marrsumner.jpgThey made it happen.





Marr was born on Halloween, 1963 and as one might predict, he’s heavily tilted on the Scorpio tip; Sun conjunct Mercury, Venus in Scorpio and Neptune in Scorpio. His fiery moon in Aries is conjunct his Jupiter in Aries. With Mars in Sag at 3 degrees and Saturn in Aquarius at 14 degrees, rounding out his personal planets, Marrs’ chart is volcanic, like a deep sea vent where the heat of the Earth escapes through thermal fissures of light. He conjures immense sounds from this vulcan source, splintering notes like atoms, channeling the chaos of cacaphony into broad swells and crashing waves of ineffable awe. Doubt me? Get this album and a pair of headphones.

Sumner, with his Mars (not Marr’s!) in Scorpio at 23 degrees, in an exact conjunction with Marr’s Venus (sounds like a Russ Meyer heroine) taps directly into Marr and vice versa. Mars defines the form while Venus fills the space. One of the reason this record sounds good is the tacit and intuitive interplay between these two, exploring the depths of their Scorpionic connection between these two planets.

Sumner is a Capricorn (1/4/57) whis Venus in Aquarius rests directly on top of Marr’s Saturn in the same sign, conferring endurance and patience, the ability to tap into new technologies and wield them in the service of their craft. Sumner’s Neptune in Scorpio at 0 degrees lies just under Marr’s Sun at 3 degrees, adding a sense of destiny to their connection, one where they get to explore the limits of a dark spirituality that more than hints at the promise of redemption, which is the underlying theme of Twisted Tenderness.

Here’s a youtube video of “Vivid” one of the few songs that the band commissioned for Twisted Tenderness. Even though Bernard Sumner is horribly out of sync with his lips, you can get an idea as to how the two sound together.

Alas however, it looks as though Sumner and Marr have pulled the plug on Electronic, but their end of the century gem still sounds as strong as it did when it broke, now nearly a decade ago.

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