Lenny Kravitz spoke to Billboard recently to check in on his various activities; with acting, modeling, recording and virtually every other discipline in the entertainment industry on his lengthy resumé, Kravitz is a man capable of seemingly everything under the sun. Now with the reissue of his wildly successful Are You Gonna Go My Way, Kravitz is breaking a bit of a publicity dry-spell and opening the masses up to what the recording process for the album was like and what types of imagery and memories come to mind when he listens to the album nowadays.
"So when I revisit these record it really takes me back into a time capsule and it brings me back to my life at that point and reminds me what was going on. I can feel where I was. I can remember the people I was involved with that were in my life, the smells, the tastes, just the feeling in general of my life at that time. I remember all of the moments in the studio. It just all comes back to me, so it's an interesting thing to have this look back into your life."
On top of what has already been an incredibly fruitful career, Kravitz's ventures into the film industry have lead to just as much acclaim. Though he's made several cameos through the years, he rapidly developed an acumen for featured and scripted characters and debuted as such in the Oscar-nominated film Precious, followed by a role as an empathetic stylist in The Hunger Games series, which he will be reprising this fall in the release of the sequel to the film. Clear passion for acting aside, the multifaceted threat of an artist is also apparently working on the stripped down follow-up to 2011's Black And White America. The forthcoming new LP will be "very deconstructed, very minimal," however boasting a big sound with little clutter and at times only three audible instruments, a bit of a departure from the previous LP's big name collaborations and 70s era funk chops. Slated for a Spring 2014 release, keep your eyes wide and your ears peeled for more info on Lenny Kravitz's upcoming projects and catch the reprisal of his role in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire due out November 22nd.
