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A Perfect Circle
"Mer De
Noms"
(Virgin Records América; 2000;
44:25)
Should you understand that when one
falls in love with a band, then it is him very complicated to come off of that first
image. (to who has not passed him, truth?). had it happened Me that with Tool and
does it happen me again with A Perfect Circle, the parallel project of Maynard
James Keenan, vocalist of the band. If it drips a lot of candy of milk, know how to
excuse.
Billy Howerdel: guitars, bass,
programming, keyboards, piano, voices, Maynard James Keenan: voice leader,
Peace Lenchantin: bass, violin, arrangements of strings,
voices,
Josh Freese: drums, percussion,
Troy Goes Leewen: guitars,
Guests:
Tim Alexander: drums; Luciano
Lenchantin: viola; Draven Goodwin: percussion; Kelli Shafer: voice
I have listened this disk an and another time and I am
not able to get bored... maybe is already accustoming to extensive compositions with
varied parts and grandiloquent arrangements (!), then, A Perfect Circle with
simplicity forcefulness and simple arrangements of good pleasure, united all this to a
magnificent voice, don't surprise, but yes I can assure them, dear friends that leave a
good flavor in the hearings (if this was possible).
Maynard James Keenan is vocalist of Tool,
Billy Howerdel it was technical of guitars in Tool, Nine Inch
Nails, and Smashing Pumpkins and both compose the entirety of the material of A
Perfect Circle. What will we find here? Well: you influence forced of Tool,
something of bands grunge like Soundgarden or Alice In Chains, Cocteau
Twins, Radiohead... a lot of melancholy and something of rage, all resolved one
in few minutes (unfortunately). "Mer De Noms" has twelve topics for
lovers of the good music. They won't listen the intricate rhythms that are in the disks of
Tool, the complexity it goes by other districts like the arrangements of guitars,
strings and, mainly, the vocalizations that fulfill the difficult task of being coherent
with the oppressive feelings that Maynard stores in its psyche; the man lives each song
and that is a stamp of authenticity that has always characterized it. I consider this like
one of the best yank singers that arose in those ' 90s.
Exactly the vocalist is who preposition the forced
references of her original band, but we won't find explicit political declarations, like
in the disks of Tool, although yes religious ("Judith":... I have
so many forms of demonstrating you that your dogma has given way...) as well as several
own names for regular the songs ("Magdalena", "Orestes",
"Thomas")... with certain mystic tints to the usage of the big bands of
those ' 70s, hermetic in meaning, more explicitly beautiful in the poetry... (I look to
your inclination to see if there is something more behind the eyes of a fallen angel, the
eyes of a tragedy...). my person's comment about (my friend at the distance) Maynard
will be tinted by an admiration that I don't make an effort in hiding, the expressive of
this boy it is taken with the work of each one of the musicians, being more the coherence
a virtue to highlight. The album perspires all type of emotions and it is there where we
notice that Billy and Maynard are those responsible for the identity of the
band beyond that the original project has been born with Peace and Howerdel
and Keenan it has been added later.
It is not worth to be fried tracks, boy... but I
recommend to go up the volume in "Magdalena",
"Orestes", "3 Pounds" and "Thinking Of You"...
although I believe that Tool is a more innovative band that A Perfect Circle,
I believe that here Keenan has been given the pleasure of working with another
people to record and to go out of tour with different things, musically the band is very
fine and it accompanies with subtlety or forcefulness according to the necessity of each
theme. It seems incredible that in so little time and with topics so short a group can
stroll for so many different atmospheres... I like to call him talent.
Fernando Amaya
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