CAUTIVA: I Am [Single, 2022]
by Jose Travieso
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I Am The Omega
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[VOCAL SECTION 1 - GOD]
Aaarrrggghhh!
Argh! Awake I'm staying
Crawling Chaos of Hate
Rage
Wherever you are I'm your fate!
Oh!
Argh! The Flame and The Ash!
Whatever you thought,
Loved,
Felt,
Lived...
Is not going to exist!
I am!
[VOCAL SECTION 2 - HUMAN]
Doomsday for Human Race,
Omnicide of All Life, hell awaits,
Killing of All, Nuclear Void of Horror,
Mindless Boundless Blight of Primal Pain
Freezing the time into a burning landscape
Where my memory of all I lost is killing my sense
Crushing my mind in a loop of spirits
Which remind me every day that they are dead!
Give back life to those I have loved!
Oh!
[VOCAL SECTION 3 - GOD]
I am Death
I am Pain
I am Loss
I am God
I am End
I am Void
I am Lord
Of All Things,
Lord of Nothing,
Lord, the Only One Lord
[VOCAL SECTION 1 ALT - GOD]
Aaarrrggghhh!
Argh! The Flame and The Ash!
Whatever you thought,
Loved,
Felt,
Lived,
Dreamed,
Hoped...
Wherever you are I'm your fate!
Oh!
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about
First release: April 30, 2022.
Last and final recording for Cautiva, my technical and progressive thrash metal project in which I play all the instruments (guitars, bass, drums programming and vocals), in the style of "one man band".
In 2015 I released a farewell EP of two songs called "The Archangel Of Omega" in which I said goodbye to Cautiva for a long and indefinite period of time, maybe forever... However, years later, I decided to take up the project again and to create a final track. With "I Am The Omega", this new and final track, I finish definitely with Cautiva and I close, not a period, but an era in my music. So, the title of the track is not incidental.
Of all my projects, Cautiva has probably been my favorite one, so wild and technically excessive, but it's very very demanding in time and energy... And I'm getting old! When I decided to record my semi-farewell EP of 2015 ("The Archangel Of Omega"), it was very hard to deal with the project, especially due to a whole series of problems and bad luck, but I had the time and the energy to confront them. Actually, the effort of recording this final track has been really titanic and the time and the energy have been a deep problem to deal with. In the process of recording, I have literally had to stop for months (or even more than a year) on several occasions for lack of time, familiar and personal problems, lack of motivation, lack of mental energy... With "I Am" I wanted to do my best, and, as a result, the complexity and perfectionism took me to a really hard and long work. As an individual, I have evolved toward the nihilism and, as a nihilist that I'm, it has been very difficult for me to find the balance and energy to create what I wanted here. But it's made! :-)
What about the track, I started to work in it in 2018 as a different project to Cautiva, but weeks later I modified it to be part of my usual metal "band". "I Am The Omega" connects with the rest of my work for Cautiva, but in some aspects opens new paths: a more oriented to death metal sound, dense and heavy mix, very low intonation (guitar in Bb), use of long reverbs (Cautiva was always very very dry in mix), atmospheric passages and unusual instruments, a lot of discrete details (Cautiva was very explicit in style and form)... I think it's a beautiful evolution of what Cautiva was.
The lyrics of "I Am The Omega" are related to Howard Phillips Lovecraft's universe. In fact, they are continuation of my old song of 2009 "The Great Old One" (from Cautiva's album "Human"). Explicity, the lyrics are about the awakening of Azathoth, the mindless deity of deities, and the consequent destruction of the world... But the meaning of the song is deeper: Implicity the lyrics are about the loss of the loved ones and the consequent pain. Even the music is describing that. For example, the meteorite that appears at the beginning of the track is symbol of the moment in which you lose somebody and the next minutes of music represent the devastation and emptiness in your life... All that is the real meaning of the song and it has a deep personal sense for me... All the track is a big metaphor.
I have wanted to release this song in two different mixes: the original version (with vocals) and a "naked" version (without vocals and without guitar solos). I like both versions and I wanted to share them.
This is the end of Cautiva. I hope you like.
Artwork by Georgi Georgiev and José Travieso.
Last and final recording for Cautiva, my technical and progressive thrash metal project in which I play all the instruments (guitars, bass, drums programming and vocals), in the style of "one man band".
In 2015 I released a farewell EP of two songs called "The Archangel Of Omega" in which I said goodbye to Cautiva for a long and indefinite period of time, maybe forever... However, years later, I decided to take up the project again and to create a final track. With "I Am The Omega", this new and final track, I finish definitely with Cautiva and I close, not a period, but an era in my music. So, the title of the track is not incidental.
Of all my projects, Cautiva has probably been my favorite one, so wild and technically excessive, but it's very very demanding in time and energy... And I'm getting old! When I decided to record my semi-farewell EP of 2015 ("The Archangel Of Omega"), it was very hard to deal with the project, especially due to a whole series of problems and bad luck, but I had the time and the energy to confront them. Actually, the effort of recording this final track has been really titanic and the time and the energy have been a deep problem to deal with. In the process of recording, I have literally had to stop for months (or even more than a year) on several occasions for lack of time, familiar and personal problems, lack of motivation, lack of mental energy... With "I Am" I wanted to do my best, and, as a result, the complexity and perfectionism took me to a really hard and long work. As an individual, I have evolved toward the nihilism and, as a nihilist that I'm, it has been very difficult for me to find the balance and energy to create what I wanted here. But it's made! :-)
What about the track, I started to work in it in 2018 as a different project to Cautiva, but weeks later I modified it to be part of my usual metal "band". "I Am The Omega" connects with the rest of my work for Cautiva, but in some aspects opens new paths: a more oriented to death metal sound, dense and heavy mix, very low intonation (guitar in Bb), use of long reverbs (Cautiva was always very very dry in mix), atmospheric passages and unusual instruments, a lot of discrete details (Cautiva was very explicit in style and form)... I think it's a beautiful evolution of what Cautiva was.
The lyrics of "I Am The Omega" are related to Howard Phillips Lovecraft's universe. In fact, they are continuation of my old song of 2009 "The Great Old One" (from Cautiva's album "Human"). Explicity, the lyrics are about the awakening of Azathoth, the mindless deity of deities, and the consequent destruction of the world... But the meaning of the song is deeper: Implicity the lyrics are about the loss of the loved ones and the consequent pain. Even the music is describing that. For example, the meteorite that appears at the beginning of the track is symbol of the moment in which you lose somebody and the next minutes of music represent the devastation and emptiness in your life... All that is the real meaning of the song and it has a deep personal sense for me... All the track is a big metaphor.
I have wanted to release this song in two different mixes: the original version (with vocals) and a "naked" version (without vocals and without guitar solos). I like both versions and I wanted to share them.
This is the end of Cautiva. I hope you like.
Artwork by Georgi Georgiev and José Travieso.
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Jose Travieso Spain
Starting at the piano in the late 90s, José Travieso has been a very eclectic musician playing diverse instruments and releasing music in very different styles: minimalism, romanticism, experimental music, technical thrash metal, classical music... In 2015 he began a new period dedicated to electronic music. ... more
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