Festival 2023

Iggy Pop is an avant-garde icon and a punk pioneer. The Montreux Jazz Festival is a boundary-pushing event that brings the best of all musical genres to one gorgeous location every year. Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 2023 captures the dazzling Iggy Pop performance that could only happen here.

An exclusive Japanese CD made available for the rest of the world, combining 2 epic live albums Europe Live Recordings 2022 & Live at Montreux Jazz Festival. Their spell bounding performance at the illustrious Montreux Jazz Festival alongside A Light For Attracting Attention live sets, only previously released on limited vinyl run. Europe: Live Recordings 2022 was recorded in various cities over the course of The Smile's first ever tour last summer. The album including the band’s rendition of Thom’s 2009 solo track FeelingPulledApartByHorses.

“Incident At a Free Festival” is a tribute to the mid-afternoon slots at Deeply Vale, Bickershaw, Krumlin, Weeley, and Plumpton – early 70s festivals that don’t get the column inches afforded the Isle of Wight or Glastonbury Fayre, but which would have been rites of passage for thousands of kids. Bands lower down the bill would have been charged with waking up the gentle hippies and appealing to both the greasy bikers and the girls in knee-high boots who wanted to wiggle their hips. And the best way to do that was with volume, riffs and percussion.

This album is the culmination of an extraordinarily fruitful artistic collaboration that took place at the 2022 Boulder Bach Festival in Boulder, Colorado. The recordings were made immediately after the public concerts concluded. They document four of the many memorable musical interpretations at the Festival, which occurred not just because of the many talented artists, but also thanks to the kindness and generosity of countless members of the community and region. Although many musicians converged on Boulder from all over the globe, the Festival also featured several remarkable local artists. The entire project took place against the backdrop of some of the most majestic natural scenery in the world.