The enigmatic, experimental and hugely influential Scott Walker found fame in the 60's as a popstar in The Walker Brothers. Since the late 70's Walker has created music of an honest, uncompromising and transcendental style. His long awaited offering "Bish Bosch" will be released on November 2012 via 4AD/ Remote Control.
Since the 1960s, Scott Walker has scaled the heights of pop superstardom ( The Walker Brothers fan club had more members than the Beatles at one stage), produced revered solo albums of the late sixties ( Scott Walker 1 ,2 and 3), cruised for most the seventies owing to his glorious past, then metamorphosed into something very different as the 70's came to a close. The music he has been making at his own pace since the early eighties might be completley estranged from the songs like The Walker Brothers hit " The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore", but stem from the privacy he requires to write the complex and inventive music we have come to expect.
Whether you are a fan or not, everyone should to see 30th Century Man at some stage in order to fully understand and appreciate the work of Scott Walker.
Walker began writing new material around 2009 and recorded it in spurts over the following three years. Supported by co-producer Peter Walsh and joined by the regular core of musicians, Ian Thomas (drums), Hugh Burns (guitar), James Stevenson (guitar), Alasdair Malloy (percussion) and John Giblin (bass). Musical director Mark Warman also played a prominent role, both as conductor and
keyboardist, while guests include trumpeter Guy Barker and pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole, who worked on three of Scott's mid seventies LPs. For three of the album tracks ('SDSS1416+13B', 'Dimple' and 'Corpsde
Blah'), Walker recorded an orchestra in The Hall at Air Studios.
Bish Bosch Track-listing:
1. 'See You Don't Bump His Head'
2. Corps De Blah
3. Phrasing
4. SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)
5. Epizootics!
6. Dimple
7. Tar
8. Pilgrim
9. The Day The "Conducator" Died
This week a four-minute trailer for Bish Bosch was released which features snippets of several songs alongside studio footage. It stands as a unique document of the recording process and uses extracts from tracks ‘See You Don’t Bump His Head’, ‘Tar’, ‘Dimple’, ‘Corps De Blah’, ‘Phrasing’ and ‘Epizootics!’. Check it out below.
