From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Mon, Feb 16th 1998, 01:40
Here's some scat on the new Madonna/Orbit collaboratory. I guess I'll have to at least here it, just to check the man's production. >From what I've heard, Orbit's personality dominates the album. 3 (From the William Orbit mailing list): > According to my sources and mailings found in the newsgroups it seems that William Orbit HAS REMIXED Madonna's "Frozen" for the single release... On the European/UK release the track listing looks as follows: 1 . FROZEN album version (6:11) 2 . FROZEN stereo mc's mix (5:45) * 3 . FROZEN meltdown mix - long version (8:10) 4 . FROZEN extended club mix (11:17) * 5 . FROZEN widescreen mix (6:33) Produced by Madonna, William Orbit and Patrick Leonard. * Tracks 3 and 5 are remixed by William Orbit at The Mix Room. The Album version also has all of Williams trademark sounds within it. The Japanese release of the maxi-single will include an album track: SHANTI/ASHTANGI album version (4:29) Written by Madonna and William Orbit., Produced by Madonna and William Orbit. This is entirely sung by Madonna in Sanskrit. (After an inspired trip to India.) In France the Madonna album "Ray Of Light" will be released 02/27/1998, and a Limited Edition deluxe presentation box will also be available, its also reported something similar is to be released in the US The album track listing should look as follows: Drowned World - 5`09 Swim - 5`00 Ray Of Light - 5`21 Candy Perfume Girl - 4.34 Skin - 6.22 Nothing Really Matters - 4. 27 Sky Fits Heaven - 4. 48 Shanti/Ashlangi - 4. 29 Frozen - 6.21 Power Of Goodbye - 4.10 To Have And Not To Hold - 5. 23 Little Star - 5. 18 Mer Girl - 5. 32 (this listing is from the WB Promo Cassette) >From the Billboard magazine website: WARNER BROS. EXPECTS MADONNA TO LIGHT UP MARKETS: 15 years since her debut, is Madonna still relevant? The numerous radio and Internet leaks of "Frozen," thelead single from her forthcoming Maverick/Warner Bros. album, "Ray Of Light," implies audiences think so. The set, slated for worldwide release March 3, shows the pop chameleon sewing intense words into edgy electronic backdrops and jagged guitar grooves. More than half of the disc's songs were written with William Orbit, a pioneering techno producer. "I've always found something melancholy about his music," Madonna says of Orbit. "Since I'm attracted to that sound, and since I tend to write a lot of sad songs, we seemed like a good match." Orbit is equally pleased with the set's results, primarily because Madonna "insisted upon the purity of [his] arrangements, which worked astonishingly well with her pop songs."