System Of A Down’s sångare Serj Tankian släpper sitt nya soloalbum den 10 juli via Reprise Records/Serjical Strike och kommer gå under namnet Harakiri.
Serj producerade själv albumet hemma i sin studio i Los Angeles och skrivarprocessen var lite annorlunda den här gången. Han förklarar, ”I used the Apple iPad as a songwriting instrument to sketch out three of the songs on the record. We must trick ourselves into writing in different ways to get unexpected results.”
Serj avslöjar titlarna på alla låtar i uttalandet här under:
”The Cornucopia of love/hate affairs with Gaia have made us scream Figure It Out! CEOs are the disease. Where abusive capitalism’s only fate is human/environmental devastation. The Ching Chime, diminutive drama of a gangsta Butterfly revealed that humanity’s tears actually outweigh yearly rainfall on the planet.”
”We have witnessed Harakiri on a grand scale tearing out the Occupied Tears of victims preyed on by victims turned aggressors creating a Deafening Silence through which we hear a voice plead, Forget Me Knot, my child.”
”Reality TV has become the searing indictment of a society best described as the Uneducated Democracy. The daughters of the evolution Weave On with blood dripping down their guilty hands onto the flag as the word republic is replaced by empire.”
”The year 2011 started with a fire. Some kids in Piha, New Zealand were setting off fireworks that landed on my neighbor’s property and lit the whole hill on fire. I knew it was going to be a hell of a year and it certainly was. Within five days of that, reports came out about birds and fish dying in massive numbers globally. The omen was not lost on me. Varied creatures on earth were committing massive hara-kiri (the Japanese term signifying ritualistic suicide.) Do they know something we don’t about the coming times or the sustainability of the environment? That is the day I started writing this record.”
”The record is different than any I’ve made as a solo artist. It is much more driving and punk-oriented, with influences ranging from goth to electronic to ’80s vibes, dynamically heavy rock to epic melodic songs. Lyrically, it spans the gauntlet of themes from personal, political and philosophical to spiritual, humor and love.”
