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“Atlas Air” EP Out This November

Richard — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:53:52 +0000

Massive Attack will release their ‘Atlas Air’ EP in aid of War Child, to mark the 15 year anniversary of the ‘Help’ album (where Massive Attack contributed a different version of Karmacoma), and to help celebrate 15 years of War Child and music working together to help change the lives of children living in war zones around the world.

The vinyl EP will be a limited edition 12” of 1,000 numbered copies with a painting by Robert Del Naja on the cover (not the same image picture above) and crafted by The Vinyl Factory, the same group who produced the special editions of Splitting The Atom and Heligoland previously.

Massive Attack will also play a special show in London at the end of November in aid of War Child with some very special guests.

Details will be announced shortly.

The EP will feature:

* A short film for ‘Atlas Air’, the final track on the ‘Heligoland’ album, by renowned filmmaker Edouard Salier. (Digital version only)
* A Tim Goldsworthy (ex LCD Soundsystem/DFA) remix of ‘Atlas Air’
* A new track entitled ‘Redlight’, featuring vocals from Guy Garvey
* A remix of ‘Redlight’ by Warp artist Clark.

All proceeds will go to War Child.

New North American Dates Announced

Richard — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:48:08 +0000

Massive Attack are returning to North American this Autumn with a tour consisting of 14 dates on both coasts as well as a few Midwest shows which were conspicuously missing when they toured the US last May. The most exciting thing about these shows is that Massive Attack are teaming up with fellow trip hop alumni's, Thievery Corporation, as co-headliners for this sojourn. More info about the tour can be had from Thievery Corporation's official site.

The dates for the Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation co-headliner North American tour are:

10.18.2010 - Bell Centre Montreal, CAN
10.19.2010 - Orpheum Theater Boston, MA
10.21.2010 - Beacon Theatre New York, NY
10.22.2010 - Beacon Theatre New York, NY
10.23.2010 - Borgata Hotel Atlantic City, NJ
10.26.2010 - Bayfront Park Amphitheater Miami, FL
10.27.2010 - Hard Rock Live Orlando, FL
10.29.2010 - Fox Theatre Atlanta, GA
10.30.2010 - MOOGfest @ Asheville Civic Center Asheville, NC
11.01.2010 - Palladium Ballroom Dallas, TX
11.04.2010 - RIMAC Arena San Diego, CA
11.05.2010 - Santa Barbara Bowl Santa Barbara, CA
11.06.2010 - Greek Theatre Berkeley, CA
11.07.2010 - Gibson Amphitheatre Los Angeles, CA

You can also check out all the remaining shows for the year on the Future Tour Dates page.

Tags: trip hop • north american tour • thievery corporation • 2010 heligoland tour • co-headliner

Psyche Video Premiered

Richard — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:56:14 +0000

The 6th official promo video for Heligoland got its premiere via MassiveAttack.com earlier today. The video was directed by John Downer, a celebrated wildlife photographer and nature documentary filmmaker. In his own words he describes the Psyche video as being "In my interpretation of Psyche I have taken the idea of metamorphosis as the theme - a literal metamorphosis as insects change into their adult form and a metaphorical metamorphosis as a girl becomes a woman and breaks free of her past."

The video is embeded below to watch or alternatively can be wtached in higher quality (along with the other released Heligoland promo videos) at the Massive Attack Tweatre mini-site.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Tags: psyche • wildlife photography • john downer • heligoland • promo video

Neil Davidge Score For Clash Of The Titans Released

Richard — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:08:10 +0000

The soundtrack for “Clash Of The Titans”, a new Hollywood blockbuster based on Greek mythology is now available to buy.

The soundtrack contains 23 tracks, with two of those songs featuring Neil Davidge, Massive Attack’s producer and collaborator: “Be My Weapon,” which was written and produced by Davidge; and “The Storm That Brought Me To You,” a song based on a musical cue in the film. It was co-written and produced by Davidge, and features vocals by Danish artist Tina Dico.

In a press release for the soundtrack, Neil Davidge is quoted as saying that “It was a joy to work once again with Louis Leterrier, who is such an inspiring director with a vivid, lyrical imagination and whose vision led me to encapsulate the movie within the song The Storm That Brought Me To You.”

