Massive Attack: Out of the Comfort Zone
The Story a Sound, a City, and a Group of Revolutionary Artists
By Melissa Chemam
-
Dear book and music lovers,
A few words to explain the latest delay on the release of my book on Massive Attack and Bristol's art and music scene...
This book retells the story of Massive Attack's roots, history, influences, friends, collaborators and many explorations up until today. It describes Bristol's history and explains its art and music scene from the outburst of punk to our days.
Through interviews with members of many Bristol bands, like the Pop Group, Black Roots, Smith & Mighty, Portishead, Alpha, Tricky, Martina Topley-Bird, Tracey Thorn, Inkie and other artists from Bristol... Interviews with historians and local actors, as well as artists close to the bands...
I worked on this project over the past four years.
What happened in the summer is that the publishers suddenly decided that they didn't like my choice to write in the present tense, and I had to rework the text on my own.
Luckily, in terms of fact checking, I received tremendous help from the artists themselves and I've now completed the work on the proofs.
It's now up to the publishers to send this text to print.
They apparently cannot give me a proper release date but it should be early in March 2019, according to Waterstones:
As soon as I'll receive confirmation, I'll update the details on the book's Facebook Page:
Book Presentation:
Massive Attack: Out of the Comfort Zone
The Story a Sound, a City, and a Group of Revolutionary Artists
By Melissa Chemam
This book retraces a journey into Massive Attack’s multicultural history. Influenced by the underground reggae and punk scenes, the band members gave birth to a new form of sound and urban art movements, selling over 13 million albums.
Known as a graffiti artist under the tag 3D, from 1983, Robert Del Naja was the first of a group of underground writers to come out of Bristol, spawning a scene that gave birth to the most fascinating artist working today, Banksy. 3D joined Nellee Hopper, Milo Johnson and Grant Marshall in the seminal crew the Wild Bunch and they paved the way for a whole generation. Forming Massive Attack in 1988, 3D, Grant and Andrew Vowles released in 1991 an acclaimed first album, Blue Lines.
The author also looks at the whole scene that emerged in Bristol afterwards, and explores the making of albums, experiments and political statements. She met with friends and collaborators of some of the major actors in the Bristol scene – from the Pop Group to Tricky, Massive Attack and Portishead, delivering a unique story about music, art and social change.
-
Thanks to everyone for your interest!
I'm now based in London again.
I'm invited to give a talk at the British Library about this book... I'll update everyone interested.
Feel free to get in touch!
melissa
No comments:
Post a Comment