Symmetry

Theme For An Imaginary Film

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SIDE 1 01. INTRODUCTION (3:02) 02. CITY OF DREAMS (2:33) 03. OVER THE EDGE (5:35) 04. THE NIGHTSHIFT (0:52) 05. PAPER CHASE (3:29) 06. OUTSIDE LOOKING IN (2:07) SIDE 2 01. MIDNIGHT SUN (2:29) 02. THICKER THAN BLOOD (3:36) 03. A SORT OF HOMECOMING (3:34) 05. WINNER TAKE ALL (3:29) SIDE 3 01. DEATH MASK (5:34) 02. JACKIE'S EYES (3:33) 03. THE FADING FACES (2:15) 04. MIND GAMES (3:14) 05. THE MAZE (3:59) 06. THRESHOLD (3:13) SIDE 4 01. FLASHBACK (3:56) 02. BLOOD SPORT (3:42) 03. SURVIVAL INSTINCT (2:54) 04. HALL OF MIRRORS (4:17) 05. EULOGY (2:58) 06. THE MESSENGER (3:57) SIDE 5 01. LOVE THEME (1:56) 02. THROUGH THE GAUNTLET (3:42) 03. GHOST TOWN (4:25) 04. CRUISE CONTROL (3:24) 05. WAVE GOODBYE (1:04) 06. MAGIC GARDENS (2:05) 07. AN EYE FOR AN EYE (2:03) SIDE 6 01. THE POINT OF NO RETURN (5:55) 02. CREMATION (2:54) 03. THE NIGHTSHIFT (Reprise) (1:04) 04. MEMORIES ARE FOREVER 05. ECHOES OF THE MIND (1:22) 06. STREETS OF FIRE (4:53) - Three years in the making, Symmetry - the project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, & Desire's more abstract sides - finally sees its release this month. Themes For An Imaginary Film is two hours of claustrophobic cinematic bliss compiled for Painters, Writers, Photographers, Designers, Cruisers, Night Walkers, & Dreamers. Adrenaline drips thick like syrup across a horizon where memories become blurred scenes behind the windshield & yesterday's faces fade as the road strobes to aggressive rhythms. Romantic melodies linger in the rearview mirror as chimera bells saturate the electric fog that's slowly rolling in. Over the span of thirty-seven tracks, Symmetry embraces the elegance of European noir, cut with a lean & violent American razor. Directly in your face & breathing down your neck one minute, & escaping beyond the night sky the next. The attention given to color & detail on these recordings is more graphic than musical. More visual than aural. With no flashy virtuosity to clutter the mood, the album's pulse thrives on the empty pockets of space left in the wake of throbbing bass & the faint flicker of electro candlelight. Minimal, strict, & always in motion, there's an oppressive overtone throughout the record that winds itself tight as a clock. Johnny Jewel & Nat Walker (Chromatics & Desire) give us propulsive moments that are more rhythm based than Pop, & less reliant on a lyrical presence than their other projects. A lot of computer screens this year have flashed rumors of Jewel's synthesized score for Nicolas Refn's Drive. Symmetry isn't Jewel�s score for Drive. These tracks date back to 2008 when Jewel was working on Farah's Into Eternity album. Some of the other tracks are the first things Jewel & Walker worked on in Montreal before Desire was up & running, & while Chromatics was in hiding after the success of Night Drive. As Jewel says: "We were just spending all night in a trance with not enough sleep, exploring space, rhythm & tone." With repetitions in theme like hi hats dressed as stopwatches, and bass lines mimicking the pumping of blood, the statement of Symmetry is in the understatement. Dueling themes permeate & mirror the entire album. Feminine / Masculine. Space / Density. Bass / Treble. Tension / Release. Love / Isolation. Taking cues in texture & ambiance from American composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, & Glenn Branca, while applying the more cascading & visual concepts of European composers Maurice Ravel, Gyorgy Ligeti, Erik Satie, & Karlheinz Stockhausen. We hear all of these elements through the veil & color of analog synthesizers & rhythm machines from the early 1970s, resulting in the suspenseful & patient territory pioneered by the hands of John Carpenter, Claudio Simonetti, Wendy Carlos, Klaus Schulze, & Krzysztof Komeda. Symmetry is not Pop. Stripped to its most primitive & visceral core, this is music written for picture. Your life is the film & this is the soundtrack.

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20.07.2012

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