Wednesday, November 25, 2009

7 Worlds Collide


Reading this title in a New Release section of a music site, I had to investigate, knowing that line from a Crowded House song. Sure enough,
it's a Neil Finn production involving members of Wilco (Tweedy and his son included...see previous post about HOF for this guy), Radiohead, Johnny Marr (whose contributions are the strongest on the record...HITS), KT Tunstall, additional Finn family members, and other New Zealand stars. If you know me at all, you know I consider the Finn brothers the second best songwriting team of all time behind the Liverpool guys. Though Tim has sort of disappeared (he does have one track on this two-record set), Neil has been active throughout and organized this gathering last Christmas in NZ for all involved and their families. Imagine hanging out in this group for a couple of weeks. There is a whole website detailing this charity project, so I'll let you learn more about it there. Suffice it to say that every track from this release should be programmed on the Loft (eclectic rock) channel on XM/Sirius. If you are remotely fond of anybody on this record, and that should be a large crowd, get this album for yourself for Xmas and in turn support this cause (Oxfam). It may not be local to us, but if these artists felt strong enough about it to participate, it should be.

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