Finally some news (sort of)

[cille]

From damien's Myspace blog:

"Update
Damien is currently working on various recording projects. more news later..."

Yeah, ok. When is "later"? Discuss.

[glo32]

his management is always very exhaustive

[borneoman]

later... today????

[cille]

^Yeah that must be it, of course!!

Or maybe later this century?

[toffees49]

Ten years to Barcelona.....

[Joyful]

Well it is something, I guess...

[Nine]

later. i predict a year.

[Vyru]

An announcement of an announcement!?

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[verenita]

i hope a month. it will be fair, right?

hey... something new

[Cerque]

oh boy, i am tired of waiting.

[Vyru]

Next album slated for a 2019 release?

[Moves-My-World]

We shouldn't mock this news, or complain about it!

This is the most concrete, open, definitive news update we have possibly ever recieved.

[cuuliem]

at least we got something

[mariaoran]

saying nothing would have been just as concrete and definitive...

[lebub2]

Ahhhh, come on! Oh well, at least we got something.

[Ramalama]

you never know with damien. it could be tomorrow, it could be next year. at least there has been an official statement that something new is coming. seems like they've been preparing it for a while now with the re-launching of the webshop, myspace, youtube etc. i just hope that one of those projects is a new album, and not just a song here and there on a compilation record.

[Lin@]

Well, at least it's "later" and not the incredibly obnoxious "soon".

Wasn't Damo working (with Joel?) on a record for the environment or something like that? I get the feeling that this might finally be it.

[borneoman]

^Yes, and a song for Amnesty International too!!! I'm thinking this could come first cos it might have a deadline I imagine... if you agree to provide a song for them, you cannot give it to them in 2019!!!

[srahman24]

^^ He's been working on that one for quite a while because he mentioned it to a group of us in Montreal in '07

But one "update" is better than no update, I suppose?

[Ramalama]

More news...

Damien Rice and actress Mélanie Laurent currently working on an album in common: the Irish would be borne by the French music and the lyrics. (Google translate from french)

Source: http://www.soundofviolence.net/actu/...009.html#17462

and here:

He is also working in the studio with Melanie Laurent, star of latest Tarantino movie ‘Inglourios Basterds’, and Damien Rice on an album of duets.

Source: http://www.myspace.com/tdybdahl

There's also an interview with the french actress on http://next.liberation.fr/article/me...coup-de-fougue where she talks about damien but the google translation doesn't make much sense. maybe someone who knows french can recap?

[verenita]

step by step...

thanks ramalama.

[Delonelyman]

Very Nice!!!
Been waiting for something new for a while.

[Cerque]

Originally Posted by Ramalama

you never know with damien. it could be tomorrow, it could be next year. at least there has been an official statement that something new is coming. seems like they've been preparing it for a while now with the re-launching of the webshop, myspace, youtube etc. i just hope that one of those projects is a new album, and not just a song here and there on a compilation record.

Well it certainly won't be tomorrow i tell ye that for sure.

[Joyful]

Good detective work eskimos! Thank you!

[borneoman]

Thanks you Ramalana, first time I read about Damien working with this French actress. Not sure if I get it right... it's a project that includes this Thomas Dybdahl, the French Actress and Damien, and Damien does music, the girl does the lyrics... and altogether it's an album of duets???????????? I'm confused ????

[cille]

What does Thomas Dybdahl do then? Maybe Damien is only contributing with some songs, as is Dybdahl?
Although a collab tween Dybdahl and Damien would be DEVINE!

[Shillelagh]

what's the line here on the next update

ill take the under on 1 month

[Lin@]

Okay... NOW I'm getting excited. Damien and Dybdahl on one record would really be amazing.

[Vyru]

I know right?

I've been a Dybdahl fan since he did work with Morcheeba on their Dive Deep album. Morcheeba pretty much come from my home town, so it's cool. XD

Can't wait! Nice to finally have something to look forward to for its release in 2014.

[borneoman]

Could someone try to translate the interesting bit of the interview with the French chick???? I get she's a sort of multi-artist but cannot figure out if she's working with Damien on this duets project with other people like the Thomaz person (ala Cake sale) or songs for HER album... The bit about the cabin in Woodstock lost me...
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Dans l’interstice, cette polygraphe qui “écrit tous le temps : théâtre, scénarios, poèmes, chansons” donne de la voix. Elle confesse une admiration pour trois B de la chanson française : Brel, Brassens, Barbara. En guise de prologue, elle a repris un morceau de cette dernière dans un album (Madame aime) où les actrices haussent le ton. Elle a aussi collaboré avec les musiciens du groupe AaRON. Et comme rien ne lui fait peur, qu’elle a le sens de l’urgence et qu’elle s’inquiète de ne laisser aucune empreinte de son passage sur Terre, la voilà avec un album en chantier. Une cabane au fond des bois à Woodstock, histoire de convoquer les mannes du festival ancien. La top list des musiciens du moment s’empresse au chevet de la demoiselle, consciente de la profondeur de sa ligne de chance. Elle a donné la meilleure note à l’Irlandais Damien Rice, l’auteur de 9 Crimes. A lui, la musique. A elle, les paroles.

Il faut imaginer Mélanie L. dans un petit village irlandais, à 40 kilomètres de Dublin. Cette casanière qui ne quittait son chat et le 9e arrondissement de Paris que pour rejoindre la maison de campagne de ses grands-parents dans l’Yonne, s’apprécie en irish girl à casquette de tweed. Elle adore les ambiances de tournage où rien ne lui plaît plus que de s’occuper de tout et de tous, elle découvre les bulles de silence et de concentration où s’installent les musiciens. Alors, cette “flemmarde qui apprend dans l’urgence” travaille son chant et son anglais, découvert chez Berlitz pour vamper Tarantino. Quand elle fatigue des jus d’herbe que lui fait boire Damien Rice, “très écolo, très tri sélectif, beaucoup plus que les Français”, elle cuisine des figues pochées, avec asperges et fèves au parmesan. Et quand ils s’attablent à la terrasse du pub et que passe le bus électoral d’un politique local, elle bombarde de tomates avariées le droitier détesté par Damien et les siens. Et d’ironiser : “Un acte de résistance incroyable, pas vrai ?” Mélanie fut petite-fille de communiste, abonnée aux fêtes de l’Huma, et a pris la tête à ses copains de gauche qui penchaient pour Sarkozy arguant qu’il fallait que les choses changent. Cette feuilleteuse épisodique de Siné Hebdo que sa marraine lui a fait découvrir, s’ennuie des évidences sucrées et, à la télé italienne, ne peut diplomatiquement consentir à vanter les mérites du couple Nicolas-Carla. Cette approche abrasive ne l’empêchant pas de mettre sa notoriété au service de causes caritatives : “Ça me rend dingue qu’on puisse refuser.” Et de saluer les Enfoirés, où se mélangent BA et chansons.