Pranzo Oltranzista

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Customer reviews

review by: Wattsenhausen date: 2006-01-29 rating:
Patton at his self-indulgent worst
Patton's contribution to cutting edge, innovative musical delivery is as a result of his willingness to cast off perceived musical barriers, and explore the form with his characteristic boldness. The flip side of that is that sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes it's a matter of taste - for example, I can't get into Fantomas at all, but I can see where the attraction lies - but on this occasion it's because it's pure self-indulgent, complete and utter nonsense. This record is a decade old now, and I've yet to see where anything that Patton has experimented with here could have influenced more mainstream styles. He's making noises with his mouth, over apparently unrehearsed instruments playing different tunes, apparently with the theme of a largely forgotten classical piece, to what end, I cannot begin to understand. When I hear something like this, I genuinely wonder whether the artist is deliberately making something so bad to test the integrity of an audience for which he has nothing but contempt. If you've ever experienced Mulligan and O'Hare's versions of Another Day In Paradise and When A Child Is Born, you'll know what this album is like. But at least they did it for comedy effect. Awful.


review by: date: 2002-03-05 rating:
As expected from Mike Patton, something totally different.
This album is very different from other Mike Patton projects and sounds a lot more like a classical album. The nearest thing to it would be Violenza Domestica from Mr. Bungles Disco Volante album. Beautiful cellos, violins, sax, etc are interdespersed with typical Patton signatures jumping from quiet, peaceful passages to mad-cap noise. Seems to be based a lot around restaurant noises and the crunching, chopping and the clanging of pots can be annoying if your not really in the mood for listening to this album. The sound of dripping water on one track is just Chinese torture. However this album slowly grows on you and is well worth a listen anyway.

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