While we all eagerly await Elton John‘s upcoming 31st album produced by T-Bone Burnett, it looks like we have an exciting little side project the multiple award-winner and “frenemy” to Madonna, to keep our ears happy this summer. John has paired up with Australian electronica duo PNAU, for the release of Good Morning To The Night, a new album which sees PNAU re-inventing classic Elton John songs from the 1970 to 1976 era of his career. While PNAU have had a successful career as a duo, it was their 2008 breakout side-project Empire Of The Sun which gained them the most international attention. The new Elton John collaboration album, due on July 2nd, will be preceded by the album’s lead single (and title track), due June 25th, both via Mercury Records.
“To have had Elton’s support has been incredible. It’s about having an opportunity to exist in the world. Making music in Australia, it often feels like you don’t have any connection with the rest of the world.”
“Some of the songs on the album draw from as many as six different early Elton tracks and added loops, samples and their own material, creating an altogether revolutionary new style of music reinterpretation. “
Good Morning To The Night: Includes Elements from the following original Elton John Sound Recordings:
– Philadelphia Freedom
– Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
– Funeral for a Friend
– Tonight
– Gulliver/It’s Hay Chewed
– Sixty Years On (Live in Australia)
– Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
– Someone Saved my Life Tonight
Sad:Includes Elements from the following original Elton John Sound Recordings:– Nice and Slow
– Crazy Water
– Curtains
– Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word
– Friends
Black Icy Stare:
Includes Elements from the following original Elton John Sound Recordings:– Cold Highway
– You’re So Static
– Solar Prestige a Gammon
Foreign Fields:
Includes Elements from the following original Elton John Sound Recordings:– Pinky
– Someone Saved My Life Tonight
– High Flying Bird
– Sweet Painted Lady
– Cage the Songbird
– Chameleon
Telegraph to the Afterlife:
Includes Elements from the following original Elton John Sound Recordings:– Harmony
– We All Fall in Love Sometimes
– Funeral for a Friend
– Sweet Painted Lady
– I’ve Seen That Movie Too
– Love Song
– Indian SunsetPhoenix:
Includes Elements from the following original Elton John Sound Recordings:– Grey Seal
– Are You Ready for Love
– Benny and the Jets
– Someone Saved My Life Tonight
– Where to Now St Peter?
– Love Lies Bleeding
– Border Song
– Country Love Song
-Three Way Love Affair
Karmatron: Includes Elements from the following original Elton John Sound Recordings:– Madman Across The Water
– Funeral for a Friend
– Stinker
– The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-1934)
– Tonight
– One Horse Town
– Screw You
Sixty:
Includes Elements from the following original Elton John Sound Recordings:
– Sixty Years On
– Sixty Years On (Live in Australia)
– Sixty Years On (Live 17-11-70)
– Indian Sunset