http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/video/video.php?v=2078451280700&oid=7301722641&commentsIt’s the day Smashing Pumpkins fans have been waiting for for weeks: Billy Corgan’s big announcement. The announcement(s) came this morning in a four-minute video message from Corgan on the Pumpkins’ Facebook page.
Highlights of the message, more or less in the order presented:
1. “Owata” to be the 10th Teargarden song
The Smashing Pumpkins have one more song in the recording studio can: “Owata”, which will come out “in about a week, hopefully end of April, beginning of May.” The song will be the tenth track of Teargarden by Kaleidyscope.
2. Pumpkins to record “album within an album,” Oceania
The band will then return to the studio to record, “old-school style,” a full-length album of 9 to 11 songs called Oceania. “Even though I pronounced the album dead, I guess I still want to do another one,” jokes Corgan. “It is part of the Teargarden project,” he stresses. “Most of the songs are already written and we’re just finishing them up now. We’re going to go into the studio May-June-July and hopefully it’ll be out September 1st.”
3. Pumpkins may tour Europe or U.S. in August
“We’re also going to be doing some touring in August,” reports Corgan, with Europe being the most likely terrain. “I’ve heard everything from possible America to possible Europe. … We’re trying to sort that out.”
4. Gish through Machina II to be remastered, reissued with extra tracks
In conjunction with EMI, Corgan says, “We’re going to reissue all the albums. So by Christmas this year, Gish, Siamese Dream and Pisces Iscariot will all come out reissued, remastered, with some extra tracks, unreleased things. And then in 2012, you’ll see Mellon Collie, Aeroplane Flies High, and Adore. … And then in 2013 we’ll have Machina I and Machina II.”
Corgan adds that the releases will also be on “high grade” vinyl, and that the two Machina albums may be “put together finally in the correct running order.” In addition, Corgan “might even possibly remix [the Machina albums], because I know through the years not everyone’s liked those mixes.”
5. Band has full control over past unreleased material
Corgan says the Pumpkins have, “after about nine, ten years of negotiating … finally secured the rights to all the unreleased material in the Pumpkins archives.” The rights encompass “both stuff that we possess, and the stuff that our old label EMI has.”
He later expands: “The cool thing is, what we’ve arranged to do in coordination with EMI is to create sort of a digital box set, and the great thing about the rights we’ve secured is we have the ability to put out any of the unreleased stuff any time we want any way we want, we don’t have to work it out with EMI.”
“This allows us a ton of flexibility. So, you’ll see everything from free stuff that we own…early Pumpkin practices from 1987, there’s concerts, there’s videos, there’s of course the famed last show–sorry about that–so there’s tons of stuff … [T]he great thing is there’s nothing standing now between our ability to get the stuff together and put it out.”
“I’m looking forward to getting the albums reissued, remastered and hopefully introduce a new generation to the great legacy of the band, which you know we worked very hard to have lots of stuff that could one day be looked at again … That’s very close to my heart … putting out those albums again and being able to put some of the live stuff and the unreleased stuff out in coordination with it.”
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