Morrissey signed to Harvest (Capitol); to record in France with producer Joe Chiccarelli

UPDATE 10:50 AM PT:

Link posted by Uncleskinny:

Morrissey has signed a two-album deal with Capitol Music in Los Angeles, and is set to record a new album in France starting on February 1st - true-to-you.net
15 January 2014

Morrissey has signed a two-album deal with Capitol Music in Los Angeles. He is set to record a new album in France starting on February 1st. Producer is Joe Chiccarelli, and musicians are Boz Boorer (guitar), Jesse Tobias (guitar), Gustavo Manzur (piano), Solomon Walker (bass guitar) and Matt Walker (drums). This will be Morrissey's first album since Years Of Refusal, which was recorded in 2008. Morrissey has been signed by Steve Barnett at Capitol Music.



Posted by mozzalini999 (original post):

Twitter alive with reports of a new deal. Check this out:

MORRISSEY SIGNS WORLDWIDE RECORDING AGREEMENT WITH HARVEST RECORDS - PR Newswire
Globally-Acclaimed And Highly Influential Recording & Performing Artist To Record First New Album In Five Years For Release Later In 2014

Excerpt:

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvest Records has signed globally-renowned artist Morrissey to a worldwide recording agreement, it was announced today by the label's General Managers Piero Giramonti and Jacqueline Saturn. Morrissey's first album under the deal will be released in the second half of this year.

Morrissey stated that he is "thrilled" with the agreement, and will commence recording of his new album – the artist's first since 2009's Years Of Refusal – later this month in France with producer Joe Chiccarelli. Joining Morrissey in France will be his longtime recording and touring band, including Boz Boorer (guitar), Jesse Tobias (guitar), Solomon Walker (bass), Matthew Walker (drums) and Gustavo Manzur (keyboards). Tour dates for 2014 will be announced soon.

According to Capitol Music Group Chairman and CEO Steve Barnett, "Morrissey is clearly one of music's most important and influential artists. He is the rare soul who has stayed consistently true to his artistic vision and ethical principles since he first exploded onto the scene in the 1980s. We are so happy that he has chosen Capitol Music Group as his home and that his forthcoming album on Harvest will bring new Morrissey music to the world."

CMG Executive Vice President Michelle Jubelirer added, "Morrissey is a truly singular artist whose music and live performances first captured a worldwide audience thirty years ago and never let go. He is uncompromising in his integrity, extremely devoted to his fans and an artist with a unique and needed voice in our culture. It's so great that Morrissey is with CMG, and, more important, that he is about to record his first new album in five years."




Link and translation via Google Translate posted by Intl_Playboy / Twitter:

Morrissey, il prossimo album uscirà per la nuova Harvest - Rockol

Google Translate to English, excerpt:

January 15, 2014
Ended the relationship with Decca, Morrissey remains linked to the major label Universal Music under a new record deal signed with the Harvest (Capitol group). This was announced by the general manager of the label, Piero Giramonti and Jacqueline Saturn, anticipating that the artist Manchester will begin recording a new album this month in France along with the musicians who work with him for some time and the producer Joe Chiccarelli.

"Morrissey is one of the most important and influential artists in the music scene," said the number one Capitol Music Group Steve Barnett. "It 's also one of the few to have remained substantially true to his artistic vision and his ethical principles since he exploded onto the scene in the '80s." For its part, "Moz" had words of appreciation for the Harvest, the historic brand created in the 70s by which they recorded for EMI Pink Floyd and Deep Purple and that Universal has recently relaunched and mean to make it a sort of indie arm inside the majors.

 
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[Fast Forward to late 2014]

Morrissey: "Why didn't my record get to No.1? It was all the fault of the label. They didn't promote it properly. Why wasn't my face on the back of every bus in London? They didn't bother plugging it. Why wasn't it all over the radio? Why doesn't anyone appreciate me?"

Everybody: "...but Morrissey, the album is shit!"

Morrissey: "That's not the point. Judge Weekes is conspiring against me, again. Geoff Travis f***ed it up. Mike Joyce put a curse on me."

Everybody: "[Yawn] Here we go again......"

As we say in Ireland, f*** the begrudgers. And YOU are a begrudger.
 
I thought Matt Walker quit the band. I wonder what happened to the new fella?

Matt came back for the Nobel ceremony gig a month ago. Anthony Burulcich fook knows what happened ill... said the wrong thing... looked the wrong way...said Morrissey gives good head.... drugs and other distractions?
 
Sorry in advance for being a complete dick, but this isn't true. Decca, HMV and RCA are owned by Universal, but Sanctuary is owned by Bertlesmann and Parlophone is owned by Warners. Which makes five labels.

Actually, RCA is owned by Sony.
 
