Nota de prensa oficial "The Smile Sessions"

Nota de prensa oficial de Capitol Records sobre la edición de las esperadísimas "The Smile Sessions".

En Estados Unidos saldrá a la venta el 1 de Noviembre, y en le resto del mundo un día antes, el 31 de octubre.

Salen a la venta varias ediciones especiales que solo se podrán comprar en la web “TheBeachBoys.com”.

También se anuncia que para el año que viene habrá mas lanzamientos para celebrar el 50 aniversario del grupo.



THE BEACH BOYS’ LEGENDARY ‘SMiLE’ ALBUM SESSIONS TO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 1
BY CAPITOL/EMI -- ART AND TRACKLISTS UNVEILED

The Beach Boys Never-Before-Released SMiLE album
1966-’67 Album Sessions Compiled for 2CD and Digital Packages and Deluxe, Expanded Box Set;
Special Packages to be Available Exclusively from TheBeachBoys.com




The news came fast and furious today when Capitol/EMI made the annoucement that SMiLE would be getting the "all star" treatment, with an overwhelming wealth of information.

Although the mythical album has a storied background, this Holy Grail of releases has the full participation of original Beach Boys Al Jardine, Mike Love and Brian Wilson. Capitol/EMI has, for the first time, collected and compiled the band’s legendary 1966-’67 sessions for the never-completed SMiLE album. The announced release dates for the multiple sets are November 1 in the U.S., and October 31 internationally.


Initially titled Dumb Angel, Brian Wilson had The Beach Boys recording a bounty of songs and drafts between spring 1966 to May of 1967 for an album that was intended to follow the band’s 1966 masterpiece, Pet Sounds.

Wilson was working with lyricist Van Dyke Parks. Together, the pair set their sites on creating a true musical exploration of the white man's movement to the Wild West, and the deconstruction of the American Indian. The subject matter was so vast that the Beach Boys had difficulty understanding the overall vision. Vegetables, animal sounds, the elements and humor all became a part of the SMiLE vernacular, leaving the album in brilliant pieces of recordings and completed works of pure wonderment. By any standard, SMiLE represented psychedlic Americana agriculture at its best.

Ultimately the album was shelved due to several factions that will be explored in the December edition of Goldmine Magazine (issue #808, street date, Nov. 1), and in the "all SMiLE" special edition of Endless Summer Quarterly (available in November).

The SMiLE Sessions’ 2CD lift-top box, double vinyl LP, digital album, and iTunes LP formats feature an approximation of what was intended to be the completed SMiLE album, compiled from The Beach Boys’ original session masters. Additional session highlights and bonus tracks are also included, including demos and stereo mixes.

An expanded, boxed edition of The SMiLE Sessions will also be released physically and digitally, featuring the main SMiLE album tracks, plus four CDs of additional audio from the legendary sessions, a double vinyl LP set, and two 7” vinyl singles. The deluxe box will also contain a 60-page hardbound book with rare and previously unseen photos and memorabilia from The Beach Boys’ archive and newly-written essays by Beach Boys Al Jardine, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, and Bruce Johnston, as well as by Beach Boys historian and author Domenic Priore and many other inner-circle participants.

The multiple collections have been produced by Brian Wilson, Mark Linett, Alan Boyd and Dennis Wolfe in Los Angeles. The SMiLE Sessions’ physical and digital configurations include an assembled collection of core session tracks, while the box set delves much deeper into the sessions, adding early song drafts, alternate takes, instrumental and vocals-only mixes, and studio chatter. The SMiLE Sessions provides a "fly on the wall" experience as Brian Wilson leads the way guiding his fellow Beach Boys, singer Mike Love, drummer Dennis Wilson, lead guitarist Carl Wilson, rhythm guitarist Al Jardine, and newest member Bruce Johnston (who'd replaced Brian Wilson in the touring group during 1965), through the legendary sessions.

Artwork for all of The SMiLE Sessions’ physical and digital configurations has been created with and inspired by Beat-Pop artist Frank Holmes’ original 1967 LP sleeve art and booklet designs intended for the SMiLE album.

Several special SMiLE Sessions packages will be available for purchase exclusively on thebeachboys.com, including:
• The SMiLE Sessions 2CD edition paired with a limited edition SMiLE t-shirt (available November 1 for $39.99)
• The SMiLE Sessions 2CD edition paired with a limited edition autographed lithograph (available Nov. 1 for $99.99)
• The SMiLE Sessions limited edition box set with light-up SMiLE Shop window on lid, autographed (available Nov. 1 for $699.99)
• The SMiLE Sessions limited edition box set with light-up SMiLE Shop window on lid, autographed, paired with a custom-made SMiLE surfboard by Hobie is available for $5,999.99

Also accompanying this release, The Beach Boys have generated an official music video contest for "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes And Villains" by partnering with Tongal, the leading creative social platform. In Tongal’s first-ever music video initiative, fans can now collaborate to create the official music videos, as the project begins today (August 30) on Tongal.com, and consists of two phases - a concept phase and a video phase. The concept phase calls for fans to conceptualize the music video for “Heroes and Villains” or “Good Vibrations” in 250 characters or less. In the video phase, Tongal users can select one of the five winning concepts from phase one and produce a music video based on it. Cash prizes and special items, including an autographed custom Hobie longboard, will be awarded to the top submissions.

Beginning with “Good Vibrations,” The Beach Boys’ best-selling record in a long string of hits, Brian Wilson had begun to construct songs in a modular form, crafting individual sections that would later be edited together to form a coherent whole. In several intense bursts of creative energy, Wilson, drawing on the talents of the finest studio musicians in Los Angeles and utilizing the best studio facilities available on any given day, laid down dozens of musical fragments, all designed to fit together in any number of possible combinations. No one had done this before in pop music, and his next endeavor would be an album-length version of this unique and luxurious songwriting parlance: SMiLE.

In addition to this release, The Beach Boys and Capitol/EMI will celebrate the band’s 50th Anniversary in 2012. Plans for commemorative releases and other anniversary activities will be announced.

The SMiLE album songs:


Suite 1

1. Our Prayer

2. Gee

3. Heroes And Villains

4. Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)

5. I’m In Great Shape

6. Barnyard

7. My Only Sunshine (The Old Master Painter / You Are My Sunshine)

8. Cabin Essence



Suite 2

1. Wonderful

2. Look (Song for Children)

3. Child Is Father Of The Man

4. Surf’s Up



Suite 3

1. I Wanna Be Around / Workshop

2. Vega-Tables

3. Holidays

4. Wind Chimes

5. The Elements: Fire (Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow)

6. Love To Say Dada

7. Good Vibrations


Un saludo.

Joan