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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.
Source:yes: :sing:

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: 1829 Surgical Album

    Lithographic plate album of splints, traction equipment, bandaging techniques, surgical tools, trephining drills and assorted hospital equipment. More sophisticated than I would have guessed. (by Franz Andreas Ott) [part of great Edoc monograph dbase]

  • BibliOdyssey: Asia on the World

    (short post) Centred around a wonderful caricature map of the world at the beginning of WorldWar I. But it's from Japan, found in a China propaganda exhibition site so the interpretations are open to debate.

  • BibliOdyssey: Danicorum Monumentorum

    Illustrations of runestone monuments and runic text from the earliest antiquarian book (by Ole Worm, 1643) devoted to reviewing Danish historical stone monuments. This book helped define the scientific approach to archaeological site surveys.

  • BibliOdyssey: Sottsass Pompidou

    Original design sketches and posters by 20th cent. Italian architect and designer, Ettore Sottsass. He covered the gamut of household and industrial design with modernist flair. Probably best known for the pop-art(-esque) Valentine Olivetti typewriter.

  • BibliOdyssey: Renaissance Era Costumes

    16th cent. anonymous handpainted manuscript containing more than 300 colourful national costumes from all parts of the (then) known world. Probably from Augsburg.