Noel Gallagher On His Album With Amorphous Androgynous

Noel Gallagher told Matt Morgan that he found a copy of his album with Amorphous Androgynous in his sock drawer after he previously claimed to have destroyed it.

He said "I did find a copy of it recently in a sock draw, the masters (tapes), somebody has them, the masters have not been destroyed but it won’t be coming out any time soon."



"It might be nice to go back and revisit it in years to come, because 'Shoot A Hole Into The Sun' is fucking great and there might be more stuff like that in there. Best to give it a bit of distance though I think.

“There’s no bootleg because I own the master and I destroyed it, my manager’s not even heard it. I wouldn’t play it. It was so underwhelming to me that I never played it to anybody.”

Watch the chat with Matt Morgan below.

Uncut's Review Of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Who Built The Moon?'

Not for the first time, Liam Gallagher recently stunned a fairly large number of people with something he said.

At a show in front of a record industry-crowd, he attempted to justify his new album being written with collaborators. "It ain't all about the music," he said in an audible intake of breath. "It's also about being a cool cunt like me"."

Oasis or no Oasis, if you needed a precise articulation of the difference between Liam and Noel Gallagher, that would probably do it. One is still justifying himself, while the other has comfortably made it. One knows there's more to the magic of rock 'n' roll than just the music; there's attitude and charisma. And, actually, the other knows that too, but prefers to push his own party line. Namely that its all about the songs.

Interestingly, for so irreconcilable a pair, right now, Liam and Noel actually have quite a lot in common. Not that for a second Big Brother would see it this way, but he - in his way - is also using guest writers, looking for a way forward. Rather than present another album of great rockers and midtempo ballads, here he has enlisted the help of producer/remixer/movie soundtracker David Holmes to reimagine his meat and potatoes as a rather more exciting plate of food.

Early remarks about the record were of it's purported "psychedelic" sound. This might perhaps make long long-service Noelers cast their minds back to the tracks he cut about three years ago with the psychotropic Amorphous Androgynous crew, or further, to 1996's "Setting Sun", which cast him as the monk on the mountain top in the Chemical Brothers' own "Tomorrow Never Knows".

The Amorphous collaboration ended badly, with Noel apparently junking their proposed LP and Garry Cobain from AA describing Noel as "too afraid to be weird".

Nonetheless, two tracks "The Mexican" and "The Right Stuff", offered a pleasant space/time slippage and made it onto the last Noel album 2015's "Chasing Yesterday".

Apart from the possibly "It's A Beautiful World", which has an agreeably droney vibe before mutating into a Coldplay-style anthem, this album will not fry your brain, though that's not to say that a substantial change has not been attempted.

Encouraged by Holmes to collaborate, Noel has pushed as far out of his comfort zone as a person can while still having Paul Weller and Johnny Marr guest. Rather than presenting completed songs to his producer, the pair -working together on and off since 2013, apparently - have jammed, and listened, then revisited the material to turn into something more like a song.

It has yielded some interesting moments. Lead-off single "Holy Mountain" imagines 'The Sweet' covering "Diamond Dogs", or a Phil Spector production of Ricky Martin's "She Bangs". It is, as Noel has said, a lot of fun. "If Love Is The Law" continues the mood, this time channelling the spirit of A Christmas Gift To You From Philles Records, with some appealing sleigh bells and a flavour of "That's Entertainment" by The Jam.

"The Man Who Built The Moon?" near the end of the album, takes the tune and and rhythm of "Wonderwall", and puts it in the epic setting of a Bond Theme. Additional nods to a more widescreen production come with "interlude: Wednesday PT1" and the closing "End Credits".

Best by some distance though is "Black And White Sunshine". It's not unfamiliar territory by any means (Except for mention of "thanks and praise", which gives it a flavour of Sunday School we probably never expected from him), and it is very good indeed. And entirely unfamiliar guitar rift opens proceedings with a Johnny Marr level of freshness and virtuosity. the chorus, with reference to ships coming in, is jubilant in the pure Knebworth fashion. The descent back to the verse is done with some tastefully basic guitar playing.

