Televators
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"Televators" is a single from the album De-Loused in the Comatorium
by the band The Mars Volta
. The cryptic lyrics represent the moment at which the character "Cerpin Taxt" (based on a real life friend of the band, Julio Venegas) decides to take his own life. It is very much a ballad, and its overall quiet nature stands in stark contrast to the hard rock of the rest of the album (especially that of the immediately following closing track "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt."),
This is mainly because it is one of only three songs on the album that takes place in reality, outside the "Comatorium", Cerpin Taxt's dream world.
and features extensive computer animation, showing various animals interacting in their environments. Keeping with the theme of the song itself, the video culminates in a scene where a tarsier
commits suicide by leaping from a tree branch (tarsiers are known to kill themselves while in captivity due to stress). It also parallels to Cerpin Taxt jumping off a bridge to his death. http://web.archive.org/web/20041015083950/http://www.szgdocent.org/pp/p-tarsir.htm).
10" single
De-Loused in the Comatorium
De-Loused in the Comatorium is the debut studio album of the progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Released on June 24, 2003 on Gold Standard Laboratories and Universal Records, De-loused is based on a short story written by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and sound manipulation artist Jeremy...
by the band The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta is a Grammy award winning American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas. Founded in 2001 by guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the band incorporates various influences including progressive rock, krautrock, jazz fusion, Latin American music, and...
. The cryptic lyrics represent the moment at which the character "Cerpin Taxt" (based on a real life friend of the band, Julio Venegas) decides to take his own life. It is very much a ballad, and its overall quiet nature stands in stark contrast to the hard rock of the rest of the album (especially that of the immediately following closing track "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt."),
Music video
The song's music video takes place in a tropical rainforestRainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...
and features extensive computer animation, showing various animals interacting in their environments. Keeping with the theme of the song itself, the video culminates in a scene where a tarsier
Tarsier
Tarsiers are haplorrhine primates of the genus Tarsius, a genus in the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes...
commits suicide by leaping from a tree branch (tarsiers are known to kill themselves while in captivity due to stress). It also parallels to Cerpin Taxt jumping off a bridge to his death. http://web.archive.org/web/20041015083950/http://www.szgdocent.org/pp/p-tarsir.htm).
Track listing
CD single- "Televators" (edit)
- "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" (Live XFM Session) – 12:19
- "Televators" (video)
10" single
- "Televators" (edit)
- "Eriatarka" (Live at the Electric Ballroom, London) – 7:38