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Wu-Tang Clan to release one copy of new album

Wu-Tang Clan are set to release one only copy of their next album.

The US rap collective are due to unleash the double record 'The Wu - Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' - but there will only be one physical copy.

They envisage the item becoming a "piece of art" and it will be toured in galleries and museums, where the public can pay to listen to it.

RZA told Forbes: We're about to sell an album like nobody else sold it before. We're about to put out a piece of art like nobody else has done in the history of [modern] music. We're making a single-sale collector's item. This is like somebody having the sceptre of an Egyptian king."

He added: "By adopting a 400-year-old Renaissance-style approach to music, offering it as a commissioned commodity and allowing it to take a similar trajectory from creation to exhibition to sale, as any other contemporary art piece, we hope to inspire and intensify urgent debates about the future of music.

"We hope to steer those debates toward more radical solutions and provoke questions about the value and perception of music as a work of art in today's world."

Wu-Tang Clan, however, are expected to release a more traditional album later this year in the shape of 'A Better Tomorrow'.

 

 

 

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