According to Hot Press, two dates for Dublin have been confirmed: July 30 and 31 in a 'specially designed marquee' in the Phoenix Park.
The article also mentions a new album:
Word is that it [i.e. the tour (ed.)] will compliment the title of Waits' new album – possibly Glitter And Doom – which is due through Anti- during the summer.
American Country Countdown mentions the commemoration of Roy Orbison (who died 20 years ago) with the release of a box set and a theatrical tour of a video concert. The theatrical tour, scheduled for September, will consist of Black & White Night with never-before released rehearsal footage and new interviews.
The animated film Tom Waits For No One is more or less well know amongst Waits-afficionados, but now a 45 second clip of the original film used to make this has surfaced on YouTube.
According to the uploader, austinstein, these images - featuring Tom Waits and 'exotic dancer' Donna Gordon - were recorded at the La Brea Stage in 1978 and later used to produce the 'rotoscope video' (a process that takes live action footage and is traced back frame by frame turning it into animation).
Most intriguing part of this is his (her?) claim 'the footage will rise like the Phoenix from the ashes of obscurity'.
(thanks to Dorene)
Day after tomorrow is one of the songs on Body of War: songs that inspired an Iraq war veteran . This compilation was curated by Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, who was shot and paralyzed from the chest down after serving in Iraq for less than a week.
The album is tied in with the documentary Body of war and is to be released by Sire Records on March 18; two days before the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
Other artists contributing tracks are - amongst others - Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against The Machine and Neil Young.
The Kronos Quartet have added God's away on business to their Myspace page. This recording from the Healing the divide benefit is also commercially available on the cd with the same name.
No definite confirmation yet, but record company Anti is supposedly planning a vinyl release of Orphans on November 20.
Book of Knots talked briefly about the collaboration with Tom Waits - he played on the track Play Pray from their new album Traineater - on the the New York public radio YWNYC's radio show Soundcheck. You can listen to the show on the WNYC site.
According to Artist Direct, Tom Waits will be appearing on an album by NASA (North America South America), a collaboration between producer Squeak E. Clean, and DJ Zegon. The ,,tentative track list'' accompanying this news, claims Tom Waits features together with Kool Keith on a track called Spacious Thoughts.
Spinner.com has another track from the Healing the divide album on line for download: Way down in the hole (mp3).
Kronos has the track Diamond in your mind from the Healing the divide album on line at the Quartet's Myspace page.
(thanks to Nathan)
In advance of the upcoming Anti- benefit CD Healing the divide, the track Diamond in your mind - originally written for Solomon Burke's 2002 album Don't give up on me - will be released as a digital single on June 26th.
As mentioned earlier, ANTI- will be releasing a recording of Tom Waits' performance at the Healing the divide benefit concert (September 21, 2003). An 'offical' confirmation is now up on the record company's website. Amazon.com still has the cd labelled as ,,currently not available'', but the release is scheduled for July 10.
Proceeds from the sales of the CD will benefit Healing the divide, a non-profit organization Richard Gere formed in 2001 in order to aid humanitarian crisis, and its Tibetan Health Initiative, which provides health insurance to Buddhist monks and nuns.
Track listening for Healing the Divide:
A Waits quote from the press release: ,,It's a spiritual insurance policy. Hell, at my age, the next group I put together, everyone may be playing a harp. All kidding aside, I owed His Holiness a favor. He did all my papers in school.''1. His Holiness the Dalai Lama (His Holiness the Dalai Lama)
2. Invocation (The Gyoto Tantric Choir)
3. Nivedan (Anoushka Shankar)
4. Peace Chants (Nawang Khechong and R. Carlos Nakai)
5. The Gambia (Phillip Glass and Foday Musa Suso)
6. Way Down in the Hole (Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet w/ Greg Cohen)
7. God's Away on Business (Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet w/ Greg Cohen)
8. Lost in the Harbor (Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet w/ Greg Cohen)
9. Diamond in Your Mind (Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet w/ Greg Cohen)
Wednesday evening, the BBC Radio 3 show Late Junction broadcast nine tracks from the Akron show (Civic Theatre, August 13, 2006). They are available on line for the next seven days here.
(thanks to John and Jim)
Last year, record company Anti- announced the release of a recording of the Healing the divide benefit concert. It seems this release is now scheduled for July 10th, 2007.
Waits' setlist from this show at the Lincoln Center (New York) on September 21, 2003, where he performed together with the Kronos Quartet:
Way Down In The Hole (*)
Cold, Cold Ground
A Little Drop Of Poison
What's He Building In There?
God's Away On Business (*)
The Part You Throw Away
Lost In The Harbor (*)
Always Keep A Diamond In Your Mind (*)
Coney Island Baby
The second volume of the Bridge School Concerts is now available via Apple’s iTunes. This includes a 7 and a half minute version of 16 shells from a thirty ought six. Another Waits track, Innocent When You Dream, can be found on The Bridge Collection.
