BARRY ADAMSON will release
Memento Mori (Anthology 1978-2018) – a 40th anniversary release chronicling the artist’s writing and recording career – on
October 26.
Memento Mori charts Adamson’s career from 1978’s Magazine track, “Parade” (co-written by Adamson, from their debut album
Real Life); to his work as founding member, alongside Nick Cave, of the Bad Seeds (“From Her To Eternity,” co-written by Adamson); through his nine solo albums, from 1988’s
Moss Side Story to the latest
Love Sick Dick EP
s, bringing everything up to date with a brand new unreleased track, “The Hummingbird.”
Adamson’s collaborations work across all disciplines including film (he has scored for – amongst others – David Lynch and Oliver Stone). But on the 1996 track
“Set Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis,”he works alongside
Jarvis Cocker, who provides inimitable vocals. Listen
here.
Memento Mori (Anthology 1978-2018) will be released on limited edition double gold vinyl, CD and download. Preorder
Memento Mori here.
Adamson explains how it all came about.
“I used to see the founder of Rough Trade, Geoff Travis, on the school run and got a draft of the song to Jarvis via him along with the title and ideas. Both Jarvis and Geoff came into the Mute studio on the Harrow Road the day “Common People” went to number one and their car was hilariously mobbed. The session went real smooth and he had his rambunctious vocal nailed pretty fast.”Barry Adamson has been creating all of his life. Brought up in Manchester’s Moss Side, Adamson learnt to play the bass overnight for
Magazine, one of Manchester’s most influential bands of that era. When they disbanded – five albums later in 1981 – his singular style was spotted by
The Birthday Party, with whom he played several times.
After a three-year stint with
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Adamson released his classic first solo album,
Moss Side Story - the ultimate soundtrack to an “imaginary film” - which raised Adamson’s name as a composer of diverse complexity; able to tell a story with music, where the images were those created in the minds of the listeners. Adamson has worked with some of the film industry’s most intriguing mavericks including
Derek Jarman (
The Last of England, 1987),
David Lynch (
The Lost Highway, 1997),
Oliver Stone (
Natural Born Killers, 1994) and
Danny Boyle (
The Beach, 2000).
Adamson has released nine studio albums, including the 1992 Mercury Music Prize-nominated
Soul Murder, 1996’s
Oedipus Schmoedipus – which includes collaborations with
Jarvis Cocker,
Nick Cave and
The Associates’
Billy McKenzie – and his most recent release,
Know Where To Run, which was in part inspired by his recent return after 23 years to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’s touring lineup for a US run. In recent years, Adamson has contributed to collaborations across a variety of art forms including an Olivier Award-winning ballet performance by
Sylvie Guillem and the Ballet Boyzhe scored.
It was always a logical progression for Adamson to move behind the camera and once again his brooding film noir style and dark comedy has seen him write, direct and score a number of short films including “The Swing The Hole and The Lie’’ (2014) as well as the recent video for
"They Walk Amongst Us" (2017).
Adamson’s most recent releases,
Love Sick Dick and
Love Sick Dick Remixed – the latter of which features a reworking by
A Certain Ratio (featured on the Anthology) as well as remixes from
Gazelle Twin and
ADULT. – have seen Adamson back on the road. Recent shows included a unique live performance cut straight to X-Ray film as part of an evening at the British Library examining the Soviet vinyl bootleggers.
Musician, composer, writer, photographer, filmmaker. Barry Adamson is not a man to take it easy.
BARRY ADAMSON 2018 TOUROctober 29 – Manchester, England –
RNCM TheatreOctober 30 – London –
Union ChapelJanuary 12 – Bognor Regis, England –
Rockaway Beach Festival
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