Bill Corgan says he’s “happy” to be in Smashing Pumpkins as they prepare reissues and a new "album within an album".
Corgan spoke to MusicRadar about the current state of the band, the EMI reissues, and a forthcoming album.
He said "I'm happy to be in The Smashing Pumpkins. I'm happy to be playing with the people I'm playing with. Obviously, I'm not looking back in my current musical life. I'm happy to do the reissues, and I'm glad to have had the opportunity to craft this new deal with EMI to release a lot of material.”
The Smashing Pumpkins are currently drummer Mike Byrne, bassist Nicole Fiorentino and guitarist Jeff Schroeder, who are continuing Corgan’s 44-track epic Teargarden By Kaleidyscope.
But they promise an “album within an album” called Oceania, which will be part of Teargarden but released as a separate album in a new EMI deal.
EMI will also release expanded deluxe reissues of the Smashing Pumpkins back-catalogue, starting with Gish, Siamese Dream, and Pisces Iscariot towards the end of 2011.
Next year, expanded versions of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, the five-CD rarities package The Aeroplane Flies High and Adore will emerge, and in 2013 they’ll assemble Machina/The Machines Of God and Machina II: The Friends And Enemies Of Modern Music as a set, with a Greatest Hits.
Read the entire interview here.
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