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01. ANTONI MAIOVVI - This Is The Beast
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02. ANTONI MAIOVVI - The Sigh From The Sky Was A Lie Without Doubt
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03. ANTONI MAIOVVI - Treason
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04. ANTONI MAIOVVI - Class Dagger
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05. ANTONI MAIOVVI - Horsehead Blue
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ARTIST
MAIOVVI, ANTONI
TITLE
The Thorns Of Love
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
CARAVAN
CATALOG #
CVAN 003CD
CVAN 003CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
6/8/2010
This is the third album by Berlin's
Anton Maiof
aka
Antoni Maiovvi
.
The Thorns Of Love
is an ode to a broken heart that embraces Italian drama and euphoric fear. His music exists somewhere between
Patrick Cowley
's Hi-NRG epics,
Arthur Russell
's melancholic beauty and
John Carpenter
's traumatizing soundtracks. Antoni Maiovvi is the name by which Anton Maiof unleashes his bastard offspring of disco and psychotronic horror, and here with
The Thorns Of Love
he has produced a deeply personal symphony to love lost and the sanctifying power of the dancefloor. Antoni Maiovvi is a nefarious creature of the night, a figure of twilight opulence and the love child of
Evelyn Thomas
and
Lucio Fulci
conceived in the lurid backrooms of the Boccaccio Club. The sweatbox is in his DNA, throbbing analog circuitry courses through his flesh like rivers of blood and where his heart once lived there is now only yearning for the alchemical marriage of sex, death and technology. From Naples to Frankfurt, he has stalked the dancefloors of Europe, planning this moment -- and at last, in this compendium of unbridled fist-clenchers, his time has come. Now he will stop at nothing to bring his arpeggiated talisman down onto the souls of men, squeezing out that last breath of humanity in a pulsing, Dantean dance-macabre.
The Thorns Of Love
takes a unique, muscular and cerebral approach to electronic dance music, bringing together the Italo love explosion, spine-tingling Euro-horror and the melancholic proto-techno musings of early
Model 500
and "Sharevari." Maiovvi takes the helm of this noir-tinged Trojan horse, carving out a dancefloor machine with commanding synth-work, operatic drums and mind-bending atmospherics. As the album climaxes and the smoke pours across a crowded room, he steps out from the shadows and delivers his final eulogy to 20th century hedonism, preaching with the unhinged vocals of a coked-up
Brian Ferry
. Love may be the drug, but for Maiovvi, death can be the only future.
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