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Release Date
1 November 2008
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Length
9 tracks
"Hurricane" is the tenth studio album by singer Grace Jones. and her first album of new material in nineteen years. The album was released on November 3, 2008. Jones had decided not to do another album again before meeting music producer Ivor Guest by mutual friend Philip Treacy. After becoming acquainted Guest played Jones a track he had been working on. Jones set her lyrics "Devil in My Life" to it and they ended up recording 23 tracks. According to Jones some of these tracks will make up her next album.
In September 2008 Guest announced that he and Jones had completed recording the album. Other participants on the new album were Sly and Robbie, Leopold Ross, Brian Eno, Bruce Woolley, Wally Badarou, Tricky, Wendy and Lisa, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, Mikey 'Mao' Chung, Barry Reynolds, John Justin, Martin Slattery, Philip Sheppard, Jones's son Paulo Goude, Robert Logan, Don-E and Tony Allen, with recording engineering duties by Cameron 'Engine' Craig.
Jones performed a two hour concert at Massive Attack's Meltdown festival in London on 19 June 2008 during which she performed four new songs from the album. The music video for "Corporate Cannibal" was premiered at the festival. The video was officially uploaded onto YouTube on 4 July 2008. "Corporate Cannibal" and its remixes by Atticus Ross, Robert Logan, and The Bug (aka Kevin Martin) were made available on iTunes in late August 2008. The mixes are also streamed on her official Myspace page.
The album was released on Wall of Sound, on November 3, 2008 in the United Kingdom. At her signing with the label, it was announced that album would be named Hurricane.] PIAS, the parent company of Wall of Sound, distributed Hurricane worldwide, excluding North America."Williams' Blood" was the second single, released on 8 December 2008. "Love You To Life" was the third single, containing remixes by Cagedbaby & Guy Williams, it was released on May 4, 2010.
The album's assertive opening track, dancehall-influenced "This Is", exhibits Jones' Jamaican accent against an electro beat. The soaring "Williams' Blood" describes how Jones took after her mother's side of the family by pursuing music. "Corporate Cannibal" is an aggressive industrial personification of corporate capitalism which has been favorably compared to Massive Attack's Mezzanine. "I'm Crying" is a sentimental ode to her mother. On "Well Well Well" Jones considers home as a "refuge from her vices." On the titular track "Hurricane", first recorded as a 1997 collaboration with Tricky, Jones embodies that force of nature "ripping up trees". "Love You To Life" urges an ill friend not to die. "Sunset Sunrise" ponders mankind's relationship with nature. The final song, "Devil In My Life", was written after a party in Venice while Jones was standing in the corner observing partygoers.
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