Being a collaboration which features Mike Patton, it’s essentially guaranteed that Bacteria Cult is a work of warped genius. The Kaada in question is Norwegian composer John Kaada, who previously collaborated with Patton on the 2007 DVD ‘Kaada/Patton Live’ and the 2004 album ‘Romances’.
Similar in feel to Fantômas’ ‘Director’s Cut’, as Kaada describes it, ‘Bacteria Cult’ “dwells in the twilight zone where spooky and seductive meet.”
I can’t help but be reminded of JG Thirlwell’s more recent, orchestrally-orientated works under his Manorexia and various other guises. Wafting between the woozy and the way-up melodramatic, ‘Bacteria Cult’ plays to the filmic feel of music of a certain strain. It’s expansive, ambitious, grand and bombastic. In short, everything you’d expect, and all the better for it.
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Kaada/Patton - Bacteria Cult Online
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