I checked out 30 Century Man, a newly released documentary with executive producer none other than David Bowie. I doubt it will be in theatrical release for long--there was one other customer at the show, which opened last week end. If you are a fan, seek it out or look for the DVD. A lot of cameo appearances and comment by the many musicians Scott has influenced or inspired. Walker himself was...
1. Scott Walker - Clara (from "The Drift")The fact that for this track an artist is credited with "meat-punching" says it all. It's impossible to adequately describe this surreal poem about a dream of Clara Mussolini, a dream of her own death. It pulls you to the edge, sinking down to the low pits of deathly horror, spiraling upward holding a knife to your throat. Walker's operatic voice is incre
I checked out 30 Century Man, a newly released documentary with executive producer none other than David Bowie. I doubt it will be in theatrical release for long--there was one other customer at the show, which opened last week end. If you are a fan, seek it out or look for the DVD. A lot of cameo appearances and comment by the many musicians Scott has influenced or inspired. Walker himself was...
This weekend was the worst weekend I have ever had.Like, it was mostly good, but it ended in heartache and suffering.And then I had to watch 8 hours of Gilmore Girls season 5 until Loralie and Luke got back together because otherwise my world was just too TOO sad.So, in order to milk the heart-ache (because no one pities me as much as I pity myself), I have been weeping, sobbing, crying and listen
I've been listening to a fair bit of Scott Walker over the last week and it's really struck me how much he's changed as an artist from his early days in the Walker brothers and on his solo "Scott" albums to his last two albums "Tilt" and "The Drift" where he has become a highly experimental, darkly psychedelically ambient creator, particularly on The Drift.Walker it seems is determined to push ...