
The focus of the composition is on relentless odd time signatures, heavy dissonant guitar riffs, catchy choruses and a combination of guttural and clean vocals.
Feeling Nothing (The Privilege of the Rope) is a suite in 3 parts revolving about the presence of different saxophone leitmotivs that permeate the structure of the piece. It is a praise of failure, an ode to existential emptiness. The choice of the sax as the main instrument is due to its unique nature related to breathing: when the music stops, the breathing stops. The long solo at the end creates a sort of double movement between the almost black metal double kick drum pattern and the soothing sound of the brass, as a crescendo towards the inevitable tragedy, in fear and relief.
This track saw the collaboration of the portentous Elisa Pambianchi, Frontwoman of the Italian Darkwave Band 3+Dead and the mesmerising saxophone player M° Manuel Trabucco.
The video was created by Magrit Sibiryakov, a young director from Kyiv, who was able to unleash through a kaleidoscope of images the meanings inscribed in the track. In the words of the director herself:
“This is the story of an elderly rocker who writes a letter to himself in his youth. He wants to warn himself against the fatal mistakes that still haunt him with nightmares.”
Disturbing actions, ominous presences, Dadaism, seduction and forlorn romance permeate the video: a work to provoke the beholder and to invite to reflection.
A special thanks to Olga and Fabrizio.
Credits Video:
Director: Magrit Sibiryakov www.instagram.com/ritasibir/
Camera: Kola Iann www.instagram.com/wawprod/, Christie Road www.instagram.com/goodbyechristie/
Editor: Dima Zef Ogirenko www.instagram.com/ogirenko_d/
Production designer - st.lemon www.instagram.com/st_lemon_vol01/
Actors: Dmitry Graf www.instagram.com/dmitgraf/
Arnika Aluri www.instagram.com/arnikarus/,
Xeniia Boiko, Salvador Strij www.instagram.com/hi_im_salv/
Cyril Butenko www.instagram.com/cbutenko/,
Sasha Orlov
Egor
Follow Elisa and 3+DEAD:
www.instagram.com/elisapambianchi/
www.instagram.com/3plusdead/
swissdarknights.bandcamp.com/album/3-dead
Mix and Master: www.instagram.com/modernnihilismrecordings/
Saxophone: Manuel Trabucco www.facebook.com/manueltrabucco
Original Picture Cover: Colin Cameron www.instagram.com/thecellstudio/
Kandinsky Noir :
www.instagram.com/kandinskynoir/
Lyrics:
Can you hear? The grass is growing
The steppe is coming,
To cover up this land.
Invading the prison of your arms.
Can you feel how bodies vanish?
Your flesh is burning,
This corpse lies somewhere else
Between renunciation and return.
So many reasons to finish and replace.
Too many nights this tired masquerade.
(The privilege of the rope)
Feeling nothing
(A call that never stops)
Feeling nothing
(A reasoning of the absurd)
Feeling nothing
(The diseased and the cure)
Feeling nothing
Can you see? The tide is rising
This wave of dust is smothering our lust,
Pornographic immobility.
Can you sense the Earth is shaking?
This prelude to white anhedonia,
Between sleeping senses and the plight.
Too many reasons to finish and replace.
Too many nights this tired masquerade.
(The privilege of the rope)
Feeling nothing
(A call that never stops)
Feeling nothing
(A reasoning of the absurd)
Feeling nothing
(The diseased and the cure)
Feeling nothing
Au-delà de l'Amour
Et au but du Néant
Mon petit Abattoir
Et ma seule délivrance.