Music Updates - and a Tahiti 80 response

For those wondering what Andy and Dominique have been up to lo these months, here's the scoop: They've been making beautiful music together as a pairing they're calling The Never Endings. They'll have an album out in February 2010. From what I've heard, there's a slightly more retro sound than in Ivy -- very keyboard-oriented, and I don't mean synths.

Second, Andy sez "we're shooting for an Ivy album for May 2010."

Third: Brookville's new album comes out on September 15 of this year.

And finally, for anyone who missed it first time around, Andy's Unfiltered label is now part of Warner Bros.


Next: On a recent edition of The Ivy Vine list, one fan asked:

>>Does anyone have any inside scoop, gossip, or whatnot concerning what I have imagined
>>to be a split between Xavier Boyer of Tahiti 80 and Andy Chase?
>>Andy's excellent touch was on all the Tahiti 80 efforts until the noticeably
>> sub-par "Fosbury" [as in Fosbury Flop, perhaps?) on which he receives no mention whatsoever.

I forwarded the question to Andy, who replied:
To anyone interested:

I had hoped to remain Tahiti 80's producer for many more records, just as great partnerships had endured between Prefab Sprout and Thomas Dolby, or Crowded House and Mitchell Froom. But after their second album the band wanted to have a bigger hand in producing themselves - at that point they had their own studio in France and they felt they had worked enough with me and wanted to exercise their own production skills, as well as have experiences with other producers and mixers. Although I'd like to think the alchemy between us resulted in their best works, I respect the fact that they don't want to go backwards and repeat what they've already done with the same producer. I still remain very, very close friends with all of them, especially Xavier and Pedro: Just a few years ago my band Brookville and Tahiti 80 did a tour together, in part to promote their album of which I wasn't involved in....so you can see how our friendship goes way beyond the two albums we did together. My new (Brookville) album is coming out this fall and it was co produced by Pedro, and their drummer is also playing on the album. There's even talks of another Brookville-Tahiti 80 tour this October. So as much as I would love, LOVE to do another album with them, it hasn't interfered with remaining close to their world these past years.

PS. Tahiti 80 have appeared "to have fallen off the radar" because after Wallpaper For The Soul they no longer were released on the phenomenal Minty Fresh records here in the U.S. Their last album (Fosberry) was on some weird label over here so it's no surprise no one heard about it. They have a new album coming out this fall (same time as Brookville) and I think it's on a Universal subsidiary...so
hopefully it'll get a little more attention.
That's the update for now! Hopefully more later this year.....