The Tiger Lillies with Kronos Quartet
Sadly, Gorey died before he could hear the songs that Martin Jacques wrote. The combination is perfect. The thirteen songs that emerged from the union are deliciously dark and twisted… Jacques’ falsetto voice hauntingly and beautifully render Gorey’s new tales, bringing them to life with humour and pathos. The Kronos Quartet give a chamber music feel that evokes Gorey’s fascination with stately upper-class homes… It’s a shame that Gorey never heard these songs, because he would have loved them. The Tiger Lillies have something very special and, like Gorey, they connect with our everyday lives while gently mocking our mores and taboos about death and the bizarre.
2003 Grammy Nominee – Best Classical Crossover Album
Back in print for the first time in over a decade, The Gorey End features adaptations by the Tiger Lillies’ founder and frontman Martin Jaques of unpublished works by Edward Gorey, the American illustrator and writer known for what The New Yorker described as “his little books of sinister whimsy.” In his note for the album, Jaques described the development of the album: “While on tour, I was told I had received a funny letter from someone called Edward Gorey, and he thought I was the cat’s pyjamas.’ He said he had a lot of unpublished work and in due course he sent it to me in a large cardboard box… He also sent me a stone in a saucer saying if I stared at it long enough it would turn me into a frog.”
SELECT CREDITS
The Tiger Lillies:
Martyn Jacques, vocals, piano, organ, accordion, ukelele
Adrian Huge, drums, toys
Adrian Stout, bass, musical saw, horn
with
Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Jennifer Culp, cello
String arrangements by Hans-Joern Brandenburg
Produced by The Tiger Lillies
This album is dedicated to the memory of Edward Gorey
* – with Kronos Quartet
Released by Misery Guts Music
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