Kaada/Patton is tagged as: experimental, mike patton, avant-garde, ambient, ipecac 2004 - Kaada/Patton - Romances CD|2007 - Kaada/Patton - Live DVD Mike Patton and fellow Ipecac resident Kaada’s collaboration Romances dwells in the twilight zone where spooky and seductive meet. Both artists’ work reveals a love of cinematic music: Kaada is an award-winning film music composer in his native Norway, and Patton has paid homage to great horror scores on Fantômas’ Director’s Cut. Romances is just as filmic as that album — actually, the affection for the spooky, evocative and arranged is the biggest romance going on here — but it is less noisy and intense, and more obviously melodic and playful, than Director’s Cut. “Invocation“‘s creepily whimsical melody and choral voices, for example, recall Danny Elfman’s work more than Fantômas’ grislier sound. Patton’s fondness for over-the-top theatricality tends to dominate Romances, particularly on the eight-minute “Aubade,” where his vocals span ghostly choral passages, Tasmanian devil-like grunts and growls and ululating that sounds like an unusually tuneful bleating goat. Like nearly all of Patton’s collaborations, the album makes the most of his voice, and he’s shown over and over again that he can adapt his... Read More About Kaada/Patton Biography...  Send Kaada/Patton ringtones to your cell
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