BANDCAMP

HALLMARK 1-4

MARTIN HALL
7″ EP
APRIL 1997
THE PLANET (MOON03)

Hallmark 1–4 er en selvstændig udgivelse, uafhængig af Testcards 1989-1995, selvom udgivelserne periodemæssigt faldt sammen.

7″-singlen blev udsendt af undergrundsselskabet The Planet i et begrænset oplag på 100 eksemplarer og indeholder bl.a. en sjælden Dialogue-indspilning (Martin Halls elektroniske 1980-duo med Per Hendrichsen), hvor Morten Versner fra Ballet Mécanique medvirker på violin.

1. Untouchable (5:02)
2. Give Me a Reason (4:31)
3. Tears and Morphine (4:08)
4. The Missing War (6:04)

UNTOUCHABLE

From blood into ashes
A word in the night
I heard someone whisper that I’d passed the line
The scream of my heartbeat
It’s burning in cold anger by the things I hear

Blood into ashes
And in the night the rain keeps on falling
And in the streets the silence keeps calling

In the untouchable of each moment
In the untouchable of the silence
And in the night the rain keeps on falling
And in the streets the silence keeps calling

I’ve heard enough statements like “everything’s relative”
Go jump from a rooftop, there goes your philosophy
‘Cause the map they’ve made isn’t the landscape
Although nicely drawn

Over and over
Falling all over again

In the untouchable of each moment
In the untouchable of the silence
And in the night the rain keeps on falling
And in the streets the silence keeps calling

Tears of dust
Colours of the night
Words of chains
Memories of lies
Gonna break on through
Fantasies
Poisons taste like wine
In a dream
In a dream of time
The untouchable
Gonna reach the untouchable

GIVE ME A REASON

So give me, give me a reason
And give me, give me a dream

Now here’s a song for the broken hearts
It’s dedicated to pain
Another time and another place
But the story’s the same

I always read every bottom line
‘Cause everything’s got a price
A pretty face doesn’t last that long
I want to know what’s behind

So give me, give me a reason
And give me, give me a dream

The hallelujah of broken souls
Another promise to keep
I’ve had enough of the heart of blues
Time goes and rust never sleeps

TEARS AND MORPHINE

Like tears in the rain
They are fading away
No eye shall absorb the tear it cries
Each tear is a stream that purifies

Irma Victoria: Vokal
Martin Hall: Vokal, instrumenter
Morten Versner: Violin
Ole Hansen: Yrompet
Per Hendrichsen: Synthesizer
Tina Schæfer: Vokal

Design: Lars Julsgård Thomsen

Pladen præsenterer fire forskellige sider af Halls musikalske arbejde: Solonummeret “Untouchable” fra 1989 efterfulgt af et NTT-outtake fra gruppens 1993-sessions (“Give Me a Reason”), en genindspilning fra 1994 af “Tears in the Rain” med Irma Victoria and the Hatebox Experience og til sidst “The Missing War” med Dialogue.