Omnia Noctis

Running Time: 6:11

Released On: "Viva México Señores Ruidosos 2021" - Various Artists (62 tracks)

Label: OTCRAH Records (RCOMP 04)

Release Date: 15th September 2021

Format: Download

Buy Link: Internet Archive

Released to celebrate México's own version of Independence Day on September 16th, something you don't really get taught in British schools, so for the benefit of the home audience, here's the basics: It commemorates the day in 1810 that a man called Father Hidalgo, a priest, and what probably would be called in influencer nowadays (!), called for the nation's liberation from Spain, a call that would become known as El Grito de Dolores. That was just the beginning, it took eleven long and hard years of fighting before that objective was finally achieved, when the Spanish signed The Treaty Of Córdoba on 24th August 1821. Estimates of the toll of the war vary, but the consensus is that México lost approximately 1 in 10 of its population during the struggle. So that's the history, let's get on to the music.

Gerardo Colin's compilations are seriously international affairs, I don't think a solitary continent goes unrepresented on those we've seen, so in spite of the special occasion, we didn't feel we had to do something too Mexican. But seeing as how this was for their Día de la Independencia, we wanted to do something that at least had a connection. Then we were watching that movie "Coco" for our Sunday evening family film one weekend, and it occurred to me that the nation is, how should I put this, very big on death. In British culture, it's something nobody likes to talk about. Inevitable, but let's not mention it, eh what. It's taken Halloween a long time to become a big thing in the UK, I just couldn't see something like The Day Of The Dead happening here at all. In Mexico, your ancestors are eternally part of your family, they have a sense of comfort with the supernatural that I find quite fascinating, and there was the way in. That was step 1.

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Step 2; she falls in love with you. Sorry, sidetracked by Eddie Cochran. Skit and I were box-setting the "Van Helsing" series and there was this episode called "Carpe Noctis". I loved the sound of the phrase, a play on carpe diem, seize the day, and thought it would make a great title. If only it was grammatically correct. As I'm sure you all know, it should be "Carpe Noctem"! Now write it out a hundred times! Thus we decided to call our offering "Omnia Noctis". What offering? Ah, well, the very first recording we created on 1st October 2019 was "god Eat god", and it was made entirely from animal noises. Now, our last release before our second birthday will be the same, the sense of full circle is kind of satisfying, I think. Of course, this time they are processed to the point of being mostly unrecognisable, but that's what they are, the creatures of the night; the wolf, the bat, the owl and raven.

ONE FOR THE FANS!