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Thomas Dolby - A Map of the Floating City A Map of the Floating City THOMAS DOLBY PREPARES TO RELEASE FIRST NEW STUDIO ALBUM IN 20 YEARS A Map of the Floating City, set for early 2011, will be preceded by three digital EPs. Guests include Mark Knopfler, Regina Spektor, Natalie MacMaster, Eddi Reader and Imogen Heap. LONDON, U.K. - Thomas Dolby, the iconic '80s star whose smash hits "She Blinded Me With Science" and "Hyperactive" helped define the MTV generation/revolution, is preparing to break his 20-year silence with a new album later this year titled A Map of the Floating City. The album features appearances by special guest artists Mark Knopfler, Regina Spektor, Natalie MacMaster, Bruce Woolley and Imogen Heap. Leading up to the full-length, Dolby will release three digital-only EPs containing three or four songs apiece exclusively for signed-up members of his online fan community, The Flat Earth Society. The five time Grammy™-nominated British artist quit the music business in the early '90s and spent many years in Silicon Valley, where his tech company Beatnik Inc. created the ringtone synthesizer embedded in more than 3 billion mobile phones shipped by Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and others. Now retired from Beatnik, Dolby has returned to his native UK and is busy recording an album of brand new songs in a renewable energy-powered studio he built aboard a 1930s lifeboat in the garden of his beach house on England's North Sea coast. "The new songs are organic and very personal," says Dolby. "This album is a travelogue across three imaginary continents. In Amerikana I'm reflecting with affection on the years I spent living in the USA, and my fascination with its roots music. Urbanoia is a dark place, a little unsettling...I'm not a city person. And in Oceanea I return to my natural home on the windswept coastline. "I marvel at the new landscape of the music business - distribution via the Internet and recording technologies I barely dreamed of when I started out," he continues. "But this album does not sound electronic at all. I have zero desire to add to the myriad of machine-based, synth-driven grooves out there. The Net has made a music career approachable for thousands of bands - but I hear too few single-minded voices among them. What I do best is write songs, tell stories." To help tell his stories, Dolby has enlisted an impressive cast of guest musicians. Legendary guitarist Mark Knopfler helps drive the epic "17 Hills," a song about a pair of hapless lovers and a jailbreak. Natalie MacMaster, the Cape Breton fiddler, adds spice to two songs. Scottish singer Eddi Reader takes a front seat on the ethereal "Oceanea." Bruce Woolley (Camera Club) adds theremin. And Regina Spektor has a cameo as an East European waitress on "Evil Twin Brother." The first EP, Amerikana, will be available June 12 exclusively to signed-up members of The Flat Earth Society at www.thomasdolby.com. It includes the songs "Road to Reno," "The Toad Lickers" and "17 Hills," featuring Knopfler and MacMaster. Two additional EPs are to follow during 2010, culminating in a physical CD release that will add additional songs and complete the set. A multi-city live tour is likely for 2011. http://www.thomasdolby.co...press.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ...Evil Twin Brother Album available October 25, 2011 Music for adventurous listeners tA  Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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This is greatr news! Thansk for sharing. I have recently been revisiting much of his work in the 80's so excited to hear the new stuff. I really like the new song! Let's hope he tours! The greatest live performer of our times was is and always will be Prince.
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Oh my Effffing gawd!!!
Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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^^ That sounds awesome!! Fuckin A Thomas Dolby! Thanks for posting this! "Hyperactive when I was small, Hyperactive now I'm grown, Hyperactive 'till I'm dead and gone"
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Welcome back! 
Oh no, I have embarrassing memories of Hyperactive... But anyway, it's great to hear that Thomas Dolby is still making music.
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An Evening With Thomas Dolby
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Thanks for posting.
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Glad those of you who've posted are enjoying this.
Another nice track...
Music for adventurous listeners [Edited 10/9/11 8:45am] "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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A comment for those who haven't yet heard the whole album. "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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I stopped listening after "Aliens Ate My Buik."
This thread has re-ignited my interest in Mr Dolby.
Cheers.
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I think you'll enjoy it.
An interesting video for the tune...
Music for adventurous listeners
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"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Can't wait to get this and put the headphones on | |
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Bring it on.......... | |
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Wow this is some good shit. Thanks again for posting! I'm defintely excited about this album! "Hyperactive when I was small, Hyperactive now I'm grown, Hyperactive 'till I'm dead and gone"
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