Paul Simonon, bassist with The Conflict, Gorillaz and The Good, The Dangerous and The Queen, has teamed up with singer-songwriter Galen Ayres for a brand new mission.
The pair are set to launch their debut album, ‘Can We Do Tomorrow One other Day?’, underneath the identify Galen & Paul, on Might 19. The album includes a group of bilingual duets, with each singers singing in English and Spanish, through which they discover quite a lot of European music cultures.
Per a press launch, the album started coming collectively in lockdown, which Simonon spent in a Mallorcan fishing village writing music and portray. As COVID-19 restrictions lifted, he started working with native musicians and busking in entrance of cafes in Palma. He ended up spending 18 months there, and returned to London to work on his concepts additional with Ayers.
The album announcement coincides with the discharge of its lead single, ‘Lonely City’ – test it out beneath.
Simonon mentioned: “I bear in mind how once I was in The Conflict, our supervisor Bernie Rhodes would inform us that Andrew Loog Oldham locked Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of their kitchen. He mentioned, ‘I’m not letting you out till you’ve written a tune.’ That’s successfully what Galen and I did. We might spend each night writing yet one more tune.”
Ayers added: “What I got here to grasp fairly early on, is that on many events we might end a tune however I’d be left with a niggling feeling. I’d say to Paul: ‘I do know everyone loves this, however I feel it wants one thing extra.’ And he’d say, ‘Me too.’ And we’d return to our writing desk till we had been each glad. And that’s why I’m so assured about our collaboration, that I do know we’ve that. So the sky is the restrict.”
‘Can We Do Tomorrow One other Day?’ tracklist:
1.‘Lonely City’
2. ‘It’s One other Night time’
3. ‘Hacia Arriba’
4. ‘Room At The Prime’
5. ‘No Es Necesario’
6. ‘I’ve By no means Had A Good Time…..in Paris’
7. ‘The Lighthouse Waltz’
8. ‘Esmeralda’
9. ‘Mi Camino’
10. ‘A Sea Shanty’
