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The Cynic
Monte Cazazza →6,107 listeners51,251 plays
industrialavant-gardeexperimentaltrancecountry
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Monte Cazazza - The Cynic He's back; the man who coined the term "Industrial music for industrial people" for Throbbing Gristle and unwittingly unleashed a new musical genre. The Cynic is the first album from cultural mortician and the same sick fuck who gave us such delights as 'Mary Bell' and 'To Mom On Mother's Day'. Thankfully the Monte Cazazza of today doesn't plummet to the same depths. From the opening deep dark droning soundtrack stylings of 'Interrogator' The Cynic presents an eclectic collection of tracks, with the aid of Lustmord on additional programming and production and Fred Gianneli on guitars. Listen close as the storm clouds gather on the opening track before the Spaghetti western sounds of 'A Gringo Like Me'. This Ennio Morricone track culled from Ricardo Blasco's film Gunfight At Red Sands, has Cazazza as the protagonist, his weedy deadpan drawl, couched in ricocheting gunshots, offering some telling advice: keep one hand on your gun and only trust a dead man. Cazazza's predilection for black humour hangs heavy over 'Terminal' with its childlike fascination for death, decay and decomposition, originally written by British soldiers during the Crimean War. Here, though this dark nursery rhyme is performed to the tune of Psychic TV's 'Terminus' - and you gotta laugh when you know Monte is an ex-PTV member and that the guitars here are performed by embittered ex-PTV member Fred Gianneli. The pulsating electronics of 'Venom' are unmistakably Monte Cazazza.
