{"id":3251,"date":"2011-08-09T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2011-08-09T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:11:02","slug":"inxs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/inxs\/","title":{"rendered":"INXS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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INXS<\/h1>\n

Reaching out to singers from around the world to
\ncelebrate a durable rock legacy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Veteran Australian pop-rock\u00a0band INXS set about making an instrumental album of new material. But the longer they worked on that project, the more they found themselves tinkering with older INXS tunes, spinning them into some unexpected new directions. \u201cWe weren\u2019t really serious at first,\u201d says keyboardist and principal songwriter Andrew Farriss, \u201cand then we realized we were enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band elected to give the songs new and sometimes vastly different arrangements. \u201cYou start to say, \u2018Oh no, it has to be that way, that\u2019s what the song is. It has to remain in stone,\u2019\u201d Farriss says. \u201cTo a certain extent, that\u2019s true, if that\u2019s where you\u2019ve ended up. On the other hand, we thought it was a great opportunity to re-look at some of the music and the songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the project gained momentum,\u00a0the band decided that instrumentals weren\u2019t enough\u2014the songs needed singers, which offered another opportunity to try\u00a0something different. The band members invited pop and rock heavyweights like Rob Thomas, Ben Harper, Tricky and Train\u2019s Pat Monahan to help reimagine 1980s and \u201990s hits like \u201cNever Tear Us Apart,\u201d \u201cNew Sensation\u201d and \u201cBeautiful Girl\u201d on Original Sin<\/em>\u2014all stepping into the shoes of original INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence,\u00a0who died in 1997.<\/p>\n

They also brought in vocalists outside the usual rock circles, securing contributions from Argentine singer Deborah de Corral, French-Canadian star Myl\u00e8ne Farmer and Cuban rapper DJ Yaleidas. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want it to just be all English-language,\u201d Farriss says. \u201cPeople can come from any country and sing in whatever language they want. Some of the world\u2019s biggest populations don\u2019t speak English, so we thought, why limit ourselves to thinking like that?\u201d They also included one track with current lead singer J.D. Fortune, who had parted ways with the group in 2009 but returned to the fold in early 2010. \u201cWe\u2019re in a really good place at the moment with J.D.,\u201d Farriss says. Fortune will front the band on its upcoming tour, which will also\u00a0feature guest vocalists.<\/p>\n

Though the group was excited about the project, Farriss admits that he was also apprehensive. \u201cIt was kind of scary for me, probably more than some of the other guys in the band,\u201d he says. \u201cI had either written a lot of these songs by myself or with Michael, so the arrangement, the keys, the whole thing\u2014so much thought had gone into it in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INXS Reaching out to singers from around the world to celebrate a durable rock legacy Veteran Australian pop-rock\u00a0band INXS set about making an instrumental album of new material. But the longer they worked on that project, the more they found themselves tinkering with older INXS tunes, spinning them into some unexpected new directions. \u201cWe weren\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1334,2339,10156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}