JAY FARRAR & BENJAMIN GIBBARD

One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur - trailer and more info

Jay Farrar (Son Volt) and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service) have been hard at work on One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, the album inspired by Kerouac's classic novel.

Containing 12 original songs, it's out next week in the States on F-Stop/Atlantic Records. Alongside it will be a documentary of the same name, starring Tom Waits, Patti Smith and more all talking about Kerouac''s influence.

Check out the trailer, featuring music from the CD, below. More press release stuff on the making of it afterwards...

Gibbard and Farrar, having never previously met, discovered a mutual kinship in their passion for Kerouac's work while recording several songs for the documentary, produced by Kerouac Films.

After the initial San Francisco recording session in July 2007, they decided to develop the project further to create an album using Kerouac's own words from the book as the lyrics. Big Sur is an evocative account of a time in Jack's life when he'd "come undone," both emotionally and spiritually. He escapes to a cabin in Big Sur to confront his inner demons and find a modicum of peace by the sea.

Gibbard stayed in the original cabin Kerouac wrote about, to compose songs for his band's 2008 Grammy-nominated album, Narrow Stairs. For many years, Jay Farrar's songwriting has been inspired and influenced by Kerouac's compositional style.

The full tracklisting includes...
1. California Zephyr
2. Low Life Kingdom
3. Willamine
4. All In One
5. Breathe Our Iodine
6. These Roads Don't Move
7. Big Sur
8. One Fast Move Or I'm Gone
9. Final Horrors
10. Sea Engines
11. The Void
12. San Francisco

For more info, head to http://www.onefastmove.com/

by Ruth Midget

Further links

Death Cab For Cutie.com

Online home of Seattle pop-rockers