Titanomaquia

Titanomaquia (Titanomachy) is the seventh album released by Brazilian rock band Titãs. It is considered by many their heaviest and most aggressive album. All songs are credited to the band as a whole (sometimes crediting the just-departed Arnaldo Antunes as well), as it happened in the previous album, Tudo ao Mesmo Tempo Agora. Also, Jack Endino was the first (and currently only) foreign producer to work with them.

Background

The album had a higher usage of cursing words (as can be seen in "Será que é disso que eu necessito?" and "Fazer o quê?") and aggressive lyrics.

The album featured unique songs, like "Disneylândia", in which all paragraphs make reference to globalization, one way or another (e.g. Filho de imigrantes russos, casado na Argentina com uma pintora judia, casou-se pela segunda vez com uma princesa africana no México, which translates as "Son of Russian immigrants, married in Argentina with a Jewish painter, has married for the second time with an African princess in Mexico").

As the name suggests (Dissertation of the Pope about crime followed by an Orgy), "Dissertação do Papa Sobre o Crime Seguida de Orgia" is also not sung, but spoken as a sequence of sentences covering the topic of violence, and providing examples of cruelty from all around the world (e.g. "Em Capo Di Monte, se uma mulher dá a luz a duas crianças gêmeas o marido logo esmaga uma delas.", which translates as "In Capo di Monte, if a woman give birth to two twin children, her husband soon smashes one of them").

Track listing

Personnel

• Paulo Miklos - vocals, Synthesizer and Sampler (vocals on "Taxidermia", "A Verdadeira Mary Poppins", "Disneylândia" and "De olhos fechados")
• Sérgio Britto - Vocals, Mini-moog and Organ (vocals on "Agonizando", "Fazer o quê?", "Tempo pra gastar" and "Será que é isso que eu necessito?")
• Branco Mello - Vocals (vocals on "Dissertação do Papa Sobre O Crime Seguida de Orgia", "Felizes são os peixes", "Nem sempre se pode ser Deus" and "Estados Alterados da Mente")
• Nando Reis - Bass and vocals (vocals in "Hereditário")
• Charles Gavin - drums and percussion
• Tony Bellotto - Guitar
• Marcelo Fromer - Guitar
• Jack Endino - Guitar (final chords in "Agonizando"), Rhythm guitar and Feed-back in "Disneylândia"

Trivia

• The introduction of "Fazer o que?" (What to Do?) was adapted from a fragment of Euripides (3rd century BC., Papiro de Viena G 2315).
• The words to "Dissertação do papa sobre o crime seguida de orgia" (Dissertation of the Pope about the crime before an orgy) were extracted from a book about Marquis de Sade.