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David Lynch and Ange­lo Badala­men­ti unearth lost” jazz LP

18 Sep 2018

Words by Adam Woodward

Two men, one wearing a red shirt and the other wearing a black shirt, posing together in front of a background with decorative objects.
Two men, one wearing a red shirt and the other wearing a black shirt, posing together in front of a background with decorative objects.
The duo’s fabled exper­i­men­tal album is set for release lat­er this year.

Back in the ear­ly 1990s, film­mak­er David Lynch and com­pos­er Ange­lo Badala­men­ti joined forces to cre­ate one of the most influ­en­tial and endur­ing works of the decade. But while Twin Peaks earned the pair wide­spread crit­i­cal acclaim, their oth­er joint ven­ture has remained in obscu­ri­ty, locked away for more than two decades.

While Twin Peaks’ sec­ond sea­son was still on the air and prin­ci­ple pro­duc­tion had just begun on the spin-off pre­quel movie Fire Walk with Me, Lynch and Badala­men­ti formed a musi­cal side project called Thought Gang. Now, the duo’s long-fabled, pre­vi­ous­ly unre­leased exper­i­men­tal jazz LP is final­ly set for release lat­er this year cour­tesy of Sacred Bones Records.

Accord­ing to Lynch, the album, which was record­ed in 1992 and 1993, evolved from the seeds of Twin Peaks’ trade­mark slow cool jazz, blos­som­ing into a more dynam­ic, expan­sive sound laced with spo­ken-word nar­ra­tives and sprawl­ing nois­escapes. It’s sort of like jet-fuelled jazz in a weird way… but it’s all based on sto­ries,” says Lynch. It’s Mod­ern Music.”

Ahead of the album’s launch on 2 Novem­ber, a video piece cre­at­ed by Lynch will pre­mière at the Fes­ti­val of Dis­rup­tion. Here’s what he had to say on the piece: It is a short video fea­tur­ing my friends the ants, along with cheese, etc. and one and a half tracks from the upcom­ing Thought Gang album.”

You can lis­ten to the first sin­gle Wood­cut­ters from Fiery Ships’ below, and pre-order the album via sacred​bones​records​.com

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