If Stan Ridgway's debut album on Geffen Records appears
cinematic, as if it were unfolding a story about a certain
place with certain characters, that's because it is.
"When I write songs," Ridgway explains, "I start from an
emotion, or kind of vague feeling. Sometimes I'll write at
the typewriter and fill up a page, and then later look at
it and see what strikes me as interesting. During the time
of recording Mosquitos, I put together a kind of trashy
screenplay to amuse myself, and also to get away from the
'songs' angle of it all."
"As went along, the two started to overlap, the songs and
this B-grade story, and an atmosphere of a certain peculiar
place struck me. I was attracted to that."
If it sounds like Ridgway, who first came to prominence as
the lead More...
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