If this excellent rocker were surrounded by a family bearing some strong genetic resemblances to it, "Who Built The Moon?" would be a superior album. That's not quite the case, sadly. "Keep On Reaching" find Holmes pushing some Curtis Mayfield presets. "She Taught Me How To Fly" is a fusion of Pulp's "Common People" with Blondie's "Heart Of Glass". And even if Noel doesn't like to talk about The Beatles any more, there's no hiding that "Be Careful What You Wish For" sounds rather like the riff from "Come Together".

Which is a strange thing about the album. As the album's bonus track (a live-in-the-studio version of "Dead In The Water") makes plain, Noel has broadened his horizons beyond the plaintive acoustic ballad. But to still be making records that sound a bit like other records after all this experimentation suggests he's gone an awfully long way round the houses simply to end up exactly where he started.

07/10 By John Robinson

Source: Uncut Magazine

Noel Gallagher Thought His New Album 'Who Bulit The Moon?' Would End Up Getting Scrapped

Noel Gallagher has said he thought that his new High Flying Birds album with producer David Holmes would never see the light of day, and thought it would end up being scrapped like the planned album with Amorphous Androgynous or Oasis’s abandoned sessions with Death In Vegas.

Speaking to the the current issue of Q he said he only told producer David Holmes this much later.

He said “He was flabbergasted. He said that he never doubted from the first night that the record was going to be the way it was. That’s a proper producer. If you’d asked me that night if I thought I was capable of doing it, I’d have said no. I’ve got to take my hat off to David because he’s seen something in me that probably wasn’t even there.”

'Who Built The Moon? is released on November 24th.

Noel Gallagher 'Destroyed' LP With Amorphous Androgynous

The 47-year-old rocker recorded the album with Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans of the electronic band in 2011, but claims he grew fed up with the musicians and got rid of the only copy ever made of the album because he wasn't a fan.

He explained: "The album got finished. We spent a lot of time working on it, but the way that they work is that they get me in and I play all day then they take it away.

"Then the next thing you hear, you go, 'Well, that's not what I was thinking'. It became apparent that they weren't making a record for me but I was making a record for them. You know me, that's not going to f***ing work.

"There's no bootleg because I own the master and I destroyed it. My manager's not even heard it. I wouldn't play it."

Although two collaborations with the duo appeared on his most recent album 'Chasing Yesterday' - 'The Right Stuff' and 'The Mexican' - the former Oasis guitarist said the music they recorded together was "underwhelming", so he never wanted his fans to hear it.

He told Noisey: "It was so underwhelming to me that I never played it to anybody. I'm not going to put records out to please people and their imagination, then they hear it and go, 'Actually, it's a bit s**&'. I know it's s*** that's why it's not coming out and that's the end of it."

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

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Paul Gallagher Thinks Oasis Will Get Back Together

Noel Gallagher continues to deny it, but an Oasis reunion is inevitable according to his other brother Paul.

The eldest Gallagher sibling has been DJing on Noel's solo tour dates recently.

But he believes it won't be long before Liam, 42, is back in the frame. Paul, 48, said: "I speak to the pair of them, I see Liam every other day.

"This is a big business. I'm sure (the Oasis reunion) will happen one day, there's too much money for it not to.

"They're a premier band. Regardless of what they say... money talks."

Paul is a major influence on his brothers, getting Andy Bell in Oasis and introducing guitarist Jeff Wootton to Noel, 47.

But he's pretty scathing about Noel's solo career. Paul told the Stage Left podcast: "Noel is a frontman now but he's not a frontman, he's a sideman being a frontman. There's more than getting up and singing to being a frontman.

"Whatever Liam does the crowd goes mental. Noel has the songs but not the presence and he'll never have it."

Paul isn't keen on Noel's latest solo album. He laughed: "I bought it to slag it off. Not my cuppa tea, I like things a bit more up.

"There's something missing in that record - Liam."

It comes on the day Liam accused Noel of plotting his exit years before they split.

