Although releasing the documentary film Here Is What Is on DVD next month, as well as a CD of the same name, musician and acclaimed producer Daniel Lanois is probably packing his bags now. On Monday, he's off to Dublin to begin recording with U2 on their next studio album, the follow-up to 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
"I'm going to work with them in a week," Lanois says from Los Angeles.
"We've had a few very successful jam sessions so far, including one in Morocco. I'm very excited about what we're doing. Everyone has an appetite for breaking new ground and everybody wants to make a masterpiece.
"We're not taking anything for granted. We don't think it's going to be easy. In fact, it's always hard work and I like it that way. When the work is hard, you know you're busting through something that hasn't been done before."
As for the direction U2's album is headed, Lanois is brief in describing the record, which should be out this fall.
"I can tell you a little bit about the fundamental quality," he says. "It's very much hand-played but it's also electro."
With the film about to be released the band aren't going back to their rockstar's life of leisure.
They are currently writing and recording their new album, the fellow-up to 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, which is scheduled for release in October this year.
Bono said:"We're having a good time.
"We went to Morocco for a religious music festival in Fez. Even Larry, who sometimes finds it difficult just moving from the north side to the south side of Dublin, believed we had to go there.
"We found a little hotel with a central inner courtyard from where we could hear the muezzin calling for the prayers.
"And there we made our most incredible, radical music of our life.
"It isn't like anyone else's music. It's even different to our music."
It looks like it's going to be an exciting year for U2.
'You feel you are close enough to touch the band and you feel in an intimate space with the musicians'
Originally posted by germcevoycringe moments from Bono's 'radical' comment but Lanois's interests me. This sounds so like another Pop. Hand played electro? I want it
Originally posted by germcevoy This sounds so like another Pop. Hand played electro? I want it
Originally posted by yeah[..]
Sounds to me like nothing. Hand played and electro. That's the 'style' on every album.
Originally posted by drewhiggins
Don't tell me U2 are gonna breakdance in their new videos and at their shows.
Originally posted by Ali709[..]
Don't forget..."Irish people can't dance!"....but I would pay extra to see Larry do some breakdancing!
