Cutting Through (The Final Recordings)

Martin Hall

Format:	DBLP
Released:	February 1986
Label:	SAM
Catalogue:	SAM 25

Lyrics:	Martin Hall
Music:	Martin Hall
Producer:	Martin Hall
Cover:	Martin Hall
Photo:	Robin Skjoldborg

Tracklist:

1. Showdown 7:50 2. Crush 5:14 3. Cut Off 6:03 4. Deep Inside Me 10:42 5. Synthesis 8:28 6. Further 20:54 7. Over 22:01

Musicians:

Flemming Nygaard: cello Janine Neble: backing vocals Martin Hall: vocals, drums, keyboards, bass Søren Frank: saxophone Søren Jacobsen: guitar

Recorded and mixed at Custom Sound, summer and autumn 1985. Re-released as a single LP (Side 1/2) on Virgin Records DK 9.89 Title: Cutting Throgh (The Re-Release). Catalogue number: MHLP1 (210 105).

Notes:

With the release of the double-album 'Cutting Through - The Final Recordings' in February 1986 (one record being grandiose pop music, the other being a kind of Tibetan ambient music) MH publicly declared his plans to end his musical and artistic career. His decision was surrounded by a massive media coverage, this being a 22 year old "musical wonderchild" as the press had entitled him that "said goodbye". Although MH in time did return to the music scene, the album and the two following concerts in Stakladen (Aarhus) and Saga (Copenhagen) nevertheless drew a clear line between what had been and what was still to come. After the last of the two concerts (Saga, April 4), MH dedicated the following two and a half years of his life to a metaphysical quest - a search that utilmately should enable him to return as a stronger and more mature person, when he made his comeback in September 1988 with the high-profile album 'Presence' (read on under this title). 'Cutting Through' was - like its predecessor 'Relief' and the later 'Random Hold' - released in Germany.