This marks the 2nd time, Neil has helped score a Louis Leterrier film, the first being Danny The Dog in 2004. In the same press release, singer Tina Dico also offers, “songwriting with Neil Davidge was a great opportunity to work with someone capable of producing such amazing soundscapes. His previous work with Massive Attack ensured that this piece of music would be of the highest quality.”

The score for “Clash Of The Titans” is now available from most good record scores. More info plus online ordering links can be found through this link.

Also be sure to check out Neil’s site for more news on his upcoming projects outside of Massive Attack along with his extensive discography and past works for film and TV.

Tags: tina dico • neil davidge • clash of the titans • louis leterrier • be my weapon

Times Interview Scans + Selected Album On Jukebox

Richard — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:00:35 +0000

Last Saturday, The Times published a revealing interview with Massive Attack whilst on their Australian tour conducted a few weeks ago, the scans of which are now viewable here. Just click on the thumbnails below to read the full interview.

The other thing of course of note about this interview, is that The Times in conjunction with Massive Attack themselves put together a downloadable album of selected tracks from Massive Attack’s career thus far for readers to download from ITunes. The 10 tracks included are mostly a smattering of remixes and b-sides and were intended to lure new fans to the band with this newspaper promotion. This album naturally called “Selected” was an UK ITunes exclusive download, but is now available for streaming purposes on the MA.IE jukebox along the right hand side of the page.

Tags: downloadable album • the times interview • magazine scans • itunes • selected

Mini Documentary Film For Saturday Come Slow

Richard — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:00:08 +0000

Posted originally over at Feeder (and now also on the MA.IE YouTube Channel) is the new “music video” for Saturday Come Slow. The term “music video” should be used lightly though upon viewing the piece itself. The music takes a couple minutes to kick in, but be patient. In a pseudo documentary style, the clip is actually only part music video and mostly commentary on torture practices – namely, the use of loud incessant music and distorted noises – with prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the like, including a disturbing interview with one such prisoner.

In the past, Massive Attack have lent their own support to the Zerodb campaign which protests against such torture methods as the ones discussed in harrowing detail within this video. This new semi-documentary approach for the Saturday Come Slow video marks Massive Attack at their most blatantly political yet, at least so far as their promo videos are concerned.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Tags: abu ghraib • saturday come slow • zerodb campaign • torture practices • reprieve

Full 2010 Tour Dates Revealed

Richard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:51 +0000

Following on from a handful of successful shows in the UK and Mexico in February, Massive Attack’s live show will be hitting Australia and the States this Spring going into Summer. In Australia’s case, it will be a full 7 years since the last time they toured there. A much needed return for all the Aussie fans then! The guest vocalists are expected to be the same as the recent European tour with Horace Andy, Deborah Miller and Martina Topley Bird (also providing support for each show) tagging along. As you can tell from the dates below, Massive Attack will be finishing up the tour with a return to Europe, where they will be playing mostly festival dates to round out the year.

In other related touring news, while this is a completely unconfirmed report, Massive Attack are hoping to stage a reenactment of the Vangelis soundtrack for Blade Runner with a live orchestra , while they are in New York this May, in the world famous Carnegie Hall. If this goes ahead as planned, it will be similar to when they, in conjunction with the Heritage Orchestra, performed the Blade Runner score during their curatorship of the 2008 Meltdown Festival.

The current lineup of 2010 shows is as follows:

Mar 12 2010 - Kings Park Perth, Western Australia

Mar 15 2010 - Opera House Forecourt Sydney, New South Wales

Mar 16 2010 - Opera House Forecourt Sydney

Mar 19 2010 - Royal Theatre Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Mar 20 2010 - Sidney Myer Music Bowl Melbourne, Victoria

