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| From | "Jennifer Leduc" <jenleduc@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Billboard Article on Jason Falkner |
| Date | Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:21:29 -0500 |
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Falkner Eyes Solo Album, Plays With McCartney
Versatile pop-rocker Jason Falkner, five years removed from the release of
his last full-length solo album, "Can You Still Feel?" (Elektra), is nearing
completion of its follow-up while balancing multiple side projects and
musical endeavors.
Among his recent musical adventures was a recording session earlier this
year in Los Angeles with rock legend Paul McCartney. "That was amazing,"
Falkner tells Billboard.com. "It was just me and Paul and this drummer,
James Gadson, who was the original drummer for Bill Withers."
Falkner was called into the sessions by producer Nigel Godrich (who produced
"Can You Still Feel?") and he played guitar on a number of songs with
McCartney. "He's doing different sessions with different producers," Falkner
says of the former Beatle, "but nobody knows ... if those sessions are gonna
be his record."
McCartney wasn't familiar with his collaborator's musical history when they
met, so Falkner gave him a copy of "Bedtime With the Beatles," the
instrumental children's lullaby album Falkner released through Sony/Wonder
in 2001. He admits it "blew his mind" after McCartney gave him a glowing
review of the disc the next time they met.
Other upcoming projects for Falkner include producing nascent L.A. band the
Adored, which he says "sounds like early Generation X and Buzzcocks," and
spending three weeks in Norway producing a new album by Norwegian popster
Magnet. But finishing his own album at his home recording studio is high on
the priority list.
"I've been guilty of using irony to a pretty severe degree [in the past],"
he reckons, musing on the new material. "What I've been trying to do with
this newer stuff is be more direct, and tell a story without relying on such
abstract imagery. And musically, I've been trying to weed out a little bit
of the math rock," he adds with a chuckle.
As a preview of the upcoming solo album, Falkner will release the EP "Bliss
Descending" on Oct. 19 through Red Eye Distribution. The disc collects five
tracks Falkner originally compiled to sell to fans on his January/February
West Coast tour opening for Travis. He expects "one or two" of its songs to
wind up on the full-length.
-- Troy Carpenter, N.Y.
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