Brontis - More Trio Stuff

Eddie Goicuria - Guitar, Vocal
Donato Mastrangelo - Bass
Dave White - Drums

Rather than post another crappy video to share more of the recent power trio session, I thought I would use a properly recorded audio track to demonstrate the sound in the room that day. Besides, If you've seen footage from one song played on that day, you've seen it all, as the cam was never moved. Also, I didn't want to put up a sound file with no visual or static images. The audio was recorded with a Zoom H4 just sitting on the shelf.


This video is inspired by a recent performance I saw of Mastodon. I really liked their use of old silent films during their show. The film that I re-edited and used here, which is now in the public domain, is called "Häxan". It was a 1922 Swedish/Danish silent film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts. The film was made as a documentary but contains dramatized sequences that are comparable to horror films. Häxan seeks to demonstrate how the superstitions of old are better understood now. Christensen seeks to make the claim that most who were accused of witchcraft were possibly mentally ill, and in modern times, such behavior is interpreted as a disease. His case revolves around vignettes about a somnambulist and a kleptomaniac, the implication being that these behaviors would have been thought of as demonically-influenced in medieval times whereas modern times recognizes them as psychological ailments.With Christensen's meticulous recreation of medieval scenes and the lengthy production period, the film was the most expensive Scandinavian silent film ever made, costing nearly two million Swedish krona. Although it won acclaim in Denmark and Sweden, the film was banned in the United States and heavily censored in other countries for what were considered at that time graphic depictions of torture, nudity, and sexual perversion.

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