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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 16 March 2018
Neil Young feels urgency to release archival material

By SCOTT BAUER leases are planned for later meant to be taken too se-
Associated Press this year. "When I made riously. Hannah described
At 72, Neil Young feels a these records, I made it as a "homespun project"
sense of urgency. them so fast that I couldn't and said she was surprised
The Rock and Roll Hall of put them all out," he said. "I when Netflix expressed in-
Fame member has a new, finished one and I'd go on terest. "It's not really their
and joyfully perplexing, to the next one. That's just sort of thing," she said, add-
pseudo-Western film "Para- the way it was at that time. ing that Netflix typically
dox" written and directed I was very productive and goes for more polished pro-
by actress and girlfriend Da- going through a lot. I put ductions and not "spitball
ryl Hannah coming out on out what I was most inter- movies people make for
Netflix next week. He's re- ested in at the time." themselves."
leasing a movie soundtrack Young remains produc- "That's my biggest concern
on the same day. And next tive, with "Paradox" and that people will be expect-
month, he's digging into its soundtrack coming out ing a normal movie or a
his vast archives to put out next week. "Paradox" fea- rock and roll documentary
"Roxy - Tonight's the Night tures Young as "The Man in and they'll be like, 'What
Live," a collection of songs the Black Hat," Willie Nelson the heck?'" Hannah said.
played live from the open- as "Red" and his sons Lukas "I hope that they take it in
ing week of the famed Los and Micah Nelson — mem- the lighthearted spirit it was
Angeles club in 1973. bers of the band Promise intended and turn it up so
And if that's not enough, of the Real — as "Jailtime" they can hear the music."
Young continues to move and the "Particle Kid." It was Young said he didn't know
ahead with his vision to premiering Thursday night what people would think of This cover image released by Reprise Records shows "Paradox,"
make his online musical ar- at the South by Southwest "Paradox," but he stands by a release by Neil Young + Promise of the Real.
chives the definitive reposi- Festival and will have a lim- it.q Associated Press
tory of everything — previ- ited theatrical release in
ously released or otherwise addition to being available
— that he's ever recorded. on Netflix on March 23.
"I like to get it out there so Billed as a "fantasy, a loud
I'm alive to see how people poem and a free-spirited
like it," Young said in a tele- tale of music and love," the
phone interview Thursday film begins sometime in the
from Austin, Texas, where "future-past" with Willie Nel-
he is attending the South son proclaiming that "time
by Southwest music festi- is fluid." It follows Young
val. "What the (expletive)? and a band of outlaws
Why not?" in the mountains as they
Young unveiled his new ar- scavenge for treasure that
chival website in Decem- includes computer key-
ber, making all of his offi- boards, cameras and cell-
cially released recordings phones.
available to stream in the It was filmed in Colorado
highest audio quality pos- while Young and his band
sible — a passion of his — were getting used to the
for free. 10,000-foot altitude before
In what has been a tan- performing at the Desert
talizing tease for devoted Trip festival in 2016.
Young fans, there were also In the film, Young's band
inaccessible links to unre- plays his song "Peace Trail"
leased albums like "Home- as listeners float in the air.
grown" from 1974, "Chrome In another scene, Young
Dreams" from 1976 and strums a ukulele as Hannah
"Toast" from 2001 along floats behind him, tied to
with various live recordings Young's waist by a rope.
from throughout his 55-year "When you're in the music,
career. sometimes you float away
Young said he has 12 to in your mind," Young said.
14 unreleased records he "It's just another representa-
made between the late tion of the effect of art and
1960s and 2012 that he music on people."
wants to get out soon. The Hannah, who wrote the film
1973 Roxy concert high- and is making her directo-
lights is next in April and rial debut, said it was all
he said two more vault re- very spontaneous and not

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