David Shea: Satyricon

I liked David Shea's Tower of Mirrors enough that when I saw Satyricon in Piccadilly Records on 1 October 1997, I bought it along with Alterstill and Incursions in Illbient.

In his sleeve notes, Shea says that Satyricon started out as a sequel to Tower of Mirrors, and, though it morphed into something other, it still has a strong family resemblance. There's a grand concept, as well. While the earlier album was based on a Chinese Taoist novel, this one is based on both the original Satyricon text and Fellini's film version. And, once again, this knowledge sheds little light on what you actually hear.

This time Shea lists his "direct influences and sample quotes", which include Giorgo Moroder, Iannis Xenakis, Ennio Morriocone — but not Nino Rota, who scored the Fellini film — and, remarkably, good old Mina (I'm assuming it's the same Mina).

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