Sparklehorse

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风格: #独立流行　#独立摇滚　#低保真
地区: United States of America 美国

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中文名 Sparklehorse

类型乐队

成立时间 1994年

主唱 Mark Linkous（2010年逝世）

乐队资料

Sparklehorse组建于1994年底，是来自美国维吉尼亚的独立乐队。Mark Linkous（马克·林科斯）是Sparklehose乐队的主唱，乐队灵魂。

多年前，一位美国青年在英国一家旅馆里因耽溺嗑药过量而终至崩溃，陷入了濒临疯狂边缘的燥郁症患者，结果他还因那次的崩溃让他的上身一直压着双脚长达数小时之久，导致最后下半身终身瘫痪而必须倚靠轮椅来度过余生。这位残疾的青年不是别人，正是Sparklehorse的首脑人物Mark Linkous。然而，Mark Linkous的故事虽让人读来悲惨感伤，但说真的，Linkous并不需要藉此骗钱赚人热泪或暗中鼓励人们多去义捐购买他的专辑，好让他可以从此不必再如此痛苦挹郁不绝。相反的，就因他这身已注定残缺的身躯与灵魂驱策着他，让他反而更能超越常人的观点而看清了人世间的真假虚伪、衰败腐朽以及死亡。Sparklehors的音乐做的出奇的美，——而且是种奇异的美，他们的灵感源于实际存在的声响和空间经验主义。Sparklehorse的音乐是可以感动你一下午的。那种阴郁的对生活的眷恋，一旦穿透了演唱上的萎靡以及吉他演奏上的舒缓乏力，还是会让你感受到其音乐深处的孔武。

发展历程

1996年，Sparklehorse名副其实地以乡村迷幻式的忧伤和美丽，发行了他们的第一张专辑《Viva Dixie Submarine Transmission Plot》

1998年，发行了第二张专辑《Good Morning Spider》承接前面一张《Viva Dixie Submarine Transmission Plot》的Sparklehorse依然风采迷人——九八年的这张《Good Morning Spider》证明了田园音乐诗人Mark Linkous的艺术天赋并不因为加入大厂牌便失色。然而把它与上张专辑相比是必然的事情，因为它不仅延续了前者印象派油画般的音乐创作手法，而且在音乐制作和编排上也显得更为精雕细琢。

2000年，发行了EP《Distorted Ghost》

2001年，发行了第三张专辑《It's a Wonderful Life》给《It's a Wonderful Life》一个最好的诠释：在最怪异的时候，只要活着就很美好。

2006年，发行了第四张专辑《Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain》。

然而，在2010年3月6日，Sparklehorse乐队主唱马克-林科斯(Mark Linkous)的自杀在音乐圈内引起了巨大的震动。有着朋克教母之誉的帕蒂-史密斯(Patti Smith)，美国噪音摇滚歌手史蒂夫-阿尔比尼(Steve Albini)以及烈焰红唇(Flaming Lips)乐队的吉他手史蒂芬-多罗茨德(Steven Drozd)分别向这位已故的歌手表达了怀念。史蒂芬-多罗茨德在Twitter上用这样一段话来纪念这位已故好友：“马克-林科斯曾经在2003年时与我们一同巡演过。巡演结束后的晚上，他都会同我共同分享片刻的寂静，我们会一同喝杯威士忌或是互相开开玩笑，这些美好的回忆将永远存在我的心中。”

马克-林科斯生于1962年9月9日，作为一位创作歌手与乐手，他曾经与多位大牌艺人进行合作，这其中不乏如汤姆-维茨(Tom Waits)，PJ Harvey，Radiohead和导演大卫-林奇(David Lynch)这样星光熠熠的名字，同时他还是Sparklehorse乐队领军人物。由于身患严重的忧郁症，这位乐手于美国时间3月6日自杀身亡，终年47岁。

Life and career

Sparklehorse was an American indie rock band led by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous.

Sparklehorse's first album, ‘Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot’ (1995), was a modest college radio success. In 1996, while touring Europe with Radiohead shortly after the album's release, Linkous consumed a combination of anti-depressants, valium, alcohol, and heroin in a London hotel room.Unconscious and with his legs pinned beneath him for almost fourteen hours, the resulting potassium build up caused his heart to stop for several minutes after his body was lifted up. The ensuing surgery almost caused him to lose the use of both legs and left him wheelchair-bound for six months and requiring dialysis for acute kidney failure.

‘Good Morning Spider’ (1998) was recorded following this incident. Critics have conjectured that Linkous's brush with death inspired the sombre tone of the album, though Linkous stated that much of the material on GMS had already been written. One song that did result from it is "St. Mary", which is dedicated to the nurses at the eponymous hospital in Paddington where Linkous recuperated.

2001 saw the release of ‘It's a Wonderful Life’, featuring appearances by Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Bob Rupe, Nina Persson and Dave Fridmann. Whereas much of Vivadixie... and ‘Spider’ were recorded solely by Linkous on his Virginia farm, the new album was a more collaborative work. Linkous expressed his satisfaction with the overall sound of ‘It's a Wonderful Life’, which was engineered by Joel Hamilton, while also claiming that he would have preferred to include more experimental and instrumental material.

On September 25, 2006, Sparklehorse released their fourth album, ‘Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain’, collaborating with Danger Mouse, Christian Fennesz, and Steven Drozd. This album featured the radio release "Don't Take My Sunshine Away" and a remastered version of "Shade And Honey", which Linkous originally wrote for Alessandro Nivola to sing in the 2003 movie Laurel Canyon, as well as a virtually unchanged re-release of "Morning Hollow," the bonus track from It's a Wonderful Life.

In 2008, Sparklehorse recorded a cover of the song "Jack's Obsession," from ‘Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas’ for the official compilation album ‘Nightmare Revisited’. In 2009, Sparklehorse teamed up with Danger Mouse and David Lynch in the project ‘Dark Night of the Soul’.

In 2009, Linkous teamed up with electronic ambient-music artist Christian Fennesz to create In the Fishtank 15, a wafting album EP of experimentation and dreamy atmospherics. The last four live shows, Linkous did together with Fennesz during a European tour that was held during October 2009.

Linkous committed suicide in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 6, 2010.

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