IMPERFECT HARMONIES WORLD TOUR WITH THE F.C.C. AND ADDITIONAL ENSEMBLE

Serj Tankian (lead singer from System Of A Down) has recorded and is currently mixing a new studio album, titled Imperfect Harmonies, which will be the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2007 solo debut Elect the Dead. As with Elect the Dead, Tankian is producing Imperfect Harmonies himself at his home studio in Los Angeles. The album will be released by Serjical Strike/Reprise Records on September 7th. “Elect the Dead is essentially a rock record with progressive melodic elements,” Tankian says. “Imperfect Harmonies could be classified as rock because it is punchy with many peaks throughout, but the instrumentation is somewhat different. Though there are live drums, bass, and some guitars, the driving aspects are electronic and orchestral. It's quite unique in its sound palette. This is, in essence, music that has sat in the vat and matured to a ripe sensation and is now ready to serve.” So far, Imperfect Harmonies is shaping up to be as powerful and musically eclectic as its predecessor. “I have been calling the music ‘electro-orchestral-jazz-rock’ because it has all of those aspects in prominence within the songs,” Tankian says. “A few are more stripped down, but the majority of the songs have this huge wall of sound presented in a way I've never heard before. It's not common to have a song that is both electronic and orchestral since one is synthetic and the other organic, but I found a way of meshing a lot of these colors together.” Once again, Tankian’s album takes a multi-themed approach to the lyrics, which he describes as addressing the political, environmental, social, and personal. “There is a slightly eerie urgency this time around though,” he says. “It's darker and more dense in approach, both lyrically and musically.”

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