![]() ![]() This was a chance to spend time together and for Mark to show me his new hometown. He looked so genuinely happy there, more so than maybe I ever saw in Los Angeles. A lot of the photos and filming while I was there with him doubled as sight seeing. “We just got together every day and tried to make a go of it. “When I made it over to Killarney to visit Mark post-COVID/coma, we only had a week to work on filming things and humble resources,” Cardamone told Spin of the video. The second half of the video shows Lanegan and Cardamone wandering the forests around Killarney, Ireland - where Lanegan moved to toward the end of his life - in the months after the singer fell into a Covid-induced coma, a health scare that resulted in his final book Devil in a Coma. “Hiraeth,” the new visual from Lanegan and Joe Cardamone’s Dark Mark and Skeleton Joe side project, features the “final filmed footage” of the beloved singer, and serves as a tribute to the late Screaming Trees vocalist with a collage clips of Lanegan from throughout his career. “Now, we both feel more comfortable creeping this material into the open.The last music video Mark Lanegan filmed prior to the grunge legend’s death earlier this year has been released. “We were originally intending to release it earlier, but with the pandemic and other things going on in the world, it just hadn’t seemed appropriate,” adds Lanegan. These tracks showcase the range of emotions and moods DMvSJ are able to capture on this expirmental electronic journey. In contrast to the more eerie tracks and a showcase of the previously mentioned ambient nostalgia, are tracks such as the spare Lost Animals, relying on Lanegan’s vocals and minimal synth, the church organ infused Hiraeth, and the trip-hop esque Cold Summer. Other tracks on the record that capture this soundscape include the previously mentioned No Justice, which fits in line with the goth/midnight dance floor, the slow-burning Turning In Reverse and the chaotic Sanctified. The track is truly hypnotic and sounds like it could be right at home in a John Carpenter movie. The night portion of Joe’s analogy is perfectly represented in opening track Livin Dead, which immediately starts off with eerie, blaring synths before pulsating drums and arresting vocals kick in. The hard songs are for when the sun is gone and the cuts without percussion are for the day after the primal beating.” I always thought the record functioned on a day-to-night level. ![]() There’s a lot of material that is nostalgic ambient. “Only half the record lives in that territory though. I do think the death disco label we’ve been given could apply to portions of the material. “The material we wanted to do together seemed to take well to the idea that our personas here are as if we’re now outcasts to our own creative selves. Skeleton Joe because we both have assumed these alter egos over the years,” says Cardamone. ![]() “When you have done as much stuff as Joe and I, you have to constantly search for the different and challenging to keep yourself engaged.” “The fact that it’s not like anything either one of us have done before is what makes this so interesting for me,” explains Lanegan. ![]() And while he’s worked many legendary acts over his career, DMvsSJ marks a new band for Lanegan, not a guest spot or featured artist. Skeleton Joe (featuring Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees and Joe Cardamone of The Icarus Line) mine electronic music and unearth an experimental sound for both of them, a sound coined ‘gothic death disco.’Ī prolific artist and author, Lanegan has collaborated with a host of bands and musicians, including UNKLE, Neko Case, The Duke Spirit and Queens of the Stone Age, among many others. Add to that the song that is well-suited for clubs Turning in Reverse, and epic techno with some progressive elements, a full-fledged DJ session at an acid-filled event (Skeleton Joe Manifesto). T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “A project born from mutual respect, Dark Mark vs. The dance of macabre takes place on the dirty dance floor, with rock of Dark Mark intertwining with the rave party of Skeleton Joe (Sanctified). ![]()
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