Zaireeka comes as a boxed set containing four CDs, but the discs are meant to be listened to simultaneously, on four separate stereos. It is an object whose function is to bring people together in a room to listen to music collectively. These factoids are relevant because Zaireeka, in addition to being an album of music by a decently well-known alternative rock band, was also a fascinating piece of technology. The music industry was at this point raking in money with CDs, and the mp3-though it had existed for a couple of years-was still a curiosity. households). Google was still a year away from existing at all, and we crawled the web using Excite and Yahoo!. News came through newspapers and television broadcasts, and the 28.8 modem was standard (for people with internet, that is, only 18% of U.S. We were rushing to a new age of speed and convenience, but many aspects of life still moved at a crawl. Twenty years ago, the Flaming Lips album Zaireeka was released into a different world. State Department to participate in a 35-day world tour that will visit Korea, Taiwan, Burma and Russia.Join us today in celebrating the 20th anniversary of Zaireeka by the Flaming Lips with Mark Richardson, author of The Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka, who explains the distinct listening experience that The Flaming Lips brought with this unique four-part album. Music is said to be the universal language – that should be a comfort to Kyle Dillingham, Peter Markes and Brent Saulsbury, who as heartland acoustic group Horseshoe Road have been named one of 10 bands selected (from over 300 applicants) by the U.S. And to celebrate Valentine’s Day in their own, shall we say, distinctive style, the band recently released a compilation of love songs recorded onto USB drives … that were then embedded in life-sized, anatomically correct chocolate hearts. It clearly isn’t all gloom and doom and additional gloom for Oklahoma’s rock ambassadors: “Sun Blows Up Today,” a bonus track awarded to users pre-ordering the album on iTunes, is a peppy, catchy treat, as anyone who saw the Super Bowl Hyundai commercial featuring the Lips can attest. Unfortunately, while the Lips will be touring in support of “The Terror,” their closest concert date confirmed as of the album announcement is Kansas City April 28, but if you happen to be in Sweden this summer, they’re rocking the Hultsfred Festival in June. release of what Wayne Coyne calls a “bleak, disturbing record,” a collection of nine tracks the band’s own announcement says “reflect a darker-hued spectrum than previous works, along with a more inward-looking lyrical perspective than one might expect.” Lest we think they’re being facetious, the album is titled “The Terror,” and its songs include “Turning Violent,” the title track, “You Are Alone” and “Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die.” On the other hand, they have some experience with making sad concepts sound soaringly beautiful – Oklahoma’s state rock song is about the inescapability of death, after all. Where do you go from here? For their 13th studio album, the Flaming Lips’ answer is “into darkness.”Īpril 2 will see the U.S.
So you’ve established a reputation as experimental, boundary-pushing, densely layered psychedelic songsmiths and one of the greatest live bands in the world people know your name, and when they hear it they think of transcendence and confetti.
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