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Artist News
Norman Cook and David Byrne collaborate
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 2 October 2009
Norman Cook and David Byrne have recorded a new album together, which features vocals from a number of singers, including Martha Wainwright and Cyndi Lauper. The album, ‘Here Lies Love’, is apparently a concept album based on the life of Imelda Marcos.
Cook told BBC 6music: “Each track is sung by a different singer and there’s some very interesting guests on there. DB’s been trying to get the stage show together, because the idea was that it would be the antithesis of ‘Evita’, but then we couldn’t find our lead, so we didn’t know who was going to sing it. I was trying to persuade David to sing it”.
He continued: “It’s a story-telling thing, like ‘Evita’, but coming at it from a different angle in that it tells the untold story that people didn’t know about Imelda Marcos. It’s not just about the shoes. Musically, because it’s David Byrne, it’s not going to be straight up, ‘Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I’ll Love Ya Tomorrow’. The story is more about what was going on in Studio 54 rather than what went on in the Philippines. We wanted to reflect that, so it’s kind of dance music based”.
The finishing touches are now being put on the album and it’s expected to be released some time in the next six months.
