Secret Chiefs 3 - Second Grand Constitution & Bylaws
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Artist: Secret Chiefs 3Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-08-01
Music Label: Mimicry
Soundtracks:
- The Rose Garden Of Mystery
- Book T: Waves Of Blood
- Book T: Broken Glass Hearse
- Renunciation
- Jabalqa
- Book T: Orbital Ballroom In The Hall Resurrection
- Mera Pyar Shalimar
- Zulfikar II
- Jabarsa
- Beyond The Mountain Qaf
- Hurqalya
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Free Music Review: Ennio Morricone if he were hindu mutant rockabilly surf-God!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is sheer brilliance. If you love Bungle's "Desert Search for Techno Allah," then you'll blag your pants over this! It's far more compressed and tight than other Secret Chiefs releases. Thematically, each track builds and refines and improvises upon each other, reinforcing the intensity.
Tr 1 is a straightforward, Middle eastern/Spanish sounding melody of lament. So Morricone that it hurts. Also calls to mind (the horn and cello?) the melody line from the 2nd move of the concierto de aranjuez- at least to these ears. lasts about 2.5 minutes. Great intro to what folllows!
Tr 2 is a thrashed out charging attack on the same melodic idea, with a throbbing surf-backbeat. Nuts!!!!
Tr 3 twitters and squeaks and then a twangy reverbed surf guitar and drum beat pick up where 2 left off. MORE NUTS!!!!
Tr 4 begins with more twang and also soft middle eastern type instrumentation in some kind of odd (harmonic minor???) key, then slips into a rather poppy rock beat with a skankin rhythm. neato! It scrambles about for awhile before the distortion and thrash comes back in towards the end. The longest track thus far...
Tr 5 is where things get kinda weird, sounds like a video game at first, or an arabian version of the william tell overture. dense electronica with more mid-east instruments and thick breakbeats colliding! Crunch bang boom! This one also lasts awhile building up to a frenetic propulsive conclusion!
Tr 6 starts out, again, ominously surfy- creepy Bungle-esque organs come in and out. This could have easily been on Disco Volante. hell's yes.
Tr 7: begins with (harpsichord?) and guitar, screechy cartoonish female vox soon slip in, (different language or possibly gibberish) followed by strings and harp- this one is soft and sounds so much like Ennio morricone's Spaghetti Western work that I thought maybe it was stolen. very pretty. Very spare. nice flute. Builds solidly. This one is around 4.5 minutes, not counting the random bubbly sounds at the end.
Tr 8 (maybe my fave) picks up the themes and motifs used earlier, and gets a bit funky, sounds like a Prince instrumental cover of either "Ars Moriendi" (the art of dying) or "Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy," from Mr. Bungle's 'California,' CD. The breakbeats kinda hit the jam!
Tr 9 Starts out with thick bass boom and odd jittery guitar. some background vox weave in and out. it gets very fast-paced and menacing. tautly constructed. The beats explode and teh song keeps building! more n more! It revisits its beginning and goes through again- ends with droning vox and same progression you've come to love.
Tr 10 starts out with wind howling. Instruments come in then go straight to noise rock hell. For a long time! Sounds like bees devouring someone up to the 3.5 minute mark where the clattering drums and squealing strings take over. this turns into a rain storm. More mid east stuff comes in the back door. About 6 minues of oddness.
Tr 11 tries to bring it all together. Easily the longest track here. the rain from 10 segues into wind and a tango-esque keyboard symphony that is quite brooding. Marching drums come in and visions start percolating in the mind of the listener. ruins. A vast procession of armies? A lone tent in a sea of dunes? A voluptuous waif dancing in a veil? Strings arise. everything builds wonderfully, thick guitar barely audible in the back. organ flourishes. more building- the guitar takes a lead approach blending with the other surging instruments. The wind comes back in and over the course of a LOOOOONG time (I won't tell how but it's well over 7 minutes) you get naught but near-silence. Then it picks up the same motif as Tr 9 and builds on it furiously.
I'll not reveal the ending!
Second Grand Constitution & Bylaws Poster
A bizzare, semi-secret side project of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More featuring Trey Spruance (guitarist for Mr. Bungle & Faith No More), plus Danny Heifitz and Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle. Experimental rock that's entertaining, with elements of Indian and Middle Eastern soundtracks, left field drum 'n' bass, atonal future surf music & more. Remasterd and reissued with a previously unreleased bonus track 'Zulficar II'. 2000 release.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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