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The Night is the fifth and final studio album by the alternative rock band Morphine, released in 2000 via DreamWorks. [ 4 ] [ 10 ] The album expands the band's sound beyond their usual arrangements of previous albums (bass, saxophone and drums), introducing acoustic guitars, organs, strings and female backing vocals.
The band's final studio album, The Night, was completed in early 1999. On July 3, 1999, Sandman collapsed on the stage of the Nel Nome del Rock festival at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina, Italy, outside of Rome. [5] He was soon pronounced dead of a heart attack and Morphine immediately disbanded. The Night was released in
Bootleg Detroit is the only authorized release of a live recording of Morphine. [5] It was released on the label Rykodisc in September 2000. Recorded by Alan J. Schmit—a fan—on March 7, 1994, at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, Michigan, it was edited and mixed under Mark Sandman’s supervision.
In 1996, when Morphine's record contract with Rykodisc was sold off to DreamWorks at the band's request, the band still owed Rykodisc two albums. An agreement was made in which Rykodisc obtained the exclusive rights to the two future archival releases B-Sides and Otherwise and 2000's Bootleg Detroit.
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Mark Sandman (September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer. Sandman possessed a distinctive, deep bass-baritone voice and a mysterious demeanour.
After Sandman's death in 1999, remaining Morphine members Dana Colley and Billy Conway, among others, opened up Sandman's home studio, Hi-N-Dry, for public use and started a record label of the same name. But when they tried to release Sandbox, Morphine's former label Rykodisc filed a lawsuit, claiming they owned several of the recordings. Hi-N ...
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