Garry Cobain, 47, of Amorphous Androgynous revealed Noel was talking about working solo in 2008. After reading that, Liam posted: "Busted."?

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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Amorphous Androgynous On Working With Noel Gallagher

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Amorphous Androgynous On Noel Gallagher: ‘He Was Too Afraid To Be Weird’

Their collaboration was meant to radically change the Oasis man’s sound. But only a couple of their tracks appeared on his album Chasing Yesterday, and the rest may ‘never see the light of day’. AA’s Garry Cobain gives his side of the story.

We first began talking about working with Noel on a solo album years ago. We had remixed the 2009 Oasis single Falling Down and turned it into a 22-minute odyssey, which he loved, and then he invited me to DJ at the afterparty for one of Oasis’s Wembley Arena gigs that October. That’s when we began talking about a solo record.

It started out promisingly. When Noel first came round to my house with a bunch of demos, he was strangely subdued and insecure. Oasis were past their sell-by date. I saw a guy with a guitar who needed something exciting. We were all over the press with our new vision of psychedelia and he leaned very heavily on us. He went into it with all the right intentions.

Between 2009 and 2011, I was obsessed with Noel Gallagher. During that period, we spent four weeks in the studio with him. The rest of the time it was just Brian [Dougans, the other half of AA] and me, in control of the budgets, all the music and the musicians. We got in Gary Lucas from Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band and Virgil Howe, son of Steve Howe of Yes, to give an idea of how far-out we were going.

The first day, a lorry arrived with 87 guitars and 200 effects pedals, and I looked at Brian and said: “Wow, this is gonna be fun!” And yet within a week there were reports that Noel was considering dropping the album because we’d asked him to play the same guitar solo for five hours. Actually, all that happened was I thought he’d like to experiment with an idea we had, but after 30 minutes he was lost and angry that we weren’t telling him exactly what to do. We assumed he would want to let loose – after all, George Harrison spent 12 hours doing the backwards guitar solo for I’m Only Sleeping.

The studio wasn’t disharmonious, but I did have to work around his limitations and it quickly became apparent that rather than singing and playing differently, he wanted to do things exactly the same as ever as ever. He did the same vocal take five times. I said: “Imagine yourself as a voice actor.” He said: “Don’t ever fucking talk to me about being a voice actor!” I knew it wasn’t going to be easy.

We were just finishing off the mixing of the album when we were invited to the press conference on 6 July 2011. I watched it online. That’s when he announced that there would be two albums: the one that became High Flying Birds, and our one. High Flying Birds had the same running order as the album we’d been working on, even if the tracks themselves were a lot straighter. At the press conference you could see he felt trepidatious about High Flying Birds. He seemed more interested in ours. He said it would be an 18-track album ranging from vaudeville to “space jazz” to krautrock, and as out-there as The Dark Side of the Moon. That album is the holy grail to me, and I was embarrassed by these proclamations. They put me in a real quandary because there was no way, with respect, that his songs were anything like Dark Side.

It’s odd because Noel loves the Beatles, the masters of experimentation. But Oasis thought they just needed to sing lyrics of love – it was all surface and no depth. To me, psychedelia isn’t just tasteful songs about the sun and phased guitars; it’s a radical form.

In August 2012, Noel said he was considering scrapping the collaboration because he was not completely satisfied with the mixes – by that time only one of our tracks had come out, the B-side Shoot a Hole into the Sun. But this wouldn’t have been an album of remixes. It would have been his first solo album proper, under the name Noel Gallagher, possibly with “Amorphous Androgynous” in the title. It wouldn’t have been High Flying Birds.

Noel is loved by middle England. Would I turn his four-minute songs into prog-psych music? No, I was prepared to meet him halfway. My mandate was to do the most difficult thing: bring my psych and prog influences to bear on pop songs. It was never going to be as way out as Pink Floyd. But I did think I could make his songs as free as Cosmic Dancer by T Rex.

