Ethnic Zombie
Ethnic zombie The general psychosis caused by influenza A infects us the spirit, general paranoia.The fear of contact, of the other, translates into a heightened hygiene.Michael Jackson is deadleaving us with a zombie image of a man in a physical decay governed by his own phobias. Running in a Loop, images of the video-clip Thriller parade as an ode to his life.This famous mocking laugh mocks us, quite rightly: they laugh at us and our modern anxieties. They individualize us, the other is the enemy. The unknown breeds fear and exerts a paradoxical fascination on us. The one that paralyzes us, preventing us from thinking carefully; these frights not being only generated by an infantile fear of the forest, darkness, or solitude, but also by a reality far more tragic ... A history of modern horror.The oracles of music had warned us.Our collective schizophrenia is only increasing.I got a taste of terror, and I reflect on what I was served on a regular basis: all these dogmas and sermons. I can not be the public opinion, because no one can resume or confound itself to this sole mass state.By trying to detach him self the individual responds to the community, but he can not separate from her.The improbable complementary of opposites.Disturbing uncanniness.So, I listen. Hopping for answers that would allow me to understand that all things acquired are justan illusion.There is nothing to fear from emptiness, absence, unconsciousness, loneliness, or the unknown.Fever ray's universe is pomp and disturbing.Swedish Karin Dreijer Andersson, singer of the chimeric band The Knife delivers here her solo project: a slow and delicious frenzy.A canoe where apathetic children are sitting, crossing quietly a forest in the night. As they are being observed by strange tribal looking character.A large empty pool in a bourgeois country house. Scattered inert bodies.Sounds of south american indian tribes, mixed with Nordic strangeness.In this house, more dead bodies. Macabre spectacle of a european Bourgeoisie. Karin, her face make up representing a skeleton, takes the childrens away as she disappears in the lake's reflections.(if I had a heart)Progressive rock.On the lighter side, Rainbow Arabia, a california duo/couple: Danny & Tiffany Preston, just came with a new EP:Kabuki Mono, on the label Manimal Vinyl. Their second release after the (overly) discreet and so precious, The Basta.A record in phase with the name of the band, a kaleidoscope of electronic sounds ranging from psychedelic to punk.Sometimes, even borrowing from world music: libanese synthesizers and percussion.The enchanting voice, almost sepultural, coming from this snake charmer hypnotizes with its piercing crescendos.She will turn you docile.The formidable producers: Switch, the British and Diplo, the American, composed an album (Guns don't kill people... lazers do) under the futuristic name Major Lazer. Influenced by Jamaïcan dance-hall as well as afro-beat and Brazilian groove.A plethora of artists have lent their voice for this colorful, exciting, phantasmagoric, sometimes even lubricious project: Santigold, Mr lexx, Nina Sky, Jovi Rockwell, Ms Thing, Future Trouble, just to name a few.It could be the story of a black GI joe on a surfboard attacking zombie vampires before they threaten the Egyptianempire.In a psychedelic and futuristic setting.(Hold the line).C-thru is a captivating number by Lemonade & Glasser you can find on the compilation Let's Kiss and make up. (Tsunami-Addiction).It evokes Indian dances, which gradually evolve into a sand desert, over electronic music and to finally escape in a cloud of hallucinogenic smoke.I close my eyes.Zombies are eternal.
