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Bon Iver, The National to release debut collaboration album
Bon Iver and Bryce Dessner from The National, under Big Red Machine, will release a collaboration album.
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Justin Vernon of Bon Iver at the 54th Grammy Awards, February 12, 2012. Bon Iver and Bryce Dessner from The National, under Big Red Machine, will release a collaboration album. (AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. Brown)
Singer Justin Vernon is coming together with The National co-founder and composer Bryce Dessner to form Big Red Machine.
Vernon, known better as Bon Iver’s frontman, revealed that the duo would be putting out a 10-song album together.
“Big Red Machine is a PEOPLE thing,” Vernon told The Creative Independent. “We’re gonna get some of our friends in the industry to help us spread the word and to distribute some of the vinyl maybe… I think there are four songs out there now. We have a 10-song record that we’ll be spraying out throughout the rest of the summer. We just wanted to put something up in the player for now.”
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Vernon and Dessner have already released four of the tracks from the album through their streaming platform, known as PEOPLE. The streaming service is associated with their music festival of the same name, the second installment of which will take place in Berlin later this summer.
“Big Red Machine thing is this PEOPLE energy, and that’s why it belongs there. And, I mean, there are 40 or so collaborators on the thing. So, it’s just more realistic and it’s not so much, ‘Oh, who gets the king crown of making this album,’ or whatever,” added Vernon. (sul/wng)