We tried to force him to write new material. But he dragged his heels and failed to stretch himself. Eventually, we came up with two new backing tracks for The Right Stuff and The Mexican to justify it being “like Pink Floyd”, the two songs that ended up on Chasing Yesterday. We spent six months on them. Now people are citing The Right Stuff as one of the best things he has done, and proof of how good he can be when he explores.

There’s not much colour on his two albums; it’s just the same old Noel. He has tried to send out this message that he’s pushed himself, but it’s just the same generic stuff. We had kids’ choirs, harpsichords, mandolins. We really went to town with orchestras and all sorts of crazy instrumentation. He just needed to cut the pie to suit Noel the solo artist – we left some excess pastry on it so he could trim a bit off.

I believe ours is the album people wanted him to make – a liberated, exploratory Noel Gallagher, cutting loose from Oasis, enjoying his freedom; the Noel who name-drops our Monstrous Bubble albums and krautrock, and who had hits with the Chemical Brothers. He obviously loves that kind of music, but has no idea how to make it.

We still talk. But he has been asked about our album a lot, and his rebuttal of it is a disgrace. It’s doing me a lot of damage. He became too afraid to be weird. But, still, when Noel is ready to collaborate, I’m here.

Garry Cobain was talking to Paul Lester

Noel Gallagher’s Chasing Yesterday and Amorphous Androgynous’s A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble (Exploding in Your Mind) – the Wizards of Oz are both out now.

Source: www.theguardian.com

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Mike Rowe On Working With Oasis, Noel Gallagher, Amorphous Androgynous And More

Listen to an interview with Mike Rowe before Le Zenith gig who gives a great insight into Noel Gallagher's working practices.

Mike also discusses his life in music, collaborating as keyboardist for Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow, Dave Gilmour, Amorphous Androgynous and Oasis and more.

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Amorphous Androgynous On Working With Noel Gallagher

We spent two years working on what was supposed to be the solo album with Noel. I could — and probably will — write a book about those two years. The sheer scale of the creative process we embarked on, coupled with the covert goings-on which ultimately led to its destiny as a “lost album” are mind-blowing to this day, but at least makes for a truly great rock ‘n’ roll story.

He still fascinates me. He’s a great untapped source. The only thing holding him back is himself. He constantly talks about how he’s “long accepted his limitations” but I don’t really believe that. Go and listen to The Right Stuff and Shoot a Hole Into The Sun, both co-written and produced with us. Although it’s not the best material we worked on together, in my opinion, they prove quite clearly that when he lets his hair down he can write in a completely different way. If he placed more faith and trust in himself, Noel could reap magic.

I never had any doubt, simply because he’s a lot more talented than I, and I’ve never stopped having fun and exploring my own limited talents. At the end of the day, I always want people to be the best possible version of themselves and try and encourage that expansion.

Read the full article here.

Source: musicfeeds.com.au

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Noel Gallagher On Oasis, His New Album, Amorphous Androgynous And More

Click here to read part one of an interview with Noel Gallagher for entertainment.ie, he talks about Oasis, his new album, Amorphous Androgynous and more.

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Amorphous Androgynous On The Album They Recorded With Noel Gallagher

British production duo Amorphous Androgynous have revealed their side of what happened to the album they recorded with Noel Gallagher, and say the former Oasis man missed out on what could have been "the most exciting moment in modern fucking music history".

Gallagher's collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous was announced in tandem with his debut album proper, 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds', at his 2011 press conference. The record wasn't released and Gallagher recently told NME it will "never see the light of day" because "the mixes weren't right" and he just "couldn't be arsed" to put out another record.

Speaking exclusively in the new issue of NME, which is on newsstands now and available digitally, Amorphous Androgynous's Gaz Cobain revealed that the duo had no idea Gallagher was working on two records simultaneously, and only discovered that he'd recorded another, more traditional album with producer Dave Sardy when it was announced at the press conference. "At that point," said Cobain, "we knew our record was fucked."

