Month: april 1990

AUDIO-VISUAL

BANDCAMP

AUDIO-VISUAL

MARTIN HALL
VHS
APRIL 1990
VIRGIN RECORDS (MHVHS1)

Audio-Visual er en Martin Hall-videoudgivelse (VHS) lavet i samarbejde med Riot & Rota, et produktionsselskab ejet af Henrik Möll. Sidstnævnte har bl.a. fungeret som visuel designer på D-Day (Club Roskilde) samt grundlagt Klub Mantra.

Martin Hall og Henrik Möll har tidligere arbejdet sammen i musikgrupper som SS-Say og And Then Again.

VHS-udgivelsen indeholder videoer til Martin Hall-singlerne “Beat of the Drum” og “Real Thing” såvel som en serie mere abstrakte visuelle værker lavet under den sammenhængende titel The Point of No Return.

Alle sekvenser er filmet i Riot & Rota og Feltwave i perioden 1988–1989.

1. Beat of the Drum (4:54)
2. Real Thing (5:37)
3. Theme (4:34)
4. Point Within Circle (4:00)
5. Counterpoint (1:24)
6. Dome (1:30)
7. 8 (6:26)
8. Erosion (4:33)

REAL THING

River deep, mountain high
Out of the blue

As pure as the real thing
The state and the feeling
It leaves me no doubt of what needs to be done
A thunder’s been raging
A choice has been taken
To never look back
To be one of the few

While all things must pass
A fire will burn, purify – never change
It’s seen in the sky
As there’s so much more to this than meets the eye
It’s something within
The longing inside is the drive that allows
The work to be done

River deep, mountain high
A shadow inside
In the light of a greatness from which none can hide
Out of the blue, into the fire
And I’m stronger than ever in my one surrender
A red storm arising
Now I know what I want
And I know how to get it
It’s calling within and without

As pure as the real thing
The state and the feeling
It leaves me no doubt of what needs to be done
A thunder’s been raging
A choice has been taken
To never look back
To be one of the few

I know it ’cause I feel it
I don’t need no further proof to believe it
There’s a guiding light
Burning inside out
As pure as the real thing

I return
In the light of the sun
A shadow is cast of a moment in time
Like turns of the tide
In the still of the night it begins
What is is to be

BEAT OF THE DRUM

Now one day I woke up to some rules of life
That a serious heart needs a light mind to survive
That if you only hope you won’t get very far
‘Cause dreams call for action

No matter what you want the way is to begin
‘Cause knowing all about it is not the living thing
And those who sit and ask for great things all the time
Well I hope they’ve sorted out the many small things on the line

A focus inside out
The still of the centre
You must live by demand
But also surrender

As the beat of the drum beats the ghosts on the run
So the beat of my heart keeps me wondering
Now it’s been said this world is a stage
Well then if that is true
It’s an unwritten play
That makes being a becoming

It’s so easy seen when it’s someone else
But are you any better when you’re by yourself
‘Cause in this hall of mirrors you’re in a counterpoint
Where it takes one to recognize one

Now there are those who say that life is hard and then you die
Well petty leads to pity if you do not wonder why
‘Cause the way to solve a problem is to get a bigger one
So to those who cry for freedom
Well there’s working to be done

THEME

Regain your human rights
Surviving
The countdown
Face the fact

Born to die

Cut down to black and white
Love under will

Flemming Nygaard: Keyboards
Lotte Grundlev: Kor
Martin Hall: Vokal, keyboards, guitar
Tina Schæfer: Kor

Design: Birgitte Wester
Foto: Henrik Möll