Mark Hollis

After Talk Talk

Mark David Hollis was born on January 4, 1955 in Tottenham, London, and died in February 2019 at the age of 64. He was the co-founder, lead vocalist, lyricist and main songwriter of Talk Talk, formed in 1981 with Paul Webb, Lee Harris and Simon Brenner. On the later Talk Talk records, The Colour of Spring (1986), Spirit of Eden (1988) and Laughing Stock (1991), his producer and partner was Tim Friese-Greene. Wikipedia lists his genres as new wave, synth-pop, art pop, post-rock, folk, jazz and ambient.

Mark Hollis (January 26, 1998, Polydor; reissued by Pond Life on March 13, 2000) was recorded in 1997 and produced by Hollis, with Phill Brown engineering. It runs 46:59, and was made under a Polydor contract that ran to two albums by Wikipedia's account, four by Progarchy's, and was originally planned as a Talk Talk album called Mountains of the Moon. Multitracks went to analog tape using a pair of Neumann M 49 microphones. Hollis told The Times on February 13, 1998 that the aim was to produce a piece of music so that it was impossible to know in which year it was recorded. AllMusic wrote that it was quite possibly the most quiet and intimate record ever made; Pitchfork gave 9.0, Sputnikmusic 5 of 5, NME 8 of 10, and Mojo, Uncut and The Guardian four stars.

He did not tour and gave no concerts, and no Mark Hollis setlist exists on setlist.fm.