Donald Fagen of Steely Dan has announced that his fourth album, Sunken Condos, will be out on October 16.
Donald Fagen Sunken Condos
The announcement didn’t go into a lot of detail on the album, saying only that eight of the nine cuts would be Fagen originals with a reworking of Isaac Hayes’ Out of the Ghetto being the one cover.
Donald Fagen’s fourth solo album for Reprise Records, Sunken Condos, will be released on Tuesday, October 16 2012. His first three solo albums, The Nightfly, Kamakiriad and Morph the Cat comprised the project known as the Nightfly Trilogy. Sunken Condos begins a new chapter in the creative evolution of this innovative artist, whose career is still going strong after forty years.
The nine tracks on Sunken Condos were co-produced by Michael Leonhart and Donald. All but one track, an Ashkenazi recasting of Isaac Hayes’ Out of the Ghetto, are new Fagen originals. Some familiar names from the Steely Dan family of players are on hand (Jon Herington, the Steely Dan horns, Freddie Washington) plus some new faces. The word is that, from now on, everything Donald does has got to be funky.
Fagen is currently on the road with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs in the Dukes of September.
