Les Morts Vont Vite

Label: Gazul/Musea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 742630086138
EAN: 0742630086138
ASIN: B0000CDUTR

Release Date: 2003-08-29

Les Morts Vont Vite

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Tracks:

Incipit Tragaedia
Cabine 67
Yog Sothoth
La Ballade De Lre
Delear Prius
J'Ai Vu Nagu En Peinture Les Harpies Ravissant Le Repas De Phyn

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Album Description

Unclassifiable and with boundless originality, SHUB-NIGGURATH blends influences of MAGMA, ART ZOYD, UNIVERS ZERO and KING CRIMSON with echoes of PENDERECKI. From this unique alchemy comes a feverish, violent, intense and dark music in which the listener can sometimes hear anguished female vocals and a Robert FRIPP-like guitar. The relatively classical instruments used (Harmonium, guitar, bass, drums & trombone) blend with strange metal sheets sounds when those are either hit or scraped. Reissued by the label Gazul, the first album "Les Morts Vont Vite" (1986) is now considered a timeless classic. Issued five years later, "C'Etaient De Grands Vents" was recorded by a band reduced to four members only. At this occasion, the line-up from Paris had gone even further into dissonance and contemporary music, abandoning thus all rhythmic patterns and harmonies. "Testament" (2003) is the last musical testimony by SHUB-NIGGURATH. The musicians decided to issue those last compositions as a tribute to one of them, recently deceased. Here are then ten tracks that can be classified among the most radical and daring as far as experimenting is concerned. The proof will have been made, one ast time, that SHUB-NIGGURATH was indeed a major band in contemporary music.

Customer Reviews:

An Otherwordly Cacophony.......2006-07-15

Since I don't generally listen to or review this type of music, those who follow my reviews may wonder what possessed me to review a group with the outlandish name of Shub-Niggurath. One thing, friends. Shub-Niggurath is a name from the fevered imagination of one of my favorite horror writers, the late Howard P. Lovecraft. The name of the band and the name of the third song tells me this French group may have been fans as well.
Knowing what I do about Lovecraft's "dream cycle" of horror stories, with all of the nightmarish names, creatures, and places featured in them, it seems that the band Shub-Niggurath set about to create the type of music that Lovecraft's creatures might have themselves composed. While the band does not create the hoped for level of sonic terror, it succeeds in creating an otherwordly cacophony that cannot help but inspire dread in the less stouthearted listener.
My favorites here, if you can call them that, are the opening cut Incipit Tragaedia, with its jarringly off-key background vocals and fury of blaring horns, clanging and clashing percussion; the discordant Yog Sothoth, named for one of Lovecraft's fearsome Old Ones; the hellish din and eerie voices of La Ballade De Lenore; and the unutterably harsh J'ai Vu Naguere En Peinture Les Harpies Ravissant le Repas de Phynee.
Les Morts Vont Vite is not going to be in heavy rotation, but I am going to put it on next time I re-read one of HP Lovecraft's more outre' tales. It may just make give his stories a little sharper edge. If you have not read Lovecraft, try him out while listening to this!

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