Cobain said suspicions were raised when Gallagher was absent from the recording sessions, having supplied the duo with a bunch of demo recordings. "There had to be an artistic process where we would all be expressing opinions and getting deep down and dirty with each other, and that essentially is where this record went wrong," Cobain said. "Noel gave us all the power and we conducted most of those two years in absolute isolation. I don’t think he wanted to fully interface with the craziness of our music."

He added: "You’re looking at a two-year process here – thousands of hours of our time. At no point was our record supposed to be a remix album or a companion piece… For us, this had the potential to be the most exciting moment in modern fucking music history. This was his solo album; this was the idea that Noel had held back in Oasis. He'd name-checked 'Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble', krautrock and worked with The Chemical Brothers. Now was his moment of freedom; his moment of revolution."

In spite of the experience, Cobain said he holds no ill feeling toward Gallagher, and said they get on "totally well". Two tracks from the sessions have made their way on to Gallagher's forthcoming 'Chasing Yesterday' album.

Amorphous Androgynous release the third installment of their 'A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble' compilation/remix series, 'A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble (Exploding In Your Mind) - The Wizards Of Oz' on March 16. It features Pond and Tame Impala alongside a wealth of little-known psychedelic artists past and present from Australia and New Zealand.

Read the full interview with Amorphous Androgynous in the new issue of NME, which is on newsstands now and available digitally.

Source: www.nme.com

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Noel Gallagher On The Oasis 'Be Here Now' Reissue, Knebworth 20th Anniversary Plans And More

Translated from Japanese by Appleseed from the current isssueof  Rockin On' Magazine from Japan.

On Tracks on 'Chasing Yesterday'.

Parts of both "Lock All the Doors" and "The Dying of the Light" were written in Oasis era.

Noel almost finished writing "The Dying of the Light" during the recording of the first album, but he thought it was not appropriate song for his fisrt album, so he dropped it from the album.

Early verse of 'Lock All the Doors' became 'Setting Sun', and he tried to write a new verse for it several times but failed.

Originally 'The Right Stuff' and 'The Mexican' were recorded during sessions with Amorphous Androgynous.

'Riverman' and 'The Right Stuff' were done at about the end of recording for Chasing Yesterday.

'The Right Stuff' mood and arrangement are totally different from the one recorded by Amorphous Androgynous, which Noel didn't like so much.

He thought it was going to be B-side before it was completed.

On Recording the album.

Noel and Paul Stacey played almost all the instruments on the recording.

Paul played keyboards, guitar solo in 'Riverman' and 'The Girl With X-Ray Eyes', and the bass in 'Ballad Of the Mighty I'.

Noel played the guitars and bass in five songs, that are 'Riverman', 'In the Heat of the Moment', 'The Dying Of The Light', 'The Right Stuff' and 'The Mexican'.

On the reissue of Oasis' Be Here Now

The 'Be Here Now' reissue will be out one day, but he hasn't decided if  it will be out this year or sometime soon..

Next year will be the 20th anniversary of the legendary Knebworth concerts, so he's thinking about a idea and said "Shall I have special plan for 20th anniversary?".

Noel also wants to remaster and reissue some of albums that were released after 'Be Here Now'.

In addition , the magazine's interviewer said.

Lock All the Doors reminds us of rough and loud live concerts in early oasis era, and While the Song Remains the Same is like Neil Young, and You Know We Can't Go Back is reminiscent of Rock 'n' Roll Star, also there is the opener Riverman.

This album has got rock tunes with explosive guitar solos.

Noel's rock spirit like DM came back, and CY has also his new features.

'The Right Stuff' is composed of mainly instrumental part as Space jazz/Ambient Music-ish, and 'The Mexican' is new waver dance beat, then 'Ballad of the Mighty I' has disco beat, electric piano and Johnny Marr's guitar.

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Noel Gallagher On The Lost Oasis Album With Death In Vegas

Noel Gallagher has been speaking about Oasis' recording session they did with Death In Vegas.

