El Cielo
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| Studio album by dredg | ||||
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Publication |
2002 |
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| Label (s) | Interscope Records / Universal Music Group | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
16 |
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running time |
57 min 16 s |
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Vocals / slide guitar : Gavin Hayes Lead Guitar : Mark Engles |
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Ron St. Germain, Tim Palmer and Michael Rosen |
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Studio (s) |
Skywalker Ranch / Longview Farm |
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El Cielo is a music album by dredg released on October 8, 2002 .
concept
Like Leitmotif , El Cielo is a concept album . In the booklet of the CD, a letter from a person with sleep disorders is printed for every song that is not purely instrumental . The respective lyrics contain excerpts from the respective letter, but do not follow the words exactly.
The album is inspired by Salvador Dali's 1944 published painting "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening" ( Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening ), for which the Abbreviation dcbtfoabaaposba is in the first song title. The Japanese text at the beginning of the song means “The Canyon Behind Her” in German. This album was inspired by a painting with the name: A dream, caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, one second before awakening . Many themes and song titles on the album refer to the painting, for example a long-legged elephant (song title "An Elephant In The Delta Waves" ) with a papal badge on its back ( song title "The Papal Insignia" only published on a demo CD ) ) or a woman lying in a canyon (song title "The Canyon Behind Her" ). The album was released in two versions. Once as a limited digipack with a sky cover that is no longer available. The second version was released with the same limited version booklet in a jewel case.
Track list
- Brushstroke: dcbtfoabaaposba (0:57)
- Same Ol 'Road (5:14)
- Sanzen (4:33)
- Brushstroke: New Heart Shadow (1:33)
- Δ (Triangle) (5:03)
- Sorry But It's Over (4:08)
- Convalescent (3:32)
- Brushstroke: Walk in the Park (1:40)
- Eighteen People Living in Harmony (4:28)
- Scissor Lock (3:22)
- Brushstroke: Reprise (1:32)
- Of the Room (3:44)
- Brushstroke: An Elephant in the Delta Waves (1:47)
- It Only Took a Day (3:16)
- Whoa Is Me (5:36)
- The Canyon Behind Her (6:39)
Music videos
- Same Ol 'Road (Director: American McGee )
- Of the Room (Director: Ben Rehki)
Awards
- El Cielo reached fifth place in the year-end charts of Visions magazine in 2002, and 39th place in the 150 records for the ages released in November 2006 .
Reviews
- Intro : “Of course people still like to prrogate and get tricky and 7/16 clocked, after all, why did they tinker with the record for five years, but the result is much more accessible and entertaining than ever and - despite all the tradition - in terms of sound and songwriting something really new, independent. " Till Stoppenhagen [1]
- Plattentests.de : 10 out of 10 points. “What the four eccentrics from the northern California province have achieved with their second album deserves the deepest awe and is almost impossible to put into words. (...) Dredg not only play in the same league as Tool and the Deftones on “El cielo” . They also pursue the same approach as A Perfect Circle on “ Mer de noms ” and, thanks to vocalist Gavin Hayes, act like the ghosts of Life Of Agony , who spit around in everyone's mind without asking. Sounds unbelievable? It is. " Armin Linder [2]
- metal.de - 10 out of 10 points
- noize.cc - 5 out of 6 points
- CDstarts.de - 10 out of 10 points
Individual evidence
- ↑ Poplist.de ; Accessed December 18, 2007