Tag: Exorcism
Orchid Track #18: Processioned
by Christopher on Sep.01, 2009, under Orchid - The Demo
18) Processioned (3:44)
Not available since 1999
There are key moments of sound that stay with you for your entire life. One of those moments for me is the last few seconds of `Exorcism’ from `Killing Joke.’
In those last moments of `Exorcism you will hear Jaz Coleman say: `Wash it away, wash it all away, wash away the tears.’
It was the way he says it that has stuck with me all this time. It sounds real. It sounds like a real baptism-cum-exorcism.
It’s that line and feeling that inspired `Processioned’ the most. `Wash it away.’ A ritual cleansing. A rebirth, a purge, the white light. All these things.
And while the track collapses underneath it’s own ambition, I still haven’t forgotten how important the INTENT was.
Not much else to say really. Cheesy MIDI, bad singing, par for the course in `Orchid.’
