Paris Obscur returned last night for a performance at Cat's Art MusikCircus and he has a solid lock as the Darkest Clown.
In the typical horror movie, the kids silly enough to try to have sex are the ones who always get stabbed but darkness goes far beyond mindless Victorian morality plays. Paris Obscur sings of darkness and sadness and one example came after a friend of his was raped. He wrote a song to get into the mind of the rapist and at the surface this may seem like exploitation. His friend was at first horrified when she heard it but after thinking of it she said it helped her come to grips with what had happened. So Paris sings of the real darkness, not some manufactured contrivance for the sake of a movie.
In "Obsession," Paris sings of every aspect of physical and emotional love in which you want to become her obsession. However, the song is not so obvious as that as you have to ask who is the master and who is the slave in this need for obsession. There is the darkness of the words but beyond them is the search for ultimate love. What are the limits of it or are there any limits at all.
All of Paris Obscur's work is original and he has been working for some while to produce an album. I asked last night when we could expect it and he was happy to report he has completed the mixing and the selection of the final fifteen songs to be on the album. The result has now been sent to Germany for mastering, the process in which the audio levels for each of the songs are matched relative to each other to ensure continuity while listening. After mastering is completed the result will go out for duplication and then release. He doesn't have an exact date for that but relatively soon as this part of the process is fairly quick. You can hear many of Paris' songs on SoundCloud and you can follow him on Facebook.
The songs he sings come from his own life and singing them is not simply a recital. When he sings of his friend getting raped, he feels again the devastation, and this is not something anyone can throw off like covering some Bob Dylan song or simply playing something you enjoyed playing in the past. His performances are painful and difficult yet the passion is unmistakeable.
People love his work and here is Ava listening from one of the trapeze hoops:
And here is Ely listening from the high-wire platform:
Even as an avatar, you can see she is absorbed by it and that's how it goes with a performance by Paris Obscur.
And Cat and I danced!
Obsession!
In the typical horror movie, the kids silly enough to try to have sex are the ones who always get stabbed but darkness goes far beyond mindless Victorian morality plays. Paris Obscur sings of darkness and sadness and one example came after a friend of his was raped. He wrote a song to get into the mind of the rapist and at the surface this may seem like exploitation. His friend was at first horrified when she heard it but after thinking of it she said it helped her come to grips with what had happened. So Paris sings of the real darkness, not some manufactured contrivance for the sake of a movie.
In "Obsession," Paris sings of every aspect of physical and emotional love in which you want to become her obsession. However, the song is not so obvious as that as you have to ask who is the master and who is the slave in this need for obsession. There is the darkness of the words but beyond them is the search for ultimate love. What are the limits of it or are there any limits at all.
All of Paris Obscur's work is original and he has been working for some while to produce an album. I asked last night when we could expect it and he was happy to report he has completed the mixing and the selection of the final fifteen songs to be on the album. The result has now been sent to Germany for mastering, the process in which the audio levels for each of the songs are matched relative to each other to ensure continuity while listening. After mastering is completed the result will go out for duplication and then release. He doesn't have an exact date for that but relatively soon as this part of the process is fairly quick. You can hear many of Paris' songs on SoundCloud and you can follow him on Facebook.
The songs he sings come from his own life and singing them is not simply a recital. When he sings of his friend getting raped, he feels again the devastation, and this is not something anyone can throw off like covering some Bob Dylan song or simply playing something you enjoyed playing in the past. His performances are painful and difficult yet the passion is unmistakeable.
People love his work and here is Ava listening from one of the trapeze hoops:
And here is Ely listening from the high-wire platform:
Even as an avatar, you can see she is absorbed by it and that's how it goes with a performance by Paris Obscur.
And Cat and I danced!
Obsession!
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