Scott Walker

jookcha · 25.03.2019 11:34

RIP

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Scott Walker. Scott was 76 years old and is survived by his daughter, Lee, his granddaughter, Emmi-Lee, and his partner Beverly.
For half a century, the genius of the man born Noel Scott Engel has enriched the lives of thousands, first as one third of The Walker Brothers, and later as a solo artist, producer and composer of uncompromising originality.
Scott Walker has been a unique and challenging titan at the forefront of British music: audacious and questioning, he has produced works that dare to explore human vulnerability and the godless darkness encircling it.
Noel Scott Engel was born in 1943, the son of an Ohio geologist. He began his career as a session bassist, changing his name when he joined The Walker Brothers. The 1960s trio enjoyed a meteoric rise, especially in Britain, where hits like 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore attracted a following to rival that of The Beatles.
But the superstar lifestyle and fame was not for Scott. As an only child, he had grown up in the kind of rich, slow solitude in which imagination could flourish, and he retreated from the limelight, returning as a solo artist to release a string of critically acclaimed albums, Scott, Scott 2, Scott 3 and Scott 4. He disappeared until the late 1970s, when The Walker Brothers re-joined for their last album together and then a solo album in the 80s.
Another long silence and Scott then re-emerged in the 90s and onwards with lyric-driven works that deconstructed music into elemental soundscapes. Drawing on politics, war, plague, torture, and industrial harshness, Scotts apocalyptic epics used silence as well as real-world effects and pared-back vocals to articulate the void. Sometimes gothic and eerie, often sweepingly cinematic, always strikingly visual, his works reached for the inexpressible, emerging from space as yearnings in texture and dissonance.
From teen idol to cultural icon, Scott leaves to future generations a legacy of extraordinary music; a brilliant lyricist with a haunting singing voice, he has been one of the most revered innovators at the sharp end of creative music, whose influence on many artists has been freely acknowledged. The scope and dynamism of his vision have added dimension to both film and dance, and he has stunned audiences with music whose composition transcends genre, and whose sheer originality defies pigeonholing.
In her foreword to Sundog, the 2017 volume of Scotts lyrics, novelist Eimear McBride had this to say of the musicians remarkable contribution:
Walkers work, as Joyces before it, is a complex synaesthesia of thought, feeling, the doings of the physical world and the weight of foreign objects slowly ground together down into diamond. It is Pinter-esque in its menace but never shies from naked emotion... This is work that does not speak of danger, it feels like it.
In 2017, the BBC paid tribute to Scott with a Proms concert at Londons Royal Albert Hall.
We are honoured to have worked with Scott for the last 15 years of his life.

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leposi · 25.03.2019 12:52

Scott 3 on yksi kaikkien aikojen parhaimmista levyistä itku sydan itku

Firon · 25.03.2019 13:57

RIP frown2

Itelle 1 - 4 on tärkeimmät ja niistä 4 yksi suurimpia lemppareitani. Avant-gardemmasta tuotannosta lähinnä Driftiä tullut kuunneltua, mutta sekin on kokonaisuutena vähän turhan raskas ollut mulle, toki nyt olisi oiva hetki kokeilla taas. Nyt Montague Terrace (In Blue) ensin itku

Kalossimies · 25.03.2019 14:00

itku :itku::itku:

hezma · 18.04.2019 22:13

psykokarkki · 03.01.2020 17:35

eilen tuli teemalta se dokkari. en tiedä miksen ole suuremmin musaansa perehtynyt, mutta mielenkiintoista kamaa. veikkaan tosin, etten niitä myöhäisempiä levyjä välttämättä kauheasti jaksaisi kuunnella, aika raskailta kuulostivat.

muumipoimuri · 12.02.2022 21:28

Pitäsköhän kuitenki joskys kuunnella niitä uusimpia ulinalevyjä?

Hero of the war paras biisi sydan

muumipoimuri · 04.03.2022 21:57

Mites 70-luvun tuotanto? Ei taida yleisesti kovin kovassa huudossa olla nää levyt.

Street Spirit Sr.

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