As rock nyc reported two months ago, Mick Jagger wants a second career. I am not sure what he want (revenge on Keith saying he wasn't a team player?), but his new supergroup named Superheavy (no less) will release a debut album on September 20th according to digitalspy.com. Beside Jagger, the artists who compose the band are Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, soul singer Joss Stone, reggae singer Damian Marley and soundtrack composer AR Rahman, who was behind films such as Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours,… quite an eclectic crowd.
At a private press conference in Los Angeles, Jagger told a group of journalists that the project began with ‘ideas, a few guitar riffs and a few snippets of lyrics. It's not my usual sort of way of working. You always want to leave some room for improvisation, but you need to have something, some songs, when you walk into the studio.’
Joss Stone added: ’It evolved very quickly. We sat around with our little pads (writing). We did do a lot of jams but it's all coherent and arranged. We just wrote them quickly.’
And Dave Stewart said that the group recorded 29 tracks in 10 days, stating that ‘some are an hour and ten minutes long’.
An hour long? What kind of song is that?
Jagger continued: ‘We've got some more reggae songs, some rock, some ballads, some soul music. We've got one song in Urdu, I managed to do one line in Urdu, only one! It's not world music per se, a Womad festival kind of thing. It's a much more accessible style, a lot of dancey things.’
‘We'd all leap in with our ideas, getting excited about one another. We're four vocalists, we've never worked like that before. It's great because the whole burden's not on you, and that made it fun. There are a lot of different musical styles, maybe even some we've invented.’
But not too long after this, he said:
‘If you're a Rolling Stones fan there's definitely stuff you can relate to. Other stuff that you can't relate to so much, maybe if you listen you'll enjoy it. I don't think it's so far off the beaten track that you can't understand it.'
OK, so the style does not seem to be so ‘invented’ as he was putting it.
Their single entitled 'Miracle Worker', has been confirmed, with a video to be filmed soon, but no tour yet, however everything is possible as Jagger declared:
‘If people really like it, we will. If they don't like it we won't! We haven't planned to do a tour or anything, but if people really like it maybe we will. We'd love to get together and play some of it live’.