Brian Jones reemerged as a key contributor and experimented with instruments not usually associated with popular music, including the sitar, Appalachian dulcimer, Japanese koto and marimbas, as well as playing guitar and harmonica. It is their first album to consist entirely of original compositions, all of which were credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Aftermath is considered by music scholars to be an artistic breakthrough for the Rolling Stones.
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It is the band’s fourth British and sixth American studio album, and closely follows a series of international hit singles that helped bring the Stones newfound wealth and fame rivalling that of their contemporaries the Beatles. It was released in the United Kingdom on 15 April 1966 by Decca Records and in the United States in late June or early July 1966 by London Records.
The group recorded the album at RCA Studios in California in December 1965 and March 1966, during breaks between their international tours. It’s these small but significant touches that really elevate Aftermath beyond just a shocking video into the visually arresting and provocative art that it is.Aftermath is a studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Added to this is the fact that every shot is expertly crafted and the whole thing is scored to Mozart’s hauntingly beautiful Requiem in D Minor. Speaking of genuine characters, Tosar does more with his incredible eyebrows and menacing stare than many actors are able to accomplish with two hours of dialogue. Each cadaver has such brilliant attention to detail that they come across as genuine characters right down to the tracks in one man’s arm that were probably the cause of his death. While the little details are great, the real showstoppers are the corpses themselves, masterfully crafted by special effects studio DDT. This is helped greatly by the fact that it was filmed within a real forensic institute in Barcelona and that Cerd á had the chance to witness an actual autopsy prior to filming. Every detail inside the surgeon’s lab is so meticulously created that it gives an incredible level of authenticity to the overall film. Much like A Serbian Film, the thing that makes this so effectively shocking isn’t just its subject matter, but also that it’s just so goddamn well made. The fact that it’s light on story really doesn’t matter much in this case since it’s the incredible visual style that does the heavy lifting in this dialogue-free film. There really isn’t that much to say about the story beyond the fact that it centers around a deviant forensic surgeon (Pep Tosar) who has his way with the corpse of a young woman in one of the more shocking and disturbing sequences ever put on film. Of course, an essential entry to that list is Nacho Cerd á’s ultra twisted mini-masterpiece, Aftermath. Obviously you’ve got your underground classics like the Nekromantik films or even a bizarre romantic drama like Kissed, but all in all it’s a pretty short list of films that make necrophilia the central focus. Sure, directors are willing to mutilate teenagers with chainsaws and machetes all day but once you add in a touch of deviant sexuality it goes to a whole different level for most people. Ahhh corpse fucking, a taboo subject that even the most hardcore of Extreme Cinema films rarely delve into.
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