Mar 21 2010 - Entertainment Centre Adelaide, South Australia

Mar 23 2010 - Riverstage Brisbane, Queensland

Mar 25 2010 - Vector Arena Auckland, Auckland

May 7 2010 – Sound Academy Toronto

May 9 2010 - Sound Academy Toronto

May 11 2010 - Terminal 5 New York, New York

May 12 2010 - Terminal 5 New York, New York

May 18 2010 - Wiltern Theater Los Angeles, California

May 19 2010 - Wiltern Theater Los Angeles

May 25 2010 - Warfield Theater San Francisco, California

May 26 2010 - Warfield Theater San Francisco, California

May 29 2010 – Malkin Bowl, Vancouver, Canada

May 30 2010 - Sasquatch Festival George, Washington

Jun 18 2010 - Southside Festival Neuhausen auf den Fildern

Jun 19 2010 – Hurricane Festival Scheeßel

Jun 23 2010 - IN Music Festival Zagreb

Jul 1 2010 – Hove Festival Arendal

Jul 2 2010 – Heineken Opener Festival Gdynia

Jul 3 2010 – Volt Festival Sopron

Jul 5 2010 – Heineken Jammin Festival Venice

Jul 9 2010 – Moon & Stars Festival Locarno

Jul 18 2010 - Melt! Festival Gräfenhainichen

Aug 1 2010 – Fuji Rock Festival Niigata

Aug 27 2010 - Cabaret Vert Charleville-Mézieres

Sep 3 2010 – Sportpaleis Antwerp, Antwerp

Sep 5 2010 – Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Ireland

Tags: touring news • australia • event listings • 2010 heligoland tour • world tour

Heligoland Competition Winners

Richard — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:00:01 +0000

Thanks everyone for entering the competition and leaving all your comments. Its all appreciated. With the success of this competition I might just open another one at some later stage this year. But back to this one… I have the winners to announce.

Congratulations go to…

AdamRisingson who won first prize (CD, book, T-shirt and badges)

Dissolved who came in second (CD and T-shirt)

and Tenenbaum in third (CD)

You should receive your prizes by next week!

Thanks again to everyone who entered!

Tags: prizes • heligoland • t shirt • competition winners • badges

Heligoland Out Now

Richard — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:00:26 +0000

As of today, Heligoland, the first Massive Attack album in 7 years has hit the shops in Europe, Australia and Japan, with the US to follow early next week. To avoid any confusion, they are actually 4 versions of the album, each with a different coloured design on the front cover. Besides the color variations on the front, they are no other differences between them.

I have also scanned in the inner sleeve artwork for Heligoland which you can view by clicking on the thumbnail images at the bottom of this post. Much of the artwork produced for Heligoland, will only be available on the deluxe vinyl/CD/book edition which will be available within a few weeks from The Vinyl Factory, who also produced the limited vinyl edition of Splitting The Atom a few months earlier.

Tags: splitting the atom • heligoland artwork • color variations • heligoland • vinyl factory

Heligoland Interviews & Quotes Compilation

Richard — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:00:22 +0000

With Heligoland’s release imminent any day now, the anticipation among fans has been fueled even moreso with a raft of interviews Massive Attack have conducted with various press and media to promote Heligoland within the last month.

I’ve gone and gathered together a group of quotes from a few of these interviews to present here, to highlight some of the more revealing info gleaned and also offering you the links to read all the interviews in full. Enjoy these words of wisdom from the band!

A song known as “Invade Me” with Martina Topley-Bird on vocals narrowly missed the final cut of the album. – “There was one track called ‘Invade Me’ with Martina (Topley Bird) and we cut it with it on and with it off. It’s difficult to know if it was one track too many, not in terms of the length of album but in terms of mood.” – 3D (State.ie)

A remix album of Heligoland by Burial is very unlikely to happen. This rumor was started by G in an interview last year, where he expressed his appreciation for Burial’s music and how it would be his wish for Burial to remix the new Massive Attack album. By G’s own later admission his statement was taken out of context, to mean that Burial actually was remixing Heligoland, when in fact he was not. – “I think I might have had too many drinks the night I made that statement. I started a fire, didn’t I? It was our total admiration for Burial, that’s what it was; it sort of spilled into enthusiasm about him doing something for us.” - Daddy G (The Skinny)

