Info: Tracks: 16 | Label: A&M | Length: 52:56
Released: 16 September 2011
Genre: Rock, reggae, Indian pop
Producer: Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart
Recorded: Jim Henson Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Desc: SuperHeavy” began the works of the album in 2009. In early 2009, Mick Jagger, Damian Marley, Joss Stone, Dave Stewart and A. R. Rahman experimented at a studio in Los Angeles, trying to “write songs which had meaning”. They had a couple of more sessions after that trying to perfect every song that was written. Jagger stated in an interview that they had entered with just ideas, a few guitar riffs and a few snippets of lyrics… which isn’t his usual style of working, but music evolved quickly. The band recorded twenty-nine songs in ten days.[15] Some of the songs recorded were even an hour long. In total, there was more than thirty-five hours of music recorded, from which Stewart and his engineer found the highlights that would work as the roots of songs. However, the CD release will only include twelve songs.
The band got together at Los Angeles’s Jim Henson Studios on 30 June 2011 to preview the album. The preview began with a short documentary showing SuperHeavy recording at the studio. The band played eight of the recorded songs at the event