Bottom & Top/ Produced with Rick Rubin, De-Loused in the Comatorium (Universal, 2003) is the first LP and concept album by the American progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Based on a short story by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Michael Ward, it is the hour-long tale of Cerpin Taxt, a man who tries to kill himself by overdosing on rat poison. The attempt lands him in a week-long coma during which he experiences visions of humanity and his own psyche. Upon waking, he is dissatisfied with the real world and jumps to his death. The music contained in De-Loused is distinguished by its enigmatic lyrics, jazz rhythms, odd time signatures, and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's frenetic guitar riffs, which are often harshly dissonant. "Drunkship of Lanterns" was named the 91st best guitar song of all-time by Rolling Stone. Middle/ Duality (4AD) is a collaborative album by Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke released in 1998. It was Lisa Gerrard's first post-Dead Can Dance album. The beginning of the song "Shadow Magnet" will sound familiar to many because it influenced, in part, the music at the beginning of the Gladiator soundtrack (music by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard). The track "Nadir (Synchronicity)"
was initially intended for use at the end of that film.
was initially intended for use at the end of that film.
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