Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
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Artist: Secret Chiefs 3Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Music Label: Mimicry
Soundtracks:
- The End Times
- The 4 (Great Ishraqi Sun)
- The Indestructible Drop
- Exterminating Angel
- The Owl In Daylight
- The Exile
- On The Wings Of The Haoma
- Book T: Exodus
- Hypostasis Of The Archons
- The Electrotheonic Grail Dove
- The 3
- DJ Revisionist
- Anthropomorphosis: Boxleitner
- Welcome To The Theatron Animatronique
Free Music Notes for Book of Horizons
Free Music Review: A Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
There really isn't a great way to describe this while being concise, so I'm going to go ahead and type away on this one. This album is what, in my mind, was the greatest release for all of 2004. The musicianship, the themes, the ability to implement so many different styles of music, just really everything goes together so very well on this to make a find piece of music.
There are seven different bands that make this up. Six of the bands are named for the different tracks, and the seventh is the root of all of the bands, which I believe is Secret Chiefs 3 themselves. The six bands that play on the single tracks though are the Forms, Ishraqiyun, Traditionalists, Holy Vehm, the Electromagnetic Azoth, and UR.
The Forms play three of the tracks that I always want to listen to when I put the CD in or hear some of it on the old iPod, or however I hear it. The first song they do, the End Times, is the amazingly beautiful opening track. The second track they do, the Owl in Daylight begins with a sound of almost breaking glass, goes through several different parts, gets heavy, some really cool stuff, and then Welcome to Theatron Animatronique is the final piece, and a great one to end the thing on, with a oompa Russianesque type of sound to it and some really cool stuff before the vocals even come in with the strings, especially on the harp.
Ishraqiyun is a band that plays more of a middle eastern style of music. There's also some Indian sound in there. It's actually somewhat of a cross between the two styles and comes off as sounding very cool. There's a huge rock influence thrown in there, especially when distorted guitar starts to enter into the mix. They throw out some great melodies and just a really cool feel throughout. There's two songs that they do on the album, and they are The 4 (Great Ishraqi Sun) and The 3. Both songs are very good.
The Traditionalists have three songs. The Indestructable Drop, The Exile, and The Electrotheonic Grail Dove. The Indestructable Drop and The Electrotheonic Grail Dove are shorter songs which almost seem to instrumentally describe something happening as you listen, and The Exile is a western themed song, done very slowly and beautifully. They have those three songs, but not much more than five minutes of time on the album, but they make every minute count.
Holy Vehm, with Exterminating Angel and Hypostasis of the Archons, are the grind band on this. Featuring an amazing lineup that, among others (of course including Trey), also includes Cephalic Carnage drummer John Merriman and Youri Raymond of Unhuman. The music is done at high speeds with pretty much every grind element included. The songs are a bit longer though, but they're also slightly broken up.
The Electromagnetic Azoth does On the Wings of Haoma and DJ Revisionist. On the Wings of Haoma is a very percussion based song with some flute and other strings and bells thrown in there, kind of a neat sound to it. DJ Revisionist is also somewhat based in percussion, but features a melody that is more brought out. Both songs are very well done, but are fairly different songs.
UR also does a couple of songs on here. The first one being Book T: Exodus, which is an Ernest Gold song originally, but done in a fairly different way. This one is still very good, but much more grand and phenominal. It just has this very majestic feel to it, another of my favorite tracks on the CD. The second song they do is Anthropomorphosis: Boxleitner. This song is much different, but with the same general instrumentation, but it sounds much more electronic almost, almost like an electronic type of song, but with those instruments in there to give it that classic feel at the same time.
There's a lot more to this album that goes way beyond the music, but I don't want to get too far into that, because I'm sure I'm wrong on several parts with it, and I don't want to get way into something only to be wrong, so I'll cut it off here saying that when you combine all of the above you get one amazing piece of music that will be well respected by those with intelligence and who've been exposed to it for years to come. This is VERY highly reccomended, a classic in my mind.
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