Name: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project - The Task Has Overwhelmed Us
Brand: Various

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2023-09-29

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Shellshock

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Glitterhouse

Glitterhouse is a music label owned by Reinhard Holstein. Founded in 1981 by Holstein and Rembert Stiewe, the label started as a fanzine called "The Glitterhouse" that focused on 60's garage and psychedelia, punk extensions, weirdo folk, and similar genres. Over the years, Glitterhouse has released music from German artists such as *Surfin' Dead*, *The Strangemen*, and *Shiny Gnomes*. In 1987, Glitterhouse began a cooperation with Seattle-based record label Sub Pop, which led to increased popularity and market position for both labels. This partnership allowed Glitterhouse to distribute records from bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden in Europe.

In addition to working with Sub Pop, Glitterhouse also distributed products from Amphetamine Reptile Records in Europe. However, this collaboration ended when Glitterhouse no longer identified with the musical content of the American noise label. Despite this setback, Glitterhouse continued to publish its own signings including *Monster Magnet*, *Sylvia Juncosa*, *Sister Double Happiness*, and *Bitch Magnet*.

Since 1994, Glitterhouse has expanded its roster to include alternative rock bands from Scandinavia and England. The label now covers a wide range of musical styles including widescreen-pop, indie-electronica, avant-garde, dark indie folk, rock,

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Nearly ten years in the making, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us is the long-awaited fourth volume in The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project series. Conceived in 2006 by the late Gun Club titan’s guitarist Cypress Grove, the Project has always aimed to highlight Pierce as one of America’s most fascinatingly influential singer-songwriters of the last century while propelling his outpourings into modern times by placing it in the hands of former collaborators, friends and fans. Following 2009’s We Are Only Riders, 2012’s The Journey Is Long and 2014’s Axels and Sockets, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us presents stellar interpretations of tracks from Pierce’s Gun Club and solo canons along with fresh works constructed from rehearsal skeletons, previously unheard lyrics, songs only performed live. Taking song ideas without lyrics and words looking for musical settings gave rise to what Cypress Grove calls “Frankenstein songs”.

  The stellar roll-call of contributors features the Project’s original recurring core including Nick Cave, Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan, Lydia Lunch, Youth, Jim Jones, Warren Ellis, Mark Stewart, Hugo Race, Cypress himself plus Mick Harvey and J.P. Shilo as The Amber Lights, even Jeffrey himself from original tapes. These are joined by new bloods including Dave Gahan, Suzie Stapleton, Duke Garwood, Pam Hogg, The Coathangers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Peter Hayes and Leah Shapiro, Humanist, The Walkabouts’ Chris Eckman, Jozef van Wissem, Jim Jarmusch, Chantal Acda and Welsh space-rockers Sendelica with US vocalists Wonder and Dynamax Roberts. 

Like Pierce’s beloved jazz, the cast often spill into each other’s tracks. The mood throughout the eighteen tracks is of rare gems crafted with love, respect and the energy of committed fans, even obsessives channeling whatever facet or fragment of Pierce’s unruly muse fires their creative juices. It’s pretty much carved in legend how Jeffrey Lee Pierce roared out of post-punk LA brandishing an incendiary genius that flamed in the spotlight for just fifteen years before his untimely death in 1996. Despite the impact of the Gun Club and resonance of Pierce’s back catalogue, his legacy seemed in danger of shrinking to eternal cult status earlier this century, fading against modern blandness yet ever-radiating for a gaggle of core diehards he’d touched with his supernatural muse (quite possibly in a blizzard of chaos).&nbsp;

1. Mother Of Earth -&nbsp;Dave Gahan

2. La La Los Angeles -&nbsp;The Coathangers

3. Yellow Eyes -&nbsp;Jeffrey Lee Pierce (feat. Nick Cave &amp; Warren Ellis)

4. Debbie By The Christmas Tree -&nbsp;The Amber Lights

5. Go Tell The Mountain -&nbsp;Mark Lanegan (feat. Nick Cave &amp; Warren Ellis)

6. Going Down The Red River -&nbsp;Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind

7. The Stranger In Our Town -&nbsp;Peter Hayes, Leah Shapiro, &amp; Humanist

8. Secret Fires -&nbsp;Suzie Stapleton (feat. Duke Garwood)

10. On The Other Side -&nbsp;Nick Cave &amp; Debbie Harry

11. Idiot Waltz -&nbsp;Cypress Grove

12. Tiger Girl -&nbsp;The Amber Lights

13. From Death To Texas -&nbsp;Alejandro Escovedo

15. Time Drains Away -&nbsp;Lydia Lunch, Jozef van Wissem, Jim Jarmusch

16. Lucky Jim -&nbsp;Chris Eckman &amp; Chantal Acda

17. I Was Ashamed -&nbsp;Pam Hogg (feat. Warren Ellis &amp; Youth)

18. Bad America -&nbsp;Sendelica (feat. Wonder &amp; Dynamax Roberts)