Mar 15, 2016
Be prepared. Four of music's biggest names are COLLABORATING for a new album: Kanye West, The National, Ellie Goulding, and Mumford and Sons. And those are only the first artists to announce they are joining the album. One of the biggest modern collab albums, named Metamorphoses, is brought to light in support for Global Citizen, an organization focused on ending extreme global poverty by 2030.
The collaboration will not take years for production, writing, and mastering *cough* Kanye *cough.* The album's 12 original songs will be inspired from crowd-sourced stories, poems, reflections, and lyrics that they've been collecting in the past six months from fans and activists alike via their website. This out of the ordinary or extraordinary collaboration's musical essence and meaning is described by Ben Lovett, the master behind the wonderful madness, of Mumford and Sons:
Metamorphoses has the potential to break down our preconceptions of the voices of creativity, what different people around the world are thinking and who has the right to be heard. In my own life, I’ve experienced people trying to define me and put me in boxes and categories. Through collaboration we can show people how those lines can be blurred and are ultimately redundant. The artists involved in this project are some of the most genuine artists the world has to offer. Artists like Kanye West, and The National are doing something globally important that is touching people down to their DNA. And these masterfully creative people are going to be interpreting incredible submissions from people across the globe. It has been a joy reading all of the submissions we received over the past six months. I’m truly excited to see what we will create together.
Metamorphoses is aimed for a fall release.
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