MICK JONES: EX LIBRIS
The Vinyl Factory presents a new album of music by The Clash’s Mick Jones, Ex Libris, to accompany the opening of Jones’ ‘The Rock and Roll Public Library’ exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Over an extraordinary career in which Jones has played guitar for The Clash, founded UK post-punk outfit Big Audio Dynamite and produced records for everyone from the Libertines to Gorillaz, Mick Jones has amassed a personal treasure trove of memorabilia and ephemera from punk fanzines to gold records, which he has opened his collection to the public for the first time as The Rock And Roll Public Library at Venice Biennale.
To accompany the installation, Jones releases this new album featuring six new tracks recorded in his West London studio earlier this year. Snaking its way from rock and roll to dub across thirty minutes of atmospheric instrumentals, Ex Libris charts the colourful, multi-faceted evolution of British musical culture from the personal point of a view of a man who’s lived it all.
Giving an insight into the creative and cultural influences that have followed his unique career, Jones calls the library “a personal, cultural and social history of our times” that “extends beyond the local to the global”, and an exploration of the idea of an archive as art installation.
Track Listing:
1. The Ministry
2. The Seventh of January
3. Pretty Thing
4. Easy Going Man
5. Spaghetti Junktion
6. Bad Mood
Ex Libris is released by The Vinyl Factory on 18th May
