lifestyle WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2013

Spring Summerand 2014 Collection

New to be released next spring here’s new never-before-heard music coming from Johnny Cash. Cash’s estate is releasing “Out Among Tthe Stars,” an album he recorded with in the early 1980s that was never released by , then disappeared when the company dropped Cash in 1986. Turns out Cash and his wife, , stashed the tapes - along with just about everything else that came into their possession. “They never threw anything away,” said their son, . “They kept everything in their lives. They had an archive that had everything in it from the original audio tapes from ‘The Johnny Cash Show’ to random things like a camel saddle, a gift from the prince of Saudi Arabia.” They stored away so much, in fact, the younger Cash and archivists at didn’t find the materi- al until last year, long after the family began issuing Models present creations from archival music by Cash. “Out Among the Stars” will be out the Spring and Summer 2014 March 25, and continues an intense period of interest in collection by Polish fashion the singer, who helped shape modern country and rock ‘n’ designer Lukasz Jemiol during roll music and became an American pop cultural figure a show in Warsaw, Poland. before his death 10 years ago at age 71. Multiple music, book and restoration projects have — AP photos been started in the past 18 months to mark what would young friend of Cash’s named . have been the singer’s 80th birthday and the 10th The younger Cash and his co-producer, archivist Steve anniversary of his death. The music being released was Berkowitz, decided they’d bring Stuart back in to re- recorded during a difficult period for Cash personally and record his parts with 30 years more experience as a picker. professionally. Columbia paired him with Sherrill, a pro- Others, including Buddy Miller and , helped Bacharach calls musical ducer and Hall of Fame member who was fortify the original tapes as well. The 12 tracks include a then the president of CBS Records Nashville. One of the duet with and two with June Carter main architects of country music’s so-called countrypoli- Cash. “We were so excited when we discovered this,” Cash of his songs a ‘valentine’ tan sound, Sherrill helped push the genre toward pop said. “We were like, my goodness this is a beautiful record sounds and conventions - and away from Cash’s more that nobody has ever heard. Johnny Cash is in the very few years ago, Kyle Riabko found himself in the most done,” says Bacharach, who has been tough on anyone independent-minded ways. The pairing came at a time prime of his voice for his lifetime. He’s pitch perfect. It’s intimidating of places on Earth for a young singer- reworking his material. “This was like a valentine that was when Cash was at a low ebb in his popularity. The music seldom where there’s more than one vocal take. They’re a Asongwriter. First, he was in the home of Burt Bacharach, being given to me by Kyle.” The two men first worked together on “Out Among the Stars” is taken from 1981 and ‘84 ses- live take and they’re perfect.” a songwriter who has three Academy Awards and eight at the Los Angeles workshops of Bacharach’s musical he wrote sions, at a time when country music was going through John Carter Cash doesn’t think Columbia executives Grammys. Second, Riabko was performing songs for the mas- with Steven Sater, “Some Lovers,” that would go on to pre- great change. “Dad was always uniquely himself,” Cash realized what they had in hand. Even though his father ter himself. Third, what he was playing were a few of miere at The Old Globe in San Diego. Riabko was a cast mem- said. “And later on the world would come back around. He had been a major star, tastes would soon turn to Garth Bacharach’s own songs with his personal spin. “It was a very ber who fell in love with the older man’s songs, calling each a never modified himself. But Nashville at the time was in a Brooks and Shania Twain. Biographer Robert Hilburn, who nerve-racking experience: Going to a legend’s house and sit- “handcrafted sculpture.” He soon reworked some, recorded a completely different place. It was the ‘Urban Cowboy’ recently released “Johnny Cash: The Life,” said the music ting him down and playing him his music by you,” Riabko says. phase. It was pop country, and dad was not that. I think fans are about to hear was recorded during some of the “There were a lot of sweaty palms involved.” him working with Billy was sort of an effort by the record most difficult years of Cash’s life. He felt like he’d lost his Somehow he survived the session and even walked away company to put him more in the circle of Music Row and legacy and he was still dealing with the fallout from per- with Bacharach’s respect. “He impressed me very much with see what could happen at the heart of that machine.” sonal problems including infidelity and drug addiction. his musicality, with his sensibility and the way he was han- It was clear record company executives didn’t think He soon met producer , though, and wrote a coda to his career that gave his life something of a mythic dling the songs,” says Bacharach. More important, Riabko got much of the outcome. They put out a few more Cash after the recordings were made, but never used quality. “Johnny Cash was redeemed, and that was a won- the green light to continue tinkering with Bacharach’s impres- the music from those sessions before dropping him. derful lesson,” Hilburn said. “His story is so great and it’s so sive catalog as the 26-year-old built it into a cool new musical Sherrill backed Cash with a band that consisted of fellow dramatic and it’s so much more dramatic than I ever envi- the 85-year-old icon would like. Country Hall of Fame member Hargus Robbins and a sioned.” — AP “One thing that I realized about Burt early on was he has such a deep respect for melody,” says Riabko, a singer and actor who appeared on Broadway in “Spring Awakening” and “Hair.” He conceived the Bacharach show with David Lane Seltzer. “My strategy was always to infuse a sense of style that Disney’s ‘Frozen’ cools was very personal to me within the music but also to main- tain and always respect those melodies,” he says. “I main- tained them because I feel like that is the work that we’re cel- This photo shows co-conceiver Karl Riabko (left) and ‘Catching Fire’ at box office ebrating here.” What emerged is “What’s It All About?” a composer Burt Bacharach. — AP stripped-down and hauntingly emotive show now at New isney animated musical “Frozen” extinguished the America alone. The series stars Oscar winner Jennifer York Theatre Workshop in which Riabko leads a small cast 20-minute demo on his computer and got Bacharach’s