Delìrivm Còrdia Fantômas . It consists of an operatic nightmare , one continuous 74-minute track which plays like horror movie soundtrack or eerie progressive soundscape. Delìrivm Còrdia means “irregular heartbeat” in Latin. Mike Patton, the group’s singer, thus describes it:
“It’s my version of ambient music. It’s dealing with larger blocks of sound and putting them together. Mood music, I like to call it. Obviously we still get around to making a lot of jarring sounds — there’s a lot of nasty stuff on there but it’s not like the band is attacking you with a chainsaw. It’s more seductive. ”
The theme of the record is Surgical Sound Specimens from the Museum of Skin surgery without anaesthesia . All the images used to comprise the cover are photographs taken from Max Aguilera-Hellweg ‘s book The Sacred Heart: An Atlas of the Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery,
“L’homme joyeux se réjouit certes de ceci ou de cela en particulier ; mais à l’interroger davantage on découvre vite qu’il se réjouit aussi de tel autre ceci et de tel autre cela, et encore de telle et telle autre chose, et ainsi de suite à l’infini. Sa réjouissance n’est pas particulière mais générale : il est « joyeux de toutes les joies », omnibus laetitiis laetum , comme le dit un amoureux comblé dans une pièce du dramaturge latin Trabéa, partiellement citée par Cicéron.”
Clément ROSSET
"Now, when you have got absorbed in sound, where were you? This would be called a state of consciousness where we have a primitive form of samadhi . That is to say, we are happily absorbed in what we are doing and we have forgotten about ourselves. You can’t very well do that and worry or think anything serious. [...] This is the point why, from ancient times, people discovered humming and singing, and everybody used to sing while they worked. But you will notice that today very few people sing at all. You have to make a thing of it. People are afraid of their voices—their melodic voice as distinct from their spoken voice. I know an enormous number of people who never sing at all. Why is it that when the scriptures, the Upanishads, the Sūtras are read, they are invariably chanted? Because an extra dimension is added to the voice as soon as you bring a note into it. That’s the divine element, you see? The note-sound, the seen-sound—symbolically speaking." ~ Alan WATTS
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
NIETZSCHE, Twilight of the Idols
“No one can make clear to another who has never had a certain feeling, in what the quality or worth of it consists. One must have musical ears to know the value of a symphony; one must have been in love one’s self to understand a lover’s state of mind. Lacking the heart or ear, we cannot interpret the musician or the lover justly, and are even likely to consider him weak-minded or absurd. The mystic finds that most of us accord to his experiences an equally incompetent treatment.”
William JAMES, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”
CIORAN, All Gall Is Divided
« LA VIE PASSE. Le corps et l’âme s’écoulent comme un flot. Les ans s’inscrivent sur la chair de l’arbre qui vieillit. Le monde entier s’use et se renouvelle. Toi seule ne passes pas, immortelle Musique. Tu es la mer intérieure. Tu es l’âme profonde. Tu es en dehors du monde. Tu es un monde, à toi seule. »
Romain ROLLAND
Delìrivm Còrdia 