Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws, Hurqalya

Product Description
A bizzare, semi-secret side project of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More featuring Trey Spruance (guitarist for Mr. Bungle & Faith No More), plus Danny Heifitz and Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle. Experimental rock that's entertaining, with elements of Indian and Middle Eastern soundtracks, left field drum 'n' bass, atonal future surf music & more. Remasterd and reissued with a previously unreleased bonus track 'Zulficar II'. 2000 release.

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Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws, Hurqalya

Average customer rating:

Beauty on so many levels..
Ennio Morricone if he were hindu mutant rockabilly surf-God!
WACKY
Mr Bungle Fans Beware
Second gets better

Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws, Hurqalya
Secret Chiefs 3
Manufacturer: Mimicry
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

First Grand Constitution and Bylaws
Book M
Book of Horizons
Path of Most Resistance
Of Natural History

ASIN: B00004UAMA
Release Date: 2000-08-01

Tracks:

The Rose Garden Of Mystery
Book T: Waves Of Blood
Book T: Broken Glass Hearse
Renunciation
Jabalqa
Book T: Orbital Ballroom In The Hall Resurrection
Mera Pyar Shalimar
Zulfikar II
Jabarsa
Beyond The Mountain Qaf
Hurqalya

Album Description

A bizzare, semi-secret side project of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More featuring Trey Spruance (guitarist for Mr. Bungle & Faith No More), plus Danny Heifitz and Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle. Experimental rock that's entertaining, with elements of Indian and Middle Eastern soundtracks, left field drum 'n' bass, atonal future surf music & more. Remasterd and reissued with a previously unreleased bonus track 'Zulficar II'. 2000 release.

Customer Reviews:

Beauty on so many levels.........2007-02-05

If you want to listen to music with incredible depth, an eclectic style, and raw passion, buy this. I find that music these days are divided into three catagories.. 1. People who can sing (sometimes, not even), but don't write and play any of their music 2. People who can sing (sometimes, not even), and can write and play they're own music.. and 3. People who go above and beyond.. totally startling you from the everyday norms of Nickelback and other such music that makes me yawn. Secret Chiefs 3 is a great example.

Get this. It's beauty at it's apex, and perhaps the greatest beauty ever put into music.

Ennio Morricone if he were hindu mutant rockabilly surf-God!.......2004-09-29

This is sheer brilliance. If you love Bungle's "Desert Search for Techno Allah," then you'll blag your pants over this! It's far more compressed and tight than other Secret Chiefs releases. Thematically, each track builds and refines and improvises upon each other, reinforcing the intensity.

Tr 1 is a straightforward, Middle eastern/Spanish sounding melody of lament. So Morricone that it hurts. Also calls to mind (the horn and cello?) the melody line from the 2nd move of the concierto de aranjuez- at least to these ears. lasts about 2.5 minutes. Great intro to what folllows!

Tr 2 is a thrashed out charging attack on the same melodic idea, with a throbbing surf-backbeat. Nuts!!!!

Tr 3 twitters and squeaks and then a twangy reverbed surf guitar and drum beat pick up where 2 left off. MORE NUTS!!!!

Tr 4 begins with more twang and also soft middle eastern type instrumentation in some kind of odd (harmonic minor???) key, then slips into a rather poppy rock beat with a skankin rhythm. neato! It scrambles about for awhile before the distortion and thrash comes back in towards the end. The longest track thus far...

Tr 5 is where things get kinda weird, sounds like a video game at first, or an arabian version of the william tell overture. dense electronica with more mid-east instruments and thick breakbeats colliding! Crunch bang boom! This one also lasts awhile building up to a frenetic propulsive conclusion!

Tr 6 starts out, again, ominously surfy- creepy Bungle-esque organs come in and out. This could have easily been on Disco Volante. hell's yes.

Tr 7: begins with (harpsichord?) and guitar, screechy cartoonish female vox soon slip in, (different language or possibly gibberish) followed by strings and harp- this one is soft and sounds so much like Ennio morricone's Spaghetti Western work that I thought maybe it was stolen. very pretty. Very spare. nice flute. Builds solidly. This one is around 4.5 minutes, not counting the random bubbly sounds at the end.

