and Terminator 3, it is doubtful
that the resulting songs will be included in the second Passengers project.
Because the format is rather speculatory and constantly changing, the
expected realease date of the new Passengers album is in the Summer of
1999.
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