Mike Patton and fellow Ipecac resident Kaada's collaboration Romances dwell… Read Full Bio ↴Mike Patton and fellow Ipecac resident Kaada's collaboration Romances dwells in the twilight zone where spooky and seductive meet. Both artists' work reveals a love of cinematic music: Kaada is an award-winning film music composer in his native Norway, and Patton has paid homage to great horror scores on Fantômas' Director's Cut. Romances is just as filmic as that album -- actually, the affection for the spooky, evocative and arranged is the biggest romance going on here -- but it is less noisy and intense, and more obviously melodic and playful, than Director's Cut.
"Invocation"'s creepily whimsical melody and choral voices, for example, recall Danny Elfman's work more than Fantômas' grislier sound. Patton's fondness for over-the-top theatricality tends to dominate Romances, particularly on the eight-minute "Aubade," where his vocals span ghostly choral passages, Tasmanian devil-like grunts and growls and ululating that sounds like an unusually tuneful bleating goat.
Like nearly all of Patton's collaborations, the album makes the most of his voice, and he's shown over and over again that he can adapt his singing to almost any setting (and vice versa). The torchy "Seule" and "Pitie Pour Mes Larmes" feature some of the most straightforward crooning he's done in a while, but within the album's context, lyrics like "You came to take my heart from me" have more to do with grand guignol than lingering glances and meaningful sighs, and the song's richly layered harmonies once again emphasize the album's mingling of sensual and eerie.
Kaada's part of the collaboration shows up in Romances' lush, playful sound and eclectic influences: "L'Absent," in another incarnation, could be a jaunty French folk melody, while "Viens, Les Gazons Sont Verts" mixes spaghetti western theme music with exotica. And, though it sounds pretty different than Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time's fusion of electronica and '60s soul, "Pensees Des Morts" -- a playfully eerie mutation of rattling percussion and an oddly buoyant melody -- will appeal to fans of Kaada's collage aesthetic.
Eastern European music, cabaret, lounge and classic horror movie-music instruments like organs, theremin and harp all get their due and go a long way towards Romances' journey from sentimental to creepy and back again. The album is immensely entertaining, not just for Patton and Kaada fans, but for anyone looking for a soundtrack to their own romantically macabre thoughts.
San Francisco, California, USA
2003
Mike Patton
Kaada
www.ipecac.com
www.kaada.no
"Invocation"'s creepily whimsical melody and choral voices, for example, recall Danny Elfman's work more than Fantômas' grislier sound. Patton's fondness for over-the-top theatricality tends to dominate Romances, particularly on the eight-minute "Aubade," where his vocals span ghostly choral passages, Tasmanian devil-like grunts and growls and ululating that sounds like an unusually tuneful bleating goat.
Like nearly all of Patton's collaborations, the album makes the most of his voice, and he's shown over and over again that he can adapt his singing to almost any setting (and vice versa). The torchy "Seule" and "Pitie Pour Mes Larmes" feature some of the most straightforward crooning he's done in a while, but within the album's context, lyrics like "You came to take my heart from me" have more to do with grand guignol than lingering glances and meaningful sighs, and the song's richly layered harmonies once again emphasize the album's mingling of sensual and eerie.
Kaada's part of the collaboration shows up in Romances' lush, playful sound and eclectic influences: "L'Absent," in another incarnation, could be a jaunty French folk melody, while "Viens, Les Gazons Sont Verts" mixes spaghetti western theme music with exotica. And, though it sounds pretty different than Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time's fusion of electronica and '60s soul, "Pensees Des Morts" -- a playfully eerie mutation of rattling percussion and an oddly buoyant melody -- will appeal to fans of Kaada's collage aesthetic.
Eastern European music, cabaret, lounge and classic horror movie-music instruments like organs, theremin and harp all get their due and go a long way towards Romances' journey from sentimental to creepy and back again. The album is immensely entertaining, not just for Patton and Kaada fans, but for anyone looking for a soundtrack to their own romantically macabre thoughts.
San Francisco, California, USA
2003
Mike Patton
Kaada
www.ipecac.com
www.kaada.no
Aubade
Kaada/Patton Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Aubade' by these artists:
Blind Stereo Moon Sunshine on your face It has finally found its place Let the…
Crimfall Are you afraid? Are you ashamed? The light has died... Your…
Jean-Paul Fouchecourt Graham Johnson Sur ! faut que je chante Mon aubade à Lydie : "O…
Mirabilis Rise in my heartbeat And rush in my blood My lips, they…
Stillbreather I wish you didn't have to hear me say That I'll…
The Brave Little Abacus Yes, I thought our mouths would meet, or at the…
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Seule Today this is my world You'll be my girl I'm awake It's m…
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ThePeca1988
Pure geniusity. Personally i like their live DVD better, it gives something more over the studio recording, but non the less, eaven the studio version is a masterpeace. Never disappointed in Pattons talent so far (Faith no More, Tomahawk, Mr Bungle, Mondo Cane, Fantomas, and all of his other projects with various bands). Its always worth listening. Talented musicians on the edge, pursuing something new, and bending our knowledge of what music can be!!! Geniuses.
Line Syverinsen
I wonder how these wonderbrains found each other, but I'm glad that they did.
MikeRoePhonicsMusic
I bought this CD when it first came out. Really dark and bizarre. It's good, but man, it's out there!! lol
Aaron Tom
Quite possibly the quickest way to kill 11-and-a-half minutes.
estebanottodream
:o genial
MFJon777
Any Patton fan should have this album and DVD. His best project after Faith No More in my opinion.
Mamas dickebubu
Nice
Marius Kristiansen
Suele
Aubade