ARTIST.... Cédric Pin/Glen Johnson
TITLE....... The Burning Skull
STYLE...... Ambient, Dark Ambient, Darkwave, Experimental
LABEL...... Second Language QUALITY..... 320kbps / Joint-Stereo COUNTRY... France
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Cédric Pin and Glen Johnson first played music together in 2005 as part of cult, London-based, Anglo-French "ghostrock" group, Piano Magic. Pin's programming and keyboard contributions to the group's (arguably) most lauded album, 'Disaffected,' (which also features Cédric as the cover star) was instrumental to the band's flirtation with electro-pop at that time. The electro theme was explored in much greater depth on Pin and Johnson's Future Conditional project of 2007, from which an album, 'We Don't Just Disappear,' was released on the Factory Records re-issue imprint LTM Recordings.
Despite Pin leaving London for the comparatively sleepy town of Alès in the Occitanie region of southern France in 2008, they kept in touch. Pin raised a family and exercised his talent for painting, whilst Johnson continued to record and tour across Europe and beyond with Piano Magic. In 2009, the latter also recorded a debut solo album, 'Details Not Recorded' and co-founded a new independent label, Second Language Music.
Around 2013, the two mooted a new album, though this time of darker, more esoteric electronica, that was to become Second Language's 37th release, ‘The Burning Skull.’ Initially swapping music files by email, Pin and Johnson, spent the Winter of 2017-'18 putting the finishing touches to the project at their home studios in London and Alès.
‘The Burning Skull’ was greatly inspired by the key themes of vanitas and memento mori, ever-evident in contemporary, materialistic society and social media. Johnson explains, “It really interests me how pop music is increasingly escapist – that modern songwriters seem hellbent on frivolity, on shallow themes – physical attraction and lust, in particular. Whereas, should you address, say the shortness of life, the vapidity of materialism, vanity, etc, you’re lambasted for spoiling the party. People would rather just walk a big circle around life’s truths. Whereas, our songs actively embrace them.”
Tracklist:
1. Lost in the Penny Arcades (4:17)
2. The Anatomical Venus (3:41)
3. The Hourglass Shatters (1:01)
4. The Burning Skull (4:36)
5. On the Shadows of Ideas (0:57)
6. Allégorie du temps qui passe (3:05)
7. The Tongue of Angels (6:46)
8. Ars Moriendi (2:01)
9. It Was Not Meant to Be (4:44)
10. Wheel of Life (3:52)
11. Arisitum (1:20)
12. If You Come Here Tonight (4:17)
13. Résurrection ratée (1:21)
14. This House Is Full of Ghosts (4:18)
15. Viaticum (1:12)
16. Qualia (4:41)
17. The Samaritan (4:00)
18. Theatre of Memory (1:24)
19. Concatenazione dei spazi (Bonus Track) (20:01)
20. Set the Time Machine for Never (Bonus Track) (20:01)
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