Adrian Borland

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Adrian Borland's grave at the Morden Cemetry in London

Adrian Kelvin Borland (born December 6, 1957 in London , † April 26, 1999 in London) was a British songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer.

biography

Adrian Borland's musical career began in the late 1970s with the British point trio The Outsiders . With a new style of music and an expanded line-up, he played six studio albums and one EP as the front man of the group The Sound from 1979 to 1987. His interim side project Second Layer released the long player World Of Rubber in 1981 . From 1985 he began his project Honolulu Mountain Daffodils under the pseudonym Joachim Pimento , with which he recorded three albums by 1991.

Following his time with The Sound, he started a solo career, which he initially played with the background band The Citizens . He also produced albums for other bands such as Into Paradise . From 1995 he was involved with Carlo van Putten , the singer of The Convent , in the creation of the first two albums of the White Rose Transmission project; 700 Miles of Desert (1999); Written almost entirely by Borland, it was the last work he completed in his lifetime. (The last pieces of the album Dead Guitar apparently also inspired the founding members of the band of the same name, Dead Guitars , to which Carlo van Putten belonged in 2002.)

One of Borland's last live performances took place in 1994 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck in the Kleinbahnhof (KUZ) cultural center together with The Convent. In honor of Borland, the documentary: "Walking in the opposite direction - documentary about The Sound & Adrian Borland" was shown as a German premiere in a neighboring cinema in 2018; afterwards original drummer from The Sound Mike Dudley played with the musicians from The Convent under the project name In2TheSound to commemorate the performance in 1994 again at KUZ.

Borland had noticeably suffered from depression since the mid-1980s , presumably caused by a schizoaffective disorder . He was in the midst of recording his new album Harmony & Destruction when he in April 1999 on an early Monday morning at Wimbledon Station with suicidal intent fell under a train and died. The album was completed without Adrian Borland and released posthumously in 2002 .

Discography

Albums

  • 1989: Alexandria
  • 1992: Brittle Heaven
  • 1994: Beautiful Ammunition
  • 1995: Cinematic
  • 1997: 5:00 AM
  • 2000: The Last Days of the Rain Machine
  • 2002: Harmony & Destruction
  • 2006: The Amsterdam Tapes
  • 2019: Lovefield

Singles and EPs

  • 1989: Light the Sky
  • 1989: Beneath the Big Wheel
  • 1992: All the Words
  • 1997: Over the Under

Compilations

  • 1996: Cinematic Overview

With The Outsiders

  • 1997: Calling on Youth (album)
  • 1977: One to Infinity (EP)
  • 1978: Close Up (album)
  • 1993: Vital Years (Compilation)

With second layer

  • 1979: Flesh as Property (EP)
  • 1980: State of Emergency (EP)
  • 1981: World of Rubber (album)
  • 1987: Second Layer (Compilation)

With The Sound

see The Sound

With Honolulu Mountain Daffodils

(as Joachim Pimento)

  • 1987: Guitars of the Oceanic Undergrowth (album)
  • 1988: Tequila Dementia (album)
  • 1989: Also Spracht Scott Thurston (single)
  • 1991: Psychic Hit-List Victims (EP)
  • 1991: Aloha Sayonara (album)

With White Rose Transmission

see White Rose Transmission

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evening under the sign of Adrian Borland on weser-kurier.de by Lars Fischer on April 25, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Borland, Adrian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borland, Adrian Kelvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British songwriter and singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1999
Place of death London