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SmallWorld: Time is a tool, not a crutch
Posted: Dec 19, 2007 02:30 AM
Updated:Nov 05, 2008 08:54 PM
Rumor has it that Jack Johnson is plugged in for some of the tracks on his upcoming "Sleep Through the Static" studio album due out February 2008.
If the first track released from the album, "If I Had Eyes," is any indication then we should be hearing a more "stylized" sound that may lead to some interesting artistic paths for Johnson.
After a seven-year hiatus, Johnson and JP Plunier are collaborating again following the wildly successful "In Between Dreams" released in 2005. JP Plunier, who has also worked with Ben Harper and John Lee Hooker, produced Johnson's first album, Brushfire Fairytales in 2001.
Harper and Johnson also have paired up in the past. My favorite is their appearance on the Caron Daily . . .
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Show covering Bob Marley's High Tide or Low Tide. Check out the video in this post.
Here's are Jacks comments on the album from brushfirerecords.com.au/:
To Whom it May Concern:
My friends and I have just finished recording a new album called Sleep Through the Static. At this point in my life I weigh about 190 lbs and my ear hairs are getting longer. I also have a couple of kids. My wife popped them out, but I helped. Some of the songs on this album are about making babies. Some of the songs are about raising them. Some of the songs are about the world that these children will grow up in; a world of war and love, and hate, and time and space. Some of the songs are about saying goodbye to people I love and will miss.
We recorded the songs onto analog tape machines powered by the sun in Hawaii and Los Angeles. One day, JP Plunier walked into the studio and told us, "It has been 4 to 6 feet and glassy for long enough," and so we gave him a variety of wind and rain as well as sun and so on. And Robert Carranza helped to put it all in the right places.
After inviting Zach Gill to join Adam Topol, Merlo Podlewski, and myself on our last world tour, we decided to make him an official member of our gang. So our gang now has a piano player, which probably makes us much less intimidating, but Merlo, our bass player, is 6'3" so we are still confident.
All of these songs have been on my mind for a while and it is nice to share them. I am continually grateful to my wife who is typing this letter as I dictate it to her.
I hope you enjoy this album.
Mahalo for listening,
Jack Johnson
Here' an early track list
1. All At Once
2. Sleep Through the Static
3. Hope
4. Angel
5. Enemy
6. If I Had Eyes
7. Same Girl
8. What You Thought You Needed
9. Adrift
10. Go On
11. They Do They Don't
12. While We Wait
13. Monsoon
14. Losing Keys
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