Metaxu: Rumors of War: description

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Rumors of War

Metaxu: Martusciello, Paolini

Rumors of War

No Type | IMNT 089 | 2003

CD (+ vidéoclip) 16.00 CA$ > 14.40 CA$ (10% off!) [?]

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When the thin line between war & peace gets as blurry as it is nowadays, a good old unfashionable labour of memory might just be in order. For Rumors of War, Italian duo Metaxu concerned itself with pivotal moments of recent World History (particularly Occidental), times when History itself seemed to end at once, giving way to an orgy of chaos, violence, blood, rape & death (not to forget shock & awe…) But let’s not be fooled: History is going on still & watching silently, whether we are aware of it or not.

How to describe Rumors of War? I like to think of it as a romantic poem on a particularly dangerous subject. For one, it might not make you feel good about your own convictions. Surely it is bound with compassion for the true victims of war. But listening to it, you could think Metaxu are flirting with their subject, giving it some reverence. It’s a matter of fact that the duo has not clearly specified their own stance on the matter, though I would suspect them to be, ultimately, pacifists. Well, who isn’t?

Art as a battleground? Maybe we’re getting to it. A place where blood is drawn with ink, where violence is but a musical simulation of itself? After all, Wagner is not the inventor of fascism. And neither is Goya responsible for the horrors of war he illustrated. Perhaps the problem is in the listener…

Mastered by Louis Dufort. Includes a bonus Quicktime video (8 min) by Mattia Casalegno.

1

28061914 Sarajevo (2001) MP3 Real

5m19s
2

25031999 Belgrade (2001)

3m14s
3

01041939 Alicant (2001) MP3 Real

5m00s
4

07021964 Saigon (2001)

3m30s
5

06091945 Hiroshima (2001)

4m51s
6

07121941 Pearl Harbour (2001)

6m19s
7

25061950 Seoul (2001)

4m25s
8

01091939 Warsaw (2001)

4m13s
9

08031917 St. Petersburg (2001)

4m34s
10

02051982 Falkland (2001)

5m23s
11

11092001 New York (2001)

6m07s
12

09041948 Deir Yassin (2001)

2m10s

total duration

56m02s

UPC / EAN 771028808922

Metaxu: Rumors of War: description

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