The Dandy Warhols' home studio in Portland, OR, The Odditorium, the setting of one of the coolest music projects in recent memory, Breathe Easy. Taking the ideas of collaboration, art, and advocacy to entirely new levels, our good friends, The Dandys, are creating something truly innovative and genre defying.
A musical conversation is what is being recorded, but that is not what is so new. The conversation is being held by different artists, at different times. One artist will go into the studio and lay down a track on a song or two, then later another artist will go in and add a track based on what they heard. This way the tracks grow organically and are not limited to any one artist's vision.
The folks involved are what make this project so ground-breaking. Artists from all walks of musical life are adding their influence. Saul Williams, The Raveonettes, Black Angels, The Bravery, and Spindrift, are just a few of the artists that have gotten on board so far.
The tracks they are creating will start being posted on Oct. 21, and all proceeds will go to the Three Rivers Land Conservancy, a group dedicated to protecting wild areas from errant urbanization and sprawl. The Dandys, Three Rivers, and FanMail all agree that living well and building strong communities requires protecting our natural greenspaces.
Check out their MySpace, download the tracks, and check out this video.
