Super Heavy album is out. Damian Marley, Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart, Joss Stone & indian soundtrack composer A.R. Rahman teamed up and recorded an album in several different locations in the world.
This diverse and eclectic line up of artists, who share eleven Grammy Awards between them, created the majority of the tracks on the project over three weeks in Los Angeles earlier this year.Â
The album includes the first single `Miracle Worker’, plus `One Day One Night’, `Energy’, `Unbelievable,’ `SuperHeavy,’ I Can’t Take It No More,’ `You’re Never Gonna Change’ and `I Don’t Mind.’
Stewart refers to Super Heavy as, “A mad alchemist type experiment”.
Marley brought on board his rhythm section, bassist and composer Shiah Coore and drummer Courtney Diedrick, while Stewart brought his long time music collaborator Ann Marie Calhoun, a rock violinist that already worked with Foo Fighters.
Despite their disparate backgrounds, they instantly connected and hit the ground running, writing twenty-two songs in the first six days.
However, even with the free flow of creativity they all bring and the easy rapport they established, getting the band together in one place became very difficult, as Stewart explains,
“It’s the most complicated record ever made. Imagine, some of it’s recorded in LA, some of it’s recorded in the South of France, some of it’s recorded off the coast of Cyprus, some of it’s recorded in Turkey, some of it’s recorded in Miami, some of it’s recorded in the Caribbean, and some of it’s recorded in Chennai, in India.”
Jagger, Stewart, Marley, Rahman and Stone appear to have created a new genre.
It’s a new kind of music, wordly, one that cannot be placed. But they had fun jamming to it.
They don’t know yet if they will ever do a Superheavy tour unless there’s a huge response to the album, in which case they may consider.
I like the line in Urdu Mick Jagger says Satyameva Jayate, meaning, “the truth alone triumphs”.
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
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