One Day As A Lion - One Day As A Lion

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Artist:: One Day As A Lion
Title:: One Day As A Lion
Format:: CD Regular
Barcode No.:: 5021456156825
Available:: 21-07-2008
Sourced:: Australia

One Day As A Lion is the creation of musical comrades Zack De La Rocha and Jon Theodore.

This is music about space – the space between friends and collaborators where ideas form; the space in a song where the tension builds waiting for the next wave of sound; the space in the corners of the recording studio (Sinatra’s old room at Ocean Way) where the sound gathers to fade and die.
One Day As A Lion worked hard to capture that space on tape, unadulterated, unmolested, from heart to hand to skins to mics to tape to speaker to ear. The result, someone said, sounds like Led Zep meets Dr. Dre.

“They say that in war that truth be the first casualty” – opening lyrics, “Wild International.”

Here then are the facts: Jon Theodore (Mars Volta) played drums while Zach de la Rocha (RATM) played a beat-up Fender Rhodes piano. The melodies change quickly from hard and minimal to soaring and emotional. Then Zack hit the mic and brought the hard heat to the mix – “the lyrics are fierce and they transform the music so it takes on its own identity and stands for itself without the need to be introduced, explained, or justifi ed,” says Theodore.
The music is majestic, apocalyptic, and celestial. The music will stand for itself. Millions have been waiting for this.
“It was a mental and emotional sunrise of grand proportions.” JON THEODORE
“One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept.”
“A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare. It’s a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask. One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California.”
“The name taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall in an unspecified section of Boyle Heights. It reads: ‘It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.’ This record is a stripped down attempt to realize this sentiment in sound.”

Track Listing

Disc 1:

Wild International
Ocean View
Last Letter
If You Fear Dying
One Day As A Lion

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