Black Hole Heaven

Black Hole Heaven Artist: Hannah Marcus
Label: Bar/None Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 032862011429
EAN: 0032862011429
ASIN: B00004SUAA


Release Date: 2000-06-13

Black Hole Heaven


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Tracks:

  1. Lot 309
  2. Jay
  3. Black Hole Heaven
  4. Osiris In Pieces
  5. Morning Glory
  6. Los Alamos
  7. Indra's Palace
  8. Crimson Bird
  9. Stars From The Side
  10. Darling How Are You
  11. Under The Void
  12. Darling How Are You
  13. Tired Swan

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars My Favorite Album.......2001-10-14

I've been a big fan of Hannah Marcus ever since I first heard the track "Demerol" on a compilation of San Francisco musicians. I had a tough time tracking down more of her music, but I was really rewarded when I found it. Hannah has produced an interesting and evocative body of work which (to me) reaches it's peak on "Black Hole Heaven". The album is dark and swirling and takes the listener on a fascinating journey. I view the disc as something of a "concept album" with a particular structure and story, but that may just be me. In the course of finding more of Hannah's recordings, I had the opportunity to get to meet her and set up the first web site devoted to her music. I haven't asked her what the songs on "Black Hole Heaven" meant when she wrote them -- I prefer to enjoy my own interpretation :) The production on this album pushes further in the directions she started going on her previous album, "Faith Burns", incorporating multi-layered arrangements full of interesting sounds and textures. To me, each song stands out as an interesting piece on its own, but each is also an integral part of the whole.

5 out of 5 stars Can't Stop Playing It.......2000-10-18

This CD is shockingly good. The lyrics are so rich -- often angry, just as often funny, always reverberating several ways -- and the singing and musical textures are so tasteful and seductive. The first time I put this CD on I ended up spending a whole afternoon playing nothing but. Hannah Marcus is an original and important artist.

In addition to the beautiful music, I love the complications: For example, that the obscenities in "Osiris in Pieces" aren't just a tantrum but a direct reference to the myth of Osiris...which makes it a tantrum with a very long pedigree (like the old Marianne Faithful song "Why'd Ya Do It?"). Or the way the edgy lyrics of the title song interact with the beautiful folky melody...the same type of incongruity that brings me back to a record like Dylan's "John Wesley Harding."

I've been obsessed with only three new CD's in 2000: "Black Hole Heaven," "Nixon" by Lambchop and "69 Love Songs" by the Magnetic Fields. Right now "Black Hole Heaven" is winning. I say: Get it!

5 out of 5 stars An album about listening.......2000-09-21

This album taught me a new way of listening. Every time I listened, there would be a new alignment. Sometimes the songs seemed depressive and circumscribed by circumstance. Other times they seemed luminous and limitless. Then they seemed like a play of limitation and vastness, where the play itself was at the heart of it all. Rich, very rich, honest, tugging, releasing. An intense Dionysian celebration. Sometimes a tone of burial, with the integrity of Antigone. Rootedness of long-known myths combined with weird new sounds -- when I listen to Los Alamos I'm not sure if I'm hearing ancient gods mourning for us in advance or future electronic gods having a good retrospective giggle at us all.

5 out of 5 stars Black Hole Heaven rates a rave.......2000-09-06

Hannah Marcus's album is passionate and intensely heartfelt.

Black Hole Heaven is one the best albums I've heard in years. Hannah Marcus's lyrics are passionate, poetical and evocative without being pretentious. Her voice and music are intense. It's an album that deserves serious attention. It is in the school of Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, but it's an original voice all her own.

5 out of 5 stars

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