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Twister

Twister is a remix EP. The original versions of these songs appeared on Red Tornado. They have been remixed here for your pleasure.

Lucky Bastards (King County Jail Dub) by Leigh Marble / Teledubgnosis

So how did the remix EP idea come about?

"I knew this group of creative individuals, and I knew they could rock some remixes in a darkly weird and spooky vein," Marble says of the birth of the project. "That was a key phrase, 'dark and spooky'. I wasn't interested in hearing cheesed-out discotek remixes of the 'Red Tornado' songs. Well, that would have been funny, but it's not what I wanted to make a whole EP out of."

Marble himself, under his producer name, Dr. Marble, remixed two of the tracks, "On Your Way" and "Gave It All". The "deep dark ambient dub" of Teledubgnosis, a former NYC outfit that is now spread across the globe from Seattle to Oslo, remixed "Lucky Bastards".

"When I first played an early mix of 'Lucky Bastards' for Jason Wolford of Teledubgnosis, who lives in Seattle, he said, 'sign me up for a remix'. It is pretty much how the whole idea got started".

Gregory Damien, of Teledubgnosis, under the name Mission Creep signed up to remix "Fast & Loose" and "Strip the Bed", while Urbex, a close associate of Teledubgnosis, remixed "Salt In the Wound".

Red Tornado

"A burning, angsty folk-rock masterpiece." - Willamette Week

"Red Tornado is a brilliantly perfect example of how the dark side of life can make for a fantastically depressing album." - Ink 19

"A damn fine record from an artist who has truly found his voice." - CD Baby

"Raw, rough, and sensuous." - WestWord

Leigh Marble plays "Lucky Bastards" on the Mastan Music Hour:

With his second solo album, Marble set out to make an album with more dirt, sweat, and human interaction than its predecessor, "Peep". All of which he did with Red Tornado.

"Red Tornado" is a descriptor of the emotional state that each of these songs came out of, whether it be depression, frustration, or high anxiety – the common thread running through this album.

Whether it’s album opener "Lucky Bastards", a song about ambition and poisonous envy, the American dream vexed to nightmare by the vapidity of pat aphorisms, or "On Your Way", a kiss-off song to a friend full of high ideals and low standards. To "Salt In the Would", a song Marble describes as "a memoriam to a number of slow-suicide cases I’ve known in Portland. Frustrated artists that forget their beauty and drink themselves to death", Marble pulls no emotional punches in his pursuit to speak his mind and let his voice be heard.

"I was willing to lay some stuff down, like a rock record, and not mess with it by polishing it," states Marble. "I left the rough edges in this time."

Red Tornado was recorded at Leigh's Fishboy Studios, and was mixed by Jeff Stuart Saltzman.