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WALKER, SCOTT - SCOTT 2
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Scott 2
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1968 Symphonic Rock LP Repressed on Heavyweight Vinyl & Includes Free Download Of LP.
"From the 2013 remasters taken from the original analogue tapes Back to Black is proud to present Scott Walker’s second album. Released in 1968 the album would further see a maturing Scott Walker building up sonic soundscapes through lush string arrangements. Again turning to the Brel catalogue the album begins with a swaggering rendition of Jackie. Scott himself said in an interview at the time – “This album is to make people walk away crying” The songs would cover dreams unrealised, innocence corrupted and love undeclared."
Although Walker's second album was his biggest commercial success, actually reaching number one in Britain, it was not his greatest artistic triumph. His taste remains eclectic, encompassing Bacharach/David, Tim Hardin, and of course his main man Jacques Brel (who is covered three times on this album). And his own songwriting efforts hold their own in this esteemed company. "The Girls From the Stre
"From the 2013 remasters taken from the original analogue tapes Back to Black is proud to present Scott Walker’s second album. Released in 1968 the album would further see a maturing Scott Walker building up sonic soundscapes through lush string arrangements. Again turning to the Brel catalogue the album begins with a swaggering rendition of Jackie. Scott himself said in an interview at the time – “This album is to make people walk away crying” The songs would cover dreams unrealised, innocence corrupted and love undeclared."
Although Walker's second album was his biggest commercial success, actually reaching number one in Britain, it was not his greatest artistic triumph. His taste remains eclectic, encompassing Bacharach/David, Tim Hardin, and of course his main man Jacques Brel (who is covered three times on this album). And his own songwriting efforts hold their own in this esteemed company. "The Girls From the Stre
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Scott Walker (Noel Scott Engel, January 9, 1943 - March 22, 2019) was an American-born singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He is noted for his distinctive baritone voice and for the unorthodox career path which took him from 1960s pop icon to 21st century avant-garde musician.
Originally coming to fame in the mid-1960s singing orchestral pop ballads as the frontman of The Walker Brothers, Walker went on to a solo career balancing a light entertainment/MOR ballad approach with increasing artistic innovations in arrangement and writing. Despite a series of acclaimed albums, a disastrous drop in sales forced him back into straight Middle of the road recordings with little of his own artistic input. This in turn eventually led to a Walker Brothers reunion in the mid-1970s (although the latter eventually moved, by mutual consent, into more avant-garde areas).
From the mid-1980s, Walker revived his solo career while drastically reinventing his artistic and compositional methods, via a series of acclaimed and vividly avant-garde albums. These combined his iconic voice with an unsettling avant-garde approach which owed more to modernist and post-modernist classical composition than to his pop singer past. This change in approach has been compared to "Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen".
Walker has been a continuing influence on other artists, in particular The Last Shadow Puppets, Marc Almond, Goldfrapp, Douglas Pearce of the band Death in June, Billy MacKenzie of The Associates, David Sylvian, Julian Cope, Antony Hegarty, Thom Yorke, Steven Wilson, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Trey Spruance, Perry Blake, Radiohead, Noah Lennox, Mikael Åkerfeldt, and the Divine Comedy/Neil Hannon.
Walker continued to release solo material until his death, and was signed to 4AD Records. As a record producer or guest performer he worked with a number of artists including Pulp, Ute Lemper, Bat For Lashes and Sunn O))). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.