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con safo
Prog Reviewer Joined: March 17 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1230 |
Topic: Fantômas - Delirium Cordia Posted: May 16 2005 at 20:30 |
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1. Surgical Sound Specimens From The Museum Of Skin (01:14:16) You're going into surgery, but something isnt right. You can still hear the voices of people around you, but you can't speak, or move. You can feel the cold knives cutting you open, and you can feel them reaching into your insides, picking you apart. Horrifying to even think of. Now take this feeling, and put it into song.. Hard to imagine yes? Enter Fantomas - Delirium Cordia. ...... MY GOD. This is the most insane 'music' ive ever heard, if you dare call it music. It really cant be put into words, a mad mix of ambience, death metal, jazz, and everything else Mike Patton can cram in there. This is Patton's creativity going overboard, creating something completely original and impossible to describe. The concept is intense, and the music can get very frightening. Sudden bursts of death metal in between ambient segments, this music will scare the hell out of you. Not for the faint of ear, this is definitely a tough peice to wrap your head around.. I don't know what to think of it, but i'm definitely intrigued. The album ends on an odd note, 20 minutes of vinyl crackling, only to build up to someone saying 1234. Save yourself the trouble and consider the song over when this starts. Epic, frightening and wierder than you can imagine. I would'nt recommend buying this album, but if you have an open mind and enjoy dark music, you must hear this. It's like nothng else ever recorded. 3.5/5 Has anybody else heard this cacophony of madness ? Edited by con safo |
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Spanky
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 07 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 389 |
Posted: May 18 2005 at 18:43 | |||
Yeah,I own it. It's alright, but it gets boring after a
while. I'd rather listen to Suspended Animation or Director's
Cut. Most of it I wouldn't even call music, it's just a lot of
sound samples with a little bit of music. The most insane music
you will ever hear can be found on 'Disco Volante' by Mr. Bungle.
Two of the members of Fantomas were in Mr. Bungle, but Mr. Bungle is no
more. (just in case you didn't know).
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Fantômas
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 15 2005 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 1859 |
Posted: May 18 2005 at 19:04 | |||
It's one of my TOP 10. I simply love it! It isn't music, it's climate.
Many bands tried to do that, but only a few were able to such(most of
all, electronic ones). Mike Patton is a GENIUS. Dunn and Lombardo are
the perfect couple in bass/drums rhythm section. Osborne is an amazing
guitar player, very creative. GOD, I LOVE THE BAND. And this is their
best album. Not an easy one, and definitely not for the genesis fan.
It's pure perfection. It sounds like a nightmare, in the good meaning
of the word.
I don't know what band is better, Mr. Bungle or Fantômas. Both are equally perfect. Dunn, Spruance (Mr. Bungle guitar man) and Patton are simply brilliant. |
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con safo
Prog Reviewer Joined: March 17 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1230 |
Posted: May 19 2005 at 00:41 | |||
Mr. Bungle is an amazing band. Patton is a genuis.
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sigod
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 17 2004 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 2779 |
Posted: May 20 2005 at 08:19 | |||
This album scared the living crap out of me when I first heard it (I'll
never use this album as mood music at a dinner party again!). That
said, after a few plays I really got into it's dark theme and the underlying narritive. It's true that the
music never really 'gets started' in a regular sense of the word and is very modular but in some ways
that is half of this album's appeal.
No pain, no gain. Edited by sigod |
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Velvetclown
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 8548 |
Posted: May 20 2005 at 08:25 | |||
Never talk about Delirium when Sigod is around
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Bryan
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Posted: May 20 2005 at 14:20 | |||
It is indeed one of the strangest and most frightening albums ever
made. That didn't prevent it from being the least listened to of
my Fantomas albums.
