Derde Verde: Slow Light & Mark Hollis Solo Album, A Lyrics Controversy

    

My new video is out! It is about a lyrics controversy - I am wondering if my video instead of talking about music is not rather a psychology session... But Michael Mackintosh I’m talking about at the end of this video, did appreciate it a lot and he is a life coach so maybe I am in the right direction... It is about the Mark Hollis Solo Album:  The Gift, Inside Looking Out and Derde Verde, their new album Slow Light, the songs I Will Wait, Jigsaw.

DERDE VERDE / TALK TALK The Hypnotic Effect, Mirror / Unnoticed

     

OMG! It reminds me when I was starting my videos about Talk Talk! 

Music is such a fascinating subject, and especially Derde Verde's one.
I feel so blessed!

My Wonky TRIBUTE to MARK HOLLIS (Talk Talk), A Genius Left Us

   

I never thought that I would do one day this video... It is a very sad period for all of us.

Talk Talk MARK HOLLIS, Dappled Things Article by Michael Rennier, 2018

   

The Strange Journey of an 80's Band...

MARK HOLLIS, The Music and Me, Way Back We Go, To The 70's At Least...

   

I have the feeling that the 60's-70's 

are going to have a lot of importance pretty soon

MARK HOLLIS: The Laughing Stock Interview + The Creative Warrior by Trac...

   

I am talking here about the important things said in this interview.

You will also find a little review of the Tracy Porter's book around the end.

For Mark Hollis, Was SPIRIT OF EDEN a Sacred Inspiration? & Mr Mojo Risi...

      

So much of Mr Mojo Risin in my Mark Hollis quest

Mark Hollis, The CHAMELEON: The Changes, Characters, Mood Swings & The L...

           

Sometimes, the look reflects perfectly the inner aspect,

MARK HOLLIS: Richard Skinner Interview Traduction Francaise, French Tran...

    

Pour les Francais, voici une petite traduction.

Mark Hollis' SILENCE Is Golden, Richard Skinner Interview, 1988, Ramblings

  

The least we can say, is that I was not silent on this video... I talk a lot! :-)

Mark Hollis, Talk Talk, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, I Love To Hear You Sing...

   

For what it's worth, I love to hear you sing, so sing with me...

MARK HOLLIS Talk Talk, 1st Albums versus The Last Ones, The Black Wax, S...

 



I never miss an occasion to give my opinion about something,

maybe can you give yours?

Mark Hollis - Tim Friese-Greene, Who Did What? John Clarkson Interview 0...

   

Who did what? 

If you have any verified answer, please, feel free to comment.

MARK HOLLIS & Talk Talk: The DOORS Influence, A Very Personal View

   

I invited my old buddy Jim Morrison on my new video.

The creating process. I've been searching for the link between Fine Art and Music during a very long time. Now, I am searching for the links between my two main sources of inspiration. 

Mark Hollis and Jim Morrison are so different as persons, that it is hard to believe that they could meet somewhere in Music. Jim Morrison, in his lyrics, described the visions he may have had, as a Shaman, during his psychedelic trances, going back to the most primitive and raw aspect of Humanity.

Mark Hollis is a giver and has offered us a divine Love through his Music. I receive it loud and clear.

Such a difference between the both! 

But still, both are, were searching for a piece of Truth, for a form of sincerity.

They have in common to have not sold themselves, to be very picky about their creative choices, both are, were, extremely talented, both said not to have an extended knowledge in Music when they started their career. 

Both disappeared abruptly: one died near my home in Paris, and was buried a few streets further, the other one retired without a warning or almost, and came haunting my dreams with his Music. 

Both are fascinating characters! 

But Jim committed a kind of suicide while Mark decided to save his life. 

Really not the same approach!

Jim Morrison disappeared way before I could even honor his work, I was still a child when he died. That is probably why I don't want to miss any chance to honor Mark's career, artists should be really appreciated and admired while they are still alive.

I am grateful to admire someone who is somehow my age, and still well alive.

Wish I can learn the most from him.

The Mark Hollis' MINIMALISM in Music & The Marie Kondo's Book, A Life-Ch...

   

Minimalism in Art as in Life is becoming essential, I think.

Let's just have a thought for Nice, France, for these poor people.

 I am still in shock.

Mark Hollis SPIRIT Of EDEN Timing The Irish Time / The Spectator Austral...

    

Announcing a great news in here, and I'm in my delirium again, sorry if I want to laugh a lot... I don't always have opportunities when I can have a big laugh. Even if the situation is grave, I always like to see the comical aspect in things as long as they are not too overwhelming, of course.

Also, you will hear a song all along this video, which has not much to do with Mark Hollis or Talk Talk, even if it is the same period, kind of... If you have the patience to watch this video until the end, you will understand why I am playing it. So, first, guess what song it is, second I will try to understand the link which can exist between the great news announced to me on phone and that song... 

Any suggestion is welcome. Maybe Scotland has something to do with it...

Funny how my huge interest in Talk Talk and Mark Hollis' Music led me to have even more concern for United Kingdom, if it is actually possible. I always have been passionate about UK, and if I hadn't felt the need in 2006 to go very far away, right now, I wouldn't be in Los Angeles, but very probably somewhere around London.  

However, now, this concern has an even deeper level, and with this Brexit being discussed, I find myself even more engaged in British political views, than I have ever been in the French ones. It seems to me that this potential Brexit affects more or less all of us. 

I am just wondering how videos about Art and Music can be suddenly invaded by British Politics, but we live in this world, we can't pretend it doesn't exist, chiefly when it is about a country, or rather a group of countries, that I love probably even more than the one I used to live in (France).

When I arrived in L.A., a little more than ten years ago now, people were asking me if I was not missing Paris too much. I was answering that beside my family and friends, not really, but what I was missing the most, was London. I was saying that like a joke, until I understood that it was nothing of a joke, it was what I was really feeling. 

That's how I started considering seriously moving to England if/when my L.A. adventure would end, because I didn't and still don't want to go back to Paris, or to France in general. 

Now, with the Brexit, this potential project seems slightly compromised, hence my new interest towards Ireland (South). 

This is why I am day and night, nights and day on the BBC news, to understand every decision, change, implication, meaning for me, meaning for United Kingdom, by hoping this Kingdom will still last a long time. Hoping also that this surprising referendum won't result, in the future, in another world war. 

Change is definitely the common point between Mark Hollis and United Kingdom. Leaving is another one.

Changes are necessary in life, but seeing people leaving has always broken my heart, it still does.

MARK HOLLIS The Quietus, Delivering "Marketable" Musics? W. Wallace, K. ...

What are marketable masters in Music? 

If we knew how to do that, everybody would do it! :-)

MARK HOLLIS, Love For Music Is Not Love For The Industry, TALK TALK

    

The Saturday night ranting... :-)
Art by James Marsh in this video

The Happy Accidents In Art & Music, Mark Hollis, Tim Friese-Greene & Tal...

    

Don't sweat it, embrace it, or how to make the Art creation easier...

MARK HOLLIS' Music: The Soothing Effect, Morality & Religion, Talk Talk

     

Always going to what we love the most, always searching for what feels right and good. I am not religious, I am not a Priest, I am nothing like that, however Life is so much more joyful when the intentions we put in it are good. 

We live in a world which is becoming kind of scary. I don't want to see the nasty things, I want to enjoy the best, and show how much Music, can soothe us, comfort us and make us do wonderful things. 

Peace & Love, it has never been more true!

Thank you Mr Mark Hollis for such a gift!