Tr 8 (maybe my fave) picks up the themes and motifs used earlier, and gets a bit funky, sounds like a Prince instrumental cover of either "Ars Moriendi" (the art of dying) or "Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy," from Mr. Bungle's 'California,' CD. The breakbeats kinda hit the jam!

Tr 9 Starts out with thick bass boom and odd jittery guitar. some background vox weave in and out. it gets very fast-paced and menacing. tautly constructed. The beats explode and teh song keeps building! more n more! It revisits its beginning and goes through again- ends with droning vox and same progression you've come to love.

Tr 10 starts out with wind howling. Instruments come in then go straight to noise rock hell. For a long time! Sounds like bees devouring someone up to the 3.5 minute mark where the clattering drums and squealing strings take over. this turns into a rain storm. More mid east stuff comes in the back door. About 6 minues of oddness.

Tr 11 tries to bring it all together. Easily the longest track here. the rain from 10 segues into wind and a tango-esque keyboard symphony that is quite brooding. Marching drums come in and visions start percolating in the mind of the listener. ruins. A vast procession of armies? A lone tent in a sea of dunes? A voluptuous waif dancing in a veil? Strings arise. everything builds wonderfully, thick guitar barely audible in the back. organ flourishes. more building- the guitar takes a lead approach blending with the other surging instruments. The wind comes back in and over the course of a LOOOOONG time (I won't tell how but it's well over 7 minutes) you get naught but near-silence. Then it picks up the same motif as Tr 9 and builds on it furiously.
I'll not reveal the ending!

WACKY.......2001-05-21

If you are even looking at this review, you probably now what to expect from this cd. It is ZANY CRAZY FUN. It is beautiful and violent and every other description. IT IS EVERYTHING.

Mr Bungle Fans Beware.......2001-04-10

Any Mr Bungle fans looking to explore more into the world of bungle I must warn you this album may not be exactly what you are looking for. With that said and done it is an absolutely incredible musical experiance. At first its extreemly heavy middle eastern influence through me off but after several listenings a definate good addition to a music fans cd collection. The reason for only 4 stars is do to the lack luster final two tracks of this disc that left me with a very bad taste in my mouth

Second gets better.......2000-12-14

As I said for the First Grand Constitution, this album is simply great, all of the songs are well constructed. If you like SC3 this one will make you love them to death, this is a fantastic album that has it all without losing the essence of the Secret Chiefs: Waves of Blood, this one is a killer; Rose Garden, a very beautiful song; Jabalqa/Jabarsa, you'll be amazed by the percussion work; Mera Pyar Shalimar, simply great; Beyond the Mountain Qaf, gotta have patience with this one;

Hurqalya, it takes you to higher states of mind; Zulfikar II, maybe the best one, Excellent.

Don't doubt about getting this one, it is the best. (Until the Third Constitution). Also check them live.

Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws, Hurqalya
Average customer rating:

the sultans inner chambers

Pretty damn cool!

The most beautiful, original thing I've heard in years.

no, wait... 6 stars

Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws, Hurqalya
Secret Chiefs 3
Manufacturer: Amarillo
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music
Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000006OPS
Release Date: 1998-04-28

Tracks:

The Rose Garden Of Mystery
Book T: Waves Of Blood
Book T: Broken Glass hearse
Renunciation
Jabalqa
Book T: Orbital Ballroom In The Hall Of Resurrection
Mera Pyar Shalimar
Jabarsa
Beyond The Mountain Qaf
Hurqalya

Customer Reviews:

the sultans inner chambers.......2001-09-18

This music is bound to have the squarest of squares belly dancing.

Pretty damn cool!.......1999-05-30

Much better than their first release...they're actually structuring their songs! Some cool Bungle-esque middle eastern sounds, sped up and mulched by a twelve speed bicycle....not bad!

The most beautiful, original thing I've heard in years........1999-03-03

The Secret Chiefs 3 are a tough bunch to describe. Instead of trying to classify them as a techno/surf/electronic band, I'll just say this: BUY THEIR CD'S!!! Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws dives into stranges musical places indeed. Plus, this CD houses my all time favorite song of all time, Renunciation. But the entire album is great, a beautiful and shocking experience. The more you listen, the more you'll love it. I can't possibly recommend it more.

no, wait... 6 stars.......1999-01-16

if you love music as an art form, this is the album for you. this work, in my opinion, is imaginitive, inspiring, and entrancing.

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