Fantômas
Delirium Cordia
Ipecac (2004)
Fantômas is a musical group whose sound can best be described as a schizophrenic adventure through the world of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. The music of Fantômas is both unstable and methodical as well as beautiful and chaotic. Multitalented brainchild Mike Patton and musical cohorts Trevor Dunn, Dave Lombardo, and Buzz 'King Buzzo' Ozbourne return with a masterpiece of ambience filled avant-garde jazz akin to John Zorn or Sun Ra. Delirium Cordia, the third full-length from the musical supergroup, is comprised of several separately composed pieces that were surgically assembled into one 76 minute track. In fact, the entire album is inspired by Patton's viewing of images of various surgical procedures, which can be viewed in the booklet. While writing for the album, the members got together and wrote each segment on its own, which were later arranged into the eccentric masterpiece. As the listener navigates through the different segments, they are greeted with dynamic sounds that contain components from the two previous Fantômas releases. As the various soundscapes fade in and out of sequence, the music tells the story of a the emotional instability that occurs during the dramatic events of a surgery. The unconventional music is further explored … Read more
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