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Disc 01
01. "Mother Of Earth - Dave Gahan"
02. "La La Los Angeles - The Coathangers"
03. "Yellow Eyes - Jeffrey Lee Pierce (feat. Nick Cave & War"
04. "Debbie By The Christmas Tree - The Amber Lights"
05. "Go Tell The Mountain - Mark Lanegan (feat. Nick Cave &"
06. "Going Down The Red River - Jim Jones and the Righteous"
07. "The Stranger In Our Town - Peter Hayes, Leah Shapiro, &"
08. "Secret Fires - Suzie Stapleton (feat. Duke Garwood)"
09. "Tiger Girl - Hugo Race"
Disc 02
01. "On The Other Side - Nick Cave & Debbie Harry"
02. "Idiot Waltz - Cypress Grove"
03. "Tiger Girl - The Amber Lights"
04. "From Death To Texas - Alejandro Escovedo"
05. "Vodou - Mark Stewart"
06. "Time Drains Away - Lydia Lunch, Jozef van Wissem, Jim J"
07. "Lucky Jim - Chris Eckman & Chantal Acda"
08. "I Was Ashamed - Pam Hogg (feat. Warren Ellis & Youth)"
09. "Bad America - Sendelica (feat. Wonder & Dynamax Roberts"
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.. Overwhelmed Us |
| | Description: | "The journey is long and we are only riders. Long ago we had committed to our little endeavour
and now the task has overwhelmed us, so that we have simply become axels and sockets in a
growing menacing machine." - Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Nearly ten years in the making, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us is the long-awaited fourth
volume in The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project series. Coming Sep 29 via Glitterhouse Records.
Conceived in 2006 by the late Gun Club titan??s guitarist Cypress Grove, the Project has always
aimed to highlight Pierce as one of America??s most fascinatingly influential singer-songwriters of
the last century while propelling his outpourings into modern times by placing it in the hands of
former collaborators, friends and fans.
Following 2009??s We Are Only Riders, 2012??s The Journey Is Long and 2014??s Axels and Sockets,
The Task Has Overwhelmed Us presents stellar interpretations of tracks from Pierce??s Gun Club
and solo canons along with fresh works constructed from rehearsal skeletons, previously unheard
lyrics, songs only performed live. Taking song ideas without lyrics and words looking for musical
settings gave rise to what Cypress Grove calls ??Frankenstein songs?.
The stellar roll-call of contributors features the Project??s original recurring core including Nick
Cave, Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan, Lydia Lunch, Youth, Jim Jones, Warren Ellis, Mark Stewart,
Hugo Race, Cypress himself plus Mick Harvey and J.P. Shilo as The Amber Lights, even Jeffrey
himself from original tapes. These are joined by new bloods including Dave Gahan, Suzie
Stapleton, Duke Garwood, Pam Hogg, The Coathangers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club??s Peter
Hayes and Leah Shapiro, Humanist, The Walkabouts?? Chris Eckman, Jozef van Wissem, Jim
Jarmusch, Chantal Acda and Welsh space-rockers Sendelica with US vocalists Wonder and
Dynamax Roberts. Like Pierce??s beloved jazz, the cast often spill into each other??s tracks.
The mood throughout the eighteen tracks is of rare gems crafted with love, respect and the
energy of committed fans, even obsessives channeling whatever facet or fragment of Pierce??s
unruly muse fires their creative juices. It??s pretty much carved in legend how Jeffrey Lee Pierce
roared out of post-punk LA brandishing an incendiary genius that flamed in the spotlight for just
fifteen years before his untimely death in 1996. Despite the impact of the Gun Club and resonance
of Pierce??s back catalogue, his legacy seemed in danger of shrinking to eternal cult status earlier
this century, fading against modern blandness yet ever-radiating for a gaggle of core diehards he??d
touched with his supernatural muse (quite possibly in a blizzard of chaos).
Then along came London-based guitarist Cypress Grove, who??d played with Jeffrey in his final
years gigging and on 1992??s Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove With Willie Love. Sorting out his
loft one day in 2006, Cypress found an anonymous cassette containing bedroom rehearsals for
Ramblin??? - ??very vague but good enough to work from,? he says. ??So I had the idea of asking
people who worked with Jeffrey, were friends with him or who simply admired his work to help me
complete the songs.?
??The Cypress Tape? would soon be joined by other unrealized song sources from diverse tapes
supplied by key characters in Jeffrey??s life coming on board, including Gene Temesy, who started
the Gun Club fan club in 1984 and brought home Pierce??s ??98 autobiography Go Tell The Mountain,
writer-DJ-musician Phast Phreddie Patterson and Jeffrey??s sister Jacqui, who supplied unfinished
songs and previously unseen writings she??d discovered after her brother??s death. ??The source
material for some of the songs was so vague that it could be interpreted in many ways,? says
Cypress. ??There was no definitive or ??original?? version. It was like trying to restore a painting where
much of the material was missing.? (Lunch??s turning some lyrics from Phreddie??s collection into the
scabrous nightmare roll of ??Time Drains Away??, bolstered by Jarmusch on guitar and van Wissem??s
medieval lute).
From Gahan??s opening haunted piano ballad take on ??Mother of Earth?? through, for example,
Lanegan singing ??Go Tell The Mountain?? backed by Ellis and Cave (who back Jeffrey himself on
??Yellow Eyes??), Cave duetting beautifully with Debbie Harry again on ??On the Other Side?? to
Sendelica and Secret Knowledge??s Wonder hotwiring ??Bad America?? into caterwauling mayhem
mixed by veteran electro-Def Jam producer Jay Burnett, NY rapper Dynamax acknowledging
Jeffrey??s hiphop obsession over the juddering beats. - .. OVERWHELMED USEdition of 1000 copies on silver vinyl
Track C5 is called Voudou on sleeve
Includes single sheet insert
[l850119] Vol. 4 | | | Manufacturer No.: |
05225441 |
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