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Smashing Pumpkins to release 44 free tracks
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 18 September 2009
Billy Corgan has announced that the next Smashing Pumpkins album will be released as 44 individual tracks, all of which will be made available for free. The first track should be released next month, with the rest coming at regular intervals for as long as it takes to get them all out. A series of limited edition EPs featuring four songs each will also be released as purchasable items. All of which doesn’t make it sound much like an album, but that’s what Billy Corgan’s calling it.
Corgan said on his blog on Wednesday that recording had begun on Tuesday this week, and that the album would be titled ‘Teargarden By Kaleidyscope’. He explained: “The album will feature 44 songs, four of which are now being recorded. My desire is to release a song at a time beginning around Halloween of this year, with each new release coming shortly after until all 44 are out. Each song will be made available absolutely for free, to anyone anywhere. There will be no strings attached. Free will mean free, which means you won’t have to sign up for anything, give an email address, or jump through a hoop. You will be able to go and take the song or songs as you wish, as many times as you wish”.
Explaining the story which will run throughout the songs, and the feel of the ‘album’, he continued: “The story of the album is based on ‘The Fool’s Journey’, as signified in the progress of the Tarot. It is my intention to approach this by breaking down the journey of our life here into four phases as made by these different characters; the Child, the Fool, the Skeptic, and the Mystic.The music of ‘Teargarden By Kaleidyscope’ harkens back to the original psychedelic roots of The Smashing Pumpkins: atmospheric, melodic, heavy, and pretty”.
He added: “I already have 53 songs written for the record, so I am quite confident that I already have much of the material that I would need to undertake such an extensive project. I am very committed to seeing this album through to its completion and very, very excited about the prospect of delivering new Smashing Pumpkins music to you in a unique and exciting way”.
