Smoke in the Shadows

Smoke in the Shadows Artist: Lydia Lunch
Label: Atavistic Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 735286115727
EAN: 0735286115727
ASIN: B000667GRS


Release Date: 2004-11-23

Smoke in the Shadows


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Tracks:

  1. Hangover Hotel
  2. Smoke in the Shadows
  3. Johnny Behind the Deuce
  4. I Love How You...
  5. Touch My Evil
  6. Lost World
  7. Sway
  8. Gone City
  9. Blame
  10. Pass Like Night
  11. Portrait Of The Minus Man
  12. Trick Baby
  13. Hot Tip

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Album Description

Flavored in her hard-boiled, post-mod Raymond Chandler style, but running an eclectic gamut with help from the Anubian Lights production team in channeling beats, diseased invectives, word projectiles, and twisted cabaret noir. "Smoke" delivers serious night music and features performances and contributions by Nels and Alex Cline, Carla Bozulich, Vinny Golia, Terry Edwards, and NYC avatar Adele Bertei. Presented in a deluxe 4-color 24-page booklet, and utterly perfect for the 3 a.m. social extension of your choice, or perhaps a soundtrack for the skeletons in your closet.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Cycling Cynicism with Doom and Boom.......2005-01-19

Part of NYC's "No Wave" movement of the late 1970's spoken-word performance artist and confrontationalist Lydia Lunch began her career at the not-so-tender age of 16 as the lead vocalist for Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Since then,she had collaborated with Nick Cave and Roland S. Howard from the Birthday Party, Sonic Youth ("Death Valley '69"), Jim "Foetus" Thirwell on a variety of projects including Stinkfist, and photographer/director Richard Kern. Lunch has also authored books such as "Incriminating Evidence" and "Adulterers Anonymous" (with Exene Cervenka).

Lunch's latest musical sacrifice,"Smoke in the Shadows" is a notably jazzy affair and probrobly her most commercially acessible effort to date. Like an investigator at the scene of a crime, she portrays a femme fatale with a penetrating stare and sultry,breathy come-on. Her obsessions continue to focus on doomed relationships complete with visions of guns,explosives,shotgun shells,cigarette butts,burning beds,car crashes,high heels and bottles of bourbon. She is an angry woman indeed. And her cynical,confessional lyrics are full of venom.

Lunch has assembled an infamous cast of characters and New York "jazz guys" to accompany her spoken ranting~guitarist Nels Cline (Mike Watt,WILCO) and his brother Alex on drums, Niels Van Hoorn on saxophone (Legendary Pink Dots) and Andel Bertei (The Contortions) as backing vocalist on several tracks. Other instruments include a vibraphone,upright bass,alto flute,baritone and alto saxophones,a trombone and trumpet. Together they create a moody and haunting atmosphere like a soundtrack to a David Lynch film.

Music Album:

  1. Alhambra
  2. Ultrasound ~ Dr. Fink
  3. Songs in the Attic ~ Billy Joel
  4. Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 ~ The Kinks
  5. Tenement Symphony ~ Marc Almond
  6. The Immediate Years ~ The Small Faces
  7. No Fear ~ The Rasmus
  8. From the Inside ~ From the Inside
  9. Linda Ronstadt: Greatest Hits ~ Linda Ronstadt
  10. Summer Fun, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists

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V-Disc Recordings: Musical Contribution ~ Glenn Miller

Human Touch ~ Paul Smith

Belonging ~ Keith Jarrett with Jan Garbarek

Leap of Faith ~ University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One

Jazz Loft Sessions ~ Various Artists

Straight Life ~ Art Pepper

Les Meilleurs Chansons ~ Mouloudji

The Great Cajun Accordionist ~ Nathan Abshire

Nos Bracos da Comunidade ~ Naguinho Da Beija-Flor

Jazz from Italy ~ Various Artists