THEME FOR AN IMAGINARY FILM LP

SYMMETRY (italians do it better)

Release date: 09.08.2012

Music Style: Rare Groove

Article No.: 1749149 / IDIB37LP

€19.49

Three years in the making, Symmetry - the project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, & Desire's more abstract sides - finally sees its release this month. Themes For An Imaginary Film is two hours of claustrophobic cinematic bliss compiled for Painters, Writers, Photographers, Designers, Cruisers, Night Walkers, & Dreamers. Adrenaline drips thick like syrup across a horizon where memories become blurred scenes behind the windshield & yesterday's faces fade as the road strobes to aggressive rhythms. Romantic melodies linger in the rearview mirror as chimera bells saturate the electric fog that's slowly rolling in.
Over the span of thirty-seven tracks, Symmetry embraces the elegance of European noir, cut with a lean & violent American razor. Directly in your face & breathing down your neck one minute, & escaping beyond the night sky the next. The attention given to color & detail on these recordings is more graphic than musical. More visual than aural. With no flashy virtuosity to clutter the mood, the album's pulse thrives on the empty pockets of space left in the wake of throbbing bass & the faint flicker of electro candlelight. Minimal, strict, & always in motion, there's an oppressive overtone throughout the record that winds itself tight as a clock. Johnny Jewel & Nat Walker (Chromatics & Desire) give us propulsive moments that are more rhythm based than Pop, & less reliant on a lyrical presence than their other projects.
A lot of computer screens this year have flashed rumors of Jewel's synthesized score for Nicolas Refn's Drive. Symmetry isn't Jewel's score for Drive. These tracks date back to 2008 when Jewel was working on Farah's Into Eternity album. Some of the other tracks are the first things Jewel & Walker worked on in Montreal before Desire was up & running, & while Chromatics was in hiding after the success of Night Drive. As Jewel says: "We were just spending all night in a trance with not enough sleep, explor

Tracks on this Album

1		introduction
2		city of dreams
3		over the edge
4		the nightshift
5		paper chase
6		outside looking in
7		midnight sun
8		thicker than blood
9		a sort of homecoming
10		behind the wheel
11		winner take all
12		death mask
13		jackie's eyes
14		the fading faces
15		mind games
16		the maze
17		threshold
18		flashback
19		blood sport
20		survival instinct
21		hall of mirrors
22		eulogy
23		the messenger
24		love theme
25		through the gauntlet
26		ghost town
27		cruise control
28		wave goodbye
29		magic gardens
30		an eye for an eye
31		the point of no return
32		cremation
33		the nightshift (reprise)
34		memories are forever
35		echoes of the mind
36		streets of fire