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Born on April 27, 1976 in Glasgow, SCOTLAND, Isobel Campbell found her
initial fame playing cello and singing with deftly-melodic Glaswegian
indie collective Belle And Sebastian,
before branching off for the lushly-orchestrated melancholia of her solo
project The Gentle Waves for two LPs.
She released her debut solo album, "Amorino", in October 2003.
During the summer of the following year she met Mark Lanegan, formerly
of Screaming Trees and collaborator
with Queens Of The Stone Age;
Lanegan suggested they record an album together and "Ballad Of The
Broken Seas" was born. The disc, which exploits the contrast between
Campbell's aching, pristine chill of a voice and Lanegan's wounded, regret-stewed
burr, was issued on V2 Records in March 2006.
Following the success of her country-leaning collaboration with Lanegan,
which earned Campbell a new audience, she was back in November the same
year with a new solo record, "Milkwhite Sheets", that veered
more in the direction of her firs album. This time Isobel Campbell mixed
half a dozen English and Scottish revamped traditional Folk songs with
her own compositions.
Two years later, Campbell and Lanegan teamed up for the second time and
in May 2008 released "Sunday At Devil Dirt"; once again, the
former Belle And Sebastian
vocalist + cellist wrote, produced and molded his female talent by writing
all the songs and doing all the production and arranging herself, but
here it was more prominently felt in Lanegan's contribution to lead vocals.
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