He told the current issue of the NME "We did it before we went to do 'Don't Believe The Truth', and much like the Amorphous project, it just didnt work out. Me and Liam both sang. It was a bit of a weird time, but we had a great time doing it. Liam had done 'Scorpio Rising' thing with them and said we should use them, and I was like 'yeah, f*ck it, let's do it'. But it never came out."Source: www.nme.com

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Noel Gallagher On The Scrapped Album With Amorphous Androgynous

Noel Gallagher has been speaking about his scrapped album with Amorphous Androgynous.

He told the current issue of the NME "Initially when they delivered it they managed to pull off the trick of recording the quietest CD of all time. When I got it I was like, 'Is it broke?' But for all the great ideas on it... I was in the middle of a tour, that last album had blown up, the mixes weren't right. And by the time I got back off tour I was just like 'I'm not f*cking putting out another record, I can't be arsed'. I was frazzled and had glandular fever I was f*cked."

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Noel Gallagher Talks About A Number Of New Tracks From His New Album

Noel Gallagher has spoken to the Q Magazine about his album 'Chasing Yesterday' that is released in March.

Album opener 'Riverman' drifts on a blissful acoustic grove, before building to a skyscraping guitar solo and a gentle sax solo.

Noel says "It's the sound of 1970's Sunset Boulevard with Santana playing lead guitar over a pothead groove, and a Pink Floyd saxophone player in the background".

He said the track was inspired by a night out with Russell Brand and Morrissey in Los Angeles.

On 'Lock All The Doors' he says he's "nicked a bit from 'Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have) by the Buzzcocks".

There are a few reworked tracks from his aborted 2011 collaboration with 'Amorphous Androgynous' 'The Mexican' is a stomper and 'The Right Stuff' is "proper psychedelic jazz".

He said he loves the way these things sit on the same record.

The 'Ballard Of Mighty I' apparently sums up the entire album's lyrical theme "the things in life that will always remain slightly out of reach". The hope in the song, he adds, "is that the chase is what is great".

"I'm not sure I really want Manchester City to win the Champions League for 10 consecutive seasons. It shouldn't be that easy. I don't like to use the word 'Journey' because you sound like a contestant on a reality TV show, but surely the journey is better then the destination.

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Noel Gallagher On His Secret New Project, New Album And More

Notes taken by two lucky people who went to Noel Gallagher's interview and acoustic performance with John Wilson for BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes series.

I think the most potentially exciting thing was Noel let slip about a separate project he's doing he quickly back tracked as obviously shouldn't have said something.

He said he's got ten songs backing track recorded but only two lines of lyrics as he's struggling as he's not emotionally attached to the project, (he thinks they are amazing as instrumentals). John Wilson asked if was a soundtrack and he said no it will be an album.

Also the 'AKA.. What A Life' lyric came from when Noel was sleepwalking. Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno asked if he was still sleepwalking, Noel said yes and Serge said... What A Life!

John asked him what his plan was for the future after 'Chasing Yesterday' and he said his plan was not to take a long break.

He's got loads of songs left over from Oasis era.

He said most of the songs 'on the internet' that have yet to be released will probably never get recorded as he constantly writing newer songs.

'AKA... What A Life' and 'If I Had A Gun' would've been Oasis songs

The solo in 'Riverman' is very good and performed by Paul Stacey and very reminiscent of David Crosby.

John Wilson picked out 'The Right Stuff' as his stand out track (it was unprompted and he just came out with his like for the track).

Thanks to jaq515

'The Right Stuff' is left over from the Amorphous Androgynous album, perhaps why it's more 'out there' as the interviewer described it.

Apparently a cracking solo on 'Riverman'.

Noel's written an entire album of instrumentals that he hasn't yet been able to put words to for a 'side project.' The interviewer asked if it was for a movie soundtrack to which he said it wasn't and it will be an album if he can put write the lyrics for it. Was all rather odd and intriguing.

Thanks to willd255

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Listen To Samples From Noel Gallagher On The New 'Amorphous Androgynous' Album

The Amorphous Androgynous is the psychedelic rock-tronic supergroup created and produced by The Future Sound Of London.

