Nell and Flaming Lips were first seen on The Late ShowFor a joint performance of the Nick Cave cover “Red Right Hand.”The Cave tribute album contains the song. The Viaduct is a Living MonumentIn the clip, he took on a psychedelic mood.
The music was released by the musicians The Viaduct SoomsNovember. It’s comprised of nine Cave cover versions with vocals and instrumentation by 14-year-old Nell Smith and instrumentation and production by the Flaming Lips. The album was mastered by Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios.
“It’s always great to meet excited, young creative people,”Wayne Coyne, frontman of Flaming Lips, released a statement. “With Nell we could see she is on a journey and thought it would be fun to join her for a while and see if we could get things going. It was a great way to connect with her and help harness her cool attitude to making music.”
Smith said, “I still can’t really believe it. It was a really steep learning curve but Wayne was so encouraging when I was struggling with a few of the songs that I kept going. I hadn’t heard of Nick Cave but Wayne suggested that we should start with an album of his cover versions, and then look at recording some of my own songs later. It was cool to listen and learn about Nick Cave and pick the songs we wanted to record.”
Cave has since given his approval to the songs, writing on his website The Red Hand Files stating that he is “a fan”The work.