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Shangri-La Studio
“Well, I’m an animal. Something like a cannibal.”
Red Hot Chili Peppers
While working on Unlimited Love, their twelfth album, the Red Hot Chili Peppers also wrote and recorded songs for Return of the Dream Canteen. Marking the return of John Frusciante as guitarist, the two records were produced by Rick Rubin at the Shangri-La Studio, a mythical place located in Malibu not far from the beaches that Anthony Kiedis and Flea had frequented all their lives.
A spicy album
Already responsible for a double album, Stadium Arcadium, the Red Hot Chili Peppers decide this time to record about fifty tracks at the same time but to distribute them on two distinct discs, in order to release them in 2022, a few months apart. Very comfortable, the musicians benefit from the experience of Rick Rubin, with whom they already collaborated on Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Very inspired, the combo works hard at the Shangri-La Studio, following in the footsteps of Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath or ZZ Top.
Back to the funk
Tippa My Tongue, the first single, was released on August 19, 2022, a few days before the release of the record. To shoot the video clip, entirely produced in studio, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante call upon Malia James. Very psychedelic, this track allows the group to revive the funk of its beginnings while making multiple nods to the Californian culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded 50 tracks during the Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen sessions at the Shangri-La.
Morning View Drive
A recording studio owned by producer Rick Rubin, the Shangri-La was once a ranch.
The ranch was built in 1958. Rented in the 1970s by the group The Band, it was renovated in 1970 according to the directives of Bob Dylan and The Band. It is also within these walls that part of Martin Scorsese’s rockumentary The Last Waltz is filmed. In 2011, Rick Rubin, the legendary producer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slayer and Johnny Cash, bought the place. Over the years, many artists have recorded albums there such as Black Sabbath, Eric Clapton, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Metallica, Ed Sheeran, The Strokes, Weezer or even Neil Young and ZZ Top.
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.