your chance to hear the beck hansen song reader performed by beck hansen has arrived — and with the promise of a new album as well! hit the jump to check out the small handful of dates beck will be performing on this year, including a stop at the new york americanarama festival with bob dylan and wilco.
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last night on wync, the magnetic fields’ stephin merrit followed up a beck call-in to perform a track from mr. hansen’s song reader sheet-music release. stream merritt’s take on “old shanghai” at the link below.
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stephin merritt – old shanghai
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beck turns in a 20-minute pick-and–stitch reworking of more than 20 philip glass songs for his contribution to the later artist’s double cd compilation rework: philip glass remixed. joining the two on the remix project are dan deacon, pantha du prince, memory tapes and many more. stream beck’s “nyc: 73-78″ below.
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here’s beck’s contribution to the tribute to caetano veloso album that’s due out on nov 22nd. also on deck to pay loving tribute to the brazillian tropicalia innovator are chrissy hynde and devendra banhart. word on those covers when they appear. till then check out beck’s “michaelangelo antonioni” take below.
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beck has just announced his newest album will be released in the form of beck hansen’s song reader, a collection of sheet music of the 20 songs beck has written for the lp.
the album will be released in december through mcsweeney’s, who will also feature select versions of musicians’ take on the songs on their site. so if you’d prefer to hear “do we? we do” or “don’t act like your heart isn’t hard” in the gentle soul style of sea change or the funk of midnight vultures you now have the say to do so.
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it’s not exactly the follow-up to 2008′s modern guilt, but beck has written three new songs, “cities,” “touch the people,” and “spiral staircase” for the upcoming playstation 3 and vita game sound shapes. up above is a trailer explaining the music-based sequencer game.
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as you can tell by the blue background, beck joined forces with homie jack white to release a single on third man. “i just started hating people today” is a down home country jaunt that in its final seconds turns a huge 180 and gets boot stompingly loud. check it out below.
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beck – i just started hating people today [ft jack white]
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you read that correctly. while i’m not a fan of beck’s, it’s very cool to see such a storied and respected musician hoppin’ on a track and RAPPING with donald glover for his upcoming mixtape. and the minimal production works in both of these guys’ favors. listen/dl below.
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childish gambino – silk pillow [f. beck]
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prior to his appearance at sasquatch!, beck performed a low key warm-up gig at los angeles’ el rey theater last night that was 24 songs long and heavy on the sea change (yay!). catch a video of “lost cause” up above and “guess i’m doing fine” after the jump.
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beck contributed a stirring cover of the country blues standard “corrina, corinna” for christy turlington burns’ maternal-health advocacy album <em>every mother counts. check out the tune at the pitchfork link below.
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a collaborative effort from gainsbourgh, beck and ex-ariel pink’s haunted graffiti/current the samps member cole m.g.n., “paradisco” is set to appear on the upcoming stage whipsers, a double lp collection of live and unreleased material from gainsbourgh, due out december 13th.
stream the retro “paradisco” at the p4k link below.
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charlotte gainsbourgh – paradisco
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i would have loved to have been present during this video shoot just to see what the staging was like for each scene. anyway, this new visual treat from charlotte gainsbourg ft. beck is fresh off gainsbourg’s IRM, which was produced, mixed, and co-written by none other than mr. beck hanson. as a bonus, i’m including the title track to the album as a download. enjoy.
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the always fearless beck and his record club have previously taken on the velvet underground, leonard cohen and now they bring to light, former jefferson airplane/moby grape frontman skip spence’s “little hands” from his one and only 1969 album oar.
the record club have had its slew of beck buddies, from actor giovani ribisi and nigel “6th man” godrich, to mgmt and devendra banhart, oddball hippies in their own rights. for this record club, beck enlists the help of, wait for it… wilco (the band), leslie feist and jamie lidell. impressive. most impressive. i hear he’s going to have the queen of england and muhammad ali on his next endeavour.
the record club on beck’s official page.
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the genre bending of beck and co. can’t stop, won’t stop. this time they take leonard cohen’s “master song” from songs of leonard cohen and turn it into one funky jam with syhnthesized rapping, metallica samples, and god knows what else. what a funky sexy goodtime.
“it’s the motherfuckin’ master song!”
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