Artist...............: Tera Melos
Album................: Tera Melos
Genre................: Jazzcore/Experimetal
Year.................: 2005
Quality..............: Standard, (avg. bitrate: 193kbps)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: , ID3 v2.2
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:01:17) Tera Melos - Melody 1
2. (00:06:20) Tera Melos - Melody 2
3. (00:02:31) Tera Melos - Melody 3
4. (00:04:55) Tera Melos - Melody 4
5. (00:08:51) Tera Melos - Melody 5
6. (00:03:42) Tera Melos - Melody 6
7. (00:04:19) Tera Melos - Melody 7
8. (00:28:45) Tera Melos - Melody 8
Playing Time.........: 01:00:41
Total Size...........: 93,54 MB
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/7t6sl9Tera Melos would be the first ones to tell you that they don't play punk, and they'd be 100 percent correct. While they're certainly inspired by punk, they use its simplicity and power to rip a hole in the genre formerly known as instrumental guitar rock, combining elements of jazz and electronica to create a unique synthetic blend. The result is an album that values loud blast of volume and catchy anthemic riffs as much as weird sounds, unexpected textures and non-traditional song structure -- and a fantastic lesson in how to take instrumental music beyond its constraints.
Uninitiated listeners may simply label Tera Melos as math rock and be done with it, but they'd be half wrong; "Melody 2" and the muscular "Melody 4" in particular belie a certain affinity for shifting time signatures and a propensity for doubling up on rhythms, but the melodic intent is so ferocious that it's easier to relate the band to spazzers like Cap'n Jazz than to instrumental perfectionists like Don Caballero or Turing Machine. Indeed, some of the deconstruction they pull off at the end of "Melody 3" and throughout the 28-minute closer "Melody 8" is similar to the instrumental work of Cap'n Jazz alums Ghost & Vodka and Joan Of Arc. "Melody 8", in particular, is an unlikely example of rock on the margins -- that is, a sonic experiment that can only loosely be classified as rock. It's a cacophony of melodies and noise, repeatedly surging and suppressing itself, creating texture and rhythm out of unanticipated conjunctions. This is the most extreme example of their experimentalism; "Melody 6" comes closer to math/emo pioneers Braid's familiar jerky stop/start style.
Lest you think this is all heady guitar rock or artsy tripe, rest assured that it's not. Opener "Melody 1" is a short, jazzy electronic piece, "Melody 5" ends with a glitchy piano fade-out, and drummer Vince Rogers's free jazz training is clearly in use on sections of "Melody 2" and "Melody 6". Most of the album rocks out hard enough to sue for whiplash, and apparently the band's live shows are legendary acts of near-catastrophe. The album is a well-oiled and barely-contained version of that same intensity, resulting in fly-on-the-wall appreciation for a musical approach that's just short of dangerous. It's tough to recommend this record strongly enough -- you just need to check out Tera Melos for yourself.
