ALUMINIUM

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Tracklisting:
Aluminum
Im Bound To Pack It Up
Why Cant You Be Nicer To Me?
Astro
Never Far Away
Little Bird
Lets Build A Home
Whos A Big Baby?
The Hardest Button To Button
Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
ALUMINIUM is an album of avant garde orchestral recordings of music written by Jack White of The White Stripes. It was recorded between August 2005 and February 2006 at Intimate Studios in Wapping (London), using a specially assembled orchestra comprising many of the UKs finest young classical musicians.
The album will be available exclusively through the Aluminium website as a numbered limited edition of 3,333 CDs and 999 LPs. The download format will not be limited, and will come with an electronic booklet. The album will be available for pre-order on November 6th, 2006.
Long time White Stripes collaborator, Rob Jones, created a series of 10 images to accompany the album. These images will be printed up as cards and packaged with both the CD and LP formats. In addition to this, the LP format will include a section of an original Rob Jones silk screen print.
The images are available to view on the Aluminium MySpace site, and as part of a wider Rob Jones exhibition which is currently showing at the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester.
On hearing Aluminium, choreographer Wayne McGregor included tracks from the album in a new piece that he is putting together for the Royal Ballet. The piece will be performed at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden this November.
For more information, please visit:
www.alumiiinium.com
www.xlrecordings.com
www.richardgoodallgallery.com

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Member Since: 11/07/2006
Band Website: www.alumiiinium.com
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Record Label: xlrecordings.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

chroma

Yesterday was the first orchestral rehearsal the ballet & .. my God .. it was quite something to hear these tunes in the Royal Opera House! The orchestra's even bigger than the one on the album & the ...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:46:00 GMT

jack, bob and borat

the raconteurs gave a rapturously received acoustic performance at hmv on oxford street today. i'd have thought the songs were difficult to render acoustically, but they actually took on new lives.whi...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:44:00 GMT

the beauty of the web

we never wanted to have to have to sell or promote aluminium. thats one of the reasons we decided to make so few copies. (i'm sick of having things sold to me. its depressing to try and watch kids tv ...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:25:00 GMT

Royal Ballet

People seem to be getting quite excited about the prospect of The Royal Ballet dancing to the music of Jack White at the Royal Opera House next month. It's the kind of thing we hardly dared hope would...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:18:00 GMT

raconteurs reading 26/8/06

umm...what can i say about this performance...except that jack has been touched by god...it was astonishing. "blue veins" particularly.
Posted by on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:38:00 GMT

i'm bound to pack it up- aluminium remix

we've remixed our own version of "i'm bound to pack it up", and posted it up here for you to check out.neither this nor the fourtet remix will be on the actual aluminium album.the four tet remix will ...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:43:00 GMT

forever for her- fourtet remix

i was thrilled kieran hebden was up for remixing our recording of 'forever for her'... i didnt really dare hope that it would compare well with his own fourtet records...but the remix is amazing
Posted by on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:08:00 GMT

Hear the Aluminium album....in Manchester

On July 29th the Richard Goodall Gallery is previewing their latest exhibition by Rob Jones, the artist who created the Aluminium artwork. The exhibition will feature silkscreen prints of over 30 imag...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:02:00 GMT

june,hyde park, london. listening to andrew loog oldhams "rollingstone songbook" on my ipod, its good, but i wish it wasnt quitesuch easy listening. like a lot of music, its best when itsextreme. i st...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:05:00 GMT