Delìrium Còrdia
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| Delìrium Còrdia | ||
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| Studio album by Fantômas | ||
| Released | January 27, 2004 | |
| Recorded | Spring 2003 | |
| Genre | Experimental Rock | |
| Length | 74:17 | |
| Label | Ipecac Recordings IPC-045 | |
| Producer(s) | Mike Patton | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Fantômas chronology | ||
| Millennium Monsterwork 2000 (2002) |
Delìrium Cordìa (2004) |
Suspended Animation (2005) |
Delìrium Còrdia is the third full-length album by Fantômas. It was released on Ipecac Recordings in 2004.
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[edit] Style
[edit] Music
The music could be described as the score to a horror movie and/or concept album centering on the theme of surgery without anesthesia. The entire album consists of a single track that is seventy four minutes and seventeen seconds long (although the last 20 minutes is nothing but an emulation of a vinyl record lead-out groove).
Several music genres and styles are covered over the course of the album including easy listening, chanting and metal, generally being seperated by ambience and surgery sounds/voices.
[edit] Artwork
The booklet contains arguably gruesome photos of surgeries in which organs are seen being removed from human bodies.[1]
A quote on the label backcard reads "Like the surgeon, the composer slashes open the body of his fellow man, removes his eyes, empties his abdomen of organs, hangs him up on a hook holding up to the light all of the body's palpitating treasures sending a burst of light into its' innermost depths" and is attributed to Richard Selzer M.D. (also credited with "voices").
The font used for all text contained on the album uses V in place of U (with the exception of the U in MAX AGUILERA); presumably a nod to Latin spelling conventions.
[edit] Track listing
- "Surgical Sound Specimens from the Museum of Skin" – 74:17
[edit] Credits
- Mike Patton - Vocals, Producer, Arrangement, Design/Layout
- Dave Lombardo - Drums
- Buzz Osborne - Guitar
- Trevor Dunn - Bass
- Max Aguilera-Hellweg - Photography (Taken with permission from the book The Sacred Heart, Bullfinch Press)
- S. Husky Höskulds - Engineer
- Mott Lange - Assistant engineer
- Gene Grimaldi - Mastering
- Martin Kvamme - Artwork
- Richard Selzer - Voices
