This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content. Jeremy Ward, audio artist for The Mars Volta until his death, had previously worked as a repo man. Something ruthless that no one can remain careless to.". Ambient noise plays a larger role on Frances the Mute than it does on De-Loused in the Comatorium: "Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus" ends with the recording of children's voices and passing cars (made by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez in front of the house where he used to live with Bixler-Zavala and Ward[11]), while the first movement of "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore" ("Vade Mecum") features 4 minutes of coquí frogs (credited as "The Coquí of Puerto Rico" on the album sleeve) singing while a thick soundscape is slowly built from guitars, synthesizers and Bixler-Zavala's voice. i suggest to anyone, to any fan of music to pick this up. Truth be told, this sophomore effort is, to a degree, clearer than the prior release, as one can pin down references to a disturbing tale that involves Vismund’s mother, a rape, one or more priests, a murder, a child deformed whether as a result of the violence of its birth or as an outcome of the natural biological roulette, and an attempt by the woman’s sister and mother to speak out against the crime. ( Log Out / "The Widow" is notably the only short, pop-structured song on the album, although the last half of it features a lengthy, non-radio-friendly outro of manipulated tape loops of organs and electronic noise; for the single release, this part was edited out. Differing from these tracks, the pair of “The Widow” and “Miranda That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore” show other, more accessible, facets of The Mars Volta. Ok im pissed, i just went out and bought the Frances The Mute cd, and its missing (checks spelling) Cygnus. Even if you arent into the band.. you may be interested into the story just thought i'd share: Ive heard the first two songs, they were awesome, and that sounds like an interesting story... if it were a true story, i may be interested in reading it, but if it it is a fake one like dream theater has done, i wont waste my time... the story its based on a diary they found, so it is either based on or inspired by true events. Join the community. Noticing he had a lot in common with the guy, Jeremy kept the diary, and the material in it would eventually inspire his bandmates’ development of the thematic chain that keeps the tracks of “Frances the Mute” together. Regarding the album's lyrical content, vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala stated: ”A lot of it was [written] on the spot. So he would do that while I would record vocals, and that would be the main inspiration. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Meanwhile, closer “Cassandra Gemini” is – in all of its thirty-two-minute glory – a giant among other stars of progressive rock. Something enormous and violent, a whole album fitted into one composition. :lucky: I've never liked Mars Volta, but what I've heard from this album, and the above story, sound pretty interesting. Read our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to get more information and learn how to set up your preferences. As the tune evolves, though, the band stops for a calm and seemingly improvised instrumental break, rises back up to an orchestra-backed apex, reaches a coda where the song implodes, and finally makes the piece evaporate into a mass of electronic beeps. Hello, as you well know Frances the mute is a concept album by the mars volta witch tells a amazing story. One day, Ward discovered a diary in the backseat of a car he was repossessing, and began to note the similarities between his life and that of the author—most notably, that they had both been adopted. the mars volta are great, i really need to pick up a copy of this album. Also has anyone heard of the "decoder" they are releasing it soon.. on it will be the song "frances the mute" because they couldnt fit it on the album (The lyrics behind the cd are for this song) you can download it off of limewire .. its just amazing, Can someone tell me which country the members of The Mars Volta are from? Omar — because he collects TVs — would set up his wall of TVs again. On that front, a few complaints can be made, since “Frances the Mute” features some electronic interludes that do not build interesting ideas and, in comparison to “De-Loused in the Comatorium”, the record does not create spectacular melodic moments with the same consistency. The stream of dumbfounding verses is not as extreme as the one seen in “De-Loused in the Comatorium”, which housed linguistic oddities such as “Transient jet lag / Ecto mimed bison / This is the haunt of roulette dares / Ruse of metacarpi”. ( Log Out / Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. because I'd really like Frances The Mute on CD.That song rules. In 2005, the band released Frances the Mute. One day, Ward discovered a diary in the backseat of a car he was repossessing, and began to note the similarities between his life and that of the author—most notably, that they had both been adopted. The diary told of the author's search for his biological parents, with the way being pointed by a collection of people, their names being the basis for each named track of Frances the Mute. The album also includes contributions from future saxophonist Adrián Terrazas-González, who joined the band during its subsequent tour. Because of disputes with Universal Records, "Cassandra Gemini" (listed as "Cassandra Geminni" on most versions of the album) [note 1] was arbitrarily split