Elvis Costello & The Roots - Wise Up Ghost 2LP

Elvis Costello and The Roots have announced that a collaborative album entitled

Wise Up Ghost will be exclusively released by Blue Note Records .
Most of the sessions took place in secret at Feliz Habitat Studios in the dead of
night, while others were in plain sight at Costello’s Hookery Crookery Studios. Elvis
described the record as “the shortest distance between here and there” and containing
“both rhythm and what is read”. Ahmir says, “It’s a moody, brooding affair,
cathartic rhythms and dissonant lullabies. I went stark and dark on the music, Elvis
went HAM on some ole Ezra Pound shit.”
It promises to be one of the most unexpected and surprising releases of 2013.
In addition to the fabulous Roots crew and friends, the record features a guest vocal
appearance on “Cinco Minutos Con Vos” from La Marisoul, lead singer of the Los
Angeles group, La Santa Cecilia. The album was produced by longtime Roots associate,
Steven Mandel together with Elvis Costello, and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson.
TRACKLIST:
1. Walk Us Uptown / 2. Sugar Don’t Work / 3. Refuse To Be Saved /
4. Wake Me Up / 5. Tripwire / 6. Stick Out Your Tongue / 7. Come The
Meantimes / 8. Grenade / 9. Cinco Minutos Con Vos / 10. Viceroy’s
Row / 11. Wise Up Ghost / 12. If I Could Believe