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Yan Lohendra composed and produced an album of songs, “Weirder Words”, of which he also wrote almost all the texts. This album presents itself as analogous to a collection of short stories or a film with sketches. He stages and tells different strange things.
The virtual singer Tashaa is called upon, a voice which turns out to be terribly human. Her voice is clear and youthful.
Tashaa has a dark side named Taalhia.
Her voice is different from Tashaa’s and is very original: a bit hoarse and mature. She is the only virtual singer who smokes too much and drinks too much alcohol, and you can hear it when she sings.
Both of them tend not to pronounce the words enough, like some human singers, which characterizes them even more, and this is intended.
Tashaa, through her alter ego Taalhia, sings a poem by Charles Baudelaire, “les litanies de Satan”, translated into English : the litanies to Satan. This is the only text of which Yan Lohendra is not the author.
The other texts sung by Taalhia are inspired by different myths and works.
Thus, “The Devil Walks by my Side” partly refers to Robert Johnson, guitarist reputed to have signed a pact with the devil, but also to several films, such as “Sexy Devil”, “Crossroads”, or even Goethe’s Faust and the French film that is based on it, “la beauté du diable” (the beauty of the devil). A government report on Satanism is also among the references used. Mephisto’s theme from Franz Liszt’s Faust Symphony is briefly repeated in this song.
You Kill Them All is inspired by the movie “C’est arrivé près de chez vous” (Man Bites Dog or It Happened in Your Neighborhood) which features a character who murders modest people on a daily basis to rob them or for fun and who is filmed by a film crew.
In “The Witches are Back”, it is about a witch in a text that is inspired by a university dissertation on the representations of witches and Mona Collet’s book on the subject. The text of the chorus (Tremble, tremble, the witches are back) comes from a feminist slogan from the 70s.
The song “Reality is Another World” evokes in part the film “The Voices” with Ryan Reynolds and another film, “Delicatessen”, by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, but also the film “A beautiful mind”. It’s about the world in which a serial killer with paranoid schizophrenia lives.
The famous story of Carmilla by Sheridan Le fanu partly inspired the song “She is the Night”, as well as the more recent novel “Millarca” by Oriane Escoffier, but also various films, such as “We are the night” or “Les predators”. You guessed it, this is a text about a female vampire.
Finally, “From Inside the Earth”, sung by Tashaa, alludes to the many myths that relate to a world located inside the Earth, or to the theory of the hollow earth, or even to Jules Verne’s novel , “Journey to the Center of the Earth”.
We will leave their share of mystery to the three other songs also sung by Tashaa.
The lyrics :
Do You exist ?
On that Day
The Witches Are Back
The Litanies to Satan
A Small Flame
The Devil Walks by my Side
Reality is Another World
Se Is the Night
From Inside the Earth