The current plan is to release an EP with the leftover material from the Heligoland sessions at some stage this summer. One track in contention for that EP is Red Light, a song co-written with Guy Garvey, which the band have been working on now for over 2 years and still haven’t quite perfected yet. An early demo sample of Red Light can be heard on this video extract from the film “In Prison My Whole Life”, courtesy of NeilDavidge.com. – “It will probably be made up of tracks that we didn’t put on this record and maybe some new stuff as well. We’ve got this one called ‘Red Light,’ which we wrote with Guy [Garvey], which we’ve been playing live for two years and we still can’t finish it. To be honest, I still can’t make the promise it will be finished because it seems to be a really evasively hard thing to capture. Some songs are like that. Some happen instantly and some continually trouble you.” - 3D (BBC6 Music)

3D first heard mention of the word “Heligoland” in a 2000 film know as Shadow Of the Vampire. – “I actually encountered it on the movie Shadow of the Vampire. Part of the film was shot there and it just says ‘Heligoland’ at one point and I just thought, ‘I love that word’. Initially it’s just really intriguing.” – 3D (BBC6 Music)

The oldest track on the album is Pray For Rain, whose vocals were recorded with Tunde Ademipde at TV On The Radio’s studio in Brooklyn back in late 2005. – “The Tunde track was a completely different song originally when we took it to New York and then it stayed on the shelf for like two years before we went back to New York and Tunde re-did a vocal which was completely different from the original vocal, which then informed how we finished the track, arranged it, re-arranged it, cut it up, changed the middle section.” – 3D (EMI.DE)

Of the collaborators on Heligoland, Hope Sandoval was the only vocalist who did not actually meet with the band, with all communication with her being conducted electronically. – “But he [G] sent over a great backing track for her to work on and we went from there. We never got to meet her, it was all done long distance.” – 3D (CrackerJack)

Atlas Air, originally went on for a further 5 minutes during its climax and more closely resembled the live version. It was also the final song to mixed and finished for the album. – “Well we had a version that was twice as long, we loved it that much and I was like ‘fuck I don’t care’ it all has to go on. The ending went on for five minutes and I thought it was a 12-inch dance tune but when it came down to listening to the record it started to feel slightly indulgent and it didn’t really show respect to the other tracks. We wanted more of a song-type structure so that it fits, when you get to the end of it you haven’t forgotten the rest of album.” - 3D (State.ie)

The track now called Babel, grew out of an amalgamation of two very different songs – “The track that ended up as Babel began life as two songs, one about falling in love with a porn star and the other about extraordinary rendition, but they ended up joined together.” – 3D (Sunday Times)

What the image on the front cover of Heligoland’s means – “The painting is of a culturally disorientated character or collage of things we’re being forced to look at by superimposition. Instead of being able to make our own minds up, the idea is is projected into us.” - 3D (The Skinny)

On the direction they are approaching the music videos to accompany the Heligoland songs – “We want to give the directors we work with a different space for it, so if we give you a small budget as opposed to a big budget and you make the film you want to the track you choose, and you can pull the track apart, we’ll give you the stems, you can do what you want…it’s just more interesting now. So the films we got are the directors personal visions, done on a very tight budget in a very lo-fi and intriguing way – possibly never to be seen outside of the internet.” – 3D (EMI.DE)

On the tragic death of Jerry Fuchs, who played drums during the recording sessions for Heligoland – “It was awful news. We heard while we were still on tour. It was atrocious. He was the sort of person who lit up a room when they came in. He was a really lovely, warm guy and a brilliant drummer.” - 3D (CrackerJack)

The reasoning behind going back to the drawing board after the 2008 tour – “I think we became victims of our own success in one respect, because it’s the first time the internet has impacted on us. We came back from our tour, and as far as we were concerned, the album was dead, ‘cos it had already been blasted all over the internet. And we just got bored with the tracks, to be honest. Either way, we felt that it didn’t have the cohesion that we wanted, and we wanted to put a bit more pep into the tracks.” - Daddy G (Entertainment.ie)

On how hooking up with Damon Albarn in his studio in late 2008 changed the course of the album – “It was a different energy and a different environment. We started to strip everything back and build it back up again. That feels like the start of what the album is now. The first incarnation didn’t have that. After we went into Damon’s studio it started to feel rounded. This record is a series of events — working with Damon, Guy Garvey, Martina, and so on — where chemistry came right.” - 3D (Telegraph)

Tags: interview • quotes • heligoland • compilation • martina topley bird

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