ALSO WORKING

…their first non-collaborative album since 2009’s The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman, a new SPARKS LP is, the brothers Mael (Ron, below) confirm, “a go go.” Expect it in the first quarter of 2017… last year, DAVID HOLMES got kids from his daughter’s school in for a Langley Schools Project-influenced remix of Noel Gallagher’s The Girl With X-Ray Eyes. Now, the DJ and movie scorer is producing Noel’s new studio album.

Holmes’s soundtrack co-conspirator Keefus Ciancia will also contribute… CLAUDIA BRÜCKEN, formerly of the ZTT label’s ’80s Deutsche-enigmas Propaganda, and JEROME FROESE (son of Edgar and ex-member of Tangerine Dream) are, they say, “schnibbeling” on a record. Excitingly for Propaganda fans, work coincided with a surprise studio visit from the group’s co-vocalist Susanne Freytag. “Of course, we had a microphone around,” they said… MORRISSEY has declared that a new album is written and ready for recording as soon as he finds a distribution deal, as suitable contracts have not been forthcoming. Will he resurrect a forgotten imprint again? (New Hormones perhaps?)… LAMBCHOP return in November with FLOTUS – aka For Love Often Turns Us Still. Muses head ‘chopper Kurt Wagner of the R&B and soul-influenced album: “Technology bending to the will of the creator became playful, complex, and exciting to hear on repeat with a structure still open to interpretation…” GRACE JONES (left) is recording her first new album since 2008’s Hurricane. Songs are reputed to display an afrobeat influence…