Steve Wynn aus seinem Tour Diary vom 9.12.02 über das neue Album:
Music? You want music? Well, the new record is indeed finished, having been mastered about two weeks ago. Returned to Wavelab in Tucson, Arizona (where I recorded ‚Here Come the Miracles‘ in 2000) and was joined by my road-tested Miracle 3 (Linda, Jason and Dave) along with Chris Cacavas who has moved to Germany and, thus, had a much longer journey to return to his hometown on this record. Craig Schumacher was the engineer and coproducer again and I’m really happy with the results. The record will be released in Europe by Blue Rose on February 24 (and by Astro in Spain) and then should be out in the US sometime this Spring.
The album is called ‚Static Transmission‘ and the title reflects the combination of songs and styles which somewhat resembles a late night drive through the desert with a crackling radio station drawing sounds and styles that could be either from some dark radio studio or from the control center of your average UFO. a dark and beautiful, soothing and unsettling journey–similar in some ways to ‚Miracles‘ but deeper, hookier, freakier and lovelier in many ways. Hey, I haven’t dabbled in rock criticism in many years but you’ll see what I mean soon enough.
und über die bevorstehenden Konzerte:
Touring? You want touring? Well, there will be plenty of that in the coming months. I’ll be doing a ten-day acoustic tour of Germany (dates available elsewhere on this site) with Jason in January and after a visit to Austin for the annual South by Southwest convention in March, we will begin a nine-week full-band tour of Europe with some US dates and more European dates and more US dates (etc) to follow. I’m looking forward to shaking up the set list, bringing back a bunch of old songs, both popular and obscure as well as some covers. Should be a wild tour with a lot of surprises.
Anyway, it’s about time to board the plane and I’ve got to go buy some newspapers and magazines. I’m looking forward to keeping the suitcase packed and getting to as many cities as possible in the coming year. In the meantime, keep watching this site for more details.
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