DAMAGE CONTROL
Format: CD
Udgivet: Januar 2006
Selskab: Panoptikon
Katalognummer: OPTIK 05
Kunstner: Martin Hall
Tekster: Martin Hall
Musik: Martin Hall
Producer: Johnny Stage
Design: Kenneth Schultz
Foto: hansen-hansen.com
1. Damage Control 3:38
2. Swimming Pool Eyes (Winterhill version) 6:44
3. Vaseline Dream (2400 remix) 7:38
4. String Quartet Playing in a Refugee Camp 2:53
5. Play Hard to Get 3:10
Damage Control
She’s got a heart full of crazy people
She’s clearly not amused
Catching colds and missing trains
Is all she seems to do
The tragic bravados
The bourgeois staccato
Wonder why they bother at all
They’re all talking in headlines but dress out of style
“Get a life and then give me a call”
Every ghetto gladiator
Every little Pierrot
Looking like a drag magician in another wasted show
There’s a beggar on each corner
A stench in the air
Life’s a song that’s dedicated to the lovers at Tiananmen Square
So shit in your hat and place your head on a chair
This journey’s clearly not going anywhere
Turn on the tv
The lie of the land
A string quartet playing in a refugee camp
Start with a kiss and soon you’ll need vaseline
The damage control of any tangerine dream
Play hard to get
You’ll end on the run
‘Cause everyone’s bored with all this soft-porn
Confetti-covered
All animated
Party eyes that never close
A wave of raving faces with sparkling smiles
They look the same wherever she goes
The white shirts and big lips
All drowning in honey
Smacking tongues while they’re shaking their heads
Little socialites with portable roots
In her eyes they’d be better off dead
But the shops and the markets
The wild consumer craze
Seem to bind it all together and somehow make their day
All these harlequin girls with swimming pool eyes
If nothing else matters
They really took advantage of their time
Musikere
Anders Remark: guitar, emax
Anette Slaatto: bratsch
Dan Hemmer: rhodes
Gisli: rapper
Gry Vester-Andersen: cello
Hans Nybo: saxofon
Ida Bach Jensen: kontrabas
James Crabb: akkordion
Johnny Stage: guitar, percussion
Karoliina Koivisto: violin
Ketil Duckert: trompet
Lise Munch: valdhorn
Lotte Arnsbjerg: vokal
Marie Carmen Koppel: vokal
Martin Hall: vokal, keyboards, programmering, strygerarrangement
Mimi Kjær: flygel
Minh Le: trommer
Morten Jacobsen: bas
Sofie Darting: vokal
Thomas Li: protools
Indspillet og mixet i efteråret 2005 af Martin Hall, Johnny Stage og Thomas Li i The Box, The Tool Kit og mobilt.
Info
Damage Control blev udgivet i januar 2006 som en selvstændig og for så vidt løsrevet forløber for det efterfølgende Facsimile-album, idet hverken titelnummeret eller nogle af de andre fire numre fra EP’en var at finde på albummet. Single-projektet var i bedste 7”- og 12”-ånd et værk i sin egen ret – et udadvendt, up-tempo radioopråb mod det 21. århundredes forbrugerfascisme der stod i grel kontrast til den langt meget stille Facsimile-plade.
På Damage Control kunne man bl.a. stifte bekendtskab med den på det tidspunkt nye danske gruppe Summerhill, et band der som remix-unit kaldte sig Winterhill og stod for skæringen ”Swimming Pool Eyes”. På andre af EP’ens titler kunne man også finde den danske rapper Gisli, der medvirker på både track 1 og 3.
Titelnummeret blev playlistet på DR’s P3 og P4-chart i uge 4 og debuterede som #16 på den officielle danske hitliste i uge 7.
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