KEANE ON AFRO/CUBANO COVERS ALBUM: UPDATE

Click here to listen to a preview



UPDATE: The Rhythms del Mundo album has now been released across the world (including Africa and Latin America). To get it from youiTunes click, www.iTunes.com/RDMclassics - or check out your preferred local retailer. The exceptions are Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Serbie, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Mecadeonia, where it will be released on July 31st. We don't yet have any info for America and Canada, but we're trying to get hold of it.

This week, a new Rhythms del Mundo album is released featuring the talents of some of Cuba's finest musicians with the unmistakable vocals of popular artists - including our very own Tom Chaplin. As you can hear from the clip above, the album features a terrific Afro-Cubano take on Under Pressure, featuring Tom's vocals from the Keane version.

You can download the track (and the album) from the UK iTunes store by clicking here. Or you can download it from Amazon UK, where you can also or pre-order the CD (out on 20th July), by clicking here.

We're also trying to find out if/when the album will be released internationally...

Keane confirm Kanye West collaboration

Tom Chaplin also says the band have been working with K'Naan

Keane singer Tom Chaplin has confirmed that the band have been working on a track with Kanye West.

Chaplin said the band have already spent a day in the studio with the rapper, and that the resulting song – which still needs to be finished off – will hopefully be released before the end of the year.

"We worked with Kanye just for one night, but we're hoping to get some more stuff done with him in the next few weeks," the frontman told NME.COM after playing the Ibiza Rocks festival. "But he's obviously a very busy man, and we're quite busy as well at the moment. But we should have something really, really great to show for it hopefully later this year."

Chaplin added that West had apparently loved Keane's 2008 single 'Spiralling'. "We heard from his manager that the first time he heard 'Spiralling' he, like, played it 40 times in a row and was kind of obsessed with it."

As well as working with West, Chaplin revealed that Keane have been working with rapper K'Naan on a separate track, which should also be released this year.

He said: "The K'Naan thing is pretty much finished and complete, the rest of it should come together later. But if it doesn't, I think we've still got something good to show for our efforts."

The singer continued by explaining why he thinks both projects have been so successful.

"It’s a new thing for us and it's great, I think we found out with the last record ['Perfect Symmetry'] that we can do that," Chaplin said. "I think we've discovered that you can actually really push it and be experimental and get something really fresh and different out of it."

Chaplin went on to say that West and K'Naan "both have this raw emotional quality to them, and that ties in well with Keane".

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RICHARD'S SPAIN/PORTUGAL PHOTOBLOG

london / monday / 1626

apologies. my computer completely and utterly died in ibiza, so i've only just been able to upload these photos... you'll see that we had an amazing time, both in vigo and oporto. playing to around 35000 people over two nights was always gonna be fun! thanks to everyone who came out to see us.


oporto is a beautiful city. i just wandered around for hours, getting totally lost. the tiny side streets are just the most amazing places - full of people cooking up dinner, and then you'll turn the corner and find an incredible church, or some other wonderful building. and everyone seems incredibly friendly. i loved it.










this almost deserves a caption competition







the crowd went back as far as i could see

vigo

some great street art in vigo. i absolutely love the outline of the tree and the elephant.



a full house at the amphitheatre in vigo

the ferry from ibiza to denia


jesse and dan (keyboard wiz)




ibiza part 2

BACKGROUND

Kma Is Back

As we previously announced here, Keane Music Argentina took a couple of days off. Well, now we are back on the road again, and all the information and news that Keanemusic.com added is now on the blog.

Kma is going to be working perfectly theese days (up to Sunday 26th July, that day we will take another week of holidays) and you shouldn't be having any problem with the blog. If you have any, please contact us. And that's it for now. Thank you, have a great day and happy holidays!

JESSE'S DRUM CHALLENGE: UPDATE

UPDATE: Well, that didn't take long, did it?! Congratulations to cchap6 who correctly identified the song as U2's Bullet The Blue Sky within moments of us posting the video. Impressive stuff! And thanks to everyone else for taking part.

In a twist on our much-loved Drum Challenge feature, Richard has stepped behind the camera to film Jesse playing the drum part to a song. The first person to guess the correct answer and put it in a comment below here wins the respect and admiration of Team Keane. So, roll up, roll up and make your guesses...

JESSE'S DRUM CHALLENGE

In a twist on our much-loved Drum Challenge feature, Richard has stepped behind the camera to film Jesse playing the drum part to a song. The first person to guess the correct answer and put it in a comment below here wins the respect and admiration of Team Keane. So, roll up, roll up and make your guesses...

LIGHTS TO SUPPORT IN CANADA

We're pleased to announce that Toronto electro-songstress Lights will support Keane on their upcoming Canadian tour (which also features a couple of US shows). Click here to check out her MySpace page.

Here's the full list of dates Lights will appear at:

SEPTEMBER
9 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater - click for tickets / click for VIP package
11 Vancouver, BC - Centre for Performing Arts - click for tickets / click for VIP package
13 Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Event Centre - click for tickets / click for VIP package
14 Calgary, AB - MacEwan Hall - click for tickets / click for VIP package
16 Winnipeg, MB - Burton Cummings Theatre - click for tickets / click for VIP package
17 Thunder Bay, ON - Thunder Bay Community Auditorium - click for tickets / click for VIP package
19 Kitchener, ON - Centre In The Square - click for tickets / click for VIP package
20 Montreal, QC, Metropolis - click for tickets / click for VIP package

Keane At T In The Park 2009

A couple of days ago, Keane played a show at T In The Park Festival. The band played the followig songs:
‘The Lovers Are Losing’
‘Everybody’s Changing’
‘Bend & Break’
‘A Bad Dream’
‘This Is The Last Time’
‘Spiralling’
‘Nothing In My Way’
‘Is It Any Wonder’
‘Again And Again’
‘Perfect Symmetry’
‘Somewhere Only We Know’ (With Lily Allen)
‘Crystal Ball’
‘Under Pressure’
‘Bedshaped’
Here is a special video interview to Mr. Tom Chaplin, check it out!

New Item: LADIES LIMITED EDITION PERFECT SYMMETRY SHIRT

£30.00

Ladies Limited Edition Perfect Symmetry Shirt (Pre-Order)

Oversized 100% organic cotton T-shirt, featuring a wide neck, made by the world’s largest 100% fair trade fashion company PEOPLE TREE. These shirts were screen printed by hand with a vibrant front & back design that runs from seam to seam. They also feature multi-coloured stitching on the shoulder seam & hem. Since this shirt is limited edition, & will not be printed again, we have decided to offer it up for pre-sale before it is sold on tour.

Size Guide (all sizes are in centimeters):

Small: Body Length - 64.5 Chest Front : 60.5 Chest Back : 59.5
Medium: Body Length - 65.5 Chest Front : 63 Chest Back : 62

The T-shirts will be shipped during the first week of August.