Elvis Costello & The Roots – ‘Wise Up Ghost’ – Now Streaming via NPR – Album out 9/17

[Carleen Donovan]

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ROOTS
‘WISE UP GHOST’

Eagerly-Awaited Collaborative Album Out
Next Week; Stream NOW via NPR.org

“A cauldron full of powders and potions, frogs and fingers.” –Elvis Costello

“A moody, brooding affair, cathartic rhythms and dissonant lullabies.” –Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson

“A spacious, genre-bending funk set with a political charge.” –Rolling Stone

“One of the landmark albums of the year.” – MOJO

[Elvis&Ahmir8_PhotoCredit_DannyClinch LR]September 9, 2013 - New York, NY - Elvis Costello and The Roots will be releasing their highly anticipated collaborative album entitled Wise Up Ghost exclusively via Blue Note Records next Tuesday September 17th, 2013. The collection can be streamed exclusively via NPR.org, now. PRESS HERE<http://www.npr.org/2013/09/05/219316721/first-listen-elvis-costello-and-the-roots-wise-up-ghost> to listen!

The existence of the record was first revealed by ?uestlove as an aside during an interview with Billboard Magazine in January. A small number of test pressings were distributed as white labels on Record Store Day on the 20th of April.

Most of the sessions took place in secret at Feliz Habitat Studios in the dead of night, while others were in plain sight at Costello’s Hookery Crookery Studios. The collection promises to be one of the most unexpected and surprising releases of 2013.


In addition to the Roots crew and friends, the record features a guest vocal appearance on “Cinco Minutos Con Vos” from La Marisoul, lead singer of the Los Angeles group, La Santa Cecilia.

The album was produced by longtime Roots associate, Steven Mandel together with Elvis Costello, and Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson.



About Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello began working as a professional musician 35 years ago, shortly after the release of his first album, “My Aim Is True”. He has made more than 27 studio records, three live albums and numerous guest appearances on stage, studio and screen as well as working as a record producer, bit-part actor and composing music for television drama and dance performance. He has toured the world with The Attractions, The Imposters and the pianist, Steve Nieve, performing with symphony and jazz orchestras as well as in solo performance. His catalogue of songs includes collaborations with Paul McCartney, Allen Toussaint and Burt Bacharach with whom he won a Grammy for “I Still Have That Other Girl” from their 1998 collaboration, Painted