Damian Marley joined rocker Mick Jagger, Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart, soul singer Joss Stone and AR Rahman, which is the Indian composer of the Slum Dog Millionaire’s soundtrack in SuperHeavy, a new band where their fusing their unique musical styles together.
After many hours of recordings that took place all over the world, they set a date for the album release which is September 20 for America and September 19 for the rest of the world.
On June 30th the band gathered to speak about the making of the album after about half of it was played — no song titles provided — in the afternoon at Henson Studios in Los Angeles. Their chat emphasized the unique nature of the project and the random way in which the music, a multi-cultural free-for-all at the start, came together.
They entered the studio with “ideas, a few guitar riffs and a few snippets of lyrics,” Jagger told the small group assembled to hear the tracks.
“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. “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.”
“I wasn’t really familiar with everyone else’s music before,” Marley added, “but you observe how they work. It was a great experience.”
Apparently they recorded 29 songs in 10 days in studios in Jamaica, India, Greece, America, England and more.
Some songs are 42 minutes long, some songs are more than an hr long. Enjoy some snippets of their music they are waiting to release the album and see if the response is great and then plan a tour. They just finishing filming a video for Miracle Worker.
YOU CAN STREAM AND LISTEN TO THEIR AMAZING SONGS BELOW FOR FREE
