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Post by Uruguayo on May 13, 2015 20:56:53 GMT -5
EXCITING NEWS FROM CAT/YUSUF!!!
“I’m making a new record, … and we’re coming up to 50 years since my first record back in 1966. There will be quite a lot of new music and products to celebrate those 50 years. That’s coming next year”
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 14:43:41 GMT -5
Wonderful news! Looking forward to it.
Thank you Ale for the information.
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Post by coolcat on May 20, 2015 8:41:46 GMT -5
Thanks to my friend from Malaysia for this video. He's awesome!
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Post by coolcat on May 20, 2015 8:46:52 GMT -5
Yusuf will be back to Australia. My aussie fams please watch this space!
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Post by tiffany on May 29, 2015 7:13:26 GMT -5
This will a very interesting feature, folks, and lite really, I'm happy to hear about his third comeback to to the music business, since he decided to quit for 37 years when Back To Earth was his final album that year. After so many years of being away from music, and turning away from that era, we all felt shocked and disappointed that Cat would never intend to play, or use that guitar again. But in 2006, his son brought it back into the house, and there it was lying on the couch, and suddenly when picking it up, the legacy was there. But, this time a new album evolved, with new chords, words, and it all came out like a floodgate?  I'm hoping to get the book Why I Still Carry A Guitar for my birthday in July, as I've been a big fan of him for nearly 44 years. His music has been very cool and uplifting, pure and meaningful. Every song he wrote in the 70s told a story. Take, for example the song "Where Do The Children Play? That was a song about ecology searching for kids to find a a place to play? Sweet peace Tiffany? |
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Post by tobyjug on Jun 1, 2015 5:42:28 GMT -5
This will be a very interesting feature, folks, and literally, I'm happy to hear about his third comeback to to the music business, since he decided to quit for 37 years when Back To Earth was his final album that year. After so many years of being away from music, and turning away from that era, we all felt shocked and disappointed that Cat would never intend to play, or use that guitar again. But in 2006, his son brought it back into the house, and there it was lying on the couch, and suddenly when picking it up, the legacy was there. But, this time a new album evolved, with new chords, words, and it all came out like a floodgate? I'm hoping to get the book Why I Still Carry A Guitar for my birthday in July, as I've been a big fan of him for nearly 44 years. His music has been very cool and uplifting, pure and meaningful. Every song he wrote in the 70s told a story. Take, for example the song "Where Do The Children Play? That was a song about ecology searching for kids to find a a place to play? Sweet peace Tiffany? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2015 11:57:48 GMT -5
www.facebook.com/YusufCatStevensPosted yesterday on Yusuf's facebook page, it says there, "Going back in the studio with the Tillerman team". Sounds like good news, looking forward to the future endeavor!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2015 11:12:09 GMT -5
According to Yusuf's facebook page, he and his band are currently in the recording studio in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 17:10:43 GMT -5
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Post by ptijerm on May 16, 2016 7:50:39 GMT -5
Just posted on Yusuf's Twitter feed yesterday -
I assume if they are at the mastering stage, then this album is pretty much complete. If the timeframe between mixing, mastering and release for Tell 'Em I'm Gone (back in 2014) is any indication, I anticipate a new album release sometime this Fall. Great news.
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Post by Leonard on May 16, 2016 10:50:33 GMT -5
I can't wait what he will come up with this time. I found An Other Cup to be a masterpiece both in terms of song-writing plus performance as well as production plus arrangement.
If Paul Samwell-Smith, Cat Stevens' old producer, is any indication for the potential sound of upcoming album, I'd love to see a return to Cat Stevens' infamous swampy guitar sound.
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Post by Uruguayo on Jul 28, 2016 13:20:35 GMT -5
www.bbc.co.uk/events/evfwhn/live/cr5v4f?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=57988a0ee4b06d80a52e65e9%26Yusuf%20writing%20new%20%27childlike%27%20album%26&ns_fee=0#post_57988a0ee4b06d80a52e65e9Yusuf writing new 'childlike' album
By Kev Geoghegan
27 July, 2016
Yusuf aka Cat Stevens has said he is working on a "childlike" album of new material.
The singer recently released a new charity track He Was Alone, to raise funds for child refugees.
