Other tracks on the record that capture this soundscape include "No Justice," which fits in line with the goth midnight dance floor, the slow-burning "Turning In Reverse," and the chaotic "Sanctified." The track is truly hypnotic and sounds like it could be right at home in a John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) movie. The night portion of Joe's analogy is perfectly represented in opening track "Livin Dead," which immediately starts off with eerie, blaring synths before pulsating drums and arresting vocals kick in. The hard songs are for when the sun is gone and the cuts without percussion are for the day after the primal beating."
I always thought the record functioned on a day to night level.
"There’s a lot of material that is nostalgic ambient. Only half the record lives in that territory though," explains Cardamone. "I do think the death disco label we've been given could apply to portions of the material. "The material we wanted to do together seemed to take well to the idea that our personas here are as if we’re now outcasts to our own creative selves. "The project is called Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe because we both have assumed these alter egos over the years,” says Cardamone about the origins of the project. These were in my pocket but there is no reason to hold on to them and I hope you'll find them enjoyable.Įxtra thanks to Dylan Carlson, Warren Ellis, Peter Hook, Jack Bates and Calvin Johnson for their time." Thanks to Amy Lee for putting this together and also thank you to Wyatt Oberholzer in Philly who worked on the recordings to make them audible for you. I listened to the first episode last night and felt that I still had my friend next to me. Mark, I want to thank you for the laughs and inspiration and friendship. When he came out, he still wanted to pursue it and hoped we would in time, but we never got there. The podcast was being pitched to places at the same time he landed in a coma, and that was that. when Mark moved to Ireland we had plans to continue and were reaching out to friends we planned to have on. We recorded a few episodes for fun and were just getting started, and that is what you will hear here, presented unedited and in crude glory. the type of delirious and open talks that arrive on an all night drive. After we made Plague Poems, Mark wanted to do a podcast together with the idea that the listener would be a voyeur to the candid conversations we were having. Wesley Eisold: "2020 - I'm going to Mark's often during the pandemic lockdown. Watch Mark Lanegan’s final video with side project Dark Mark vs.The AFTER DARK WITH WES AND MARK podcast is available to stream now via Anchor, Spotify, Apple and Google. They released their self-titled debut album last October. “When you’ve done as much as Joe and I have, you have to constantly be different and challenging to keep yourself engaged.” “The fact that it’s unlike anything either of us has done before is what makes this very exciting for me,” Lanegan said last year. Skeleton Joe was born from his and Cardamone’s desire to explore beyond the boundaries of the genres they had previously worked in. Lanegan previously said that Dark Mark vs. I had always hoped to do some ‘Hiraeth’ pictures but we were running out of time and hanging out took precedence. We walked and talked in the woods for a few hours and fired the camera at the end. He continued, “On the last day, we all decided to visit a side of the lake that Mark had yet to explore. He looked so happy there, more than I’ve ever seen in Los Angeles. This is a chance to spend some time together and let Mark show me his new hometown. A lot of pictures and filming while I was there with him multiplied. “We were just together every day and trying to get through it. “When I went to Killarney to visit Mark after COVID/coma, we only had a week to work on filming and modest resources,” said Cardamone. Lanegan died at the age of 57 in February. The couple took the video following his near-death experience from COVID-19. The second half of the video shows Lanegan and Cardamone wandering the woods around Killarney, Ireland, where Lanegan moved at the end of his life. Skeleton Joe, features a final shot of the head of Screaming Trees, with a collage of his entire career. ‘Hiraeth’, from the late grunge icon and Joe Cardamone’s side project Dark Mark vs. READ MORE: Mark Lanegan, 1964 – 2022: bedrock in modern alternative rock.The last video of Mark Lanegan before his death has been released.
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