Barry Adamson
TUE 01 APR 2008
Barry Adamson
The bassist who started his musical career with Magazine and went on to score David Lynch’s ‘Lost Highway’, takes his sultry, enigmatic film noir soundtrack of an album, ‘Back To The Cat’, out on the road.
Premiered live at the London Jazz Festival in November of last year, where Adamson was artist in residence, the album has been described as “a bit of jazz, a bit of funk with subtle brass riding on top. Music from the age when Sean Connery was the coolest guy on the planet who could get away with murder with a half smile on his face”.
As befits the man who invented the idea of the imaginary soundtrack album with his 1988 solo debut ‘Moss Side Story’, every song is rendered in vivid widescreen, with a narrative as compulsive as an Alfred Hitchcock chiller. With a wicked sense of humour and a beady eye for detail, Barry charts the complexity and duplicity of human nature, often deliberately contrasting stories with sounds.
Links: www.barryadamson.com
DETAILS
DATE: Tue 01 Apr 2008
VENUE: The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh EH2 2AA
Don Letts