Friday, January 10, 2020

SCRIPTA MANENT BY ADARKAH IANQU: SELF-SHACKLED SERMONS


As one may infer from my prior posts, Adarkah Ianqu knows how to capture the darkest elements of the (in)human condition. Sometimes, his electronic sounds simply warn us; more often they escort us toward our doom. 


Scripta Manent is no exception to this sad but profound rule and consists of five, jarring journeys. 


The initial segment, "rat race" ("ratatat edit") represents a realm that many do enter, characterized by the pushing-and-pulling torment that life often grants, though in this instance not so much in any frantic fashion, but more so through the symbolic clamps and chains one adorns. (We are our own captors, after all.)


This painful acceptance is enhanced by "toy vagrancy": a track that invokes syrupy disenchantment, but also a mechanized alteration of one's mind. Quack science has intervened and made one a cog in the intellectuals' great, sick machine. (We are what they say. We do what they want us to do.)


For the vain attempt to escape one's situation, Ianqu then offers "the blood mystery", the third and arguably most unsettling segment of his epic script. In its presented "skyless edit", one ponders why such mercurial, motivating fluid fills humanity if it's only to be drained by the dictatorial suppression one has ordered.


As the answer remains evasive, one embarks on Ianqu's fourth track, "ambiance for anthropophagus": a derisive composition that hurls one toward the most primal bases, but was humanity ever meant to waddle in mud? It's the higher echelons that God intended his children to to roam, but no matter how high the ambitions, they crash and burn time and again, sinking into one's "deepest or blameless" recesses.


It's through this final track that one comes to dig far under the dirt and grim without cause or consequence. Nothingness is life and the need for survival, a matter of wretched, hollow rote. 


The truths of Ianqu's sermon cannot be ignored, but if one does wish to deter them (to sprout beyond one's imprisonment), one must first listen.

The informative script awaits at 
https://www.reverbnation.com/adarkahianqu/album/243491-scripta-manent.

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