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Decimation Of I
Artist
Meemo Comma
Label
Planet µ
Catalogue Number
ZIQ469
Release Date
11 Oktober 2024

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‘Decimation Of I’ is the fifth album by Brighton-based electronic musician Meemo Comma. It's a work based on the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 novel ‘Roadside Picnic,’ a book that was also turned into the Russian cult classic ‘Stalker’ by Andrei Tarkovsky. The inspiration came from reading the book alongside the backdrop of global climate disasters where an environment is rapidly becoming less habitable, all while powerful nations occupy and commit genocide. 

The rough story of both film and novel is about a select group of characters exploring a land that has been transformed by alien visitors. We never meet the extraterrestrials, nor is it important to, we only have the artefacts left behind. The environment itself becomes the character, neither wholly Earth-like nor alien, but a surreal blend of both, inviting introspection on our insignificance amidst profound change. Within this land’s rebirth, our characters confront ego death, a necessary step towards the profound revelation, the discovery of one's true desire in the absence of ego. 

The album opens with the innocent flutes of ’They, spoke,‘ and the disorienting electronica of ‘The Soldier‘ building towards the Terry Riley like undulating clarinets of ‘The Poet’, whose intertwining synth organ drones set the scene. Nods to the seventies electronica of Wendy Carlos and Eduard Artemyev can be heard with the use of Bach melodies in ‘P3Alpha Exotoxin‘ and ‘Area X,‘ however each of these songs draw the listener to primal noise undercurrents, their disintegrating melodies hinting at humanity's gradual dissolution, unveiling profound revelations beyond our comprehension.

As the album reaches its midpoint, ‘Spectral Alignment‘ paints a hazy morning prairie scene with Aaron Copland style French horn, restful woodwinds, spatial arpeggios and a warm drone culminating in an emotional pitstop as the soldiers wake in the dewy morning of this alien landscape, unaware the last of their humanity remains. The last sentence in Roadside Picnic “HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND MAY NO ONE BE LEFT BEHIND!” is the inspiration for ‘As It Is Written.’ We can either take from this the total annihilation of self has been filled with propaganda from their homeland, or the epiphany of their own autonomy in the war against a land and its inhabitants.

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  1. 1 They, Spoke 1:38 Kaufen

    They, Spoke

  2. 2 The Soldier 2:19 Kaufen

    The Soldier

  3. 3 The Poet 6:46 Kaufen
  4. 4 P3Alpha Exotoxin 2:07 Kaufen

    P3Alpha Exotoxin

  5. 5 From The Sky 2:47 Kaufen

    From The Sky

  6. 6 Signs 3:33 Kaufen
  7. 7 Spectral Alignment 3:34 Kaufen

    Spectral Alignment

  8. 8 Meditation 3:34 Kaufen

    Meditation

  9. 9 What Does It Want? 2:44 Kaufen

    What Does It Want?

  10. 10 Journey To The Sphere 2:24 Kaufen

    Journey To The Sphere

  11. 11 Area X 2:44 Kaufen
  12. 12 The Gift 4:12 Kaufen
  13. 13 Heavy Metal Offerings 2:11 Kaufen

    Heavy Metal Offerings

  14. 14 As It Is Written 4:31 Kaufen

    As It Is Written

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