Since his self-imposed exile from music, which lasted nearly 30 years before ending in 2006, he has recorded three albums.
"I can't stop writing, I've almost finished something," he told the BBC. "I keep on going back and hearing little licks and riffs which can take years. It's a process for some songs to come to light but there's always ideas."
Despite his latest track touching on a very real political debate in the current refugee crisis, he insisted be wants to avoid politics in his music.
“When it comes to my next album, it's very childlike. I've gone back in time to some of my older songs, I've just rediscovered some really great songs in my catalogue going back as far as 1967. It's fifty years since I released I Love my Dog so, going back, I find this great theme of childhood, these songs which are great for kids.
But it's not a kid album, because I think all of us have got this kind of naivety. We keep a little part of us naive to survive in the world, and I think a lot of people are going to enjoy it for that reason. So I've got another album coming out”.
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Post by hurt on Feb 9, 2017 9:28:53 GMT -5
There are already news about the release date of the new album.
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Post by crobarbie on Feb 18, 2017 8:38:05 GMT -5
What do you mean, which news about new album?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2017 4:37:26 GMT -5
Any updates about this release?
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Post by Leonard on Jun 25, 2017 16:08:20 GMT -5
Not yet. However, Yusuf's new website is up and the overhauled RedRoom is hopefully launching later this year. This November/December Yusuf is still touring Australia, then New Zealand. I guess the new album won't come out before the tour is over. 2018 is my guess.
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Post by Uruguayo on Jun 25, 2017 18:42:45 GMT -5
I read in an article about the Australian tour that the album is going to come out before the tour. This would be about September.
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Post by coolcat on Jun 28, 2017 22:41:18 GMT -5
I read in an article about the Australian tour that the album is going to come out before the tour. This would be about September. Yes. I read in an article about it as well. Well i forgot the link to it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 9:33:10 GMT -5
Saw a mention on the Steve Hoffman forum about a new album called The Laughing Apple.
Very few details. Titled The Laughing Apple. It looks like this might be a mix of older and new songs?
Tracklist
1. Blackness Of The Night
2. See What Love Did To Me
3. The Laughing Apple
4. Olive Hill
5. Grandsons
6. Mighty Peace
7. Mary And The Little Lamb
8. You Can Do (Whatever)!
9. Northern Wind (Death Of Billy The Kid)
10. Don't Blame Them
11. I'm So Sleepy
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Post by Leonard on Jul 17, 2017 15:37:18 GMT -5
Interesting... that's going really far back if true. I didn't expect that at all.
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Post by Leonard on Jul 17, 2017 15:40:08 GMT -5
Also on the Hofman forums:
"Some news courtesy of IMWAN:
"This is what I found on Maartin Allcock's web site:
"I was delighted to record an album, The Laughing Apple, with Yusuf at ICP Studios in Brussels a while back, which will hopefully appear this year. We've already started work on the follow-up album, this time at Benny Andersson's RMV Studio in Stockholm. Both albums are produced by my favourite producer Paul Samwell-Smith, who I worked a lot with in the 1980s and 1990s. I worked on Yusuf's comeback album, An Other Cup, in 2006. It was a brilliant time and Yusuf is a musical genius and such a nice man. While I was in Stockholm I heard of the death of my mother, and Yusuf was very supportive to me. Yusuf's long-time sideman Alun Davies was on acoustic guitar, singing and general support, Kwame Yerboah was on drums and percussion, and I was on basses, acoustic and electric guitars and keyboards. The engineer was David Hefti from Hansa Studios Berlin."
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Post by Leonard on Jul 17, 2017 15:40:18 GMT -5
It seems pretty legit to me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 16:14:55 GMT -5
I would love to hear stripped back versions of his first two albums.
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Post by brandnewman on Jul 20, 2017 8:06:07 GMT -5
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Post by hurt on Jul 20, 2017 11:53:21 GMT -5
Great song makes you want more |
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Post by ptijerm on Aug 4, 2017 12:00:07 GMT -5
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Post by ptijerm on Sept 5, 2017 7:39:10 GMT -5
Yet another great song from the forthcoming album 'The Laughing Apple' (out September 15th) - Mary and the Little Lamb. Check out the lyric video here: youtu.be/Yu2rSkLCWJA |
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