from Being There Magazine....

"Oct 21-22, 2006 Trent Reznor – Nine Inch Nails' industrial artisan stepped out of his own comfort zone for this gig – he unplugged with a string ensemble and reinvented some of his own best-known songs to fit the acoustic requirements of participation. The aesthetic outcome was rather like Dead Can Dance. On Saturday he came on just as dusk was falling, and played into the darkening sky, a backdrop well fitting the most somber elements in his music. He opened with “The Frail,” and got an appreciative roar for a version of “Piggy” with shakers and strings rather than his usual synthesizers. Sunday's show started two hours earlier, with a literally sunnier feel. Reznor commented that at least on the bright side of global warming, we could enjoy such a nice day in late October (a nod to rainouts at the benefit in previous years). Reznor spoke very sweetly to the children on stage and at both dates sang “Right Where It Belongs” to them with his back to the audience. With his heavy beard and black garb, and the presence of cellos and violins on stage to remind of his childhood classical training, he appeared more like a serious Russian composer than a rock star. Those who did not know of his musically refined background seemed stunned by the level of accomplishment, especially revealed by this treatment of his songs “La Mer” and “Hurt.” This experience might well mark a new era in Reznor's artistic direction."



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I read an interview with Trent recently who said that his latest release (available in April) will be a concept album and is a soundtrack for a movie that was never made.

NINE INCH NAILS has set "Year Zero" as the title of its new album, which is due out in April and follows up 2005's "With Teeth". "It could be about the end of the world," the band's mastermind Trent Reznor wrote on the official NIN fan club web site The Spiral.

In a recent interview with England's Kerrang! magazine, Reznor described the upcoming album's as "a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way." He added, "With this record I feel a lot less concerned about what people think about it — especially the dying record industry. I couldn't care less about that right now." Reznor also revealed that the new effort is a concept album and "part of a bigger picture of a number of things I'm working on. Essentially I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist."

Reznor said that most of the album was recorded "in hotel rooms around the world on laptops," with very few musicians beside himself and "maybe some surprise vocalists that pop up here and there."

When asked why the new record took less than two years to arrive when the last one took six, Reznor said, "I'm probably as surprised as some fans are (laughs). But really it's just a matter of discipline. When I was on the last tour, to keep myself busy I was just really hunkered down and was working on music the whole time, so this kept me in a creative mode and when I finished the tour I felt like I wasn't tired and wanted to keep at it."

NINE INCH NAILS will release a DVD called "Beside You In Time" on February 27. The disc documents the band's tour in support of "With Teeth".

(Thanks: Adam Swartz)