MARTIN L. GORE DISCOGRAPHY




Martin L. Gore 'Counterfeit²' 2003



Martin Gore


Album:  

Counterfeit²


Label:  

Martin Gore  

Mute


Catalog number:  

STUMM214


Release date:  

28 April 2003


Record in studio:  

Electrical Ladyboy


Producer:  

Andrew Phillpott and Paul Freegard


The artwork:  

Anton Corbijn, Four5one Creative


Formats edition:  

LP

CD


UK chart:  

102 position




SONG LYRICS by ALBUM




PRESS RELEASE


Depeche Mode


MARTIN L. GORE



NEW ALBUM "COUNTERFEIT²"



RELEASE DATE: 28th APRIL 2003



Martin L. Gore, songwriter and one of the founder members of Depeche Mode, is set to release his new album entitled "Counterfeit²" in April 2003. The album is the second in his counterfeit cover-version series. Classic tunes by Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Kurt Weill, David Essex and John Lennon are among the album's eleven radically reworked homages to musical heroes old and new.


As Depeche Mode took time out following their monstrously successful "Exciter" album and world tour, Martin could easily have spent the last 18 months lying on a beach, listening to disco music. But instead he knuckled down at his home studio in California, revisiting and reinventing songs which have touched him deeply over the years.


The tracks on "Counterfeit²" range from sultry 21st Century blues to achingly lovely sci-fi lullabies, sublime alt-country crooners to engrossing electronic torch songs. A glittering haul of buried treasure, their only guiding spirit being the visceral emotional attachment felt by Martin towards them.


"I really wanted to get across a fan's perspective," says Martin. "There is something about the songs I like that somehow gives the album a thread. Deep emotions, I suppose. There has to be a personal connection."


Even casual Depeche Mode fans will recognise the aching vulnerability and lustful longing in these songs of faith and devotion. But the track listing on "Counterfeit2" goes deeper than mere influence; it goes right to the roots of why Martin became a musician in the first place. "Without some of the artists I've covered here, I wouldn't be writing the way I do."


Martin's teenage tastes clearly ranged freely, as "Counterfeit²" demonstrates. Here a woozy electro-glide through the strangely soothing alienation of Brian Eno's 'By This River' rubs shoulders with a techno-glam overhaul of post-fame burnout anthem 'Stardust', the weirdest David Essex tune ever to grace the Top 10. Martin is, after all, pop's original Essex boy.


A compelling post-lounge twist on Iggy Pop's 'Tiny Girls' gives way to a streamlined, softly oscillating version of John Lennon's 'Oh My Love'. And a sleek, German-language version of Nico's Teutonic torchlight serenade 'Das Lied Vom Einsamen Mädchen' (The Song of The Lonely Girl), contrasts sharply with a reading of The Velvet Underground's 'Candy Says', which Martin fatefully describes as "more drugged out than the original".


In choosing the tracks for "Counterfeit²", Martin has also dug deep into musical history, adding a sensual electronic sheen to the vintage country-blues tunes 'I Cast A Lonesome Shadow' and 'In My Time Of Dying'. But the album's most straightforward and traditionally romantic number finds Martin crooning desolately over piano and strings on Kurt Weill's deceptively jaunty hymn to a godless universe, 'Lost In The Stars'.


As well as nodding to the past, "CounterfeitВІ" also acknowledges some of Martin's left-field pop peers. Labelmate Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' lusty blues howler 'Lover Man' is reborn as a sexually charged trip-hop juggernaut of manicured malevolence. But the album's beatific peak is 'In My Other Word', Julee Cruise's fragrant, David Lynch-ian fable about a parallel universe where cover versions of ourselves are enjoying perfect lives.


So what is the counterfeit Martin L. Gore doing, right now, in this magical world just beyond our reach? "He's probably on the beach," grins Martin, "listening to disco music."


Counterfeit². Borrowed songs, real passions. Accept no substitute.



www.mute.com





SINGLES


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Stardust

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Loverman EP²




LIVE PERFORMANCE


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A Night With Martin Gore 2003







VINYL RELEASE


12" (STUMM214) EU



SIDE 1



001   "In My Time Of Dying" 04:24


002   "Stardust" 03:08


003   "I Cast a Lonesome Shadow" 04:51


004   "In My Other World" 03:53


005   "Loverman" 07:02



SIDE 2



001   "By This River" 04:01


002   "Lost in the Stars" 02:52


003   "Oh My Love" 03:33


004   "Das Lied vom einsamen Mädchen" 05:25


005   "Tiny Girls" 03:20


006   "Candy Says" 04:35





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Barcode:   0 724358 247718 >


Other label:   PRINTED IN THE EU


Label Code:   LC5834


Runout SIDE 1:   STUMM 214 A‾¹ Guy’S THE EXCHANGE — DAMONT


Runout SIDE 2:   STUMM 214 B‾¹ — DAMONT


Barcode LP:   0724358247718





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CD RELEASE


CD (CDSTUMM214) EU



001   "In My Time of Dying" 04:24


002   "Stardust" 03:08


003   "I Cast a Lonesome Shadow" 04:51


004   "In My Other World" 03:53


005   "Loverman" 07:02


006   "By This River" 04:01


007   "Lost in the Stars" 02:52


008   "Oh My Love" 03:33


009   "Das Lied vom einsamen Mädchen" 05:25


010   "Tiny Girls" 03:20


011   "Candy Says" 04:35





● MATRIX: RUNOUT / BARCODE



Barcode:   0 724358 350425


Other:   PRINTED IN THE EU


Label Code:   LC 5834


Distribution Code:   PM 538


Rights Society:   bel BIEM


Runout:   EMI UDEN 5835042 @ 1


Barcode:   0724358350425





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PRODUCTION DETAILS ALBUM



"In My Time of Dying" 04:24  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Arranged By Martin L. Gore. Written-By Traditional.


"Stardust" 03:08  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Written-By David Essex.


"I Cast a Lonesome Shadow" 04:51  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Written-By Hank Thompson, Lynn Russwurm.


"In My Other World" 03:53  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Written-By Julee Cruise.


"Loverman" 07:02  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Written-By Nick Cave.


"By This River" 04:01  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Written-By Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius, Hans Roedelius.


"Lost in the Stars" 02:52  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Piano by Peter Gordeno. Written-By Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson.


"Oh My Love" 03:33  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Written-By John Lennon / Yoko Ono.


"Das Lied vom einsamen Mädchen" 05:25  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Electric Piano by Peter Gordeno. Written-By Robert Gilbert, Werner Heymann.


"Tiny Girls" 03:20  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Performer by Peter Gordeno. Written-By David Bowie, Iggy Pop.


"Candy Says" 04:35  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Written-By Lou Reed.


"Life Is Strange" 02:17  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Written-By Marc Bolan.


"Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys" 04:41  •  Mastered By Kris Solem. Producer by Andrew Phillpott, Paul Freegard. Written-By Marc Bolan.





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