For the taking: Vol. I from CHALDEA
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For the Taking: Volume I - From CHALDEA is an album by Nick Tosches
and Rick Whitehurst. It features Tosches reading poetry from his book Chaldea and I Dig Girls
set to an electronic soundscape by Whitehurst. Volume I is currently the only entry in the series.
By author: Olav Bjornssen. at
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tosches
Nick Tosches is an American writer, with vast experience from the fields of journalism, biography, fiction and poetry. For the Taking is his fourth CD release, on which Tosches has written the lyrics and do the vocals; while instrumentation is handled by Rick Whitehurst. Musically this release is a rather odd one. The music is most times close to ambient industrial and ambient techno in style, where mostly dark moods from the synth combined with mostly tribal rhythms form the musical foundation for Tosches, reciting his prose in a very calm, warm dark and likeable voice. Fleshing out the soundscapes and flavouring the mood are sounds, pure samples, electronically enhanced samples and electronic noises. The music seems to be quite simplistic in style; although there are more than a few moments of complexity on these 8 songs. As for mood and style; it's generally dark, with more than a few macabre moments. The individual elements each track consist of seems to have been added to add to the general mood of the dark and the macabre that is the foundation of most of the lyrics here. The noises, the moods and the melodies here seems to have been pulled from some sort of terrifying nightmare; albeit a poetic one. There are no horrors or atrocities here, but when you hear a calm voice speaking words like "when I slew and severed into many / our son" over a musical landscape of tribal-inspired rhythms, sampled screams and generally dark and disturbing music; an intense feeling of uneasiness will be the result in most listeners minds. And much of this release is kind of similar to that; more or less slightly disturbing words; poetic in form and style; recited over a dark, bleak likewise disturbing musical framework. Clearly not a release that will top the Billboard chart; but a potential gem in the CD collections of people that find the macabre and the dark fascinating - fans of Lovecraft and the darker side of Edgar Allan Poe should be amongst those that'll be intrigued by this release. My rating: 90/100
Nick Tosches
Nick Tosches is an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet of Albanian and Italian descent.- Life :After different odd-jobs, Tosches started writing with poetry and rock-'n'-roll magazines, including Creem, Fusion, and Rolling Stone.Tosches' second book, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis...
and Rick Whitehurst. It features Tosches reading poetry from his book Chaldea and I Dig Girls
Chaldea and I Dig Girls
CHALDEA and I DIG GIRLS is a collection of 25 poems and one short story by Nick Tosches. Selections were previously published in such places as Open City, Contents, Lowest Common Denominator, GQ, Long Shot and Smokes Like a Fish. The cover features an engraving of Mithraic Kronos from AD 190...
set to an electronic soundscape by Whitehurst. Volume I is currently the only entry in the series.
Track listing
- "Erebos" - 3:39
- "May the Gods Without Names Forgive Me" - 3:17
- "Ptolemy II" - 2:25
- "Dante in Ravenna" - 3:01
- "The Dreambook of ArtemidorusArtemidorusArtemidorus Daldianus or Ephesius was a professional diviner who lived in the 2nd century. He is known from an extant five-volume Greek work the Oneirocritica, .-Life and work:...
" - 3:38 - "All of Gust and Sigh" - 3:29
- "CybeleCybeleCybele , was a Phrygian form of the Earth Mother or Great Mother. As with Greek Gaia , her Minoan equivalent Rhea and some aspects of Demeter, Cybele embodies the fertile Earth...
s Night" - 2:01 - "My Kind of Loving" - 3:30
Reviews
For the TakingBy author: Olav Bjornssen. at
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tosches
Nick Tosches is an American writer, with vast experience from the fields of journalism, biography, fiction and poetry. For the Taking is his fourth CD release, on which Tosches has written the lyrics and do the vocals; while instrumentation is handled by Rick Whitehurst. Musically this release is a rather odd one. The music is most times close to ambient industrial and ambient techno in style, where mostly dark moods from the synth combined with mostly tribal rhythms form the musical foundation for Tosches, reciting his prose in a very calm, warm dark and likeable voice. Fleshing out the soundscapes and flavouring the mood are sounds, pure samples, electronically enhanced samples and electronic noises. The music seems to be quite simplistic in style; although there are more than a few moments of complexity on these 8 songs. As for mood and style; it's generally dark, with more than a few macabre moments. The individual elements each track consist of seems to have been added to add to the general mood of the dark and the macabre that is the foundation of most of the lyrics here. The noises, the moods and the melodies here seems to have been pulled from some sort of terrifying nightmare; albeit a poetic one. There are no horrors or atrocities here, but when you hear a calm voice speaking words like "when I slew and severed into many / our son" over a musical landscape of tribal-inspired rhythms, sampled screams and generally dark and disturbing music; an intense feeling of uneasiness will be the result in most listeners minds. And much of this release is kind of similar to that; more or less slightly disturbing words; poetic in form and style; recited over a dark, bleak likewise disturbing musical framework. Clearly not a release that will top the Billboard chart; but a potential gem in the CD collections of people that find the macabre and the dark fascinating - fans of Lovecraft and the darker side of Edgar Allan Poe should be amongst those that'll be intrigued by this release. My rating: 90/100