Beck Recruits Thurston Moore for Yanni Cover Album

After taking on Skip Spences Oar and INXS Kick, Becks Record Club a loose collection Rosetta Stone language of musicians dedicated to recording a covers album in a single day with no rehearsal is tackling its most surprising choice yet: Yannis 1994 new age epic Live at the Acropolis. (Check out first track Santorini on Becks website.) Sonic Youths Thurston Moore and Tortoise guest on the cover disc, which was recorded at Los Angeles Sunset Sound Studios on June 13th.A post on Becks site explains how the unlikely album came to his attention: he caught a TV special of the show that was played repeatedly on PBS through the mid-90s. Moore improvised lyrics for Santorini, which was an instrumental, giving the track an added urgency and pathos. Beck and Moores Santorini, which vocally could pass for a Sonic Youth song if not for the gleeful contemporary instrumental music in the background, also cuts a full four minutes off of Yannis original version.This isnt the first time Beck and Sonic Youth have collaborated: For last years Record Store Day, the two former DGC artists split a 7 on which Beck covered Evols Green Light and Sonic Youth performed Mellow Golds Pay No Rosetta Stone Software Mind. Beck is also rumored to have recorded a full acoustic version of Sonic Youths Evol.As Rosetta Stone Beck has reinterpreted Velvet Underground and Niko andSongs of Leonard Cohenwith Devendra Banhart and MGMT, Oar with Wilco and Feist andKickwith St. Vincent and Liars. He was soon diagnosed with cancer. Struggling to keep up with the sudden influx of medical bills, a fundraising team comprised of family, fans and friends established the Garry Shider Medical Fund to help raise money for the musicians treatment, staging benefit concerts to reach their goal of $500,000. One such show, scheduled for July 10th in Bloomfield, New Jersey, was to feature Living Colour and P-Funk bandmate Bernie Worrell.Over the past four months, Garry fought each day against one of the deadliest diseases, so that he could do what he loved, which was to return to the stage. Which he did, members of the Garry Shider Medical Fund wrote on their site following Shiders death, asking fans to donate funds to Sweet Relief, a charity that provides financial help to Rosetta Stone America English musicians with health problems.

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