Quote Of The Day – PETER HOOK About Late Legend MARK LANEGAN
Peter Hook (Joy Divison/New Order) about the unfortunate
Mark Lanegan who passed away yesterday, only 57.
R.I.P.
(photo Peter Hook by Turn Up The Volume)
Mark Lanegan
Quote Of The Day – What Made MARK LANEGAN Put His Comic Books Away…
MARK LANEGAN Wrote Memoir About His Near-Death Experience Due To Covid-19
14 November 2021
Washington born singer-songwriter MARK LANEGAN (Screaming Trees, QOTSA,
solo and countless collaborations) got infected with COVID-19 last March.
He went deaf, couldn’t walk for months, had cracked ribs, and had breathing
problems. He was hospitalized and slipt in and out coma for months.
He wrote a memoir about his life-threatening misfortunes
and the near-death experience he suffered.
The book, titled DEVIL IN A COMA comes out
on 14th December via White Rabbit Books.
(photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Press statement: One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections
ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19. Admitted to
Kerry Hospital and initially given little hope of survival, Lanegan’s illness has him slipping
in and out of a coma, unable to walk or function for several months and fearing for his life.
As his situation becomes more intolerable over the course of that bleakest of springs he
is assaulted by nightmares, visions and regrets about a life lived on the edge of chaos and disorder.
He is prompted to consider his predicament and how, in his sixth decade, his lifelong battle
with mortality has led to this final banal encounter with a disease that has undone millions, when he has apparently been cheating death for his whole existence. Written in vignettes of prose and poetry, DEVIL IN A COMA is a terrifying account of illness and the remorse that
comes with it by an artist and writer with singular vision.”
Weird Trio Sounds Magical – MOBY + MARK LANEGAN + KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
New sonic impulses…
17 April 2021
Dance-pop-and-soul star MOBY releases REPRISE. An album of orchestral reimaginings
of a selection of songs he wrote in the past inspired by a classical performance of his music that took place in 2018.
After sharing Porcelain with My Morning Jacket‘s Jim James signing, comes a magical
version of his 2013 song The Lonely Night with two splendiferous crooners on vocals, Kris Kristofferson Mark Lanegan. Goosebumps all the way.
Listen here…
MOBY: Facebook
Happy Birthday To Two Giant Voices ALISON MOSSHART and MARK LANEGAN – Why Not A Duet, Guys?
25 November 2020
The wonderful, Florida-born Alison Nicole Mosshart of THE KILLS, one of my favorite rock bands ever turned 42 yesterday. She was also the captivating blues voice of Jack White’s The Dead Weather and part of countless one-time collaborations. Utterly cool
vox and persona and a dazzling performer on stage, as I experienced myself several times.
Here are two big ones to celebrate…
– FRIED MY LITTLE BRAINS –
– LAST GOODBYE –
ALISON MOSSHART: Facebook
THE KILLS: Facebook
And the darkest crooner around Mark William Lanegan was born 56 years ago today
in Ellensburg, Washington. He started his remarkable career in 1985 with grunge band Screaming Trees (1985-2000), was a notable voice on a couple of LPs of stone cowboys Queens Of The Stone Age, made an impressive series of solo albums and was/still is a guest vocalist who worked with tons of artists.
Two big ones to celebrate…
– NEARLY LOST YOU –
(With Screaming Trees)
– NIGHT FLIGHT TO KABUL –
(From 2019 album Somebody’s Knocking)
As they are probably the most wanted guest vocalists on this
planet, why not doing a duet together? Hello Alison? Hello Mark?
(both photos by Turn Up The Volume!)
The Perfect Nightmare For MARK LANEGAN’s Voice – HEY COLOSSUS Share New Pitch Black Track ‘MIRROR’
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
5 September 2020
Seems like all artists want to collaborate with the hardest working man in rockbizz.
This time it’s London’s pretty awesome post-punk noise bulldozer HEY COLOSSUS
that invited MARK LANEGAN to join them for a track of their upcoming, 13th album, Dances/Curses out 20 November via bassist Joe Thompson’s own Wrong Speed
Records label.
“The lucky thirteenth record by Hey Colossus is the work of six musicians in tune with the dualities of life as a loud rock band, fit to channel both the dances of aspiration and the
curses of reality into a record that transcends all limitations in a blinding volley of incandescence.”
The collaborative song called MIRROR is a pitch-black slow moving serpent. Creepy, ominous and enigmatic. A fitting piece for the midnight hours. I’m sure that the devil’s voice matches Lanegan‘s voice. And I’m sure that Hey Colossus wrote this nightmare
with the ex-Screaming Trees’ frontman’s unique vox. Scary but hauntingly perfect!
“Yanking a knife from the
lifeless flesh lump by my feet.”
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Lyric video…
HEY COLOSSUS: Facebook
New album Dances/Curses out 20 November. All info here.
(photo on top: by TUTV!)
GREG DULLI & MARK LANEGAN Cover BOB DYLAN For RSD 2020 (29th August)
28 August 2020
GREG DULLI & MARK LANEGAN, two of the most characterful voices in
rock, you can recognize anytime, anywhere joined forces years ago as
The Gutter Twins leaving a lasting impression with their 2008 album
Saturnalia.
