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Bass Womb Room<\/em> will find the Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist pairing previously unreleased demos with new “interludes” composed for an upcoming photo exhibit<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\tAlt-rock stalwart Melissa Auf Der Maur<\/a>, who played with Hole<\/a> and the Smashing Pumpkins<\/a>, is prepping a new project, Bass Womb Room<\/em>, that will feature her first new music in over 15 years.<\/p>\n \n\tThe album \u2014 titled Bass Womb Room: My \u201890s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings<\/em> \u2014 is set to feature a mix of old and new music. It will include several previously unreleased four-track demos, which Auf der Maur wrote and recorded during the Nineties, as well as eight new \u201cinterlude\u201d compositions created for an upcoming photography exhibit\/installation.<\/p>\n \n\tAuf der Maur recorded the old demos during the Nineties in her Los Angeles living room on a Tascam 4-track machine, using primarily acoustic guitar and layered vocals, but also bass, keyboard, and field recordings of quotidian sounds like a leaking faucet or camera shutter. She further fleshed out the demos with \u201cfour-track tricks,\u201d like flipping the cassette backwards and pitch shifting. As for lyrics, Auf der Maur sometimes laid her vocals down with stream-of-consciousness improvisations, or sometimes she read straight from her daily diary.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI wrote these songs in the context of rising pressure from the major label-driven music industry on myself and my peers to make glossy hit songs to dominate radio airwaves,\u201d Auf der Maur said in a statement. \u201cThese songs are the sound of my internal experimentation and a way of keeping the Montreal art girl alive inside. These sounds are the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n