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| | Traditionalists: Le Mani DeStre Recise DeGli Ultimi Uomini | | | Music Artist : | | Secret Chiefs 3 | | Music Style : | | Experimental Rock | | Record Label : | | Mimicry | | Release Date : | | 2009-06-09 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Faith's Broken Mirror
2. Sophia's Theme
3. What's Wrong with Cytherea?
4. Mourning in Ekstasis
5. He Hates Us
6. Psychism 1: Cytherea's Possession
7. Love Spell
8. Agenda 21
9. Subcutaneous Solution
10. Abyss of Psychic Enchantments
11. Subdermal Sequence (Nano-Correction)
12. Rfid Slaverider
13. Dionysian Dithyramb (Eros-Seed of the Egregore)
14. Zombievision
15. Perfectly Reasonable
16. Psychism 2: Fear Is the Great Teacher
17. Abolish Believers by Abolishing Belief
18. Funeral for What Might Have Been (Sophia's Theme)
19. Codex Alimentarius
20. Putting Forth the Hand to Take
21. Psychism 3: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind
22. Hypnotopia (Obey Your Passion)
23. Nano-Correction/Human Migrations/Faith Realizes
24. Chapel by the Sea (A Heart That Is Broken and Humbled...)
25. Strength to Sever
26. Baby Hedone (Harvest of the Egregore)
27. Zombievision 2012
28. Great Die Off (He Mocks Us All)
29. Cytherea's Awakening/Martyrdom at Romiou Point/Return to the Foam
30. To Love God Is Sweeter Than Life (Sophia's Theme)
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Gimmicky and disappointing
Submitted on: 2009-07-25 |
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This is largely a return to the structure of Secret Chief 3's first album, which is to say: a very large collection of short pieces. However, whereas SC3's first album had some long tracks you could lose yourself in - some of which stand out as the album's finest music - this one doesn't. It pertains to be the soundtrack to a non-existent Italian horror movie (a gimmicky idea, IMO) or possibly just individual tracks from several non-existent Italian horror movies. The style is unique, I guess, and does evoke the cheap, melodramatic, bizarro B-movie feel of its inspiration. That said, it doesn't make for memorable listening. Too many tracks are amelodic, chaotic, comprised of ambient sounds and shrill outbursts in random sequence. Other tracks sound like the seed of a song - building towards a melody, a complexity, a path into a full song - that never grew. Too few have actual fully-fleshed music. Giallo Horror Film music is a vulgar and superficial style, ultimately; a glaring sound to go with the lurid imagery. It ought not be the inspiration for artists as talented as these. Disheartening in the extreme.
On the heels of some really excellent and inspired music, choosing the soundtrack style of daft, Italian horror movies of yore is a terrible move. Rather than continuing their fantastic exploration into the unique fusion of Middle Eastern and Western music styles, they chose to goof around. Where has the long-promised Book of Souls gone?
The album is not without some merit. Many tracks contain moments with melodies both mysterious and hypnotic. Sadly, these moments are fleeting, the music always moving on to something else. Something less.
Having waited so long I am bitterly disappointed with this album. It is the least of their works by far. By a long shot. |
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 New angle for SC3
Submitted on: 2009-07-21 |
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I stand by this works as an exceptional tribute to the Giallo genre - in fact I would not even say tribute so much as it actually falls under that category. While SC3's past efforts have been heavily drawn from Surf, Noise, Gridcore, Film score, Middle-eastern and Electronica, this focuses on the Film-Score style of Trey's writing. The music is very reminiscent of Morricone's "L'uccello Dalle Piule Di Cristallo" (among many others) and could *almost* fool anyone familiar with Giallo scores into thinking it is an actual disc of music to a '70's Itallian horror film.
Trey, as of 2004's Book of Horizons, has divided up SC3 as 7 different personas, establishing 7 distinct "bands" within the group that fulfill specific roles within his own ideology of SC3. In the tradition of Faxed Head and the Bon Larvis Band, he has even gone so far as to create fictional histories and characters to some of them. It can get pretty involved, but even to a casual listener it is fun to think that he has put so much detail into it, even by releasing independant 7' singles in 2007 from UR, Ishraqiyuun, and the Electromagnetic Azoth. Together, those songs clock in at 40 minutes - and it is some of the best material to date. Now, he has given The Traditionalists space to breathe with "Le Mani DeStre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini." It is now obvious to the listener where the Traditionalists fit in to SC3's "astral chart."
"Le Mani," I feel, proves that Trey has matured quite a bit since "First Grand Constitution and By-laws." Though there are still those fun tongue-in-cheek moments, utilizing his talent for making humor audible, it's quite impressive to think that one can go to lengths such as these to achieve a PROPER nod-of-the-head to this particular genre of music, which can be pretty hard to do without coming off as a rip-off artist or pretentious. If you like the Secret Chiefs 3, but are not familiar with (good) Film music, I suggest you research the genre - you may be pleasantly suprised to hear much of it coming through crystal clear in this album. This disc can also be a gateway to this band for those who are not familiar with SC3's previous records, yet have a refined taste for Film music. Either way, it's a refreshing change-up from this band, as it is really only specific to one this one aspect of music rather than the tasteful genre-hopping one comes to expect from SC3. |
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 Very Nice
Submitted on: 2009-06-30 |
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| Another amazing release by SC3. A soundtrack to a non-existent (I imagine) movie -- think 1970's Italian horror movie. The composition, recording, and musicianship are all amazing. |
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