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[Album Review] Guano Padano ‘2’
Straying a bit out of the normal Bloody-Disgusting fare, I sat down with Guano Padano’s latest album, 2, this weekend. I was seduced into checking it out when I learned that Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle) did a guest appearance on one of the songs. If Mike Patton decided that this album was good enough to do some vocal work on, you better believe that I’m very intrigued and want to check it out.
The album opens up with “Last Night”, a mellow, beautiful track that I envisioned being used during a movie scene where a car is flying down the highway through the desert, late at night, the driver obviously distraught and on a mission. However, that image quickly vanished as the song bled into the second track, “Zebulon”, a Morricone-tinged toe tapper with overdriven blues riffs.
The next track, “One Man Bank”, mixes in some Oriental flavors while still preserving the Western attitude from the previous track. This is a slow track that would be perfect for some sexy dancing a la Selma Hayek in From Dusk ‘Til Dawn. Meanwhile, “Lynch” would be perfectly at home in a film noir piece.
Patton appears on “Prairie Fire”, an eerie track that is musically perfect for his vocal talents. He gets the opportunity to whisper his words, almost crooning them before nearly howling to the sky. Maniacal laughs puncture the soundscape every so often. The foray of Patton into Guano Padano’s world is brilliant.
From a production standpoint, this album is wonderfully tackled. There are a wealth of instruments and a wide variety of tones used for each one. It’s the type of album that will have you finding new sounds, new passages, new moments with each play.
Mixing jazz, surf rock, bluegrass, a few Oriental themes, and a hefty dose of Latin flavor with a Twin Peaks air of mystery, this is the type of music that would make any Quentin Tarantino fan get up and dance like Vincent Vega or Mia Wallace.
The Final Word: Guano Padano’s 2 is an intriguing and sexy smorgasbord of musical influences that work beautifully together.
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AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.
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