The two 24/7 musicians now teamed up again for a cover of Bob Dylan’s
Girl From The North Country (a duet with his buddy, the late legend
Johnny Cash) from his 1969 Nashville Skyline album.
The cover was the B-side to Greg Dulli‘s single A Ghost from his magnificent solo
album Random Desire (one of this year’s best longplayers). Tomorrow 29 August,
the duet song is available as a limited blue vinyl release. More info HERE. Suppose
living troubadour legend Bob Dylan would have joined the pair for this unqiue recording. Sorry… I was only dreaming.
Sing it, guys…
The original…
(striking live version)
GREG DULLI: Facebook / MARK LANEGAN: Twitter
Natural born vocalists…
Perfect Match In Synth Heaven – British Electro Duo IYEARA Remixes Doom And Gloom Vox MARK LANEGAN
22 Augustus 2020
Artists: Mark Lanegan and Iyeara
Album: Another Knock At The Door (IYEARA Remixes)
Released: 21 August 2020
Info: Lanegan and dark wave duo Iyeara have combined their talents to release a remix of his entire 2019 album Somebody’s Knocking reimagined as Another Knock At The Door. Released on Mark‘s label Flooded Soil Recordings, the album is the first full record he has given to another artist to rework. Iyeara have also remixed for the likes of Laura Marling’s LUMP project, UNKLE, The Prodigy, The Boxer Rebellion, The Ting Tings and several more.
Score: Over the years lots of electronic remixes of rock and roll albums turned out to
be a failure, mostly because the true soul and spirit of the original record drowned into
a messy pool of beep and bleeps superabundance caused by over-enthusiastic techno artists. Here’s a rare exception. IYEARA don’t crush Lanegan‘s songs with an arty-farty production by hi-tech computers, they embrace them with sonic love and creative insight.
And most of all they treat the real hero – Lanegan‘s doom and gloom vox – with all the respect it deserves. What they do is surrounding the former Screaming Trees frontman’s gripping vocals, alternately, with fitting cinematic, atmospheric, transcendent, spellbinding and symphonic synth-scapes bringing Leftfield, Chemical Brothers and Orbital to mind. This surprising collaboration became a perfect match in heaven with a human, not a robotic feel. Who would ever thought you would dance in mysterious ways to Mark Lanegan in a darkwave discotheque? Mission accomplished.
Singles: Playing Nero / She Loved You
– PLAYING NERO –
– SHE LOVED YOU –
Album in full…
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MARK LANEGAN: Facebook / IYEARA: Facebook
The man in the middle…
Five Fervent Firecrackers – STAY ON TRACK IN THE WEEKEND…
14 August / 16 August 2020…
Five new firecrackers to boost your weekend…
1. ‘She Loved You’ by MARK LANEGAN remixed by IYEARA (US/UK)
A ritual voodoo-like disco dance. Pitchy synth beats for the twilight hours. On
21st August the full remix album of Mark Lanegan‘s 11th LP Somebody’s Knocking
by British electro duo Iyeara comes out, re-titled ‘Another Knock At The Door‘.
2.’Tulsa’ by ERIIS (Belgium)
This fresh passion-rock trio’s mantra is Chaos, Strife And Discord. Their sound is as monumental as the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris and this debut single is nothing
less than awesome. A terrific reflection on the Tulsa Race Riots that occurred in 1921.
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3. ‘Prism’ by BULLY (Nashville, Tennessee)
Vehement and electrical power-pop slam with a “happy go lucky/fuck-it-all attitude”
and ardent vocals by Alicia Bognanno. Third album SUGAREGG arrives next week.
4. ‘The Greyhound’ by TRAAMS (Chicester, UK)
British post-punk trio back after four years to do what they do best. Taking the listener
on an ongoing riff-tastic trance trip with an instant mind-boggling impact. Impressive!
The first of a trio of new pieces coming our way over the next few months.
5. ‘Baby Let’s Make It Real’ by EELS (UK)
The beautiful freak is back with a vintage Eels humdinger. Reflective, wistful, strangely catchy and deadpan lines like “Baby, you’re a full meal, the way you make me feel/ It’s
kind of a big deal/ Baby, let’s make it real.” Welcome back Mark Oliver Everett.
See/hear you next week, music junkies…
Saturday Dark Wave Fever Night With IYEARA And MARK LANEGAN – Here’s ‘SHE LOVED YOU’
New sonic impulses…
MARK LANEGAN, one of the most productive artists in rock, released his highly praised 11th longplayer Somebody’s Knocking last year. The man loves to collaborate with other musicians to explore other directions and to experiment with new sonic ideas.
This time he joined forces with British dark-wave electro trio IYEARA to remix that great album. The longplayer arrives, retitled as ANOTHER KNOCK AT THE DOOR on 21 August. Our ears already got impressed with the first shared track ‘Playing Nere‘ early July and here’s a second cut, a soul-stirring stomper.
SHE LOVED YOU moves like a ritual voodoo-like disco dance. Atmospheric, bewitching,
and totally magnetizing. Pitchy synth beats for the twilight hours. Dusky electro shadows to start and end Saturday dark wave fever nights with.
Get up and move…
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In case you missed Playing Nero, press play here…
You can pre-order the remixes album here
