Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
[size=0,5]Matador 2006[/size]
01. Roses and Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein (conceptual musique concrete)
02. Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan (mutant disco)
03. Tract for Valerie Solanas (booty bass)
04. Public Sex for Boyd McDonald (porn funk)
05. Semen Song for James Bidgood (weepy elegy)
06. Snails and Lasers for Patricia Highsmith (jazz noir)
07. Germs Burn for Darby Crash (power electronics)
08. Solo Buttons for Joe Meek (surf twang)
09. Rag for William S. Burroughs (Arabic ragtime psychedelia)
10. Banquet for King Ludwig II of Bavaria (Wagnerian slapstick)
- The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast is the new record by San Francisco duo Matmos. It is a series of "sound portraits" of a pantheon of people that they admire. A musical attempt at biography, it's loose in some places and very literal in others; taken as a suite of stylistically disparate songs, you get a kind of fractured family album, a historical pageant. It's at once Matmos' most melodic and most conceptual record.
track desciptions were too funny not to paste them from the Matador site.
this album was due to come in may but already leaked.
it's actually quite good.
vocal contributions by:
Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons fame),
Maja Ratkje (known of the all-female Spunk ensemble - see: Rune Grammofon),
French sound-artist Laetitia Sonami,
Kronos Quartet,
and (inevitably?) Björk!
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