into eight tracks on the CD version, taking up tracks 5 through 12, since the band would otherwise only be paid an EP's wages for a 5 track album. Yeah, I think Tool will probably have hardened me enough to that kind of thing for it to really bother me. Into The Mars Volta.? Therefore, the feeling that the writing is trying so hard to be smart that the only target it is hitting is that of silliness is not so constant. The story given by the band on the album's concept concerns a diary that had been found in a repossessed car by late sound technician Jeremy Ward, while working as a repo-man. People mentioned in the book had their names used for the characters that appear in the plot as well as for the songs’ titles themselves. While carrying out repossession orders, he allegedly found, in the backseat of a car, a diary containing the memories of an adopted man’s search for his real parents. Consequently, much like the debut, “Frances the Mute” gravitates around a concept; one that, once again, revolves around the group’s deceased sound technician, Jeremy Ward. Highlights: Cygnus….Vismund Cygnus, The Widow, Cassandra Gemini. Hello, as you well know Frances the mute is a concept album by the mars volta witch tells a amazing story. I haven’t listened to their final two records, though. The splits also were not done according to the song's actual five movements. From a musical perspective, it is not as significant of a revelation as that record, regardless of its stronger Latin roots and its duo of calmer tracks. So it was everything from The Magnificent Seven and any Akira Kurosawa stuff. i think it's the best album to come out in 5 years. I feel Amputechture and The Bedlam in Goliath are very inconsistent. And I wouldn’t have [lyrics] written right away; I would just do takes of gibberish and then later try to fix them to make them into words. The diary told of the author's search for his biological parents, with the way being pointed by a collection of people, their names being the basis for each named track of Frances the Mute. It is one of the very few I consider perfect. What a masterpiece this is. Starting with a quiet acoustic intro of guitar and voice, it does not take more than one minute for the band to explode out of the gate with ferocity, as the rhythm section of Jon Theodore and Juan Alderete de la Peña lock onto an impossibly fast groove adorned by the hyperactive guitar of Omar Rodríguez-López and the high-pitched voice of Cedric. Never gone past this one. ( Log Out / I'm compelled to look into it further. But, based on what I have read, they are not as good as Frances and the debut. Yet, in spite of clear evolution, lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala still struggles to make words sound good side by side, as seen in “My nails peel back / When the taxidermist ruined / Goose stepped the freckling impatience”. Are their later records good? It’s just really [about] being in a state of being willing to give up to the producer your scratch tracks, as opposed to really working on it and refining it.”. Man, I am totally into Frances the Mute, and I have never heard Deloused. Will I be in for a treat when I buy Deloused? There are so many cryptic messages in Cedric’s lyrics and some of them seemingly nonsensical, however that never takes away from the beauty of them. Our Morricone-influence has always been there, but on "Miranda" we let it all out. Miranda That Ghost Just Ain’t Holy Anymore [13:09]. The joy of listening to The Mars Volta, however, mostly stems from the band’s daring and inventive instrumentation. The furious horror of Frances the Mute (a pun on Fifties-screwball-comedy film star Francis the Talking Mule) is only part fiction. Did you come up with this yourself? A ground of discussion for all things The Mars Volta. 4. ( Log Out / We used to live together and he would set them up all the time — kind of like in the David Bowie movie, The Man Who Fell to Earth, he had a stack of TVs like that. Even with its reduced, but not totally eliminated, lyrical problems, “Frances the Mute” winds up not being as enjoyable as “De-Loused in the Comatorium”. He was born to Frances, and is the product of a rape. His tendency to opt for flowery vocabulary has two negative consequences: firstly, it invariably implodes the fluidity of the lines, which is a quality one would expect to gain from employing odd words; secondly, it punctually makes the verses so indecipherable that their meaning becomes lost and the plot’s impact is diminished. While the bands that were supposedly revitalizing the genre and presenting it to a new audience sourced much of their inspiration from a back-to-basics approach, like The Strokes and The White Stripes, to name a few, the 2003 record constructed by the Texan sextet was anything but simple. There is some great stuff in there (the first half of the former and the title song of the latter), but there is also a whole lot of messy tunes. The album was initially slated to have six songs, however the title track "Frances the Mute" (which was going to be the first song) was left out due to time constraints. Rodriguez-Lopez said of the song: "Ever since I was a teenager, and had various listening experiences with the likes of King Crimson, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, I've always wanted to do something like "Cassandra". The diary of an abandoned orphan seeking his parents. “L’Via L’Viaquez”, narrating the protagonist’s encounter with his aunt, plays with the band’s mixture of American and Hispanic heritage, possibly ranking as the most obvious example in the group’s discography of that blend.
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