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Title: Toying with the Insanities
Artist: Candiria
Genre: Metal/Experimental
Release Date: 9th September 2009
Label: Rising Pulse Records



Album Review

Straight out of Brooklyn, New York CANDIRIA has taken their infused jazz-metal experiments to a whole another level when it comes to unleashing their first set of volumes in their upcoming four volume catalogue. CANDIRIA's four volume set consists of course of four volumes - volumes one and two being labelled as ‘Toying with the Insanities’. All four volumes will be released digitally, while 1,000 limited CD's of Volume One along with 300 limited LPs of Volume Two will be available.

‘Toying with the Insanities’ marks the band's first release back in March of this year, which was ‘Kiss the Lie’ that was sadly delayed two years in the making. After numerous dead end occurrences, ‘Kiss the Lie’ was finally unleashed, leading up to a handful of tracks that would air upon ‘Toying with the Insanities’. That album itself is not only a remixed effort but everything was taken from CANDIRIA's first three albums, featuring various combinations from the underground scene, down to the eclectic zone, with such acts as: Dalek, Dub Trio, Ghosts of the Canal, Kayo Dot and members of Dillinger Escape Plan, Fishbone, Peeping Tom and more. CANDIRIA's guitarist John Lamacchia says “This is something that [frontman] Carley Coma and I have discussed for a few years and since I now have my own label and Candiria officially owns the rights to the first three releases we decided to put the series out.”

When it comes down to the albums itself though, you get a mere 8 tracks to engage you throwing you directly into the music head on full blown force. The techno heavy metal influence is fully impacted as the vocal chords are easily heard screaming in and out every so often. Whereas the rest of the music draws itself to appear as a hip-hop / rap style with a little techno flare thrown to mix it altogether. ‘Faction’, which was remixed by Edgey, throws itself directly out into the open being extremely fast and heavy every note played, vocally speaking causing them to break up causing the vocals to not be that understandable at times. ‘Mental Crossover’, remixed by Pole, plays out at a mellower rate taking the music down a notch but still seems to impact the music building up its energy.

‘Conjuring Spirits’, performed by Ghosts of the Canal, is just like ‘Mental Crossover’ a slowdown of the music altogether. Taking the music even further downward, this track alone is perhaps the music unique and smooth out tune you can adjust too while all the rest stands flat. Overall, the first set of volumes in this four volume saga starts off very upbeat and rather catchy but tends to draw itself out fading in and out at various times not really indicating what the music will end up doing next. Making the listener’s mind wondering how remixed can music go?


Tracklist

01. Divided (Remixed by Dub Trio with Joel Hamilton)
02. Faction (Remix by Edgey)
03. Pages (Revisitation by Kayodot)
04. Tribes (Remix by Budzy)
05. Conjuring Spirits (Performed by Ghosts of the Canal)
06. Mental Crossover (Remix by Pole)
07. Three Times Again (Remixed by HighKoo and Mr.Delaroid)
08. Spectator (Performed by Ken Schalk)


Line-up

Carley Coma - Vocals
John LaMacchia - Guitar
Michael MacIvor - Bass
Kenneth Schalk - Drums


Website

http://www.myspace.com/candiria


Cover Picture




Rating

Music: 8
Sound: 8
Extras: -
Total: 8 / 10


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