Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse’s Dark Night Of The Soul – the album trailer by Eno (from original visuals by David Lynch)
Friday, 9. July 2010 - 3:05 pm
A few months after the tragic death of Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous, his collaboration with Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse, with a title that never appeared to be more apt, is finally seeing the light of day, despite it threatening to fall into ‘lost album’ status with a near-perverse ‘no-music’ release a year or so back.
Having collaborated Gorillaz-style with an impressive roster of vocalists for the album (including Black Francis, Gruff Rhys, Nina Persson, Iggy Pop, Julian Casablancas, and Vic Chesnutt – also sadly now deceased) Danger Mouse called on David Lynch do add the visual dimension, resulting in a series of photographs, as well as him also contributing two songs.
Now comes a trailer for the album inspired by Lynch’s visuals, directed by Canadian director Eno who shot and edited footage at the photographic shoot. Each track has its own distinctive image/story, shot in Super 8mm, on screen for a number of seconds.
It really does work, because of Lynch’s typically unsettling vision, but also the album trailer is an interesting concept in itself and the Super 8 look certainly does represent the lo-fo aesthetic and damaged genius of Mark Linkous’s music.
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse present: ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ – album trailer
Original visuals by David Lynch
Directed by Eno
Produced by JL Della Montagna
Editor: Phillipe Gariepy
Effects: Antonin BG
Label: Parlophone
Commissioner: Nicola Brown
Watch: here
