Ogilala is the second solo album by Billy Corgan, co-produced by the legendary Rick Rubin and released on October 13, 2017. It was recorded at Rubin’s Shangri-La Recording Studio in Malibu.
The album cover depicts Corgan’s son, Augustus Juppiter Corgan, in the arms of his girlfriend, Chloe Mendel. Billy Corgan via Consequence of Sound:
For as long as I can remember the delineation point between songs I wrote for myself and songs I’d pen for whatever band was something I couldn’t explain. And it remains so, for they all feel quite personal to me, no matter their time or era. The lone difference on songs for Ogilala is that they seemed to want little in the way of adornment.
Having written the songs for voice and guitar, I put myself in Rick’s hands to take the music wherever he’d like. Normally I would have done more, and tinkered more on production, but rather Rick put the onus on me to deliver at a molecular level via live takes. The rest was simply a reaction.