It is likely to be unique in the history of pop music that a Band decides on the summit of their glory, to put it all on the game. With only six Songs Talk Talk 1988 destroy your career. And you have become divided not. You wanted it to be exactly followed your singer-songwriter Mark Hollis in a new musical Dimension, for which there was at the end of the 80s, no vocabulary.
After the Album “Spirit of Eden” had been said by the British Band everything. More she could not remove herself from the expectations of a pop band that had characterized the Sound of the 80s with synth-Hits such as “It’s My Life”, “Life’s What You Make It” and “such A Shame”. From a Band with Hits, a Band for the ages.
Nimbus of the Ingenious
of Course, the record company couldn’t ignore this wanton act of destructive creativity. As they pulled up in 1991 in the face of Hollis’ stubbornness in economic constraints, the ripcord, made with his long-time companion, Tim Friese-Green, the last Talk Talk Album “Laughing Stock” and dissolved the Band.
Since then, the Nimbus of the Genius of the musicians-generations-oriented surrounds. To discover Talk Talk, had to occur later pop musicians like a revelation, after they had previously heard little or nothing of the four-piece Band and their sensational late plates. Both sold poorly “I couldn’t believe that I had missed,” says Paul Marshall in the “Guardian”.
The more you Talk Talk to your audience, bewildered, overwhelmed, and eventually lost, the better your music is an impenetrable was urgent thicket of Jazz, Pop, Post-Rock and New music, from sacred, poetic, and profane elements, a voltage loaded to the last fibre. A mystical universe consists of empty space and gravity.
the music of this Band is always more depth than other content with the superficiality, had to do with Mark Hollis, the Mastermind behind. On the one hand, because he stubbornly refused to explain his Songs. On the other hand, he hit as a singer Pathos-bows full of despair, were resolved from the music never. He stood there, behind his microphone, lost in the sound and a prisoner of his self. A small man, scared, with protruding ears.
Aversion to the fun-culture
To the music of 1955 in Tottenham-born Hollis found by his older brother. The was a DJ and took care of the business of the emerging Bands. First of all, Mark Hollis’s children wanted to be a psychologist. In 1975, he moved to London, came in the Wake of the Punk and brought out with his first Band The Reaction a Single. Nothing was permanent. So the Band fell apart again.
Since knew his brother a lot of musicians, he introduced him to bassist Paul Webb, drummer Lee Harris, and keyboardist Simon Brenner. They’re named after one of the Songs with which Hollis was previously at EMI noticed – “Talk Talk”. The record company had previously had success with Duran Duran, now she was looking for a connection. As Hollis and his companions came just at the right time with your romantic gesture. The Depütalbum came out in 1982 and sounded like a Swan song: “The Party’s Over”. With his shy Coolness Hollis as the perfect New-Wave Star had a.
However, he depended reacted increasingly allergic to the prefigurative ironic fun culture in everything from the Marketing. While Viva and MTV had to be translated to your triumphal procession started and the Songs in the Videos rented out Talk Talk in a Church in Suffolk, encapsulated aware of the outside world. With producer Tim Friese-Greene, Hollis found the ideal Partner for its experimental, monochromatic Blues-visions. You missed the first Deadline of the label. You missed the second one. You covered your Budget. And Hollis, resisted the greed of the label bosses, with the remark that there would be neither a Single nor live performances. After 14 months in the Studio, Spirit of Eden was finished.
Mark Hollis solo album released after 1991 only once. That is now already over twenty years. After that, it became quiet around him. He had said what he wanted to say, turned away from the music business. The Echo took care of him.
As a Tribute Album with Talk Talk Songs a few years ago, appeared, reported Familiar, that Hollis will be leading a “normal life”. Every few months he show up in the offices of his Manager. “We drink a Cup of coffee, a chat, mostly about football. It is as if he had changed just the Job.“ If he’d asked if a new Album was in there, the answer he always. “I have behind me. Exclamation mark.“
On Monday it was announced that Mark Hollis has died at the age of 64 years. A family man, a wonderful character head.
