{"id":30142,"date":"2020-10-12T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/records\/you-should-take-care-today\/"},"modified":"2020-10-12T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:26:41","slug":"you-should-take-care-today","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/you-should-take-care-today\/","title":{"rendered":"You Should Take Care Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amnesia Prenatal is the Buenos Aires studio and label that\u2019s home to the numerous projects involving composer, producer Lucas Alves de Lima, like the elaborately bizarre big-band Helmut R\u00f3bot<\/strong><\/a>, the eccentric folk\/baroque of Aberratio<\/strong><\/a> <\/a><\/strong>Ictus<\/strong><\/a>, and assorted indulgences in rock, metal, electro \u2013 oh, and imaginary film soundtracks, a specialty of his for two decades now, it seems. Mankas Veslimsky is his pseudonym for this\u00a0 elegant, excellent exercise in scoring a phantom thriller flick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stylistically, it\u2019s a pleasant stumble through the decades, from post-war film noir to \u201970s Italian poliziotteschi<\/em>, dutifully saluting the masters of the form \u2013 Herrmann and Schifrin, Mancini, and Morricone. The cover by comic artist Juan S\u00e1enz Valiente, for whose new animated short film El olvido<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em>Alves de Lima wrote the score \u2013 likewise mimics the punchy film posters of the era perfectly. It\u2019s all executed with panache, as well as great attention to detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nimble, nervous \u201cHuman Chaos\u201d starts things off with a bang, and from there it\u2019s a brisk montage of suspense, intrigue, sudden alarm and bodily harm, doomed romance and decadent desires, and of course a constant flow of cigarettes and whiskey, to afford the theoretical protagonist some perspective in a world gone mad. The even dozen pieces concludes with the appropriately weepy \u201cFarewell\u201d \u2013 only to have track number 13, the hectic, hair-raising \u201cDancing With Chemicals Ghosts\u201d, barge in as the party\u2019s winding down, and it\u2019s bad luck for anyone hoping to get a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n