Mer de Noms

A Perfect Circle

Genre: music4me > Rock > Hard Rock

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 23 May 2000

Catalogue Number: VIR49253.2

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Description:
A Perfect Circle: Maynard James Keenan (vocals, gourd); Billy Howerdel (guitar, piano, bass, programming, background vocals); Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar); Paz Lanchantin (violin, bass, background vocals); Josh Freese (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Luciano Lenchantin (viola); Tim Alexander (drums); Draven Godwin (percussion); Keli Shafer (background vocals).
Engineers include: Billy Howerdel, Frank Grymer, Critter.
Recorded at Perfect Circle Studios, Exstacy and The Chop Shop, Hollywood, California; Sound City, Van Nuys, California.
Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan offers up something to fill the collective void of fans eagerly awaiting a follow up to AENIMA. Keenan teamed with Tool guitar tech and A Perfect Circle guitarist/composer Billy Howerdel for MER DE NOMS, which is both a band effort and an engaging hard rock album, recorded while Tool renegotiated with their label and other band members took a break. But don't be fooled; A Perfect Circle is more than a one-off side project.
The band isn't nearly as brutal as Tool; the musical textures are instead spacious and melodic. Keenan maintains his brooding, emotionally charged vocal style and his knack for conjuring bleak imagery. The track most comparable to Tool's music, "Rose," utilizes rise-and-fall dynamics and unpredictably breaks away to gentle strings, while "Judith" (the album's title is French for "sea of names," hence the song titles), explores free thought and warns against blind faith, and "Orestes" departs from the predominant guitar distortion with moody, powerful results.

Details:

Distributors: CEVA Logistics, EMI Operations
Producer: Billy Howerdel
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2000
Running Time: 44 minutes
Weight (g): 100

Track Listing:

1.	Hollow, The
2.	Magdalena
3.	Rose
4.	Judith
5.	Orestes
6.	3 Libras
7.	Sleeping Beauty
8.	Thomas
9.	Renholder
10.	Thinking of You
11.	Brena
12.	Over

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