{"id":24731,"date":"2024-05-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24731"},"modified":"2024-05-17T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:14:27","slug":"peter-murphy-launches-new-record-label-silver-shade-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24731","title":{"rendered":"PETER MURPHY launches new record label Silver Shade Records<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First two releases:<\/strong> \u2018Peter Live – Vol One \u2013 Covers\u2019<\/strong> & \u2018Peter Live \u2013 Vol Two – The Blender Theater NYC 2008\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be released June 21st via Cadiz Music <\/strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Volume One Covers\u2019 features a version of \u2018Hurt\u2019 by Nine Inch Nails featuring Trent Reznor on piano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the icons of the post-punk years, Peter Murphy fronted the dark art house crew Bauhaus. His charismatic, devilish and dangerous personae, combined with his stunning voice and razor-sharp cheekbones, saw him become one of the pin-ups for what was to be mislabelled\u00a0<\/strong>Goth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post Bauhaus, he released a series of acclaimed solo albums and fronted the band on their intermittent back-from-the-dead reunions before the band collapsed in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bauhaus were never short of giving a nod to their mentors with several well-executed covers that they made their own. The singer continues this tradition with \u2018Peter Live – Vol One \u2013 Covers\u2019, the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

first of two albums for his own new Silver Shade label, showcasing his own solo interpretations. The albums are prefaced with \u2018Peter Live\u2019.  \u2018Peter Live – Vol One \u2013 Covers\u2019 and \u2018Peter Live \u2013 Vol Two – The Blender Theater NYC 2008\u2019. Silver Shade will release his live concerts and re-issue solo albums in future times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is more to a cover version than copying it note for note, and the ever-astute vocalist gets to the heart of the art of darkness of these songs by unzipping them inside out whilst giving a nod to the music that made him what he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stamps his own authority all over them, from a thrilling take on Iggy\u2019s \u2018Funtime\u2019 to a dramatic version of \u2018Hurt\u2019. There is a terrifying, sparse dynamic take on Pere Ubu\u2019s iconic \u2018Final Solution\u2019 and a stomping and powerful nod to Howard Devoto’s Magazine with a brilliant take on their \u2018The Light Pours Out Of Me\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theatrical embraces of Elvis’s \u2018Love Me Tender\u2019 and Prince\u2019s \u2018Purple Rain\u2019 underline the eclectic spirit of Peter\u2019s musical journey and, of course, being one of the generation of the children of Ziggy, there is the Bowie moment on the stunning take on David\u2019s first hit, \u2018Space Oddity\u2019 that adds to the song\u2019s sense of unease and isolation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album concludes with \u2018Hurt\u2019 with the song\u2019s writer Trent Reznor (NIN) playing the piano and Peter re-claiming the song from Johnny Cash\u2019s version for power and emotion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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