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CaincelaOreinim
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 21 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 395 |
Posted: May 20 2005 at 14:24 | |||
In terms of album's just scaring the sh*t out of you...I wouldn't recommend trying to meditate to Fripp's The Gates Of Paradise...that was certainly an experience for me last night ahah. And in honor of this thread I put Delirium Cordia on last night as well...not too too thrilled with it. Despite the semantics, I really didn't get that impression of surgical participance heh. I mean what can be said of the part with keyboard typing; (least I think that's what it sounds like) is some doctor typing up a report of the patient or is the patient imagining that portion? Interesting stuff I guess but musically it truly doesn't go anywhere...which paradoxically could be the aspect of depicting waking up during surgery - anaesthesia atrophying, fugues/black outs, DELIRIUM (key hehe), presage of an afterlife (those almost choir like bits), etc. etc. |
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Spanky
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 07 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 389 |
Posted: May 22 2005 at 21:10 | |||
I would attribute a lot of Mr. Bungles uniqueness to Trey Spruance and Trevor Dunn. Patton did some great work on California, but Patton wouldn't have made it anywhere if it hadn't been for Trey and Trevor. I believe it was them that invited Patton to sing for them actually. |
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lpd42
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Posted: May 23 2005 at 15:15 | |||
here's my review of the album. a portion of this is on amazon.com and is
based on repeated listening and analysis... "we're gonna lose this guy", February 17, 2004 The audio equivilent to a david lynch film (Eraserhead or Mullholand Dr.), DELIRIUM CORDIA is a psychological thriller\drama. (the hospital sounds are "reality", the music is what is going on in the patients head. notice that the last words being sung are "I'm dying.") It also seems to be a commentary about the "death" of vinyl (hence the record pops, scratches, and the actual "mucic" lasting around 50 minutes, the lengh of a typical lp). Other sounds are weaved into the tapestry : somebody typing on a computer, a timer, a respirator, and of course the intense sounds of an emergency room while out of tune guitars clang away. For proof of this albums genius, listen closely (with headphones) to the sequence which begins with a digeridoo. Chanting kicks in, difficult to comprehend yet easy to hear. Strange buzzing appears and shifts from speaker to speaker, culminating into a frenzy which leads to a brief snippet of the band playing, which ends with the final note being repeated at a lower sampled tone. No other band has dared to attempt anything so adventurous and frightening since Univers Zero's La Faulx. But most importantly, Delirium Cordia is hands down the best album of 2004 (top noch production, heavy instrumentation). Give the public a few years to realise just how groundbreaking this little disc is. |
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lpd42
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Posted: May 23 2005 at 15:29 | |||
I almost forgot. if you want to hear an equally insane album, check out
"Cacophony" by punk band Rudimentary Peni. It's a concept album based on the life and stories of H.P. Lovecraft. The vocalist\guitarist, Nick Blinko, went insane after recording it and was placed in a padded cell for a while. (I think he leaves the institution to record an album every so often, then checks himself back in, but the cycle began with this album.) After each song, you can hear him gibbering away maniacly, or creating what he imagined the monsters of the Lovecraft Mythos sounded like with his voice. (the vinyl issue has an awesome drawing of a demon playing a violin. The cd has an interesting drawing consisting of nothing but faces. Creepy.) It's one of the most original punk albums, a true masterpiece of the genre. Their first album, death church, seems to be a warm-up for cacophony, and is worth listening to as well. The album AFTER cacophony, Pope Adrian Psychristiatric, is even more maddening than Delirium Cordia. Blinko's insane chantings can be heard through the entire album, even through the actual songs (underneath his singing). One of the most difficult recordings I've ever heard, and this is coming from a guy who LOVES difficult albums!!!!!!! |
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con safo
Prog Reviewer Joined: March 17 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1230 |
Posted: May 23 2005 at 18:25 | |||
Mike Patton is still a genuis. |
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Fantômas
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 15 2005 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 1859 |
Posted: May 23 2005 at 18:52 | |||
Ok, boys. Trey Spruance, Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn are together the main force of Mr. Bungle. To say "who was better than who" know isn't very clever. They were a team, they composed things together. Dunn, Patton and Spruance are genius boys. |
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con safo
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Posted: May 23 2005 at 19:11 | |||
Yes, i realise this.. but it doesnt make my first statement untrue |
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KeyserSoze
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 09 2005 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 228 |
Posted: May 25 2005 at 23:06 | |||
Actually, Fantômas sucks!
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Spanky
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 12:42 | |||
Great job of backing yourself up there Keyser. Because of what
you've said, I will no longer listen to Fantomas. I will listen
to the crap that you like.
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KeyserSoze
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 16:55 | |||
Sorry mate, I don't have anything against Fantomas. I just remembered when some fan of Fantomas said that Yes are a bunch of craps and then a flame-war began. I was only testing if it works in the opposite way and thank you, it does! |
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Spanky
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 18:08 | |||
I think it would work that way on anyone. But for now, lets part friends. *shacks hand*
Oh yeah, and I like Yes. Well...some of their stuff. |
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Bj-1
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Posted: January 19 2006 at 18:39 | |||
Have heard it a couple of times now, and I must say that I liked the album. I didn't got scared of the music, but it's still a very dark and creepy album. Gotta' check out their other albums and Mr Bungle!
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: January 19 2006 at 18:48 | |||
Did you know that this actually happens to people? I know of a case in Germany ... a woman experienced her own operation. I can understand your enthusiasm for that record, but it should be mentioned that this is actually a horrible experience, and not cool in any way. |
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