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Flea confirms an Atoms for Peace album, built from studio jams
Flea, who plays bass in Atoms for Peace, has told Rolling Stone that the band have an album on the way, and how it began. At the end of the tour we went into a studio for three days and just jammed – totally improvising.
2 Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich have been working on those recordings since, and Flea has heard only bits of what they have made.
He thinks people have the two of them the wrong way round. Yorke is taken for the cerebral one and Flea for the animal, he says, yet he is the one suggesting a G7 with a diminished fifth. But Thom is the type of musician who doesn't think at all. He goes totally on feeling and intuition.
2 Godrich he describes as the organised partner with a producer's head, and he has complete faith in what the pair will make.
Atoms for Peace are Yorke, Flea, Godrich, Joey Waronker on drums and Mauro Refosco on percussion. They played nine American dates in April 2010, ending at Coachella, and Fuji Rock in Japan that summer. Last week Yorke told Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 1 that the album was nearly done.
Flea has no idea when it will be out, only that it will not be soon, and he expects, and hopes, that the band will play live again. He would not say what it sounds like. The mystery should be the mystery.
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