IGGY POP Preliminaires (2009 Japanese 12-track CD album from the punk legend, based on the novel 'La Possibilité D'une Ile' by French author Michel Houellebecq: 'It's a quieter album with some jazz overtones,' Ig says. 'That's because at one point I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars, banging out crappy music. And I was starting to listen to a lot of New Orleans-era Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton-type of jazz.' Picture sleeve + obi strip, more details to follow...)