Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle) and Australian composer Anthony Pateras. Also avavailbel on Vinyl.
Our Overview.
‘necroscape’ is the sophomore release from the bi-continental outfit formed by Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle) and Australian composer Anthony Pateras. ‘necroscape’ synthesizes a lot of territory: odd-time rock, musique concrète, otherworld grooves, soul, industrial noise, microtonal psychoacoustics… seemingly strange bedfellows on paper, yet in the ears they surprisingly coalesce into 13 songs which playfully challenge our notions of sonic logic and make you move at the same time.
Five years in the making, ‘necroscape’ mushroomed organically from Pateras’ production based on tape loops, analogue synthesis and rarified keyboard instruments in combination with Patton’s dense vocal arrangements, Erkki Veltheim’s exploratory violins and drummer Will Guthrie’s unique percussive strategies. The result is a handmade, kaleidoscopic tour-de-force which re-imagines songwriting as something other.
Pateras and Patton "created an intelligent but ferocious mixture of avant-garde experimentalism, world music accents, and heavy metal velocity" (All Music) within the confines of their 11-track, 2014 debut, "Geocidal". NME described the collection as "Roni Size getting spiked with GHB and fed through a woodchipper" while Alternative Press said, "once you are acclimated, it will leave you tingling." The pair, joined by Will Guthrie (percussion) and Erkka Veltheim (violin), both of whom appear on "Necroscape" as well, made their live debut, fittingly at the Tasmania Mona music and art festival. The Guardian said of the outing: "TĒTĒMA didn't enrapture with anthems or token festival rock gestures, they enraptured with mood, with surprises, and with evocations rarely felt by audiences…"
Packaging features noted artist Talitha Kennedy’s sculpture work, packaged in super gloss digipak (CD) and embossed extra glossy gatefold sleeve (white vinyl).
The track ‘Funerale’ is a cover of the Ennio Morricone classic.
Tracklisting: Necroscape / Cutlass Eye / Wait Till Mornin' / Haunted On The Uptake / All Signs Uncensored / Milked Out Million / Soliloquy / Flatliner's Owl / Dead Still / Invertebrate / We'll Talk Inside A / Dream / Sun Undone / Funerale Di Un Contadino