{"id":7559,"date":"2010-08-09T02:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7559"},"modified":"2011-11-11T19:32:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T19:32:21","slug":"the-epigenesis-by-melechesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/09\/the-epigenesis-by-melechesh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epigenesis by Melechesh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This new piece of work<\/a>, a cover illustration for metal band Melechesh<\/a>, was still in progress only a month ago but the album in question, The Epigenesis<\/em>, has been announced<\/a> so I can post it here. This follows a design I produced for an earlier Melechesh album, Emissaries<\/em><\/a>, in 2006, both of which refer to the Sumerian mythology which powers the band’s music. There’s some vague Parajanov influence in this piece which isn’t the kind of thing that usually extends to the metal world but Sergei Parajanov’s films were one of the reference points the band offered. The suspended carpets at the top left are the most obvious allusion to the director but for the composition as a whole I also had in mind the tableaux scenes he creates in The Colour of Pomegranates<\/em><\/a> and other films.<\/p>\n

The Epigenesis<\/em> will be released on the Nuclear Blast<\/a> label on October 1st, 2010.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The album covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Short films by Sergei Parajanov<\/a>
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This new piece of work, a cover illustration for metal band Melechesh, was still in progress only a month ago but the album in question, The Epigenesis, has been announced so I can post it here. This follows a design I produced for an earlier Melechesh album, Emissaries, in 2006, both of which refer to … Continue reading “The Epigenesis by Melechesh”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7,3,23],"tags":[1616,400],"class_list":["post-7559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-film","category-music","category-work","tag-melechesh","tag-sergei-parajanov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1XV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}