Update, 17 May 2012.

It's finished!



Finally, after - I don't know.. - 7 years of HARD work the album I had in mind is finished. This one went through several incarnations and reincarnations. Starting out back in 2006 with the working title The Stations of the Cross I began composing electronic music based on samples and loops of old vinyl records, ambient sounds, actual field recordings and vintage movie fragments. Soon I made a composition that clarified the direction this was going. I recorded a sad violin that was featured in an item on the news commemorating the date of death of Marilyn Monroe. The song "the kiss" was based on this sample and really thrilled me. Reading articles in old movie magazines from the 50s, 60s about female Hollywood stars that died young in a tragic way, I decisively got on the track of the lux lisbon automaton. Finishing this album proved to be an almost seemingly never-ending enterprise. At one point (late 2010) I wanted to incorporate the concepts of parallel universes and paradoxes from the world of quantum mechanics into this album but it turned out to be a bridge too far to link Marilyn Monroe with Wolfgang Pauli! Recurring themes on this album: enactment, dissociative fugue, delusion of negation, physical transformation, artificial intelligence, depersonalization, limbo, death, resurrection, eternal life...   

I'll withdraw from explaining further this album to you: a) you should be intellectual enough to figure out yourself the subject and meaning (either intendedly or not, there is) of every 'score' on this record, b) why would I explain something which could have a different yet equally justified interpretation for you than it has for me? 

In the next weeks I will upload all of the compositions and expand the section on this album (#4) with a lot of artwork, videoclips etc.

The Doorman