Wu-Tang Clan will release just one copy of their new album

Wu-Tang Clan have prepared a masterpiece of an album, entitled “The Wu – Once Upon a Time in Shaolin”. They will sale just one copy “We're making a single-sale collector's item. This is like somebody having the sceptre of an Egyptian king”.

Their plans are to tour the album first and then go from gallery to gallery and let the public listen to it for a fee “We hope to steer those debates toward more radical solutions and provoke questions about the value and perception of music as a work of art in today's world”.

The group will release another album later this year called “A Better Tomorrow”.

When asked about this unusual way of releasing an album, RZA declared “By adopting a 400-year-old Renaissance-style approach to music, offering it as a commissioned commodity and allowing it to take a similar trajectory from creation to exhibition to sale, as any other contemporary art piece, we hope to inspire and intensify urgent debates about the future of music”.