Wake the Dead, by The Third Eye Foundation

Wake the Dead

by The Third Eye Foundation

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Paul Osborne Brooding, hypnotic, visceral beats nicely offset with neoclassical accompaniments and vocals... Draws you into a dark, delicious vortex of unexpected beauty. Favorite track: Wake the Dead.

Jass Dour Hey Matt! Just purchased your two last LPs as Third Eye Foundation! It was the time after so long. Beautiful stuff, you are one of my favs. Big support and warm regards. Un abrazo amigo. Jass

Thibaut Devigne Dark, ambient, arythmic and a bit quirky and strange. It is a good come back from The Third Eye Foundation, that probably constitutes a good entry point into their music.

daVId attic (stoneweather) a wonderful return, thoroughly enjoyed this album from beginning to end.

Travis Aaron As a long time listener I feel this release paints a consistent picture to earlier releases, but brings the whole image into focus more. The drumming is a great touch, and the production while similar to The Dead, seems to be of even better quality. And then you get to that moment and can't help being slightly shocked.

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	1.	Wake the Dead 13:45
	2.	Procession for Eric 07:32
	3.	The Blasted Tower 07:05
	4.	Controlled Demolition 06:49
	5.	That's Why 03:38
	6.	Do the Crawl 06:25

about

There was a time when The Third Eye Foundation was the mirror of the world from which the group drew its substance. But the reflection faded and dirt accumulated so it only provided deformed images and gradually became the world's shadow. This willingness to look at and express images and words about humans and their environment has since been embodied in the completely open face of its founder, Matt Elliott.

Thus, The Third Eye Foundation is a discrete entity, the opposite of what Matt Elliott may otherwise represent. The Third Eye Foundation is not a project based on openness. The Third Eye Foundation builds walls topped with barbed wire. The Third Eye Foundation captures you, locks you into its universe and keeps you there. It is no longer a question of finding a balance between dark shadows and light. Eight years ago already, The Dark already portrayed this state of affairs. Today, Wake The Dead is banging the last nails into the boards that make up the barricades. If you want to wake the dead, you have to get into the right shape and frame of mind. You need to accept that black is the only valid colour and that it is futile to rely on your imagination to create a way out.

Death is a prison for the living. To enter and abandon yourself is a way of temporarily waking those whose absence haunts your memories. Wake The Dead is like a key which attempts to open the doors of memory.

Waking the dead is not a question of meaning but rather of sensations. Free will and free thought have no place here - in the universe of The Third Eye Foundation, humans are no more than a simple product of their environment. This may seem extremely violent and dehumanizing but it is not the case at all. We just need to get rid of our certainties, empty ourselves and put ourselves on the same level as those we consider to be "the other".

And that's probably the greatest quality of an album like Wake The Dead. Its abstract compositions are without a format and thus implicitly participate in the deconstruction of the imaginary, of all logical forms which we sometimes cling to without even knowing why. It offers something essential in its unpredictable approach - the possibility of letting go without this ever being judged as an admission of weakness. Comfort is sometimes found in wandering and uncertainty.

In a way, Wake The Dead is an album without beginning or end. It's a journey that never really ends like an infinite but unstable loop that lets itself be invaded by the thousand details revealed with each listen. Its melodic variations instil themselves without us realizing and then progressively change our perception of the work as might a story that seems to repeat itself but in reality is never really the same.

This means the album could only be instrumental. Words have no place here except to confuse matters a little further. And the 40 minutes of throbbing, hypersensitive dubstep that make up the record are not aimed at sending a message to the mind. The intention is to make souls dance, to unite them and to remind us that, despite our choices and individual convictions, we are all components of the same whole and whether living or dead, we are connected forever.

credits

released February 9, 2018

(p) & (c) 2017 Ici, d'ailleurs... / Ici, d'ailleurs... publishing

Matt Elliott: all instruments & voices except,
David Chalmin: additional keyboards and voices, drum machine, manipulations, effects
Raphaël Séguinier: drums
Gaspar Claus: cello

Artwork by Xoil

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The Third Eye Foundation Nancy, France

discography

Wake the Dead

Feb 2018
Semtex

Jan 2016
The Dark

Jan 2010

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