Je mets ça ici à cause de son passé mais d'après ces dires et à l'écoute du premier extrait, on est loin du metal. Son projet symphonique lui a ouvert d'autres horizons.

J'ai hâte d'entendre ça. Ce mec est un peu comme Patton, il est bien félé et s'essaye facilement à d'autres genres.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian will release a new studio album, titled "Imperfect Harmonies", on September 7 via Serjical Strike/Reprise Records. The follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2007 solo debut "Elect the Dead" was once again produced by Tankian himself at his home studio in Los Angeles.

A track from the forthcoming CD, "Borders Are", is now available for free download at http://www.serjtankian.com (e-mail sign-up required).

"'Elect the Dead' is essentially a rock record with progressive melodic elements," Tankian says. "'Imperfect Harmonies' could be classified as rock because it is punchy with many peaks throughout, but the instrumentation is somewhat different. Though there are live drums, bass, and some guitars, the driving aspects are electronic and orchestral. It's quite unique in its sound palette. This is, in essence, music that has sat in the vat and matured to a ripe sensation and is now ready to serve."

So far, "Imperfect Harmonies" is shaping up to be as powerful and musically eclectic as its predecessor. "I have been calling the music 'electro-orchestral-jazz-rock' because it has all of those aspects in prominence within the songs," Tankian says. "A few are more stripped down, but the majority of the songs have this huge wall of sound presented in a way I've never heard before. It's not common to have a song that is both electronic and orchestral since one is synthetic and the other organic, but I found a way of meshing a lot of these colors together."

The album has been influenced by Tankian's experience making "Elect the Dead Symphony", a symphonic interpretation of his debut that had its inaugural performance in New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in March 2009. The performance has been captured on the recently released CD/DVD "Elect the Dead Symphony".

"The making of 'Elect the Dead Symphony' gave me the confidence and tools to create ensemble pieces for orchestra more confidently and effectively than before," Tankian says. "And that became one of the primary colors for this record along with electronic, jazz, and live instrumentation."

Once again, Tankian's album takes a multi-themed approach to the lyrics, which he describes as addressing the political, environmental, social, and personal. "There is a slightly eerie urgency this time around though," he says. "It's darker and more dense in approach, both lyrically and musically."

"My intentions have always been to make music that is creative, quality, and moving," he continues. "I have never learned the static method of repeating myself musically whether in SYSTEM [OF A DOWN] or now. Each record I have made has been different musically, yet they all carry the same integral spirit."

Below is a piece with Serj's thoughts on borders around the world.

"Borders Are…" by Serj Tankian

Borders Surround
Borders Bound
Borders Marginalize
Borders Frame
Borders Divide
Borders Kill

Borders are the ultimate man-made walls separating and differentiating us beyond our cultures, beyond our beliefs, beyond economic hierarchies.

Borders are subjective, unnatural lines drawn by humans delineating land, water, and air for partisan collective utilization.

If borders were natural, other animals, in fact, all beings would be bound by them. Obviously, they aren't.

Indigenous cultures never recognized borders, cognizant of the fact that the land owns us and not the other way around.

Borders lead to war, occupation, and bigotry, even genocide. Worst of all, borders are a deceptive, yet constant reinforcement of the notion that we are alone, separate from each other and all things around us.

The multi-layered borders of our lives stratify separation in its undignified definition.

There are people dying in Kashmir due to border disputes. Shots are fired daily between North and South Korea over border disputes. The Berlin Wall separated the German people for almost half a century, at the border. Israel and Palestine continue to endure conflict over their borders, and the predecessors of modern-day Turkey (Ottoman Empire) felt they had to carry out genocide to protect their borders.

Borders represent the foundation of civilization, expansionism, abusive capitalism, and presumptive occupation.

Floods don't recognize borders.
Earthquakes don't recognize borders.
Diseases, famine, and drought don't recognize borders.

Why should we?

We deserve to live without the borders of mind, body, and spirit.
Given the unprecedented changes we are witnessing in the world.

We really have no choice.


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Je suis pas mal mitigé, et c'est bien la première fois que ça m'arrive avec Serj. J'aime pas l'utilisation trop présente de son live au début, au début j'ai cru que c'était un remake de Money... Ensuite la chanson est trop longue alors qu'il n'y a pas tellement de contenu, la fin aurait pu être raccourcie sans que ça dérange plus que ça. Et enfin, la boîte à rythmes me sort par les yeux.

Sinon y'a toujours le timbre de Serj et sa capacité à pondre des lignes de chant imparables, mais là je pense qu'il aurait pu se faire aider pour la composition, les parties s'enchainent de manière un peu trop abrupte à mon goût.

Il faut voir ça avec plusieurs écoutes et dans le contexte de l'album, mais pour l'instant ça me transcende pas plus que ça.

Je poste ici un nouveau titre du prochain album, Disowned Inc.

http://fbwidget1.warnerbrosrecords.com/serj/

Bonne écoute