Whether it's your first Bonnaroo or you’re a music festival veteran, we welcome you to Inforoo.
Here you'll find info about artists, rumors, camping tips, and the infamous Roo Clues. Have a look around then create an account and join in the fun. See you at Bonnaroo!!
Post by itrainmonkeys on Nov 12, 2012 11:51:56 GMT -5
Stole this from the MMJ board:
James plays every instrument and engineered the album himself. It was inspired primarily by Lynd Ward's 1929 graphic novel God's Man, which "chronicles an artist's struggles with temptation and corruption, along with finding true love," according to a press release. “Some of the things happening in the book were happening to me in real life, in a very strange and painful, then a very beautiful way,” James said in a press release.
"I wanted the album to sound like it came from a different place in time. Perhaps sounding as if it were the past of the future, if that makes any sense—like a hazy dream that a fully-realized android or humanoid capable of thought might have when it reminisces about the good old days of just being a simple robot."
I really like it personally. It is interesting reading Jim's description of it because my first reaction was that it sounded half vintage soul and half newer synthy beaty stuff. I also described it as Cobra's younger brother that showers regularly.
I liked what I heard, although it is a little different than what I expected. I thought it was going to be more of a acoustic guitar and vocal type deal, not the oldie/vintagie/whachamacall it that it is. Either way, can't wait to hear the rest of it. I had to spring for the package deal for the keychain though, hope its worth it
I'm excited to hear the whole album I liked what was going on...I hope I'm not reading too much into it but I really thought the robot quote made some sense after hearing the song. Since he played everything on the album what does everyone think that means as far as seeing a live show from the album?
Since he played everything on the album what does everyone think that means as far as seeing a live show from the album?
I'm interested about this too. I really hope he doesn't try to do it solo. From what I've heard those non-acoustic solo shows where jim only plays bass are pretty bad.
I really like it personally. It is interesting reading Jim's description of it because my first reaction was that it sounded half vintage soul and half newer synthy beaty stuff. I also described it as Cobra's younger brother that showers regularly.
A really fantastic interview about the album and a little bit about how Jim James thinks and writes.
A things that stuck out to me.
"We're in the zone! I like to think about the zone. I like to think God is that point where you are gone, like when you're making love or listening to a great record or reading a great book. These things suck us into this space where you're not thinking about your taxes or your job or all this chatter that goes on in your mind. When you escape, that's what I think makes us connected to God. But I'm always thinking about moving forward with this stuff."
I absolutely love this quote because one of the things the I love about MMJ so much is the moments where what he described as being connected to God happens in their live shows. The moment where all cares leave and you become one with everyone else at the show and can just enjoy.
"The message of it is . . . I didn't feel like I was selling my soul to the devil or anything but there was a time a few years ago when I wasn't listening to my heart a lot and I was traveling a dark path and it resulted in a physical injury. I fell off the stage [at a 2008 MMJ show in Iowa City] and not following my heart led to me being physically injured, which was a very horrible experience and very psychologically traumatic. I thought that might be the end of me."
I was thought that NO NO WORD!!! may have been involved in Jim's Iowa stage fall and that in may of been some sort of catalyst for a major life change ala Dylan's motorcycle crash. This enforces that suspicion for me.
"I'm really curious. I have no idea. I'm currently trying to put the band together. So far I've got three guys that are dear friends of mine from Louisville that I hang out with all the time. I'm trying to build it so I'm not walking into a total unknown, like if I hired a bunch of session musicians. I hope it works. I want to play the album from start to finish. I'm trying to wait at least two or three weeks after the album's release before I play shows so that people can connect with it more. All I've really done solo before is play guitar and sing. I want a different experience."
I'm guessing the guy from Wax Fang and hoping for Ben Sollee. I think they could both add to the live show in great ways. Can't wait for show announcements and I hope I can make it to at least one.
I think they could both add to the live show in great ways. Can't wait for show announcements and I hope I can make it to at least one.
Yea, that'd be awesome. They could fit in one or two solo Ben songs or something to break up the Jim James solo songs, like let him take a break or something.
