Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay take us inside ‘Outsider’
10th March 2021
Last month, multi-million record selling artist and producer Philippe Cohen Solal and Mercury Prize winning producer Mike Lindsay co-wrote and co-produced Outsider, a new concept album based on the work of artist Henry Darger and featuring special guests Hannah Peel and Adam Glover.
Audio Media International editor Daniel Gumble spoke to Solal and Lindsay to find out what inspired this incredibly ambitious project the art of collaboration…
How did this project come about?
Solal: It came about by incredible chance, while on tour with Gotan Project in 2003. I was due to meet Kiyoko Lerner, a friend of a friend and fan of tango, for tea. The day before, I visited the New York Folk Art Museum, and there I was standing transfixed in front of the Henry Darger collection, when I noticed the plaque underneath, which said the paintings had been loaned to the museum by Kiyoko Lerner, the same Kiyoko Le