“I always thought of it as just a small project between friends,” explains Johansson.
Predating Johansson’s debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, by nearly two years BREAK UP was conceived and recorded in 2006, in Levine’s garage studio. Produced by Sunny Levine, with Yorn and Max Goldblatt as executive producers, the album features contributions from guitarist Robert Francis bassist Giuseppe Patane and violinist Amir Yaghmai, with Goldblatt on banjo, synth bass and backing vocals, and Levine handling programming and mixing. Prior to the release of BREAK UP, Yorn will release his fourth studio album, Back and Fourth, on Columbia Records June 23.īREAK UP includes eight original compositions by Yorn, ranging in tone from the lilting opener “Relator” to the disarming, retro/futuristic “I Don’t Know What to Do” to the climactic “Someday.” Completing the collection is a powerful interpretation of the art-rock classic “I Am The Cosmos” by the late Chris Bell, co-founder of quintessential cult band Big Star. The collection will be available at all retail outlets, including for $13.98 (CD), $7.99 (digital) and $13.98 (vinyl). On September 8, Atco Records, an imprint of Rhino Entertainment, presents the resulting work, Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson BREAK UP, a deeply emotive yet hook-filled song cycle about a tempestuous relationship. “The idea of two people vocalizing their relationship through duets.” “It sounded like an interesting little adventure,” she explains. “I woke up and the whole thing was in my head, fully formed.” Johansson was intrigued by Yorn’s out-of-the-blue invitation.
“I was having a strange week of insomnia and when I finally passed out, it came to me in a dream,” says Yorn. Quote In 2006, critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Pete Yorn contacted actress and Atco recording artist Scarlett Johansson with the idea to record a duets album in the spirit of Serge Gainsbourg’s 1960s recordings with Brigitte Bardot.
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