Saturday, September 23, 2006

Rock'n chi?

Hey, why not? I guess the Grumpy One needs to slow down doing his "Walk on the wild side".

Story:
Lou Reed is writing and recording music for martial arts -- a soundtrack, if you will, for Chen-style tai chi, of which he is a loyal practitioner. Typically this music is of Chinese origin, but Reed's goal is to change things in that world as he did in the rock 'n' roll realm four decades ago.

"I'm making it under my name -- it's energy music," said Reed. "I was trying to make music that would give the energy of rock, but you would be able to put it into a martial arts (setting). I just wanted to do it. We're always doing it to this Chinese music, and I thought it would be great to do this."

Rock 'n' roll tai chi? How far he's come since "Sister Ray," "Heroin," "Venus in Furs," "The Black Angel's Death Song" and lyrics such as, "It's hard being a man/Living in a garbage pail."

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