Hello our fans out there in 19-Covid land!
as you probably know The Tiger Lillies are getting old. We might all be struck down by the virus, so to help us pay for the funeral arrangements, why not download our brand new, for the first time ever in audio only format classic album Mountains Of Madness?
We hope that you are not going to die, because let’s face it, if you do we won’t have any fans left.
Love,
The Tiger Lillies
Bandcamp is waving its commission fees on Friday, March 20th PET time so please get a copy then if you can.
ABOUT THE ALBUM:
The Tiger Lillies reissue iconic Mountains of Madness in audio for the first time!
Based on the bizarre stories of legendary writer HP Lovecraft, Mountains of Madness is a baroque musical cabaret created in 2006 by the London vaudeville trio The Tiger Lillies, Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and illustrator Danielle de Picciotto.
Originally performed as a live show and then released on a limited-edition DVD, the songs are based on a collection of Lovecraft’s most famous and macabre pulp horror fiction works including The Call of Cthulhu, The Rats in the Walls and the title track At the Mountains of Madness.
It seems like now is the perfect time to return to these stories of horror and impending doom and make these songs available in audio for the long nights of isolation we are all experiencing now.
The eccentric confrontation of The Tiger Lillies' somewhat traditional array of instruments with Alexander Hacke’s sound compositions gives this performance its ghostly three-dimensional depth in which an open-minded audience can immerse themselves with the glee of enjoyment.The album will be available to download exclusively on Bandcamp from March 20th as part of the effort to support artist during the Covid 19 pandemic.
The Tiger Lillies, along with most independent artists, have lost all live bookings for an indefinite period so anything fans can do to help support us during these uncertain times would be greatly appreciated.
The download contains 13 tracks in high resolution .aiff, 1 exclusive video, liner notes and illustrated booklet with lyrics.
‘Martyn Jacques is a charismatic focus. Trudging between his piano and accordion like a man weighed down by supernatural dread, he resembles a melancholic amalgam of Cabaret's Joel Grey and Meat Loaf - yet his voice, on tremulous anthems such as The Rats in the Walls, is a molten cascade. This delicious dark cabaret is Kurt Weill as scripted by Aleister Crowley, and the execution is impeccable throughout.
Phenomenal.’ - ***** The Guardian