Frank Black

Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV , more known under its name of artist Frank Black or Black Francis , born the April 6th 1965 with Boston, is a American Musicien . He is the leader and one of the founding members of the group Pixies.

After the album " Mislead Monde" , it starts a career solo (in particular through Concert S) which it concretizes one year after the separation of the Pixies, in 1993, with the exit of its first album ( Frank Black ). Its career solo receives a mitigated reception. However, also unequal it is, its discography off conceals undeniable successes like Teenager the Year (1994), a dense and daring album, and Dog in the Sand (2001), sublimated by the keyboards of Eric Drew Feldman (Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu) and the guitar of the ex-Pixies Joey Santiago.

Its Rock is more traditional than that of its old group, the more personal texts (even if one finds a surrealist color characteristic of the Pixies), and influences it certain musical currents as the country is important (the album Show Me Your Tears , left in 2003, in is an good example, like Honeycomb , left in 2005 and marking a rupture in the style Black). One can notice the recurrence of a topic which is expensive to him, that of the extras-terrestrial , in certain songs (for example in the album The Cult off Ray).

Discography

With Pixies

  • November 1987 As one Pilgrim - 4AD (mini-album drawn from a band demonstration)
  • Mars 1988 Surfer Rosa - 4AD
  • April 1989 Doolittle - 4AD
  • July 1990 Bossanova - 4AD
  • September 1991 Horn the World - 4AD
  • 1997 Death to the Pixies 1987-1991 - 4AD (the 1st compilation of the group which in its French version is accompanied by a disc no-claims bonus recorded live in September 1990 in the Netherlands)
  • 1998 Pixies At the BBC - 4AD (compilation of recordings for the BBC of 1988 to 1991)
  • 2001 Supplements B-Sides - 4AD (compilation of the individual faces B of 1988 to 1991 not taken again on the albums)
  • 2002 Pixies (The Purple Tape) - Cooking Vinyl (complement of the first mini-album, songs drawn from the same band demonstration)
  • 2004 Wave off Mutilation: The Best off - 4AD (the 2nd more complete and final compilation)

Without Pixies

  • 1993 Frank Black - 4AD

  • 1994 Teenager off the Year - 4AD
  • 1995 Black Session (live) - 4AD
  • 1996 The Cult off Ray - Sony Music
  • 1998 Frank Black & the Catholics - PIAS
  • 1999 Pistolero - PIAS
  • 2000 Dog in the Sand - Cooking Vinyl
  • 2000 Oddballs (Compilation of B-Sides. Pulling Limited)
  • 2002 Black Letter Days - Cooking Vinyl
  • 2002 Devil' S Workshop - Cooking Vinyl
  • 2003 Show me your Tears - Cooking Vinyl
  • 2004 FrankBlackFrancis (demonstrations + new versions of songs dating from Pixies) - Cooking Vinyl
  • 2005 Honeycomb - Cooking Vinyl
  • 2006 Snake Oil (Compilation of recoveries available only per legal downloading) - Tunecore
  • 2006 One More Road for the Hit (Compilation of B-Sides available only per legal downloading) - Tunecore
  • 2006 Fastman Raiderman (Double album) - Back Porch
  • 2006 Christmass - Cooking Vinyl
  • 2007 Bluefinger - Cooking Vinyl

Concerts

  • Elysium Montmartre (Paris), the 2/16/2008

External bonds

  • Official site
  • FrankBlack.net
  • Blackolero - French infos and news

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