David Byrne has shared a brand new festive music, “Fats Man’s Comin’”.
The observe, which you’ll hearken to beneath, was written whereas he was engaged on his collaborative album with St. Vincent, Love This Large. It was produced by Jherek Bischoff.
“I at all times wished to write down a vacation music,” the previous Speaking Heads frontman mentioned in a press launch (by way of Consequence). “I wouldn’t name it a Christmas music, because the visitation of Santa (previously referred to as St. Nicholas, who primarily did punishing) appears to have developed to be a extra secular client second than a non secular or non secular affair.”
The observe is offered on Bandcamp beneath a pay-what-you-can mannequin right here, with all proceeds going in direction of Causes To Be Cheerful, the good-news-only publication Byrne based in 2019.
Right this moment David Byrne launched a brand new vacation music, “Fats Man’s Comin’,” completely via Bandcamp Friday, a month-to-month initiative the place all proceeds are directed to artists (and their causes). https://t.co/HxiVcZIAkN pic.twitter.com/2hWKggnCQq
— David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway (@americanutopia) December 2, 2022
In the meantime, Byrne lately featured on an abortion rights profit album alongside the likes of Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and Moist Leg.
The compilation LP – Good Music To Guarantee Protected Abortion Entry To All additionally featured additional contributions from Loss of life Cab For Cutie, Animal Collective, My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Mac DeMarco, Ty Segall, Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell.
100 per cent of the proceeds went to non-profit organisations working to supply abortion care entry together with Brigid Alliance – a referral-based service that gives journey, meals, lodging, baby care, and different logistical assist for folks in search of abortions and NOISE FOR NOW, which is working with Abortion Care Community to assist unbiased abortion clinics.
It got here within the wake of the Supreme Court docket’s resolution to overturn Roe v. Wade earlier this yr, which meant abortion would not be protected as a federal proper within the US for the primary time since 1973, and every state would be capable of determine individually whether or not to limit or ban abortion.