Anne Clark
Anne Clark ( born May 14, 1960 in Croydon, South London) is a British songwriter, singer and pianist who gained in the course of the post-punk era in the United Kingdom or the European New-Wave/Dark-Wave-Bewegung Popularity and still is active as a musician with his own band.
Clark's first album was released in 1982. In Europe, their most known songs Our Darkness and Sleeper in Metropolis (both from 1984) in the United States Hope Road (Single 1987 ). In Germany the song Our Darkness gained additional notoriety as the theme song to 1996 in the public television broadcast political magazine ZAK.
Musically leave almost all their works in the field of electronic music lane with some avant-garde classical, folk, rock and dance elements. Overall, their work the genus "Spoken Word " is attributed, that is Anne Clark does not sing, but carries the usually very poetic lyrics rather spoken rhythmically. Content, this set mainly and critically with the imperfections of being human, of everyday life and politics, which is especially the early work gives a haunting and melancholy substance, referred to as a "world of pain " both in German and in English.
Life
Anne Clark was born the daughter of an Irishwoman and a Scotsman in South London. At 16 she left school and took various jobs, including working as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. Then the musician later got a job at Bonaparte Records, a London record store and independent label with punk rock focus. She then worked in the immediately adjacent Warehouse Theatre, then a self-funded venue especially for alternative theater and music groups in Croydon. Bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Generation X and The Damned were part of the local scene and went on there, but also theater, dance and comedy projects, and poet. Anne Clark designed the Warehouse Theatre for 18 months, the program successfully; she could the house with artists such as Paul Weller, Linton Kwesi Johnson, French & Saunders, The Durutti Column, Ben Watt and other fill.
Even they also experimented with music and lyrics and performed publicly for the first time at the Cabaret Futura by Richard Strange on - together with the recently founded band Depeche Mode. At Paul Weller Riot -Stories- publishing - founded to support the ignored by major publishing houses works by young writers - she was co-editor. Even on television projects she was involved and wrote the screenplay for the Channel 4 production sketch for Someone; just as she was engaged for a number of TV productions of the BBC.
1982 came out the first album, The Sitting Room. For their next album, 1983 Changing Places 1984 Joined Up Writing and Hopeless Cases 1987, she had an acquaintance from the Warehouse, David Harrow, benefit, who acted as co-author. Some of the most developed of the two, and mainly produced with keyboards, synthesizers and samplers songs became milestones of electronic music of the 1980s, for example Sleeper in Metropolis, Our Darkness and Wallies. In 1985, Anne Clark their fourth album Pressure Points on the market, with whom she worked with John Foxx, founder of the British New Wave band Ultravox.
1987 Clark went to Norway for three years, where she worked with the musicians Tov Ramstad and Ida Baalsrund. A year later, she released her first live album RSVP with recordings of a concert on May 5, 1987 at the Utrecht Music Center.
Back in Britain, they brought in 1991 with pianist Charlie Morgan out the album Unstill Life. Together they worked on other projects, but could not be completed because Morgan in December 1992, died of cancer at the age of 36 years. Months of reorientation and change followed. Finally, in 1993 the album The Law Is an Anagram of Wealth was recorded and released. On this album Anne Clark set to music (such as the beginning of the 20th century already Gustav Mahler ) several poems by the German poet Friedrich Rückert. Then she continued to work with Tov Ramstad and also with Paul Downing, Martyn Bates ( Eyeless in Gaza by the band ) and Andy Bell.
1994 Anne Clark toured with a pure acoustic band. On the recorded in the Berlin Passion Church and published in the same year live album Psychometry, the results can be heard. The following electronic- acoustic album To Love and Be Loved 1995 Anne Clark focused on interpersonal relationships, thereby expanding the range of topics of their music. In addition to longing and frustration and joy of life and lascivious ( in the song Virtuality ) for the course to come.
As of 1996 featured several bands, producers, and DJs - including Aural Float, Hard Floor, Juno Reactor, Mouse on Mars, Pascal FEOS, Saafi Brothers, Sven Väth and The Mover - a tribute album with techno remixes of Anne Clark's songs together, the was published in 1997 under the title of Word Processing and documented Clarks influence on musicians of this genre.
Then the artist her acoustic, folk and classical influences went on to and published in 1998 with Martyn Bates Album Just After Sunset with translated into English poems by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. This album was re-released for a " creative break " and change the record label in 2002. Followed in 2003 by another acoustic album ( From the Heart - Live in Bratislava), which together with Murat Parlak (vocals / piano ), Jann Michael Engel (cello), Niko Lai (drums / percussion) and Jeff August (guitar) recorded. It was created on 17 November 2002 in the studios of Radio Slovenský rozhlas in the Slovak capital Bratislava during the European acoustic tour.
As of 2002, the songwriter was devoted increasingly to electronic music. Anne Clark was henceforth be heard as a guest singer in the songs of several other musical groups. This included 2002 in many dance charts rise to # 1, and thus very successful single The Hardest Heart of the German DJ duo Blank & Jones, and two years later the song Hall of Mirrors of the Slovenian band Silence ( a cover version of Kraftwerk original ).
In the fall of 2003, Clark appeared mainly for the German market specific book Notes Taken, Traces Left, which contains over 300 pages all their texts published since 1982 songs with translations into German as well as personal commentary, interviews and photos. A year later, an eponymous audio book was published in the form of two CDs on which it recites essential components of the book.
Was particularly intense from 2004 their collaboration with the Belgian electro band Implant with which she performed several times on stage, where they presented new versions of their hits along with the Belgians. Clark also took over for various Implant songs on vocals, among others 2005 Tune up your chips and circuits and Surface Tension and in 2006 for Your World and What it always this way. The well-established together with the also dedicated as Implant guest singer Dane Claus Larsen duet Was It Always This Way gained a certain notoriety in the electro scene thanks to the fans of Larsen's project Leather Strip.
In September 2007, Anne Clark began when musicians and producers Xabec in Leipzig with the recordings for their new studio album The Smallest Acts of Kindness, which is available on the German market since 26 September 2008. It is their first album with his own texts for twelve years, but psalm is a cover of Ultra Violent Pop (No Songs Tomorrow, 1983).
Anne Clark currently lives in Norfolk in eastern England.
Band
Anne Clark worked since the beginning of their career together with various musicians. Your current band (as of 2010 ) consists of:
- Jeff Aug, guitar ( and booking )
- Tobias Haas, drums
- Murat Parlak, piano
- Jann Michael Engel, Cello
- Steve Schroyder, electronics
Discography
Others
In the style closely based on the earlier works Clarks are publications of the German musician Sara Noxx, which is why their music sometimes falsely attributed to Anne Clark.
The song is abuse since the 1990s, the theme music of the show hit the week of the radio station Bayern 3 The show plays title of Bayerische single sales.