"damn you devil damn you, I thought we could be friends..." photo courtesy of Giannis Stasinopoulos
If you want to escape into a surrealist modality, a place not of this time, a place darkly dreamy, sometimes eerily creepy, existing in shadows that take on their own shape, a pulsating collision of sensuality / psychological harmonics / dread / death / and life from beyond... then step into the dark marriage of Iam Nothe's extended cinematic reworking of "Damn You Devil Damn You", the final cut of his 2022 debut album "The Grand Design" and the amazing 1943 short film "Meshes Of The Afternoon" by Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker Maya Deren combined.
Iam Nothe is the solo outfit of Greek artist Spyreas Sid, frontman of Cyanna Mercury (2014-2017) and Cyanna (1999-2013) and for this homage to Maya Deren 9and her impact on avant garde film) Sid changes the extended version title to "Damn You Deren Damn You".
About the track he shares: "It is dark and psychedelic with a freeform progression in the first 8 minutes to lead to the album version of the track in the final 5. The film was made 80 years ago this year, and I have wanted to make a video of it with original music in more than 20 years since I first watched this masterpiece."
While I will not give away the temperament, the brooding almost hallucinogenic goings on of the original movie, I can say that Iam Nothe's ramping up intensity and emotional pallor within his darkly dramatic sounds is stunning. The pushed dynamics, especially at the point when the drums kick in might quicken your pulse, might tighten the feeling in your chest. Along the way, while the chunky staccato percussive engine of sounds don't stop, other elements do, swirling around that rhythmic angsty engine and backing off. The result is artful tension that coupled with Daren's imagery takes your breath away. At one point when synth arpeggios are front and center, the mysterious nature transforms into something else, daring emotional pitches of horror.
Shortly after that moment Sid's evocative vocal countenance full of artful swagger feels like the provocateur, a demon cog in the wheel turning:
"God don't love me anymore, he don't want me in his world and I try to sing this song but the words are wrong..."
AS "Damn You Deren Damn You" takes off running, soaring and moving from gothic alt rock to a post punk racer full of wanderlust, full of looking in rear view mirrors it feels quite stunning and, in the end, art rockian in scope.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Iam Nothe is the solo outfit of Greek artist Spyreas Sid, frontman of Cyanna Mercury (2014-2017) and Cyanna (1999-2013). The Grand Design is his debut album out now. ✟ ☿ ☽
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