U2SOS40, what is U2’s new collaborative project about?

By means of on the occasion of the release of the new album by the Irish rock band U2, Songs of Surrender, Island Records and Interscope shared details of the collaboration project on Friday, March 17 U2SOS40That has invited 40 artists and creators from around the world to create a 60-second piece of content, each featuring a re-recorded U2 song.

As a result, the public can now enjoy it 40 new visual interpretations of U2’s music (40 stories by 40 creators).

Songs of Surrender was cured and produced by The edgerevisiting some of the most celebrated tracks from his 40+ year career, such as With or without you, One, beautiful day, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday And Invisible. That musical reimagining results in a completely new recording of each theme, including new arrangements and, in some cases, new lyrics.

The invited artists are: Yana Yatsuk (Pride), Donte Colley (with or without you), Actual objects (Stories for Boys), Eli Johnson (Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses), Maddy Rotman (11 O’Clock Tick Tock), Blu DeTiger (Desire), Alana O’Herlihy (Sunday Bloody Sunday), Ben Elias (40), Goldmond Fong (Stay), Mitch DeQuilettes (Beautiful Day), Terry O’Connor and Benny Drama (Two hearts beat as one) Ella Mai Weisskamp (Dirty Day), Dylan McGale (Red Hill Mining Town), Tanima Mehrotra (I still haven’t found what I’m looking for), Sam Dameshek (City of Blinding Lights), Phil Berge (Electrical Storm), by m.studio (Bad), Byron Spencer (Ordinary Love) and Kelly Butts Spirito (If God will send his angels).

Tanima Mehrotraborn in India, who captured her local team of skateboarding in Mexico City, who “embody the kind of freedom that comes with youthful curiosity”; Ben EliasNew Zealand director and cinematographer whose film is “a walking tour of Aotearoa starring my grandparents”; Alana O’Herlihy, multidisciplinary photographer, director and mixed media artist who “…decided to take the very serious theme of Sunday Bloody Sunday and juxtapose it with the moments of women coming of age and that loss of innocence”. AND yanya yatsuk, Ukrainian photographer based in the United States. that he wanted to “make something that told a love story”.

Also published today along with Songs of Surrender, a one-hour special interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music, viayes like the first appearance of bond And The edge in the NPR Small desk. Both also visited the legendary Maida Vale studios of the BBC last month, for which they played three songs piano room by spoke 2, accompanied by members of the BBC Concert Orchestra: ‘Dizziness’, ‘One’ and a version of ‘SOS’ by ABBA.

‘Bono & The Edge: A Kind of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman’ will be released in Disney+. Directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville. The film features Dave Letterman on his first visit to Dublin to spend some time with Bono and The Edge in his hometown, get to know Dublin and join the two musicians out u2 in a concert like never before.