Michael Franti will release a new album and documentary DVD July 25 via Epitaph’s Anti- label. The latter is a chronicle of his travels to Baghdad, the West Bank and Gaza Strip titled “I Know I’m Not Alone.” Although originally expected to bear the same name, the CD has been dubbed “Yell Fire!”
“I went to Iraq as a listener,” Franti told Billboard.com in February of the trip that inspired both projects. “I just got tired of watching the news every night and hearing generals and politicians talking about the economics and the politics of the war, and never explaining the human cost of the war. I just wanted to go there and listen to people.”
A mix of reggae, hip-hop and soul, “Yell Fire!” includes appearances by Pink and reggae riddim kings Sly & Robbie and was produced by Franti and Mario Caldato Jr. (Beastie Boys, Jack Johnson) and mixed by Mark Needham (the Killers).
Source billboard.com.