per- box-office flames of “The Hunger Games: Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, a teenager forced into a through some two dozen of Bacharach’s songs, including mission to keep going. DCatching Fire” to take top spot as the highest- deadly battle for survival in the macabre post-apocalyp- “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “Walk on By” and “Say a Emboldened, Riabko created “What’s It All About?” by listen- earning movie in North American theaters this weekend, tic kingdom of Panem. In a distant third place with $5.2 Little Prayer.” Riabko’s orchestrations have stripped down the ing and then trying to categorize Bacharach’s songs, most of industry figures showed Monday. The 53rd movie in the million was “Out of the Furnace,” a thriller starring songs and rebuilt them, making the familiar new, and he which were written with lyricist Hal David in the ‘60s and ‘70s. “A Walt Disney Animated Classics series, which began with Christian Bale and Casey Affleck as two brothers who are bleeds together different choruses to make connections lot of these songs I see as colors,” he says. “I was kind of thinking “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937, “Frozen” is sucked into the criminal underworld as they attempt to between diffuse songs. of this body of work as a bunch of watercolor paints and then I loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy- break free from poverty. “Burt’s written so many damn hits, you can’t do it any other took a paintbrush and used them.” What he found when he tale “The Snow Queen.” Box office tracker Exhibitor In fourth spot was superhero flick “Thor: The Dark way,” says Riabko, laughing. “You have to smash them all pulled the songs apart was a special songwriter, one who first Relations showed the movie had deposed “The Hunger World,” the latest movie based on Marvel’s iconic comic together.” He and six performers - who all play instruments - decided what he wanted to say and then wrote a song around Games: Catching Fire” after raking in a cool $31.6 million. book character, which took in $4.8 million on its fourth move through the 90-minute show effortlessly under the it rather than rely on a formula. Playing Bacharach’s music has The latest installment of the blockbuster “Hunger weekend. In fifth was “Delivery Man.” The comedy, star- direction of Steven Hoggett, creating a big neo-folk kiss to turned into an education for the young rising musician. “I have Games” franchise continued to hold up well, however, ring veteran funnyman Vince Vaughn as a sperm donor Bacharach. “Hats off to Kyle. It’s pretty incredible stuff he’s it in my blood, which feels great.” — AP earning $26.2 million for second place, taking its overall who discovers he has sired 533 children, earned $3.7 earnings to date to a healthy $335.9 million in North million. —AFP Berlin recycled chic rebels against ‘fast fashion’ hile clothes giants H&M and Zara are domi- stance against waste and over-consumption, is not a posable fashion”. “It’s a scandal that some brands sell Schmidt, showing off a part-transparent pink cre- nating global street wear trends, a group of new idea, the designers say. “My mother and my clothes that will be worn just two or three times” ation with stains on the sleeves. “These are traces of WBerlin designers is resisting “fast fashion” to grandmother ... made new skirts with pieces from before they are considered outdated, said Cixi, paint,” said Schmidt, explaining that the sweatshirt’s create their own style of recycled chic. The floor of dresses or offcuts from coats, just to be economical,” whose crocheted creations require hours of work. last owner was a painter. Daniel Kroh’s workshop near Berlin Central Station is says Italian designer Carla Cixi, who has lived in Shopping at global fashion retail chains “is like The catch with recycled clothing, often produced littered with piles of orange overalls and the fluores- Berlin for five years. going to a fast-food joint to eat hamburgers. You feel in labour-intensive ways, is that it remains unafford- cent reflector jackets worn by German railway work- Cecilia Palmer, another fashion designer in the bad afterwards,” said Kroh, who scoffed at mass mar- able for many. A jacket can easily cost more than 400 ers. German capital, lamented that in today’s world “we ket clothes as having “no soul”. The designers com- euros ($540). The designers recognise that their style They are the raw materials for this designer, who throw away clothes because of a missing button or a plain that from Athens to Oslo, European youth wear still serves a niche market. But they proudly defend cuts and dyes the scraps to make men’s fashion. “I broken zipper”. The designer, who is in her 30s, the same slim-fit jeans produced in Bangladesh or it, denouncing the fact that the big chains sell T- seek traces of authenticity,” Kroh explains about his organises parties where everyone brings clothes Cambodia, with millions sold at unbeatable prices. shirts for as little as five euros. A newcomer among unique creations, his answer to cheap and mass-pro- they no longer want to trade for other pieces. It’s a fashion that pleases everyone but “ends up the mega-retailers, Irish chain Primark, has used very duced garments made for the world in faraway tex- Participants can also make new clothes with the being all the same,” Cixi said. Each jacket or suit low prices-without advertising-to lure tens of thou- tile workshops. He and a growing band of Berlin sewing machines provided. made by Kroh includes explanations about its origin. sands to each store opening in Europe. designers specialise in giving new life to textile Eugenie Schmidt and Mariko Takahashi, who also In Berlin, as elsewhere, shoppers pile out of the waste to produce trendy and high-quality products. ‘Like going to a fast food joint’ created a recycled clothing label, have also opted to stores loaded with full bags. The rock-bottom prices Kroh also uses the blue work pants of carpenters, The big idea of the project? “Consume different- “tell the story” of each dress or pair of pants from are in turn fuelling controversy over labour condi- which would otherwise likely be burned in a ly,” says Palmer, who decries the fact that tonnes of their workshop in the former East Berlin. tions among garment makers. With an eye for irony, garbage incinerator, to make new tailored clothes clothing end up in the garbage each year. These “The more a garment is worn, the more it con- Schmidt and Takahashi make most of their clothes for the city’s hippest fashion pioneers. The trend, a designers are rebelling against what they dub “dis- tains of the history of the person who wore it,” said from old H&M and Zara garments. — AFP