FANTOMAS: New Album To Contain Only One Track

September 25, 2003

FANTOMAS singer Mike Patton (ex-FAITH NO MORE) has revealed to Rolling Stone magazine that the group's forthcoming third album, the 55-minute "Delirium Cordia" (due on October 21),contains only one track.

"It's my version of ambient music," Patton said. "It's dealing with larger blocks of sound and putting them together. Mood music, I like to call it. Obviously we still get around to making a lot of jarring sounds -- there's a lot of nasty stuff on there but it's not like the band is attacking you with a chainsaw. It's more seductive."

With regards to the recording process for the album, Patton said, "I would pick out a particular section that had a certain character to it, say, a long rhythmic repetitive drum part with some whooping cough vocals over the top of that and synth drums. We'd divvy it up and chop it up, the way we usually do, into seventy or eighty little pieces. It's much more sample-based. I didn't want this to sound like a band recording."

According to Mike, no plans exist to tour and play the album in its entirety. "I don't think so," he said. "Some of it is better left in the studio. I don't want to drag a wind machine around on tour. I don't want to hit some kid in the head with a bull roar. It's not appropriate in rock clubs. Maybe cabaret or theater."

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