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March 6, 2014
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From Nile Rodgers's official blog:

My life is Crazy... but if my life wasn't Crazy, it wouldn't be my life.

For the last few weeks I've been recording a new CHIC album, but what's Crazy is: most of the songs are made from unreleased demos and outtake recordings I cut with Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson, who were my original bandmates. Both 'Nard and Tony aka "Dip", passed away many, many years ago.

The source materials range from demos for my 1st solo album, to songs I would have submitted to 'Nard for CHIC... but we got dropped from the label and the songs were never developed.

As luck would have it, some film scores I'd been tracking down for years were found at the Warner tape locker... and inside some of those boxes were other missing tapes I'd forgotten about. Crazy.

I didn't know what condition the tapes would be in or if they'd even play, so we took steps to have a master tape technician see if they were in need of baking, or if we could play them and digitize them before the music was lost forever.

Not only do all of the various analog, two inch multi-track, cassette, and 1/4 inch two-track tapes play, they sound excellent... a testament to the aural delight of analog tape. Even the hissy cassettes sound pretty awesome.

The pleasure of listening to my Crazy groove ideas played by my ex-bandmates is a sheer joy. It was hard for me to decide to finish some of these ideas because I love music for music's sake. It does not have to be finished, commercial, or heard by anyone other than myself to satisfy me.

That said, I've been playing and even sharing some of these recordings with other artists, and that's inspired me to finish some of these songs. I couldn't be more excited!

Yeah, my life is Crazy, but This Is Cool.

This sounds really interesting... Holding out hopes it will be good!

Can't wait to go down to Alphabet City!

And good to see that Nile is regaining some of the respect he lost because of the all 'Disco Sucks' nonsense.

I'd be interested to learn what he creates under the circumstances he furnishes in that post.

I agree to "ReddishBrownOn"'s point that he deserves a lot of credit

which he got in lots of way but not as much b\c of real robo-idiot anti-Disco backlash which itself is a

topic worthy a solidly substantial book.

I am glad that he is back in the limelight

but now is as complex a period as any and appearances are not always how they seem

because you know how deep and complex the politics are in the music industry.

All of that said, I am thankful for Bernard, Tony, and Niles's contributions and works

because I fully enjoyed them when they were new in the 70's and 80's and

I still do today.

If you don't know, check out their profiles and credits at Discog.com.

I'm hoping that maybe he'll get some of the songs polished up enough for inclusion in a vol. 2 Chic boxset in the not-too-distant future.

great, OP.. thanks for posting the news.

https://soundcloud.com/ni...-a/s-5ctT5

http://www.nilerodgers.co...is-is-cool


^ Great song:

all credits & thanks to Identity for finding this!!!

[Edited 3/10/14 18:32pm]

how chic!