An extremely interesting interview with Anton Newcombe released at the end of last May:
Anton Newcombe Talks Kurt Cobain and New Music | Phoenix New Times -Whether he’s reluctant or not, whether he likes it or not, Newcombe has something of a legendary rock-star reputation on par with Ian Curtis or Kurt Cobain — perhaps not only in terms of attitude and drug use, but primarily in terms of influence.
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“I wasn’t too much of a fan of Nirvana because I was my own Nirvana at the time,” Newcombe says over the phone with typical bravado. “I had already grown out of that kind of stuff, and I never really liked rock stars. Obviously he [Cobain] didn’t really like to play the rock-star life either, because he blew his brains out.”
-Newcombe says, “Leonardo DiCaprio talking about global warming or whatever is bullshit because we’re never going to get around to doing anything until they address the issue of the endless war.”
-“I have a tendency to write 45 songs at a time. I mean, really at once,” Newcombe says. He’s often claimed he can play more than 80 instruments — everything except violin.
Newcombe says he’s now busy working on two albums — Third World Pyramid and Don’t Get Lost — that will come out later this year among sprinklings of singles. Demo versions of a few, such as the spacey “The Sun Ship,” have appeared on YouTube, sounding as drippingly delicious as ever. When asked about the intriguing title Third World Pyramid, Newcombe explains that it’s a four-layered metaphor covering everything from global domination to fiat currency to alien-based conspiracy theories.
“The foundation of the pyramid is below the sand. That’s the most interesting thing,” Newcombe says. “’Cause the masses of people don’t know or don’t care about the stuff that I’m talking about because they don’t ever see the stars, let alone the top of the pyramid. The foundations are below the dirt. But you know what I mean: The most blocks are below the sand.”
-But then there’s Musique De Film Imaginé, the soundtrack BJM released just last year (the band’s 14th studio full-length) that pays tribute to European film pioneers such as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. It features guest appearances by French multi-instrumentalist SoKo and Italian actress, singer, and director Asia Argento. But, like the title implies, the music was written for a movie that doesn’t exist.
“The weird thing about it not existing is after I released it, the director, the guy who won Cannes this year for the best film, said I want that music in my movie, so it became a reality after the fact,” Newcombe says.
Who was the director?
“I don’t know. You’d have to look it up,” Newcombe says. “I don’t keep track of all this bullshit, but true story.”
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