Hybrid Help Perry Farrell To Get 'Kinky' On His New Album's First Single
Author: Jonathan Cohen
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
By Jonathan Cohen
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell's new band, the Satellite Party, will unveil its first single, "Kinky" around Valentine's Day, he told Billboard.com.
The group's Steve Lillywhite-produced debut album, "The Ultra Payloaded Satellite Party," will arrive in March via Columbia.
Farrell said "Kinky," which was written by electronica act Hybrid and features New Order's Peter Hook on bass, was recorded at the last minute, after the rest of the songs had already been finished.
"Everybody insisted that before we call it an album, we try to cut this song," he said. "So, with their insistence, we did that, and guess what, it's our lead track. This one is just a rager. It's got all those elements I've been working on -- fusing rock with strong electronic programming, great virtuosity from the instruments, and lots of vocals -- it has it all."
Other artists featured on the album include Black Eyed Peas vocalist Fergie, who sings on "Dogstar" and the title cut, Red Hot Chili Peppers principals Flea and John Frusciante, and movie composer Harry Gregson-Williams, who led a 30-piece orchestra on five songs. Songs due for inclusion are "Milky Avenue," "Hard Life," "Insanity Rains" and "The Revolution Solution," a revamped version of a song Farrell previously recorded with Thievery Corporation.
"There's a story attached to the music," he said. "This group of people, who call themselves the Solutionists, try to create a myth. It's the idea of, by putting together their own parties and their own media hub on the Internet, they begin to redesign and come up with solutions for the world."
While Farrell considered Satellite Party "more of a project than it is a band," he said the act will tour. Unlike his former Jane's bandmates, who formed Capitol Records act Panic Channel, he hasn't ruled out performing the defunct combo's songs in a live setting.
"We'll go all day, and all of the night," he said, paraphrasing the Kinks song. "It's a party! That's what it's going to feel like when you're there."
The band's only live commitment for now is an appearance in January as part of the Winter X-Games in Aspen, Colo. Farrell is also at work on the 2007 edition of Lollapalooza, which will return to Chicago's Grant Park on August 3-5.Reuters/Billboard
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