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Thomas Truax to release David Lynch tracks

By | Published on Thursday 16 April 2009

Instrument-inventing crazed genius Thomas Truax has announced that his fourth album, a collection of cover versions of songs that have featured in David Lynch films cunningly titled ‘Songs From The Films Of David Lynch’, will be released via SL Records next month.

Talking about the album, Truax told CMU: “I’ve had my own music described more than a few times as the ‘perfect soundtrack for a David Lynch film’, so it seemed a natural project. He always picks, and sometimes has a hand in writing, great songs for his films. At least half these songs I could have easily chosen outside the context of their association with the Lynch films. ‘I Put A Spell On You’, for example. In a way I was just lucky that a version ended up in ‘Lost Highway’, because the original Screamin’ Jay Hawkins version was something I loved even as a kid”.

On his decision to record an album of covers, rather than original songs, he said: “A great song is a thing to celebrate, and worth revisiting in different times. A strong song will glow in different ways through different voices. I really love all these songs, I love playing them and I feel an affinity for them. I only chose songs that I felt I could do something new with, twist or cast a different light on. One has to remember that in the history of music it’s a relatively recent trend that singers even wrote their own songs. And it wasn’t long before that that songs travelled and got known by being passed on from player to player or via sheet music and got around by different musicians playing them, rather than in any fixed recorded medium. So covers are a traditional part of a music person’s life”.



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