NASHVILLE |DT: OCTOBER 11, 2011
DAVID J
READIES
‘NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD’
FOR HALLOWEEN RELEASE
SIGNED SONG-INSPIRED ARTWORK AVAILABLE WITH DOUBLE VINYL PRESSING
WILL PERFORM HIS SHOW ‘SILVER FOR GOLD (THE ODYSSEY OF EDIE SEDGWICK)’ NOVEMBER 30 TO DECEMBER 4, IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES AT REDCAT
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There’s really no better time for former Bauhaus and Love & Rockets bassist/vocalist DAVID J to release his latest album NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD (Starry Records) for Halloween (it was originally set for an October 18 release). It’s the season where darkness becomes beautiful, and beautiful darkness is just one of this legend’s many trademarks.
DAVID has set November 1 as the release date for his eighth offering as a solo artist, and it’s perfectly apropos.
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD is a collection of 12 hypnotic hymns, touting gorgeously elegiac lyrics, smoky jazz piano, shades of gothic ambience, dark theatricality, and dramatic rock energy in the tradition of DAVID‘s most revered output. It’s otherworldly, elegant, and infectiously powerful.
In addition, DAVID has prepared a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork representing each song on the record. He’s signing each piece, and listeners can purchase them as part of a special, limited edition vinyl package of the album. This vinyl is a double LP with an ornate gatefold, and it also boasts one extra song, “Lorca’s Death,” only available on vinyl. For collectors, this is a must-have.
NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD will be released via Starry Records as part of a partnership with Smashing Pumpkins mastermind William Patrick Corgan and Kerry Brown alongside St. Rose Records. His impact has been felt intensely by both Billy and Kerry, and his influence remains prevalent in their work.
In other David J news, he will perform his show Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick) Wednesday, November 30 to Sunday, December 4, in downtown Los Angeles at Redcat, CalArts’ Downtown Center for Innovative Visual, Performing, and Media Arts. Part delirious one-woman show, part avant-garde rock concert replete with eerie video imagery, this production written and directed by David J finds new mythic dimensions in the rise and eventual drugs and alcohol-fueled crash of Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick. This mesmerizing performance considers the charismatic and misunderstood 1960s icon as a modern-day Persephone: Queen of the underworld to Warhol’s Hades. Throughout her travails, a horse-headed wounded healer guides Edie to eventual transcendence. David J leads the four-piece Silver for Gold Band through a melancholy and droll song cycle that comments on episodes in the doomed star’s life, while also nodding to the music of the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan. The production design, for its part, evokes Edie’s room in the ChelseaHotel as–what else?–a fog-enshrouded purgatory.
DAVID’s multi-dimensional career began with seminal goth legends Bauhaus. Since Bauhaus disbanded, DAVID has released seven albums with Love & Rockets, seven solo albums, and several solo EPs, as well as collaborations and session appearances with the likes of Jane’s Addiction, Genesis P. Orridge, Jarboe, author Alan Moore, and actress Fairuza Balk. NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD–a rich gothic cabaret-inspired album–is evidence of a deep maturation, sure to attract old fans and new.
The tracklist for NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD is as follows:
1. Because You’re Gone
2. Gloomy Sunday
3. Dead and Lovely
4. St. James Infirmary
5. Hank Williams to the Angel of Death
6. Spalding Gray Can’t Swim
7. Eulogy for Jeff Buckley
8. Dagger in the Well
9. The Last Cigarette
10. Dress Sexy at my Funeral
11. Farewell My Friend
12. Not Long For This World
*Lorca’s Death (bonus track)
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