I agree with the posters who are hoping that "Scandinavia" isn't included on the new album. One of the few Morrissey songs that is truly bad. I've only made it through about a minute & a half of it. It's unlistenable to me. I hope he dropkicks that song to the moon.
 
At last a new deal and two records to come plus a tour!!!!!

Great news to now really start 2014!!!!

I laughed out loud..:)

Same with me :-)
 
I agree with the posters who are hoping that "Scandinavia" isn't included on the new album. One of the few Morrissey songs that is truly bad. I've only made it through about a minute & a half of it. It's unlistenable to me. I hope he dropkicks that song to the moon.

Years of Refusal was unlistenable.
 
Years of Refusal was unlistenable.

"Years..." was a mixed bag for me. I liked eight of the songs. And out of those eight, I loved four of them! "Mama...," "....Around Paris," "All You Need Is Morrissey:)," and "When Last I Spoke to Carol," were all fantastic! I hope there's going to be songs like this on the new album, instead of clunkers like "Scandinavia."
 
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Blimey, how come Scandinavia's getting such a bashing?
Not a great song but nowhere near as duff as 'People' or 'Kid's a looker'.
 
How long does it take to record and release a new album? I can't wait till the end of the year, it's killing me.
 
Years of Refusal was unlistenable.

Not far off. I liked Paris and That's How People Grow Up. The rest was not great, to be kind. Ringleaders wasn't much better. Dear God, You Have Killed Me and Pigsty, plus nine almost embarrassingly poor efforts. The reason I'm not jumping up and down with glee at this news is I was once excited at the thought of Kill Uncle being recorded and I've learnt my lesson.

The inconvenient truth is he hasn't delivered a decent album in a decade, and the stuff he has let loose since Refusal has been pretty rotten by the standards we know he is capable of delivering. Plus he's a lot harder to like as a person these days, which is quite a feat when you think about it.

I still hope for a Vauxhall-Viva style return, and I'd be just as happy with something as great as Quarry. We'll see.
 
[Fast Forward to late 2014]

Morrissey: "Why didn't my record get to No.1? It was all the fault of the label. They didn't promote it properly. Why wasn't my face on the back of every bus in London? They didn't bother plugging it. Why wasn't it all over the radio? Why doesn't anyone appreciate me?"

Everybody: "...but Morrissey, the album is shit!"

Morrissey: "That's not the point. Judge Weekes is conspiring against me, again. Geoff Travis f***ed it up. Mike Joyce put a curse on me."

Everybody: "[Yawn] Here we go again......"


Exactly: "[Yawn] Here we go again" - Morrissey records his first new album since 2008 and already the usual trolls are complaining...
 
Not far off. I liked Paris and That's How People Grow Up. The rest was not great, to be kind. Ringleaders wasn't much better. Dear God, You Have Killed Me and Pigsty, plus nine almost embarrassingly poor efforts. The reason I'm not jumping up and down with glee at this news is I was once excited at the thought of Kill Uncle being recorded and I've learnt my lesson.

The inconvenient truth is he hasn't delivered a decent album in a decade, and the stuff he has let loose since Refusal has been pretty rotten by the standards we know he is capable of delivering. Plus he's a lot harder to like as a person these days, which is quite a feat when you think about it.

I still hope for a Vauxhall-Viva style return, and I'd be just as happy with something as great as Quarry. We'll see.

If he's truly been writing and demoing for five years, and he only picks the best 10 or 12 songs from that stuff, then I think it's safe to say we have nothing to fear. Well, almost.

Two Morrissey albums a decade, at this point, seems like the way to go.
 
Fantastic news.

Considering Visconti's apparent lack of involvement with the upcoming album, I guess it's safe to say that the "gem" he mentioned he's working on isn't anything Morrissey-related.

No the 'gem' is Kristeen
 
Not far off. I liked Paris and That's How People Grow Up. The rest was not great, to be kind. Ringleaders wasn't much better. Dear God, You Have Killed Me and Pigsty, plus nine almost embarrassingly poor efforts. The reason I'm not jumping up and down with glee at this news is I was once excited at the thought of Kill Uncle being recorded and I've learnt my lesson.

The inconvenient truth is he hasn't delivered a decent album in a decade, and the stuff he has let loose since Refusal has been pretty rotten by the standards we know he is capable of delivering. Plus he's a lot harder to like as a person these days, which is quite a feat when you think about it.

I still hope for a Vauxhall-Viva style return, and I'd be just as happy with something as great as Quarry. We'll see.

A really wasted opportunity to record two albums with some fresh blood and fresh ideas, instead all we get in return is some old tracks we already know are crap and some tin-pot-four-chord-sausage-mashers from Boz-the-Song-Butcher !
I would rather sit under the stairs with chronic toothache and mumps than get excited about an album churned out by this muppet band. Is it any wonder the world won't listen ?

Benny-the-Butcher
 
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