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Dean & Britta's 13 Most Beautiful Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen

07/13/2010
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Dean & Britta will release a special, limited edition double CD, 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen, on July 27th.

Originally commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the project began as a live multimedia show featuring Dean & Britta performing original material in front of 13 shorts selected from Andy Warhol's Screen Tests collection.

In support of the project, Dean & Britta will continue touring throughout 2010. In addition, Dean Wareham will perform a series of shows this fall, playing a set of Galaxie 500 songs, backed by the Dean & Britta band (Britta on bass, Anthony LaMarca on drums and Matt Sumrow on guitar).

Produced by Dean & Britta at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, the 13-track album features material from the live show�eight songs and five instrumentals written by the pair as well a handful of covers including renditions of Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It with Mine" and the Velvet Underground's "Not a Young Man Anymore." Also included is a second disc of remixes and alternate mixes by Scott Hardkiss, Sonic Boom (MGMT, Spacemen 3) and My Robot Friend. Additionally, the package features a 12-page booklet containing an essay by Dean Wareham on scoring the screen tests as well as still photographs from Warhol's films.

The screen tests are short, silent portrait films made by Andy Warhol at the Factory between 1964 and 1966. Each film is 4:15 in length and focuses on a unique subject. The duo personally selected 13 subjects (including Dennis Hopper, Nico, Lou Reed), which became the inspiration for the project. Of selecting the shorts, Wareham notes, "I visited the museum in Pittsburgh and looked at about 150 of the screen tests, without quite knowing what I was looking for. Warhol had shot more than 470 of these films. Some were so immediately stunning�Jane Holzer brushing her teeth, Ann Buchanan crying a tear�that I knew I had to include them."

TRACK LISTING
Disc 1:
1. Silver Factory Theme
2. I'll Keep It with Mine (Scott Hardkiss Remix)
3. Not a Young Man Anymore (My Robot Friend Remix)
4. I Found It Not So
5. It Don't Rain in Beverly Hills (Scott Hardkiss Remix)
6. Incandescent Innocent
7. International Velvet Redux
8. Teenage Lightning and Lonely Highways (Sonic Boom remix)
9. Herringbone Tweed
10. Richard Rheem Theme
11. Knives from Bavaria
12. Eyes in My Smoke
13. Ann Buchanan Theme
Disc 2:
1. Incandescent Innocent (Sonic Boom remix)
2. I'll Keep It with Mine (electric remix)
3. Silver Factory Redux (Sonic Boom remix)
4. Not a Young Man Anymore (original mix)
5. I Found It Not So (Sonic Boom remix)
6. It Don't Rain in Beverly Hills (original mix)
7. International Velvet Theme (original mix)
8. Teenage Lightning (and Lonely Highways)

DEAN & BRITTA TOUR DATES
July 30 London, England Barbican Theater
September 18 Augusta, GA Sacred Heart Cultural Center
October 5 Dresden, Germany Hellerau - European Center for the Arts
October 7/8 Mulhouse, France Scnene Nationale De Mushouse
October 21 New York, NY NYU Skirball Center
December 2 Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Museum of Art
March 23, 2011 Cleveland, OH Cleveland Museum of Art
April 8, 2011 Hanover, NH Dartmouth College
April 19, 2011 Paris, France Cite de La Musique
April 21 2011 Nantes, France Le Lieu Unique

DEAN WAREHAM PLAYS GALAXIE 500 TOUR DATES
August 19 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
August 20 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero
September 16-17 Atlanta, GA The Earl
November 10 San Diego, CA Anthology
November 11 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour
November 13 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
December 3 -4 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall


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