Mimicry is a hair's breadth from committing to late February or early March for the first installment in Secret Chiefs 3's trilogy called Book of Truth. The first volume, called Book of Horizons, has Danny Heifetz, Eyvind Kang, Shazad Ismaili, Willie Winant, John Merriman (Cephalic Carnage), Ches Smith, Jesse Greere, James Goode, Youri Raymond (he was in Cryptopsy, but don't repeat that), Timb Harris, Tim Smolens, Jason Schimmel and a whole bunch of orchestral musicians, plus Trey Spruance, of course. Yeah, plenty of Trey Sprunce, who says that Secret Chiefs 3 can now be called a "band of bands"-- not just because the overbearing screwball pseudo-religious tone that became a part of the Hollywood propaganda machine in post-war America still just pulls him in (as evidenced by SC3's huge orchestral arrangement on the theme from Exodus), but also because there are seven configurations of the band on this album. All Secret Chiefs 3 efforts are enormous, of course, but this one traverses the highlands of musical tonality and orchestration that are normally reserved for people who died over 20 years ago, and it plunges deeper into grindcore death black metal hell than any slumming jazzbo wuss would ever dare-- deeper, in fact, than many metalheads could handle, really. Though Spruance anticipates that these will be considered irreconcilable contrasts by most, no true Death Metal fan could consider SC3's death metal band to be "false metal" or remotely wimpy, nor could a Messiaen scholar deny the depth of harmonic interplay in a "band" like the Electromagnetic Azoth (at least his students and the psychedelically inclined would respond to it). Their surf rock band is certainly far from sounding like it's kidding around and being kitschy (which might be a problem, actually), and their signature Persiaphile / Central Asia-o-phile / Arabophile band pretty much puts that good-old supra-sensory paste of the Overwhelming Ancient Irrational on top the whole thing, which many seem to assimilate as an emotionally stimulating experience. Let's just say it definitely works. -----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:37:57 +0100 (CET) From: Efr?n del Valle<efrendv@yahoo.es> Subject: New Secret Chiefs?? To: zorn-list@lists.xmission.com Message-ID: <20040129143757.17612.qmail@web41506.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 HI there, Does anyone know when that SC3 "The Book of Truth" trilogy is due out? They've been postponing it for quite a while now. Any info about that album (i.e: collaborators, etc)? Thanks in advance. Best, Efrin del Valle n.p: Bailey/Parker/Zorn "Harras" (Avant)