Mark Hollis

[Incandenza]

No official confirmation yet, but The The's twitter account said that Mark Hollis of Talk Talk has passed away.

It's a weird feeling for me, last week I decided to finally listen to their critically acclaimed albums and really enjoyed what I heard, now I see this.

[Beatle Simon]

There's quite a lot on twitter now.
'Spirit Of Eden', an amazing album.
RIP

[Antepli Ejderha]

Shit. A very underrated and under played band and artist. RIP Mark.

[Auntie Beryl]

Fucking hell.

Spirit Of Eden has been my favourite album for the best part of three decades, and I don't see that changing.

(there's an X11 team of that name)

I thoroughly admire his decision to fuck off out of it in his early forties when he couldn't be arsed with all the bullshit of his chosen career any more. He spent the last twenty years away from it all. Lord knows what he's been up to, what he's been facing into, in those years. I hope, and imagine, he was happier.

[ad hoc]

Such a shame

[diggedy derek]

A very sad day. His lone solo album is an absolute touchstone for so many, and one of the most extraordinary departures from 'the main project' you could ever hear

[hobbes]

Natural History was the first cd I ever bought. (I was late to CDs.)
So many great songs and such a distinct voice both lyrically and literally.

[Jah Womble]

RIP. A fine and unique talent that grew as he moved away from commercial status.

Such a shame

Indeed.

[Sits]

Terrible. A committed individual in every way. He stopped touring because he couldn't do that and be a Dad. Then jacked the whole thing in. Good on him.

RIP indeed. It was His Life.

[WOM]

No official confirmation yet, but The The's twitter account said that Mark Hollis of Talk Talk has passed away.

No word yet from Duran Duran or Mister Mister...

Incredible talent and amazing voice. It's My Life has one of the most wonderful bass lines ever. It's almost all I can hear when I listen.

[anton pulisov]

Knew all the big hits, but had never listened to Spirit of Eden until today. Stunning.

[Satchmo Distel]

Rolling Stone's report is pretty good

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...s-dead-800033/

I got into 'Spirit of Eden' after Radmac played the closing track a few years ago on their nighttime Radio 2 show and I would expect a 6 Music tribute to be in the works, and certainly a Radmac tribute on Saturday.

More recently, the album was my gateway into Durutti Column, via a "if you loved this, you'll like this" flag, and that gateway has been life-changing for me.

It seems his illness was a short one so hopefully that was a merciful thing as opposed to a long and drawn out illness.

[MsD]

No word yet from Duran Duran or Mister Mister...

Incredible talent and amazing voice. It's My Life has one of the most wonderful bass lines ever. It's almost all I can hear when I listen.

Simon le Bon has honoured him, I haven't checked the others' accounts.

A very sad loss.

[Jah Womble]

Not heard yet from contemporaries Mighty Mighty or Bourgie Bourgie, or from current acts Everything Everything or Django Django.

Mr Mister can f*** right off.

[Satchmo Distel]

His 1998 solo album, which I've just heard for the first time, is an incredible piece. Could be Messiaen mixed with Eric Dolphy. Definitely bleak:

Feel my skin, Lord
Feel my luck tumbling down
Left no life, no more
Turn my seasons turn
Lived in much younger times
Left no life, no more
For me to shine

[Lang Spoon]

I just heard Spirit of Eden for the first time last weekend. Fuck me I wish I'd heard that twenty five years back. The transcendence I was vainly trying to get from the tired drugs n jeezus tropes of Spiritualized, Screamadelica.

[Lang Spoon]

Astral Weeks does something similar to me, but this feels even more precious, fragile.

[Satchmo Distel]

"In A Silent Way" by Miles Davis might be a parallel, if you substitute his trumpet for the Hollis vocal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKt7DTKyJU

[MsD]

Count me among those hearing SoE properly for the first time. Wowser.

[Lang Spoon]

"In A Silent Way" by Miles Davis might be a parallel, if you substitute his trumpet for the Hollis vocal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKt7DTKyJU

Yeah that is beautiful. I never could get into Bitches Brew, but In a Silent Way is just gorgeous.

[Satchmo Distel]

This track from Laughing Stock is very moving, an incredible vocal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0xR...bgaNw5&index=5

Lifted up
Reflective in returning love you sing
Errant days filled me
Fed me illusion's gate
In temperate stream
Welled up within me
A hunger uncurbed by nature's calling
Seven sacraments to song
Versed in Christ
Should strength desert me
They'll come
They come
Lifted up
Reflected in returning love you sing
Heaven waits
Someday Christendom may come
Westward
Evening sun recedent
Set my resting vow
Hold in open heart

[Lang Spoon]

I'm actually angry now hearing how much that miserable sanctions busting misogynist moany faced Centrist prick T(h)om Yorke and his posh mates ripped off from Talk Talk and got called pioneers for. Their entire template late 90s on is the last two Talk Talk lps and fuckin Squarepusher meets the Pink Floyd Uptown.

[anton pulisov]

Had no idea they were so good live