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02-14-2008, 02:04 PM
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When did she record this? I wonder how Bowie's involvement fitted in with his working on Josh's film project last year. | |
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02-26-2008, 01:23 PM
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| Scarlett Mod  | Nice words from David Bowie Washington, Feb 26 (ANI): Rock legend David Bowie has showered actress Scarlett Johansson with praise prior to the release of her debut album, insisting that her performance is mystical. The rock legend added backing vocals to two tracks on ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’ - ‘Falling Down’ and ‘Fannin’ Street’. Writing on his official website, Bowie has dismissed media criticism of the Lost in Translation starlet’s attempts to re-record songs by an artist as respected as Waits. “The songs are great, really good Tom Waits stuff, and Scarlett’s performances are mystical and twice cool,” Contactmusic quoted Bowie, as saying. “She creates a mood that could have been summoned by someone like Margery Latimer or Jeanette Winterson, he added. Bowie, who sings on Falling Down and Fannin’ Street, played down his contributions to the album, saying that his involvement was fairly minimal. “I’ve seen the press on this and I suppose the record company wanted to spin my involvement a little more than it actually warrants. All I contribute are these oo’s and ah’s on a couple of tracks, he said. (ANI) |
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03-10-2008, 02:50 PM
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| Scarlett Mod | From news.com.au MOVING from credible actress to credible singer has always be a precarious career path, claiming many victims. For every success story there are more than a handful of failures, or in celebrity-to-celebrity ratio, one Jennifer Lopez to three Minnie Drivers. So when news broke that modern screen icon Scarlett Johansson was planning to tread the notoriously rocky road from Hollywood darling to pop star the obvious musing and mutterings about her 'inevitable' demise ensued. However, not every actress-turned-singer has an already critically acclaimed singer-songwriter in their corner. The gruff-voiced jazz musician Tom Waits has not only agreed to let Scarlett cover 10 of his hits for her debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head, but he is "pleased" with the results. Scarlett revealed: "Tom Waits's melodies are so beautiful and his voice is so distinct. I sent him some of my early, early recordings, and he said, 'Go ahead.' I've heard he's very pleased." As if one musical legend wasn't enough, Scarlett also managed to convince pop supremo and chart chameleon David Bowie to lay down vocals for one of the tracks. And, as with Waits, Bowie has been busy waxing lyrical about the untapped musical talent that is Scarlett Johansson - even going as far to compare her to some of today's greatest wordsmiths. He gushed: "The songs are great, really good Tom Waits stuff, and Scarlett's performances are mystical and cool. "She creates a mood that could have been summoned by someone like the novelists Margery Latimer or Jeanette Winterson." Bowie was even modest enough to play down his own involvement in the project, insisting Scarlett had everything covered. He explained: "I've seen the press on the album and I suppose the record company wanted to spin my involvement a little more than it actually warrants. "All I really contribute are these oo's and ah's on a couple of tracks. David Sitek, the producer, originally asked me to do three songs, but for one of them, I Don't Wanna Grow Up, I didn't feel I could contribute much to it, so I left it alone." On top of the two already established names, Scarlett has also injected a little bit of cool into her debut with the help of a collaboration with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner. But what about the star herself, after wowing audiences with her early performances in Girl With A Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation, there was no question of film offers drying up. So why did she feel the need to dip her toe into the often shark-infested waters of a musical career? Well, for want of a better reason, it seems simply because she fancied a new challenge. She explained: "It was a whole other magical experience for me. It was amazing. I worked with some incredible people and was just able to work, to do something completely different. "I recorded in a very remote area in Louisiana and just have free reign to be crazy crazy and that is so exciting." Scarlett's debut - which also features one original track - is due to be released in the US on May 20 and only time will tell if her daring career move has paid off. |
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03-13-2008, 06:03 PM
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| i (L) b e n i c i o  | Scarlett speaks Scarlett Johansson, star of Lost in Translation and Girl With a Pearl Earring, tells Abba to Zappa about her debut album.... of Tom Waits covers. Speaking in a candle-lit room at private members club the Hospital, a surprisingly nervous Johansson explained to us how she was offered the chance to record an album after joining the Jesus and Mary Chain on backing vocals at last year's Coachella festival, and, toyed with various ideas, including Cole Porter covers, before settling settled on a set of Waits covers. Initial recordings with a group of session musicians were aborted, she said, as 'they sounded terrible, like fake Tom Waits records with my voice on it'. A mutual friend then put her in touch with David Sitek, from Brooklyn band TV on the Radio, and the pair decamped to Louisiana with the aim, as Sitek puts it, of creating something 'that sounds like we drank a lot of cough medicine and saw Tinkerbell'. Anywhere I Lay My Head, is billed as a collaboration between Johansson and Sitek, and of the 11 tracks, ten are written by Waits, or Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and one track, 'Song For Jo', is an original track written by Johansson and Sitek. The result is a pretty leftfield album, with a layered, cinematic sound reminiscent of the late Eighties output of British label 4AD, on which Johansson's voice evokes Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser. David Bowie, who starred alongside the actress in The Prestige, contributes backing vocals on two tracks, *'Falling Down' and 'Fannin' Street'. Writing on his blog, Bowie enthused about Johansson's album: 'The songs are great, and the songs are great, really good Tom Waits stuff, and Scarlett's performances are mystical and twice cool. She creates a mood that could have been summoned by someone like Margery Latimer or Jeanette Winterson.' Anywhere I Lay My Head is out on 19 May on Rhino |
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03-13-2008, 08:26 PM
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| Mu nótahu  | She gets cool points for even knowing who Tom Waits is, but I'll have to listen to the finish product to give a verdict, because honestly most of these "projects" have disaster written all over them from the start. But Scarlett's natural timbre(very raspy) would be quite fitting for Waits as opposed to I don't know Leonard Cohen? Al she has to do is psyched herself to sound like an old, lost man giving a dusty lecture about insects in a bathroom. HA! |
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03-14-2008, 10:52 AM
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