Listen | 04. Aug 2022

The Sound Of Silence

The voice of Julee Cruise will be forever in my mind - and probably in yours, too. At least when you belong to generation "Blue Verlvet" and - even more memorable - of "Twin Peaks". Because next to Kyle McLaughlin, Laura Dern and Lara Flynn Boyle the soundtrack played a major part.

I actually remember a party at a friend´s apartment where most of the guests took extasy pills and all of us were listening to "Mysteries of Love" in remote. It ended apruptly when the host, left with some of his peers, after dozens of the lit candles on the hardwoodfloor started a minor fire that attracted the local fire department.

Anyway.

That voice you never forget belongs to a Julee Cruise who killed herself last week suffering from depression most of her life.

Just listen to what David Lynch has to say about her.

She had met the composer Angelo Badalamenti while they were both hired to an Off-Braodway-show.

A few years later, Mr. Badalamenti was engaged by David Lynch, who was still early in his career, as a vocal coach for Isabella Rossellini in the 1986 Lynch movie “Blue Velvet” and ended up writing the score for that film as well. Mr. Lynch and Mr. Badalamenti had written a song for the film that needed a vocalist. “Angelo asked me to find someone to sing a song for the soundtrack called "Mysteries of Love", but he didn’t like any of the singers I recommended,” she once told The San Franciscon Chronicle. “He wanted dreamy and romantic. I said, ‘Let me do it.’”

In an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 2017, Mrs Cruise reflected on her long “Twin Peaks” ride.

“It was so much fun to be part of something that just went ba-boom!” she said. “You didn’t know it was going to do that. What a nice surprise life takes you on.”