Following on from their legendary and award winning (MOJO magazine compilation of the year) ''A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble (Exploding In Your Mind)'' DJ series, The Amorphous Androgynous have started a parallel series called Monstrous Bubble Soundtracks which aims to explore groovy sub genres of the MPB concept, but rather than DJ/compile, they write and produce all the material themselves in a classic soundtrack vein.

The first one is ''The Cartel'' a study of psychsploitation (where psychedelia meets blaxploitation) and traces the lineage from Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, Curtis Mayfield, John Barry, Ennio Morricone through to Oceans 12.

Aided and abetted by a stellar cast including Noel Gallagher himself on bass and guitar plus Raven Bush (of fast upcoming Canterbury folk psych band Syd Arthur) on violin plus the Amorphous Androgynous themselves (both as producers and band) adding all manner of sonic delights centred round a core collective of hammond, drums, violin, harp, flute, guitar, bass, brass and vibraphone The Cartel comes in two volumes with a third volume of remixes & reworkings from a whole host of invited guests and artists/producers to follow thereafter.



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Noel Gallagher Features On New 'Amorphous Androgynous' Album

The Amorphous Androgynous is the psychedelic rock-tronic supergroup created and produced by The Future Sound Of London.

Following on from their legendary and award winning (MOJO magazine compilation of the year) ''A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble (Exploding In Your Mind)'' DJ series, The Amorphous Androgynous have started a parallel series called Monstrous Bubble Soundtracks which aims to explore groovy sub genres of the MPB concept, but rather than DJ/compile, they write and produce all the material themselves in a classic soundtrack vein.

The first one is ''The Cartel'' a study of psychsploitation (where psychedelia meets blaxploitation) and traces the lineage from Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, Curtis Mayfield, John Barry, Ennio Morricone through to Oceans 12.

Aided and abetted by a stellar cast including Noel Gallagher himself on bass and guitar plus Raven Bush (of fast upcoming Canterbury folk psych band Syd Arthur) on violin plus the Amorphous Androgynous themselves (both as producers and band) adding all manner of sonic delights centred round a core collective of hammond, drums, violin, harp, flute, guitar, bass, brass and vibraphone The Cartel comes in two volumes with a third volume of remixes & reworkings from a whole host of invited guests and artists/producers to follow thereafter.

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Noel Gallagher Gives His Thoughts On When His Next Album Is Being Released

Noel Gallagher has been asked by Q magazine when he is planning his next album.

The musician said "I’ve still got all those songs I did with Amorphous Androgynous but the moment has gone now with that. Because it was written and recorded in the studio in a rather psychedelic manner I’m currently in the process of trying to work out how to play the fucking things on the guitar. But I’m not doing anything with any great enthusiasm at the minute. I know I’ll probably do it with Dave Sardy, I’ll probably do some of it in America. Other than that I’ve not really thought about it. I only got off tour in November".

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International Magic Live At The 02 Gets US And Canadian Release

Exactly one year on from the day of the show; Feb. 26th sees the North American release of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds performance at London’s O2 on Feb 26, 2012.

"International Magic Live At The 02" will be available in three formats: a video download, 2 disc DVD version and Blu-ray with exclusive CD.

“Ride The Tiger” is a 20 minute film includes three of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds videos – directed by Mike Bruce. The trilogy sees “If I Had A Gun….”, “The Death Of You and Me” and “AKA…What A Life!” linked together to create one continuous film (“…the most successful video trilogy of all time…” – Entertainment Weekly).  It also features snippets of “Shoot A Hole Into The Sun” - one of the tracks Noel recorded with The Amorphous Androgynous.

The NME Awards saw Noel win Godlike Genius where he also played the closing set of the night, bringing the star-studded crowd to their feet – all captured on disc 2 of the DVD.

Additionally, the Blu ray edition package will include an exclusive CD – “Faster Than The Speed Of Magic” featuring all the demos of album tracks, B sides and previously unreleased live favorite – “Freaky Teeth.”

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Source: www.noelgallagher.com