Record Club

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2012)

Record Club is a musical project initiated by Beck Hansen in June 2009.

The purpose of the project is to cover an entire album by another artist in one day, using an informal and fluid collective of musicians. Albums covered as of July 2010 are The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico, Leonard Cohen's Songs of Leonard Cohen, Skip Spence's Oar, INXS's Kick, and Yanni's Yanni Live at the Acropolis. Video footage of every performance has been made available on Beck's website.

Albums covered

1. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (1967)
2. Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen (1967)
3. Oar - Skip Spence (1969)
4. Kick - INXS (1987)^[1]
5. Yanni Live at the Acropolis - Yanni (1994)

Musicians

The Velvet Underground and Nico

• Nigel Godrich
• Beck Hansen
• Chris Holmes
• Bram Inscore
• Brian LeBarton
• Thorunn Magnusdottir (Fields)
• Giovanni Ribisi
• Joey Waronker
• Yo

Songs of Leonard Cohen

• Devendra Banhart
• Will Berman (MGMT)
• Ben Goldwasser (MGMT)
• Beck Hansen
• Bram Inscore
• Brian LeBarton
• Binki Shapiro (Little Joy)
• Andrew Stockdale (Wolfmother)
• Andrew VanWyngarden (MGMT)

Oar

• Leslie Feist
• James Gadson
• Beck Hansen
• Brian LeBarton
• Jamie Lidell
• Wilco (as well as Jeff Tweedy's son Spencer on additional drums)

Kick

• St. Vincent
• Daniel Hart (longtime St. Vincent collaborator)
• Sergio Dias (of Os Mutantes)
• Liars
• Beck Hansen
• Brian LeBarton

Yanni Live at the Acropolis

• Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
• Tortoise
• Beck Hansen
• Various session musicians

References

External links

• Record Club at beck.com