But they were another reflection of Germany's long night of the soul on the question of bailouts.
Dark Night of the Soul is poised to be one of the year's most memorable records.
In addition to Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, other artists appearing on Dark Night of the Soul include The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and Admiral Radley, Frank Black of Pixies, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Gerbils.
Dark Night of the Soul is a beautifully produced record with a remarkable cast of musicians behind it.
The questions keeping Dark Night of the Soul from coming out are as mysterious as the music.
While the official release remains unclear, Dark Night of the Soul has already made its way to the Internet.
But even with a name like Dark Night of the Soul, the album has uplifting moments, with catchy pop and rock hooks.
Coyne and Linkous worked together on last year's Dark Night of the Soul, a music-photography project involving Sparklehorse, Danger Mouse, filmmaker David Lynch and others.
The images are available in a 48-page book in the deluxe version of Dark Night of the Soul, which also includes a poster, postcards, two LPs, a CD and a bonus instrumental CD.
It took more than a year of closely guarded negotiations, but Dark Night of the Soul, the mysterious album from Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and David Lynch, is finally getting an official release.
Ariana Murray's delicate clockwork waltz "The Thread" provides touching sentimentality, as does "Everytime I'm With You, " a song Lytle originally wrote with the late Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse for the Dark Night of the Soul project.
Dark Night of the Soul is about as strange and gloomy as you might expect from David Lynch or Mark Linkous, who tragically took his own life earlier this year. (One of the guest vocalists on the album, Vic Chesnutt, also committed suicide last December.) But Dark Night has its uplifting moments, too, with catchy pop and rock hooks and rhythms.
"Better Git It in Your Soul" is an extension of the gospel waltz "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, " and "Jelly Roll" was originally "My Jelly Roll Soul" Mingus had recorded both a few months earlier for Atlantic Records.
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The southern mountains are dotted with tiny traditional villages, fantastic spots to buy hearty local olive oil and thyme honey, though Azogires has a freshwater lagoon where the itinerant nereids - those beguiling sea-nymphs of ancient Greek myth - can allegedly steal a man's soul on one sacred night each year.
Pico Iyer is the acclaimed author of many travel books, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul and, most recently, The Man Within My Head.
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