Sunday, June 8, 2008

Scott Walker "Jesse"

Former member of the Walker Brothers and reclusive vocal giant Scott Walker recorded an album two years ago for 4AD, his first new release in ten years. The music is narrative and harrowing. His voice is fabulously expressive.

According to this New York Magazine article:
On “Jesse,” the third track on Walker’s new album, The Drift, Elvis is sitting on the Memphis prairie in the moonlight, talking aloud to his stillborn twin brother, Jesse—as he would often do “in times of loneliness and despair,” according to Walker’s sleeve notes. Elvis is dreaming about the planes smashing into the Towers.


A higher resolution version is available here.

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