The original album featured yanni with a full orchestra at the. On september 4, 2009, beck announced the second record club album, songs of leonard cohen. The weekend run club on jan 21st chatham county line think im in love beck. Separately, beck thurston moore, and tortoise have enough of a cool factor to light a small city or, for arguments. 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. Yanni one mans dream piano solo cover by mithun iyyen perumal this score, one mans dream is originally on yanni live from the acropolis. 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. Yanni makes a triumphant return to the stage with this dvd featuring over 2 hours of concert footage from the. 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. They previously posted the video on beck s vimeo for santorini. New album hyperspace featuring uneventful days available nov. Last week, the first track off the yanni s album, santorini, got the beck s record club treatment. To hear becks new album, learn to play an instrument good. Beck recruits thurston moore for yanni cover album.
A great idea, and some of its realgood and some of it is halfbaked trash. 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. 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. As beck wrote of this musical monolith, yanni live at the acropolis featured yanni. Beck, thurston moore cover yanni s live at the acropolis for record club. Perhaps the weirdest thing about this is our surprise. Vincent, liars, and os mutantes for next record club. Within attraction is a song by yanni, on his yanni live at the acropolis masterpiece opus. 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. Starting on june 18, the club began posting covers of songs from the album on thursday evenings, each with its own video. This time, beck and company grace another yanni song, entitled until the last moment. In this goodhumoured and informal setting, favourite inspirations as diverse as skip spence, inxs and yanni also joined the library.
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. Beck s record club is back at again, this time preparing their remake of yanni s old time classic, acroyalistanding in motion. 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 and his fifth record club covered the album in its entirety. Becks record club acroyali standing in motion yanni. Beck, thurston moore, tortoise continue to cover yanni. Becks record club taking on yannis live at the acropolis. A tv special of the concert was played repeatedly on pbs through the mid 90s. 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. He covered five classic albums in their entirety, each recorded in one day apiece, with a shifting team of collaborators.
That summer, he founded record club, in which he and a rotating team of fellow. 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. Disco quebrado beck discography yanni live at the acropolis. Beck will issue a new collection of songs not in recorded form, but as 20. Leonard cohen, skip spences oar, inxss kick, and yannis yanni live at the acropolis. Record club is a musical project initiated by beck hansen in june 2009. Becks record club enlists musical allstars to cover classics. As you can see above, the singer and company reinterpret yanni s acroyali and standing in motion. Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love and it all ends up here. 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. 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. Yanni voices live in concert acapulco mexico 2009 dvd 2009 16.
The video captures the creative process the whole remake and as. Beck recruits thurston moore and tortoise for next record club. Yanni s live at the acropolis album beck s record club. The fifth installment of the record club included beck, thurston moore, the band tortoise, and some session musicians. If you want to hear the new beck album, you better learn how to play an. The original album featured yanni with a full orchestra at the athenian acropolis. Beck recruits thurston moore and tortoise to cover yanni. Here comes the latest edition of beck s ongoing series record club. Beck, thurston, tortoise cover yanni july 1 2010 beck recruits thurston moore and tortoise for next record club june 16 2010 beck recruits st. How shaggy scientologist beck infects other musicians. Becks record club enlists musical allstars to cover classics wired. As always, once they have completed the album, ill compile mp3s of the tracks here for download. In a career of two decadesplus, beck has set the creative pace without chasing. This track is the second from the series yanni s keys to imagination.
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. Offered is the latest installment of beck s popular record club series. Yanni live at the acropolis, a bootleg of songs by beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound. Funky 74 grooves were mixed with thurston moore singing about fire, and beck singing about a. To flesh out the complex arrangements, several studio musicians were brought in. For his record club series, beck gathers friends together to cover an entire album in a day, then posts. For those who dont know, beck did a project called record club in 200910 or so. 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.
73 1594 747 440 431 1028 366 1155 1568 452 884 367 992 504 1551 1616 1056 362 1117 263 91 1197 139 1152 751 1326 1402 808 723