Robin Danar
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THIS IS FROM THE UK GUARDIAN:
Radiohead, Wilco and Smiths members unite for Neil Finn supergroup
The Crowded House frontman teams up with Ed O'Brien, Jeff Tweedy and Johnny Marr for his charity supergroup project. Better still, there's no Eddie Vedder this time
- Sean Michaels
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 20 2008 11.24 GMT
- Article history
Neil Finn ... Johnny Marr, Jeff Tweedy and many others are falling at his feet to be in the charity supergroup project. Photograph: PA
Members of Radiohead, Wilco and the Smiths are uniting for a charity supergroup project, brought together by Neil Finn.
We're not sure whether this sounds like a dream or a nightmare – certainly we hoped that if Ed O'Brien, Jeff Tweedy and Johnny Marr teamed up one day, it would be for reasons other than Crowded House. The project is called Seven Worlds Collide, a follow-up to Finn's 2002 live album of the same name.
The studio project will be recorded in Auckland "over the next few months", according to Reuters, with many contributors joining Finn for a tour. Profits from the project will go to Oxfam.
Besides Marr, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway, and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, John Stirrat, Glenn Kotche and Pat Sansone, there will also be contributions from KT Tunstall, singer-songwriter Lisa Germano and Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg. Finn's son Liam will also be involved, lest he be grounded.
All save the Wilco members participated in the earlier Seven Worlds Collide concerts - as did Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
Since Vedder's name isn't attached to the 2009 edition, we can only assume that he's busy with his own unlikely charity project. Maybe something with Yahoo Serious, Fran Healy, Femi Kuti and the Knife?
Since it was time for something new, i figured i'd post my version of the Jeff Buckley classic "Last Goodbye". As usual, i've twisted things up a bit. It's gotten some good response to radio play here in LA, so now it's up on iTunes as well.
I had a fellow Mogger, Celia Chavez, sing this one for me and i love where she took it. Sterling Campbell from Bowie and the B-52's helped me out on drums and an old Lalah Hathaway touring mate, Chris Parks, did a bunch of guitar tracks. We all just mailed files around for awhile and this is what came out of it.
Of course i met the photographer online as well. Eric Charles had heard a track of mine on the radio ("YELL") and sent me an email about it. When i did a search and saw his work i loved it, so we teamed up.
enjoy.
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Wow. Great stuff, Robin. You produced and did the engineering? Excellent job. I like the changing percussion. It keeps things very active. Celia's voice is lovely. That's her in the photo? Beautiful. As always, the ambience and "spaciousness" of the sound is impressive.
great vocal and production robin!
congrats
very classy, sexy and groovy all at once
Wow. 3ove the photo. Love the music. I'm not surprised it's getting radio play.
Interesting how such a coherent piece of music can be put together without anyone meeting each other (as you imply by the 'sending files around' comment).
OK, just read this one and got a kick out of it, so i figured i'd copy it and post it. I guess i'm just gonna have to figure out a way to do one of my usual "bent out of shape" covers for my next CD featuring a couple of whales on vocals. Any ideas would be helpful. I'll also probably need a pretty slammin' backing band. Since they seem to like to sing to strengthen relationships, i'm sure sometimes those will go sour as well. Maybe then they'd sing "Fool".
Singing duets helps sperm whales to bond
- 17:49 29 October 2008
- NewScientist.com news service
- David Robson
Sperm whales may take as much pleasure in singing well-timed duets as humans do.
New underwater recordings have shown that the whales carefully coordinate their song to match the calls of their singing partner. The animals appear to enjoy singing to each other, possibly to strengthen relationships among females within the group.
Till now biologists had assumed that the sounds with which whales communicate are mainly intended to scout out other members of their group. But humpback males are thought to woo females with solo love songs, and male killer whales whistle to each other, perhaps to help social bonding.
To investigate whether sperm whale song is also social, a team from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and the University of St Andrews in the UK followed a group of nine sperm whales in the Pacific Ocean near the Galapagos Islands, and seven in the Caribbean. They recorded the whales' characteristic clicking sounds using a series of underwater hydrophones.
Listen to the whales' songs here and here
The team found that on 15 of the 19 occasions when they could identify the position of each whale, the animals were close enough to see one another. This suggests that the song was not simply being used to locate another whale.
Coordinated duets
More detailed analysis of the recordings showed that the whales seemed to be synchronising their calls. More often than not, each animal would respond to another whale’s song within 2 seconds, for example. They also tended to copy the phrases that their partners were using – with the same timing of pauses between their clicks. The result was a duet in which the clicks of the two singers were in unison.
"There's a real rhythm to the sounds they are producing," says Luke Rendell from the University of St Andrews, who worked on the project. "They tend to copy the last coda used by the duet partner, until both converge on one choice that dominates their repertoire."
Rendell compares this to the behaviour of gelada monkeys and some tropical wrens, which sing tightly coordinated duets in a similar way. With the monkeys the duets appear to help cement the bonds between individuals within a social group.
Rendell believes it would make sense if sperm whale duets served the same purpose. The whales are also highly social creatures that stay in tight-knit groups for 10 or more years, and mothers typically rely on other adults to look after their young.
Whales are also known to possess the brain cells that allow us to process emotions, suggesting thatthey too may experience emotions such as love.
Journal reference: Animal Behaviour (DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.07.032)
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This sounds very interesting. Wonder why the article was written with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Unsure if the writer detest this project from Finn or think it's worthwhile.
I like Finn and his music.
I saw Crowded House at The Beacon Theatre last year and they put on a great show.
Wow! Was it because he likes Tim Finn more than Neil? I mean come on...before Crowded House there was the Split Enz and that had them both. I'd love to see that kind of show so there. :P