Merry Christmas! Here’s your promised gift from Damon Albarn — a stream and/or download (the latter is available to only fan club members) of Gorillaz‘s iPad-created album, The Fall. (You know, that same iPad your folks are getting you for Xmas but on which you’ll max out its use by playing Angry Birds HD.) Anyhow, the record is now available via gorillaz.com.
According to the band’s website, the record was written and performed by Gorillaz using the iPad and additional instruments: Korg Vocoder, Ukelele, Microkorg, Omnichord, Moog Voyager, Melodica, Guitar, Piano, and Korg Monotron. Recent collaborators Mick Jones and Paul Simonon add guitar and bass on two tracks, while Bobby Womack sings and plays guitar on track 13, “Bobby in Phoenix”. The entire record was recorded between Montreal and Vancouver over 32 days during Gorillaz’s 2010 North American Tour.
The Fall Tracklist:
01. Phoner To Arizona
02. Revolving Doors
03. HillBilly Man
04. Detroit
05. Shy-town
06. Little Pink Plastic Bags
07. The Joplin Spider
08. The Parish of Space Dust
09. The Snake In Dallas
10. Amarillo
11. The Speak It Mountains
12. Aspen Forest
13. Bobby In Phoenix
14. California And The Slipping Of The Sun
15. Seattle Yodel