Gruff Rhys and Tony Da Gatorra announce album

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I’m a massive Super Furry Animals fan and so I was pretty pleased to find out this morning that frontman Gruff Rhys has a new side project in the pipeline. His last solo album, Candylion, was great and his Neon Neon project resulted in one of my favourite releases of 2008, so I’m expecting something good from his new record, “The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness”.

I can’t say I know much about Tony Da Gatorra, the Brazilian musician who Gruff recorded the album with, but if this partnership works out as well as Rhys’ collaboration with Boom Bip I will be very pleased. Here’s what Gruff had to say about the album’s recording…

“We spent 5 days rehearsing a set of songs to play live at the venue – our only shared language was music itself so there was no small talk, just intense concentration on the music. On the final day, as the rehearsals had been so productive, we hooked up some recording equipment and took about 5 hours out to make this record. We recorded several live takes of each song then chose the best versions. I added a harmony vocal overdub on two songs, otherwise it’s pretty much what we recorded at the time.”

The album will receive a limited release in July. I can’t wait!

Jed. x