#THE FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN STORY OF FULL#
While the Lips’ have released several live concert DVDs (my favorite being 2007’s U.F.O.S at the Zoo because it captures the same show that I got to take my 9-old-son to where we wore Santa suits and danced and jumped around on stage beside the band, and had a laser flashlight battle with the alien vixens from space on the other side of the band at a key moment in the show), and have full concerts available to view on youtube, until now they’ve never released a live concert audio album. Not just impressed with the Flaming Lips part of it, but the whole arrangement and the power of it.”Ĭheck out our photos from the 2016 performance of The Soft Bulletin at Red Rocks here and get a behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsal for that show here.Fire Note Says: The Flaming Lips join together with the Colorado Symphony to recreate their 1999 masterpiece “The Soft Bulletin” at the landmark Red Rocks Amphitheatre.Īlbum Review: Back in 2016, somebody had the smarts to imagine a 20th anniversary celebration of Oklahoma City’s Flaming Lips’ breakout 1999 release, The Soft Bulletin, complete with a live album recorded at the picturesque Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Chorus filling in for the synthesizer generated orchestrations on the original recording. But hearing the recording later, I was impressed. But when you’re playing, you’re kind of involved in the little intricacies of your own sound or whatever. We knew that was happening, because I’d seen some of that in rehearsal. "I think it really does make it insanely special, because you’re just not used to hearing a choir like this, where they’re so emotional and so crazy. "It captures a lot of the intricacies of the group, the Colorado Symphony and the fifty-plus-person Colorado Symphony Chorus," he continues. “And that’s typical of big live recordings, you know, when you’ve got a lot of microphones on everything you’re trying to capture. “It was quite a mountain of work for him, because there’d be things that would be working well on one song, and then they would collapse and then not work at all,” Coyne said last February. The last time we spoke with Lips frontman Wayne Coyne (before the band performed the album a second time with the Colorado Symphony last February), he said that longtime Lips producer Dave Fridmann was working on the recording of the 2016 Red Rocks concert.
#THE FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN STORY OF DOWNLOAD#
That will be followed with a download of "The Spark That Bled" on November 15. Album pre-orders begin Friday, October 18, and will include an instant download of "Race for the Prize" from the album that features the 69-piece Colorado Symphony and 56-person Colorado Symphony Chorus and was conducted by internationally celebrated conductor André de Ridder. It will be the Lips' first official live album. The band just announced Friday that the live recording of that concert will be released on November 29. It was the first time the Lips performed The Soft Bulletin with an orchestra. Nearly two decades later, in 2016, the band joined the Colorado Symphony to play the album live in its entirety at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. While it sounds like there's an orchestra on the original recording of the Flaming Lips' 1999 masterpiece The Soft Bulletin, the string sounds were actually recorded using synthesizers and samples.
0 kommentar(er)
