![]() But, it does feel a little bit more vulnerable and personal and no extra character applied. “I do feel like it’s a little bit more personal, even though I don’t know how much more personal Ashes could have been. “There are a few different reasons, but it’s starting to make more sense as I’m starting to talk about it,” Howerdel told Audio Ink Radio. While this is Howerdel’s first release under his name, he has released solo music for years under the moniker Ashes Divide. Double-gate foldout with the big images, the interaction of putting vinyl on a turntable I think is lost in the digital age … Something like this brings back that visual excitement for people.Billy Howerdel – Story by Anne Erickson, courtesy photoīilly Howerdel of A Perfect Circle joins Anne Erickson to discuss his new solo album, “What Normal Was,” in this extensive interviewīilly Howerdel, known for his work as songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in A Perfect Circle, recently released his debut solo album, “What Normal Was.” In addition, Howerdel is on tour this summer in support of the album, spending five weeks across North America. He explains, “I come from an era where the physical pieces were something that you cherished. “It is very much a combined experience of the tactile and the visual,” says Keenan of using the object with a smartphone. The prism recalls the time when music was a solely physical product. ”īillboard has the exclusive premiere of the 2-D video for the single “TalkTalk.” Watch it below: Designing one for the album “was one of those escalating ideas.” Keenan said the band had “almost zero” input when it came to determining what footage would be used: “As far as actual choosing of people to be within the images and what it was going to look like and what they would be doing, that was all on. They saw he had “built this insane 360-degree room,” says Keenan, containing a circular camera system to create holograms. The hologram concept was an afterthought.Ī Perfect Circle had already completed Eat the Elephant when Keenan and Howerdel were being photographed for the album art at Sebring’s studio. “I knew was going to take quite a bit of my time, so Perfect Circle was never gone,” he says. At the time, Keenan “had a lot on my plate” due to launching his Caduceus Cellars winery in Jerome, Ariz., and yet another musical project, the quirky Puscifer. The band’s last project, 2004’s eMOTIVe, was a collection of anti-war anthems like John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” that was released in the turbulent aftermath of 9/11. Keenan knew it would be a minute before the next APC album. Below are four other interesting details about the album. When a prism in Eat the Elephant’s limited-edition deluxe boxed set is sat atop a smartphone and a code is entered at an affiliated website, a 58-minute projection of beautifully rendered and occasionally disquieting images - like a colorful, eight-tentacled heart and the Nosferatu-ish characters from the cover art embodied by Keenan and Howerdel - appear. “In that moment, stepping back and basically watching them listen, that visual of what it’s doing for them, that’s the satisfying part - if they come away from it feeling like you’ve done something, rather than an awkward, ‘Hey man, that was the work you’ve ever done,’ ” he says with a chuckle.Ī Perfect Circle has augmented the record - which it introduced with single “The Doomed” - by having filmmaker Steven Sebring ( Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band) create what’s being touted as the world’s first hologram album. “But you have a moment where you just kind of let go.” He paints a scenario of having friends over, pouring some wine and playing the music for them. When it comes to being satisfied with how Eat the Elephant turned out, enigmatic singer Maynard James Keenan (who also fronts metal legends Tool, which is now 12 years between albums) thinks APC got “about 75 percent of the way there.” “There’s always room for improvement” when it comes to any recording project, he concedes. Superstar Pride Notched His First Hit With 'Painting Pictures' - But Has Much More to Say
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