Name: Memento Mori (Anthology 1978 - 2018)
Brand: Barry Adamson

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CDMUTEL29

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Ecopac with 12 Page Booklet.

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Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-26

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PIAS

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5413356000207

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MUTEL29

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5413356000214

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Artist

Barry Adamson

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Mute

Barry Adamson, born on 11 June 1958 in Moss Side, Manchester, is a renowned artist and musician. He started his career as the bass player for the post-punk band *Magazine* from 1978 to 1982. Later, he became a founding member of *Nick Cave's Bad Seeds* in 1984. Since then, Barry Adamson has established himself as a solo artist with the release of his debut album "Moss Side Story" in 1989.

With an illustrious career spanning decades, Barry Adamson has carved out his own unique path in the music industry. His style and sound have influenced many artists such as *Mick Harvey*, *Angelo Badalamenti*, and *David Lynch*. Drawing inspiration from various genres including post-punk and experimental music, Adamson's work resonates with fans of bands like *Einstürzende Neubauten*, *Red Snapper*, and *The Young Gods*.

Barry Adamson's contributions to music extend beyond his solo career. His collaborations with other notable musicians such as Nick Cave's project *Grinderman* and his involvement with bands like Magazine demonstrate his versatility and talent. Fans of artists like *Tindersticks*, *Scott Walker*, and even iconic figures like Julian Cope will find themselves drawn to Barry Adamson's captivating compositions.

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Rough Trade's Albums of the Month - November

Barry Adamson returns with Memento Mori (Anthology 1978-2018), a 40th anniversary release charting the artist’s writing and recording career.

Moss Side’s Barry Adamson is a legend and a very nice one. He’s a photographer, filmmaker and writer as well as being a musician and composer and the scorer of a multitude of films. He’s worked with Magazine, Visage, The Birthday Party, Pan Sonic, Grinderman and Depeche Mode. This is a great compilation of just some of the his looooong career. All the ingredients and one of the best chefs going. Atmospheric moods sweep cinematically setting a scene to take you on a journey through cool jazzy nights and cold streets tinged with brassy glinting street lights. An album stuffed with cool cat vocals, crawling drum fills and shuffling dance-beats, swish strings, groovy swirling organs, funky wah wah and plenty of moody jazz.. Groovy swirling organs. Like the the sun played the disco on your face film noir. You’ve been riff-rolled.

Memento Mori charts Adamson’s career from 1978’s Magazine track, Parade (co-written by Adamson, from their debut album Real Life); to his work as founding member, alongside Nick Cave, of the Bad Seeds (From Her To Eternity, co-written by Adamson); through his nine solo albums, from 1988’s Moss Side Story to the latest Love Sick Dick EPs, bringing everything up to date with a brand new unreleased track, The Hummingbird. Brought up in Manchester’s Moss Side, Adamson learnt to play the bass overnight for Magazine, Manchester’s most influential band of that era. When they disbanded, five albums later in 1981, his singular style was spotted by The Birthday Party, with whom he played several times. His establishment as a solo artist came after a three-year stint with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds with the release of his classic first solo album, Moss Side Story - the ultimate soundtrack to an “imaginary film” - which raised Adamson’s name as a composer of diverse complexity; able to tell a story with music, where the images were those supplanted in the minds of the listeners. Adamson has worked with some of the film industry’s most intriguing mavericks including Derek Jarman (The Last of England, 1987), David Lynch (The Lost Highway, 1997), Oliver Stone (Natural Born Killers, 1994) and Danny Boyle (The Beach, 2000).

Having released nine studio albums, including the 1992 Mercury Music Prize nominated Soul Murder, 1996’s Oedipus Schmoedipus, which includes collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave and The Associates’ Billy McKenzie, and his most recent release, Know Where To Run, which was in part inspired by a recent US tour, back playing with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds after 23 years, Adamson’s talents are as much demand by new generations of artists as he was after his first solo release, with collaborations in recent years across a variety of art forms, including an Olivier Award winning ballet performance by Sylvie Guillem and the Ballet Boyz scored by Adamson. It was always a logical progression for Adamson to move behind the camera and once again his brooding film noir style and dark comedy has seen him write, direct and score a number of short films, including The Swing The Hole and The Lie (2014) as well as the recent video for They Walk Amongst Us (2017). Barry Adamson’s most recent releases, Love Sick Dick and Love Sick Dick Remixed – the latter featured a 6Music playlisted reworking by A Certain Ratio (featured on the Anthology) as well as remixes from Gazelle Twin and Adult. - have seen Barry Adamson back on the road, recent shows included a unique live performance cut straight to lathe as part of an evening at the British Library examining the Soviet vinyl bootleggers.