Ringo is among 15 musicians speaking Bob Dylan's lyrics to a version of "A Hard Rains Gonna Fall" recorded by the Kronos Quartet. See the list of participants and listen to the track below.
Details via Pitchfork:
July 16 marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, during which a team of U.S. scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of New Mexico. To memorialize the occasion, Kronos Quartet recorded two star-studded covers of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,” which Dylan famously wrote following the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Both renditions are out now via Red Hot Organization. Listen below.
The first version, “Hard Rain,” features Iggy Pop, Willie Nelson, Allison Russell, Deerhoof’s Satomi Matsuzaki, the Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt, Tanya Tagaq, Laurie Anderson, Slowspin, and others. Kronos Quartet provided the musical accompaniment alongside members of Belle & Sebastian, Deerhoof, Patti Smith’s band, and a backing choir that included Frankie Cosmos’ Greta Kline and Xenia Rubinos.
“Hard Rain (Drone),” meanwhile, is a spoken-word take on Dylan’s original, with contributions from—among others—Matsuzaki, Merritt, Anderson, Pop, Nelson, Ringo Starr, Ocean Vuong, Sampa the Great, Sleaford Mods, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and, as a member of the instrumental ensemble, Shahzad Ismaily.
Kronos Quartet + The Hard Rain Collective - Hard Rain (Drone)
Kronos Quartet - David Harrington, Gabriela Diaz, Ayane Kozasa, Paul Wiancko Readers (in order of appearance): Ocean Vuong Sampa The Great Dai Wei Sleaford Mods Nadya Tolokonnikova / Pussy Riot Satomi Matsuzaki Iggy Pop Tom Morello Stephin Merritt Charlotte Gainsbourg Willie Nelson Laurie Anderson Mahsa Vahdat Fenway Ringo Starr Musicians: Laurie Anderson Synthesizer and violin Elia Einhorn / Fashion Brigade Harmonium Shahzad Ismaily Synthesizers Suhail Yusuf Khan Sarangi The Hard Rain Singers: Anjali Rose Elenna Canlas Taraka Larson Lollise Mayteana Morales Hannah Winkler
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