Funky 74 grooves were mixed with thurston moore singing about fire, and beck singing about a. Separately, beck thurston moore, and tortoise have enough of a cool factor to light a small city or, for arguments. Becks record club acroyali standing in motion yanni. This record club was done entirely with thurston moore, and half with a group of famous studio musicians, and the rest with the band tortoise. The fifth installment of the record club included beck, thurston moore, the band tortoise, and some session musicians.
Yanni s live at the acropolis album beck s record club. He covered five classic albums in their entirety, each recorded in one day apiece, with a shifting team of collaborators. A great idea, and some of its realgood and some of it is halfbaked trash. This time, beck and company grace another yanni song, entitled until the last moment. Perhaps the weirdest thing about this is our surprise. Last week, the first track off the yanni s album, santorini, got the beck s record club treatment.
With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound. If you thought that becks record club project couldnt get anymore insane, then get ready to mess up your drawers because the whole thing is. Beck recruits thurston moore for yanni cover album. In this goodhumoured and informal setting, favourite inspirations as diverse as skip spence, inxs and yanni also joined the library. That summer, he founded record club, in which he and a rotating team of fellow. New album hyperspace featuring uneventful days available nov. As beck wrote of this musical monolith, yanni live at the acropolis featured yanni.
How shaggy scientologist beck infects other musicians work. The first edition of becks record club has come to a close if you dont know what this club is all about, its basically beck inviting a group of friends in a studio to cover trackfortrack. The original album featured yanni with a full orchestra at the. If you want to hear the new beck album, you better learn how to play an. Beck, thurston moore, tortoise continue to cover yanni. Becks record club taking on yannis live at the acropolis. The best feature of the new web space is record club, which finds beck and some usually quite famous friends covering an entire album in one day.
To hear becks new album, learn to play an instrument good. Record club is a musical project initiated by beck hansen in june 2009 the purpose of the project is to cover an entire album by another artist in one day, using an informal and fluid collective of musicians. Yanni one mans dream piano solo cover by mithun iyyen perumal this score, one mans dream is originally on yanni live from the acropolis. As you can see above, the singer and company reinterpret yanni s acroyali and standing in motion. Record club is a musical project initiated by beck hansen in june 2009. Leonard cohen, skip spences oar, inxss kick, and yannis yanni live at the acropolis. Yanni voices live in concert acapulco mexico 2009 dvd 2009 16. Beck, thurston moore cover yanni s live at the acropolis for record club. This installment of the record club takes on yanni live at the acropolis. Disco quebrado beck discography yanni live at the acropolis. And were sure to see a few more angles as part of beck s most recent record club installment, a trackbytrack remake of yanni live at the acropolis with the assistance of. A tv special of the concert was played repeatedly on pbs through the mid 90s. Offered is the latest installment of beck s popular record club series.
Yanni live at the acropolis, a bootleg of songs by beck. Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love and it all ends up here. Recently, we reported that thurston moore and tortoise had stopped by beck s record club, joining the eclectic troubadour in recording an album in a day. Becks record club enlists musical allstars to cover classics. The original album featured yanni with a full orchestra at the athenian acropolis. Beck s record club is back at again, this time preparing their remake of yanni s old time classic, acroyalistanding in motion. Beck and his fifth record club covered the album in its entirety. Yanni makes a triumphant return to the stage with this dvd featuring over 2 hours of concert footage from the. Lets discuss beck rarities page 8 steve hoffman music.
If you thought that beck s record club project couldnt get anymore insane, then get ready to mess up your drawers because the whole thing is about to get absurd in a very. Beck, thurston, tortoise cover yanni july 1 2010 beck recruits thurston moore and tortoise for next record club june 16 2010 beck recruits st. The video captures the creative process the whole remake and as. Beck recruits thurston moore and tortoise for next record club. Offered is the latest installment of beck s popular record clubseries that translates songs by greek composer yanni. Vincent, liars, and os mutantes for next record club. For his record club series, beck gathers friends together to cover an entire album in a day, then posts. On september 4, 2009, beck announced the second record club album, songs of leonard cohen. In a career of two decadesplus, beck has set the creative pace without chasing.
For those who dont know, beck did a project called record club in 200910 or so. Edit im making notes on these as i download and check them out. This track is the second from the series yanni s keys to imagination. This is partly so i dont download the same things twice but some of you may find this info useful so im posting it here and will edit as needed. To flesh out the complex arrangements, several studio musicians were brought in. Weve linked to and posted video from beck s most recent record club venture covering inxs kick in its entirety in the past, mostly because we think its awesome, but also because we could. Beck will issue a new collection of songs not in recorded form, but as 20. After taking on skip spences oar and inxs kick, beck s record club a loose collection of musicians dedicated to recording a covers album in a single day with no rehearsal is tackling its most surprising choice yet. After covering albums by the likes of velvet underground, leonard cohen, and inxs, beck s record club project is tackling a release from a slightly different artist greek new age composer yanni. The weekend run club on jan 21st chatham county line think im in love beck. They previously posted the video on beck s vimeo for santorini. Beck has recruited thurston moore and tortoise to cover greek composer yanni s 1994 album live at the acropolis as the next installment in his record club project the record club records. Becks record club enlists musical allstars to cover classics wired.
Yannione mans dream piano solo cover by mithun iyyen. The discography of beck, an american rock musician, singersongwriter, record producer and multiinstrumentalist, consists of 14 studio albums, one compilation album, one remix album, three extended plays eps and 49 singles. Becks record club acroyalistanding in motion yanni. Here comes the latest edition of beck s ongoing series record club. How shaggy scientologist beck infects other musicians. Within attraction is a song by yanni, on his yanni live at the acropolis masterpiece opus. As always, once they have completed the album, ill compile mp3s of the tracks here for download. Beck recruits thurston moore and tortoise to cover yanni.
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