Nile Rodgers To Work With Daft Punk On Unfinished Chic Tracks
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
Guitarist Nile Rodgers has revealed that he’ll be working with Daft Punk once again - to finish off some lost Chic tracks that he thought would never see the light of day.
Rodgers and the French house duo have already proved themselves to be a winning combination, having topped the charts with their track ‘Get Lucky’, which appeared on the pair’s #1 album ‘Random Access Memories’. Now, returning the favour, Daft Punk have agreed to do help Rodgers finish ‘at least one’ of the old, unreleased Chic tracks he found recently.
“Daft Punk want to do at least one of them with me, so that should be very cool. Because they respect the music, they understand.”
It follows his announcement back in May that he’d retrieved previously lost files from many moons ago, saying:
“The absolute coolest thing is that I finally retrieved some music that I thought was lost, when I was getting my first solo record deal. Obviously, I had a lot of my Chic bandmates play on some songs that I was working on. So, I basically call it ‘the lost Chic album’, even though it’s really a Nile Rodgers record.
“Bernard Edwards, Tony Thompson, Alfa and Luci are singing on it. They’re just demos, but they’re amazing. So now I get to jam with my best friends and I think that I’m going to complete these songs. They sound really good to me, after being tucked away in a vault for 35 years. I restored the tapes and they sound absolutely brilliant.”
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