Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado - My Lover The Killer - 2xLP

My Lover The Killer is the latest collaboration between Lydia Lunch and Marc Hurtado. Their first joint work was the track ‘Sexodrone’ from Etant Donnés’s Re-Up album in 1999. Featuring Terry Edwards (Gallon Drunk), Ian White (Gallon Drunk), Mark Cunningham, We Are Birds of Paradise and David Lackner.

My Lover The Killer is a collaborative project with Marc Hurtado. What began as an undefined musical concept in the summer of 2012 became a prophecy written in blood in November of that same year. My Lover The Killer is a dark and nocturnal confessional. Sinister, sexy and mysterious, the music glides, emerges and caresses the captivating voice that narrates twisted tales full of insinuations, promises and threats. The lyrics are based on the murder/suicide of a former lover with whom she had recently made contact for the first time in over a decade. On the way to Los Angeles, after an early autumn hurricane that affected the east coast of the United States, I sent him an invitation suggesting we meet up for a few drinks. Two days later, during a drunken fight between him and his girlfriend due to his intention of coming to see me, he shot and killed her, called the police and shot himself. He died the next day, the day he turned 55. Every song on My Lover The Killer is a reflection on this tragedy, the terrifying effects of an insane love out of control and the obsessive fragments of a lover who still haunts from beyond the grave. Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch is a constantly changing nomad who has moved her life 20 times in the last 35 years to nurture her art. Musician, writer, photographer and performer, she became known in the New York music scene in 1977 with her seminal no wave group Teenage Jesus and The Jerks. Both in search of inspiration and to work with a wide variety of collaborators, which include Karen Finley, Hubert Selby Jr, Nick Cave and Virginie Despentes, she has lived in New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and London. She has traveled to more than 600 cities performing music and spoken word shows in venues, theaters and museums. For the last eight years she has resided in Barcelona, from where she seeks inspiration in the desert and the hundreds of abandoned towns, especially the immense ruins of the battle of Belchite from the Civil War. Marc Hurtado is a musician, performer, poet, painter and filmmaker who created the French duo Etant Donnés together with his brother Eric in 1977. He has published more than 30 albums and performed more than 500 concerts, including performances at The Kitchen (New York), Fondation Cartier and Centre Pompidou (Paris), Sónar Festival (Barcelona), Atonal Festival (Berlin) and Transmusicales (Rennes). In addition to the aforementioned duo and his solo project Sol Ixent, he has collaborated with many cult artists such as Alan Vega, Genesis P Orridge, Michael Gira (Swans), Gabi Delgabo (DAF), Z'ev, Philippe Grandrieux and Vomir. His latest film, Jajouka, Something Good Comes To You, has been acquired to be part of the collection of the MoMA museum in New York. His installations and paintings have been exhibited at Documenta in Kassel, the Lyon Biennale, the Gallerie du Jour in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.

Label: Munster Records