Tomorrowland

'tomorrowland', the title of ryan bingham's new album, sounds futuristic, but the oscar winning singer / songwriter hints, "maybe it's not so much about looking ahead as it is about leaving things behind." "there are no more rules," he continues. recording 'tomorrowland' for his own axster bingham records felt "totally liberating," he says, and allowed him the freedom to "do whatever we want and not have someone else's agenda on it." 'tomorrowland' contains plenty of the pliant acoustic guitar work that has marked bingham's previous studio sets, but 'tomorrowland' expands his musical landscape exponentially: guitars howl into keyboards and drums stomp against strings, all bolstered by bingham's jagged, weather-beaten vocals. bingham recorded 'tomorrowland' at a makeshift studio in a friend's empty house in malibu, calif. that turned out to have an interesting heritage: it once belonged to kris kristofferson, one of his musical heroes. bingham and co-producer justin stanley (eric clapton, sheryl crow) brought in a soundboard and microphones and set up the drums right in the middle of the high ceiling room. they recruited in a small core of musicians to play on the album as needed.