You can write-off the chances of The Rolling Stones doing anything soon. Mick Jagger has formed a supergroup with Dave Stewart from Eurythmics.
The word supergroup has been bantered around for years, at first to represent the joining of artists like Crosby, Stills and Nash, but it has been overused so much that it has started to become a bit meaningless.
Now, take that word and see if it works for the joining of Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damien Marley and A.R. Rahman. That's the lineup for the new group Super Heavy, who have been working quietly together for the last eighteen months and will release their first album during the late-Summer/early-Fall.
For Jagger, it's his first foray into a new group in over fifty years. Stewart, originally of the Eurythmics, has been working with a wide variety of artists as a producer but also has not tried to form another group since he and Annie Lennox went their separate ways.
According to a Rolling Stone article, it all started about two years ago when Stewart was at his home in Jamaica and called Jagger, talking about the wide range of music that he heard on the island. The challenge was to find a way to combine a wide variety of music into a single sound, so they started by bringing in a range of talent, from Stone's soulful voice to Marley's reggae to the Indian music of Rahman.
In the studio, the artists found themselves just improvising, playing off of each other in different styles. From those long jams came the songs for the album.
Jagger thinks people will find the album challenging yet listenable. "It is a different kind of record that what people would expect. It's not all weird and strange though. I think Stones fans will think it's a bit odd, but they'll find most of it accessible. They've heard me play harmonica before and a lot of it is pretty high energy."
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