| LOS ANGELES, CA – Tuesday, May 27, 2014 – Daniel Ash, legendary vocalist/guitarist who founded the influential and iconic Bauhaus, Tones On Tail and Love and Rockets, has taken to PledgeMusic to have fans participate in the funding of his next album, Stripped. The album will feature modern takes on 11 songs from his Bauhaus/Love and Rockets/Tones On Tail catalogues, as well as one brand-new track. Fans are asked to vote for their favorite Ash songs and those with the most votes are being “stripped down” with reinterpreted versions recorded for the new album. Stripped is expected out in the Fall on INgrooves/GO! Studio.
“The original concept,” Ash explained, “was to record acoustic versions of some of my favorite songs from the catalogue, but to be honest, I found that a boring proposition. Also, more than recording my favorites, I wanted to record the fans’ favorites. I’m a perfectionist and I can’t stand anything that is second-rate, so we’re doing truly alternative versions of the songs, I really want to go out on a limb with this project.”
Already confirmed for the track listing, Stripped will feature a dub step version of the Love and Rockets #1 Billboard hit “So Alive,” produced by John Fryer (Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins) who produced the original track. You can check it out here DJ Adam 12 (She Wants Revenge, Love, Ecstasy and Terror), has come on board for Tones on Tail’s “OK This is the Pops,” and the reimagined Bauhaus track “Slice of Life” is being recorded with the help of Jordan Jeffares (Snowden) who recorded the 2009 version of “No Words No More” for New Tales To Tell – A Tribute to Love and Rockets. Also on board for the project are long-time collaborators Christopher The Minister and Dustin Byerley.
In exchange for a pledge, funders have exclusive access to the site’s updates, keeping up on the album’s progress, viewing the package’s artwork, hearing completed tracks before anyone else, and other content. In addition, Ash has made available an array of items-for-bid that includes signed CD copies of Stripped, exclusive t-shirts, limited-edition, colored 180-gram vinyl copies of Stripped, a variety of Ash’s original “Bubble Men” artwork, handwritten lyrics sheets, and Ash’s own 1992 Heritage Softail Harley Davidson motorcycle.
“This ‘crowd funding’ is virgin territory to me,” adds Ash, “but we’re having a great time breathing brand-new life into these songs, and I hope my investors will like the finished product.” |
