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“PERFECT COVERS of OTHER PEOPLE'S MUSIC and we still haven't seen the light. Can you ever be happy expressing another person's anger?”
The Antidote is the first official release of messiah's original songs. It is an energetic and runaway synopsis of messiah's upcoming full-fledged album.
Well if you are looking for the meaning of ‘The Antidote’ in conventional attitude then you are looking for it in the wrong place. Anything in the like dimension of ‘The Antidote’ has not been tried in the Indian Rock music scene so far.
This album is not ‘The Antidote’ in music; it is rather ‘The Antidote’ of the current trash, overtly PR’ed music.
PR doesn’t make music better; people and honesty make music better. We are trying to emphasize that music is not a formula or even a technique; it is an involvement and assimilation of the other with oneself.
So this is the “The Antidote” for you. Go get a copy for yourself and find out why this album is called “The Antidote” in symbolical and material sense.
The studio recording of the songs have been done in two separate sessions; First in December 2003 and the second in January 2005. This long gap is audible in terms of band sound and song renditions. Out of these seven songs three songs have already been released in various compilations all over India.
The Antidote is “first of its kind” experimental music compilation; besides seven studio recorded songs it offers three live as well as home recordings. These we have titled rough cuts. Although we have enjoyed working in the studio environment with its high-tech control dynamics but we have endured and enjoyed ourselves as a live band in a greater degree and we desired to share it with more people who haven’t heard us playing live.
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| "The Antidote" album cover |
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The rough cuts are high on creativity, intensity and improvisation but average in sound quality (let’s leave the quality check onto the listeners, shall we?) since most of them are recorded on a single microphone thus leaving little space for improvement. There is one outdoor recorded live song and two home recorded live songs. Pe Pe Pe was recorded at AIIMS festival Pulse, 2003 while the home recordings were rendered recently.
Conceptually the album talks in terms of its various moods and vision; it has anger against the dubious and corrupt vision that exists in our lives; it has mood swings with the seasons; and above all, drug free renditions of whatever “don't care” genre of music, probably Rock'n'Roll in its dirtiest-rags, that might, with its mighty sound and looks attract you and stick too.
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Copyright © 2005 messiah. All rights reserved. |
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