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Cat called Morph has arrived

Monday, 13. March 2006, 18:18:10

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Walter Becker working on new solo album

Friday, 30. December 2005, 15:29:45

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After yesterday's post about the new Fagen solo album, today I read a message in the alt.music.steely-dan newsgroups about Walter Becker's new solo album:
"Rolling Stone" #990/#991 December 29, 2005 / January 12, 2006, p. 39

The Smoking Section by Austin Skaggs (Yes, Danfans, that's NY Rock and Soul Revue's Boz Scaggs' son)

The Smoking Section worships STEELY DAN, so we were more than stoked to check out "Morph the Cat," the new disc from Steely Dan front man DONALD FAGEN, due in March. Whereas his solo debut, 1982's "The Nightfly," viewed the future from an adolescent's eyes, and 1993's "Kamakiriad" viewed it from the middle age, "Morph," says Fagen, "is looking towards the endings of things." He means death, but by no means is "Morph" glum--with songs like "H Gang," "Security Joan" (about a sexy airport agent) and "Brite Nitegown," as well as fabulous Steely-esque phrases like "Rabelaisian puff of smoke," Artic mindbath," and "ten milligrams of Cronax," Fagen's got another masterpiece on his hands. "It's the album that's closest to my vision of how it would sound," says Fagen. "I don't know if I could do much better," adding that partner WALTER BECKER is also working on a new album in New York. We're also jiggled to break the news that Fagen will support the record with his very own theater tour--his first solo tours since, uh, high school. "I've never done it before," he says, "I might do a few Steely Dan things that I particularly like, but it'll mainly be my stuff."


edit (17/3/08): it's called Circus Money

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Donald Fagen's New Album "Morph The Cat"

Thursday, 29. December 2005, 09:00:56

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Steely Dan principal Donald Fagen finds love in an airport security line, mulls the ramifications of a ghostly feline, chats up the late Ray Charles and ruminates on aging and death on "Morph the Cat," his first solo album in 13 years. The nine-track set is due early next year via Reprise.
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Ok, this news is already almost one month old, but I just discovered it via this blog's newsfeed. :D

Fagen's website is offline since a few days, probably (?) to be updated.

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Bibliothèques de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) [CC 2.5]

BibliOdyssey

  • BibliOdyssey: Old Belgrade

    Cartographic and scenic prints from three centuries pertaining to the Serbian capital of Belgrade, located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers. (from Serbian National Digital Library)

  • BibliOdyssey: Scrapbook Florilegium

    An unknown artist in ~1606 created a watercolour album of flower species by painting them next to allegorical engravings and tournament illustrations from a couple of festival works from the late 1500s. It ends up as a pastiche of beauty, words and weird.

  • BibliOdyssey: Grab Bag

    Multi: allegorical apothecary; absurdist 'topsy-turvy world' woodcuts; german medieval devils and porn(!); beatrix potter original sketch; caricature map of Europe; baroque ornamental calligraphy; flag bearer coat of arms book.

  • BibliOdyssey: The Good Soldier Švejk

    Josef Lada's humorous and bold caricature line drawings from the 1920s are impossible to remove from their context as the traditional illustrative accompaniment to one of the first modernist novels by Jaroslav Hašek. Anti-war absurdism.

  • BibliOdyssey: Beached Whale

    The main engraving in the post from 1602 is an allegorical presentation of a stranded whale, seen as a bad omen in that era and associated with other bad events that occurred in Holland at about the same time. Many other whale beaching images too.