{"id":973472,"date":"2019-11-13T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=911416"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:02:37","slug":"lee-ranaldo-rosalia-collaborator-team-for-new-album-names-of-north-end-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/lee-ranaldo-rosalia-collaborator-team-for-new-album-names-of-north-end-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Ranaldo, Rosalia Collaborator Team for New Album \u2018Names of North End Women\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee Ranaldo<\/a> had an epiphany about his new album while wandering through a neighborhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Each street on his journey was named after a woman \u2014 just their first names \u2014 and as he walked by Lydia, Kate, Dagmar, Harriett and Juno, Ranaldo wrote those names down. He was fascinated by the fact that the names seemed to come from nowhere, with no explanation as to why each street bore that title.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomehow it became an impetus for the lyrics in terms of the people that drift in and out of one\u2019s life, some significant, some fleeting,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI had this idea of using given names as a device that could inform some of the lyrics. It doesn\u2019t play through all the lyrics, but quite a few employ this idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result is Names of North End Women<\/em>, a joint album with Rosal\u00eda collaborator Ra\u00fcl Refree out February 21st via Mute. The video for the title track \u2014 an edit of Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky\u2019s 1999 film Outer Space \u2014 <\/em>is out Wednesday. Refree previously worked with Ranaldo on his solo album, Electric Trim<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Although both are revered guitarists, the duo opted for a more experimental feel on Names of North End Women<\/em>, using marimba, vibraphone, samplers, a vintage two-inch Studer tape recorder and a modified cassette machine to weave new tunes. \u201cThis record began as playing with samplers and cassette players,\u201d Refree said, \u201cas experimental music, musique concrete, poly-rhythms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ranaldo dug poems out his archives for the lyrics, and repurposed bits and bobs written by author Jonathan Lethem, who also contributed to Electric Trim<\/em>. The full tracklist is below:<\/p>\n

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Names of North End Women<\/em> Tracklist<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Alice, Etc.<\/li>\n
  2. Words out of the Haze<\/li>\n
  3. New Brain Trajectory<\/li>\n
  4. Humps<\/li>\n
  5. Names of North End Women<\/li>\n
  6. Light Years Out<\/li>\n
  7. The Art of Losing<\/li>\n
  8. At The Forks<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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