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Da Vinci Vox: The Hidden Message
EMI, CD, Rs. 350
What can one say - it (Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code) was a bad book, a terrible film (Tom Hanks bizarre hairstyle and shooting in the Louvre notwithstanding) and now you have a hare-brained album inspired by the book and movie. The Hidden Message is big time mumbo jumbo spiced up with Gregorian chants and obscure intonation. At least the book was pulp, a page-turner and also had a guilty pleasure attached to the reading of it. The same cannot be said of the movie or the music album as they take themselves too seriously for their own good.
Why not come out in the open as what you are - just out to make much money on a publishing phenomenon? Why all the hocus-pocus about philosophy and religion and uncovering a history more than 2000 years in the making? Supposedly recorded by anonymous society of musicians who are only known as the Da Vinci Vox, The Hidden Message propose to reveal all and bring down the scales that have so determinedly clung to our unbelieving eyes.
The tracks are all inspired by book with names like Priory of Sion, Opus Dei, Grail Codex, Temple Church and Rosslyn Chapel. Leonardo (Da Vinci) must be laughing himself silly as all conspiracy theorists go blue in the face revealing things. Da Vinci Vox is the brainchild of French producer Serge Mazeres and he has been involved in the production and composing of the project.
It is impossible to react to the album musically as that would defeat its purpose of riding piggyback on the book. And when you try to react to it by the book, the only feeling you are left with is of being jerked around.
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