1 - First Wave (1:23 ) 2 - Desi Watfah (4:21) 3 - Arabic Stallion (3:22) 4 - World Clock Crank (3:54) 5 - Topical Cancer Treatments (3:00) 6 - Ziko Iko Iko (4:22) 7 - Face Breaker (3:16) 8 - Potroym (3:23) 9 - Two Teeth In (4:03 ) 10 - Coat Hanger Clinic (3:28) 11 - Go(0)d Doctor (5:15) 12 - Godless Goddess (3:31) 13 - Time For Chants Is Over (4:41) 14 - Folding Hands (3:41) 15 - Second Wave (1:44)
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Wanting to create an album featuring an East meets West attitude without sounding like a hokey world Beat fusion album was not an easy task. I crafted some of these sounds in Ziko Iko Iko to mimic my emotions after watching a few South Korean horror films, the graphic and prolonged torture each character was going though captured my imagination. From pulling off nails and piano wires ripping the fingers off, I wondered what it would sound like to play the piano with just stubs to press the keys in. A chaotic mess I'm sure, but I crafted this album to not be a mess, to be a precise cut of Asian/Eastern music. Two Teeth In channels distorted rhythms of a futuristic street bazaar in a distopic Istanbul, with it's icy ambient synths cutting above the pounding street drums. Folding Hands calls to the forgotten temples an gods of Angkor Wat, glitch synths gibbering to a constant drum hoping for the rains to come and wash away the impurity of man. This has to be one of my favorite conceptual works and putting a lot of time and effort, three years to be exact, has tempered a new respect for music and cultures while holding fast to my own. I wish only to observe, not become these cultures. I find it more sincere and respectful to myself and the nature of man around me.
Thanks to Zhang and the entire Bypass team for making this happen.
![[bp054] Cursed Chimera - The Coat Hanger Clinic](/img/work/nomencl/m_2284.jpg "[bp054] Cursed Chimera - The Coat Hanger Clinic")
