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3 Jul

Peter

Beck’s Record Club Covers ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’

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I really like where Beck’s new project, Record Club, is headed. The premise: Beck will lead a group of musicians to cover an entire album of their choosing in one day. The tracks are recorded and then released once a week on his website for fans to enjoy.

Wired reports:

“An album will be chosen to be reinterpreted and used as a framework. Nothing rehearsed or arranged ahead of time… Musical cohorts will include folks like Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell, Nigel Godrich and MGMT.”

AWESOME. I really hope this goes on for a while and doesn’t fizzle. For their first project, the group choose The Velvet Underground & Nico, which provides a lot of room for getting experimental — check out the tune “Sunday Morning” after the jump.

Tags: Beck, Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell, MGMT, Nico, Nigel Godrich, Velvet Underground
Labels: 2009 Releases, New Music, News, Video
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