Hi,
so I just wanted to keep everyone up to date on the new Slackers stuff that we've been trying to finish.
Well, its not exactly "new", but it has been unfinished.
Over the years, we have recorded a lot of tracks that have never been released.
So the "Lost & Found" project (our working title) is gonna include tracks from 1998 to 2007 that never saw the light of day.
Some tracks are gonna be originals like "Two Blues in 1" or "I dont wanna go" or "See You in My Dreams" that never made it onto a cd. Anybody heard of these?
Others are gonna be alternate versions of older songs like a ska version of "Watch This" and a reggae version of "Two Face."
Others are some of our covers like "We Can Work It Out" or "Cupid" that never had a studio release.
Some are rhythms that didnt even have a proper name until we added vocals and horns and such things. Finished them out.
So its gonna be a fun, diverse album with a lot of variety in musical styles. Right now we are working on around 20 tracks which are being considered for being included.
ALSO! - coming soon! we are gonna have some of our lives shows available for complete download. The first one is gonna be our boat show from NYC this summer. check out details at
www.whatevski.orgAnd yes...we are working on new songs that we are planning on recording this fall for a new originals album that will come out sometime next year. These are some of the songs like "Anastasia" and "Be Nice to Daddy" that we have been playing here and there at our recent live shows.
So that's the latest. Will let you know as these projects progress.
Dave
P.S. Kumi just redid our
www.theslackers.com site and it looks very cool.
If you poke around on it, under "playlists" you will see this thing called "influences." This is a playlist of songs that I put together that inspired me in the writing of a bunch of different slackers' songs. check em out.