Very excited about this. Need to find money to pre-order the album.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Nov 17, 2012 16:22:48 GMT -5
As the frontman for My Morning Jacket over the past 15 years, Jim James has occasionally ventured outside the group, releasing an EP as Yim Yames and participating in the supergroup Monsters of Folk. But on February 5th, he'll release his first official solo album, Regions of Light and Sound of God. Recorded at his home studio in Louisville, Kentucky over the past two years, James played nearly all the instruments on the LP, which includes the gorgeous instrumental "Exploding," with acoustic fingerpicking and sweet psychedelic electric guitar overdubs, and the spare, optimistic pop of "A New Life."
Mixing analog and digital recording techniques, James created vocal sound collages on "Know Til Now" – which evolves into a psychedelic jazz excursion – and the spooky "God's Love to Deliver." "I'm really into sound collages and I love recording sounds and then taking them and putting them places they shouldn't have been," says James, sitting on a Manhattan rooftop on a gorgeous November afternoon. "I want people to feel like [the album] helps their life in some way, or that it helps them celebrate or helps them mourn or laugh or cry. I just want it to feel useful."
James started considering the album after he was injured falling offstage in Iowa in late 2008. The concept is based on Lynd Ward's 1929 graphic novel God's Man, which was made entirely of woodcuts. "It was like the me that lived in 1929 was probably a big fan of it," James says. "It felt like I was seeing it again. I was kind of getting in to the book at the same time as stuff was happening to me coincidentally. It took on this heavy thing."
Next year, James plans to take the record on the road. "I want to tour for this record and I'm gonna bring a band 'cause I want to play the record as it is recorded, with all the instrumentation but then, yeah, I'm sure I'll probably do a couple of songs each night acoustic and stuff like that but I want this show to be more of a more danceable affair."
As the frontman for My Morning Jacket over the past 15 years, Jim James has occasionally ventured outside the group, releasing an EP as Yim Yames and participating in the supergroup Monsters of Folk. But on February 5th, he'll release his first official solo album, Regions of Light and Sound of God. Recorded at his home studio in Louisville, Kentucky over the past two years, James played nearly all the instruments on the LP, which includes the gorgeous instrumental "Exploding," with acoustic fingerpicking and sweet psychedelic electric guitar overdubs, and the spare, optimistic pop of "A New Life."
Mixing analog and digital recording techniques, James created vocal sound collages on "Know Til Now" – which evolves into a psychedelic jazz excursion – and the spooky "God's Love to Deliver." "I'm really into sound collages and I love recording sounds and then taking them and putting them places they shouldn't have been," says James, sitting on a Manhattan rooftop on a gorgeous November afternoon. "I want people to feel like [the album] helps their life in some way, or that it helps them celebrate or helps them mourn or laugh or cry. I just want it to feel useful."
James started considering the album after he was injured falling offstage in Iowa in late 2008. The concept is based on Lynd Ward's 1929 graphic novel God's Man, which was made entirely of woodcuts. "It was like the me that lived in 1929 was probably a big fan of it," James says. "It felt like I was seeing it again. I was kind of getting in to the book at the same time as stuff was happening to me coincidentally. It took on this heavy thing."
Next year, James plans to take the record on the road. "I want to tour for this record and I'm gonna bring a band 'cause I want to play the record as it is recorded, with all the instrumentation but then, yeah, I'm sure I'll probably do a couple of songs each night acoustic and stuff like that but I want this show to be more of a more danceable affair."
“I used to always work on demos that would turn into My Morning Jacket songs but I got some really great advice from Joe Chiccarelli when he produced Evil Urges. He told me to stop doing demos. He said that you can waste a lot of first time magic in demos that might be hard to recreate in the ‘real’ recordings. That resonated with me and ever since then I’ve put songs into two categories – those I want to work on by myself and then any songs that I think might be for My Morning Jacket. For the latter I just record the idea really quickly on my cell phone and don’t make a really complex demo. I leave that until we all get together. Some songs will take more refining and we may do more versions of them but you need to save some sort of beautiful beginner’s magic - if you work it to death that can get lost.” --JJ, Quietus interview 02.13