| Secret Chiefs 3 Traditionalists |
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 | Tracklist:
1 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 The Strength to Sever
26 Baby Hedone (Harvest of the Egregore)
27 Zombievision 2012
28 The 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)
Release Date: 06/28/2009 | |
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| Summary: Another chapter the ever growing post-Bungle library by some of its most consistent writers |
Out of the ashes of circus-metal pioneers Mr. Bungle, Trey Spruance took something unique and wonderful, steeped it in a pressure cooker of middle eastern lore and scales, and morphed it into his own entity. Being only one of the dimensions introduced on the Book of Horizons record, this is a welcome explanation of the "Traditionalists" tracks it presented. Heavily Morricone, spaghetti western, and general bombast-influenced, the Secret Chiefs 3 give their interpretation of the cinematic soundtrack genre with an epic theme deconstructed and reanimated over the course of 30 tracks. Don't let the high track count discourage you, this is meant to be a continuous listen, likely only separated out for the sake of listener sanity (or lack thereof). Traditionalists calls life, love, suspense, and chaos to the fore in any given section with dissonant chimes, lush horns and violin, and ominous Italian guitar atmospheres. A very strong (and eccentric) attempt at a soundtrack, the combining factor remains Spruance's trademark 60s rock tendencies and noise experimentation - a boon when implemented properly, these techniques have evolved much from SC3's early Grand Constitution days. Initially immature and largely directionless in their chaotic meanderings, it's very refreshing to see a group grow and come full circle artistically in such grand fashion. Traditionalists is a challenging journey and will not find constant rotation as such - just know that it's a ride well worth the effort.
Here's to further expansion of the Book of Horizons personalities; with five chapters remaining, Secret Chiefs 3 have a bright future ahead of them.
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Album Rating: 4 | Sound Off
amazing live show... go see them on their current American tour yo.
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The cinematic tracks were the best thing about Book Of Horizons, so i'll probably pick this up. Good short review
| | | Album Rating: 4 | Sound Off
if you liked those passages... you'll probably really like this. I was honestly torn between a 4 and 4.5
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dude yes
I will withoiut a doubt check this out, awesome review.
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Book of Horizons is the only thing I've heard by them, but it's good. I should probably get around to listening to this.
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hey bastard i haven't seen you round recently
good, short but sweet review. i really need an album by SC3.
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Nice soundoff.
But seriously, I like your short reviews but this one was a bit too short...
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yeah could do with a little more beef but idc
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Can't wait to hear this, SC3 are great
| | | Album Rating: 4 | Sound Off
not much else to say. record is excellent, reasons stated, done deal. check it.
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length is fine, review is good
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nice soundoff
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| | | Album Rating: 4 | Sound Off
nice soundoff
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your reviews are getting shorter and shorter....
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soon he'll just be posting ratings and it will have the same effect as posting reviews
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lol
| | | Album Rating: 4
nice. need to get this for the tracklist alone. and I'd really want to see them, but they're never playing anywhere near me.
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They finally have a European tour and dont come to the UK. thats more frustrating than them not coming at all.
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the tour locations seem pretty random anyway. hope they're coming to Austria on the promised Eastern Europe tour.
| | | Album Rating: 4 | Sound Off
def gonna use this as sampling material in the future... or any sc3 for that matter
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