Release Date: 09 September 2016
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0711297514223
Genres: Rock
Release Date: 09 September 2016
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0711297514216
Genres: Rock
Description
D.A.R.K. is an unlikely collaboration between Dolores O'Riordan, Andy Rourke and Olé Koretsky. Dolores, known famously as the singer of The Cranberries, has sold over 40 million albums and also worked with the likes of Angelo Badalamenti and Jah Wobble. Andy Rourke is best known as the inimitable bass player in one of the most important British bands ever, The Smiths - he has also worked with Pretenders, Ian Brown, Sinead O'Connor and Badly Drawn Boy. The third and final member is Olé Koretsky, a little known songwriter, producer and DJ based in New York.
The band's roots lie in a New York DJ-mixing collaboration formed between Andy and Olé, after they met gigging in Washington DC. After a couple of years' experimentation and laying down tracks in their home studios, a chance meeting between Andy and Dolores resulted in the singer asking him what he was working on. They began sharing tracks and ideas via email and dropbox, building on Andy and Olé's original demos and, in a couple of instances, Dolores completely re-imagining some of the songs.
A project Olé was also working on called SCIENCE AGREES was also incorporated into the mix. The three of them found lots in common musically as well as personally, which allowed them to develop these ideas into an album. Further writing ensued, followed by the three band members meeting up in Ontario, Canada to record live instrumentation and final vocal takes. All three of them arranged and produced the album: a concoction created in NYC and Ontario, mixed in California and mastered in London.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Cracker
Punk Rock Factory
Larkin Poe
The Darkness
June Tabor
Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan
The Orb
Ron Sexsmith
Greg Freeman
The Armory Show
Apocalypse Orchestra
The Blackbirds
Hawkwind
The War on Drugs
Hands Like Houses
Wasia Project
