Thought Gang – Angelo Badalamenti és David Lynch dzsesszprojektjének 25 év után megjelenő albuma

A két szerző ad hoc utasításait követő session zenészekkel improvizálva felvett, free jazz, spoken word és noise hangtájképek jellemezte Thought Gang-anyag megjelentetése már 2011-re be volt ütemezve, de Lynch szólóalbumainak (Crazy Clown Time – 2011, The Big Dream – 2013) és a Twin Peaks sorozat újraindításának árnyékában egyre csak csúszott a dolog. 2018. november 2-án azonban végre megkapjuk a zenei szerkesztő Dean Hurley által véglegesre kevert címnélküli Thought Gang-albumot, melyen az ütőhangszerek mellett néha gitározgató szövegíró-társproducer David Lynch a hangjával csak a Jack Paints It Red című számban szerepel, a többiben a billentyűs-zeneszerző-producer Badalamenti egzaltált dumáját hallhatjuk – így a lemezbejelentéshez közzétett Woodcutters From Fiery Ships című felvételen is.

The ants were walking fast
And they finally disappeared into some tall grass
Pete couldn’t see where they went
Or what they were after
It was a gray muggy day with some rain
A light wind was blowing
Pete saw the girl next door take off her clothes last night
And walk through her house nude
She went into a back room
And Pete waited for her to come out
But she never did

Pete saw two children of the earth come out of the ground after that
A cat killed one of them and played with the other
Until one of its legs came off
The moon was half full
Someone was in Pete’s yard last night
Pete heard the person walk past his window
And into the bushes, then out of the yard again
Pete couldn’t see them because the lights were on in his house

At the diner, he heard a man say
That the doctors had cut him down his neck and into his chest
They lifted his flesh away
And climbed his ribs
And scraped his arteries
A grey man with big ears lit a big cigar
Smoke drifted over Pete’s apple pie
The men at the other table were very pale
And were drinking Bloody Marys

Nothing is moving in Pete’s backyard
He hears distant traffic
And the electric clock is grinding gears near him
Several woodcutters from fiery ships
Are coming in his door
They are dressed in wool
And are opening up his drawers
And his refrigerator
One of them runs his hand up and down Pete’s walls
Stopping now and then and laughing

They have discovered Pete
And have him by the arms
And Pete’s going with them
Out under the orange tree
They keep hitting Pete’s knees
With their smoking pipes
The sun is coming out
And a bird hops in the bushes

The woodcutters are digging a hole
Pete is upset about things
His brain is sorting out information
Gleaned from this confusing life
Things aren’t making sense
For instance, why is that boy bleeding from the mouth?
Everything is moving
Except where it is perfectly still

Pete’s curtains open and close
Smoke fills his room
Blood shoots from the cracks
The appliances roar
Wind blows things
Hurricanes through his lungs
And the roots come out

Woodcutters are everywhere now
Moving quickly, loading Pete into their craft
The dogs howl into the night
And blood rains fill the streets
Babies float in it
Stars shoot it first
And blue lightning greets a rotted gutter

Swirls of flying ants are in Pete’s room now
Taking his shoes across the room
As a fiery ship roars
From the fiery ship, Pete sees the girl now as she falls
The first bump, then the second
Maintenance men employed by the city cleaned her kitchen
But it took two days
Pete and the woodcutters were five freakin’ miles away by then

P.S. – Pete learned to enjoy the woodcutters
And their particular brand of humor

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a korábban megjelent Thought Gang-számok:

A Real Indication (1992-es videoklippel)

So I’m goin’ down this street
And I’m tryin’ not to smile
‘Cause the street is where I’m goin’
And the curb is at the side
By the sewer
Where the rain goes down

Like this girl I once knew
‘Cause the sewer is so hollow
And the yell
Could last forever

Like the night my girl went away
Gone off in a world filled with stuff
Lights start changin’
And there’s wires in the air
And the asphalt man
Is all around me

And I look down
And my shoes are so far away from me, man
I can’t believe it

I got a real indication
Of a laugh comin’ on

That old wind
Is howling like a cold steel train
Girl has left me
Not comin’ back again

Got rusted bullet holes in the Dodge
And a heartburn like a solar flare
The grass by the house is dry, man

And a horsefly
Buzzes
By the big mistake In the distance , man
I see myself start to smile

I got a real indication of a laugh comin’ on

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The Black Dog Runs At Night (szintén az 1992-es Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me filmzenelemezről)

Headless Chicken (a 2017-es évad instrumentális zenéit egybegyűjtő Twin Peaks Limited Event Series Soundtrack albumon)

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a Thought Gang-album számlistája az alábbi Bandcamp-lejátszón:

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FRISSÍTÉS: a lemezmegjelenés után két héttel a kiadó hivatalos YouTube-csatornájára került Ant Head című idei David Lynch-kisfilm, melynek aláfestése a fentebb végighallgatható Thought Gang-album két kompozíciója lett – az első nyolc és fél percben a bő negyedórás Frank 2000 című szám második felét hallhatjuk, 8:35-tól pedig Woodcutters From Fiery Ships című felvételt!