Angra Manyu is the debut concept album from avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 musician Leila Bela

Leila Bela

Leila Bela is an Iranian-born American avant-garde musician, writer, photographer, actress, multi-instrumentalist, playwright and record producer from Austin, Texas.-Biography:...

. The album is a completion of different sounds and noises Bela recorded in her apartment with a recorder. The album consists of 65 tracks.

About the album

In 2002, Bela recorded and produced her debut album Angra Manyu, which has 65 tracks and that Bela dubs as a strange fairytale concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

. The album is named after 'Angra Mainyu

Angra Mainyu

Angra Mainyu is the Avestan-language name of Zoroastrianism's hypostasis of the "destructive spirit". The Middle Persian equivalent is Ahriman.-In Zoroaster's revelation:...

', the Avestan language

Avestan language

Avestan is an East Iranian language known only from its use as the language of Zoroastrian scripture, i.e. the Avesta, from which it derives its name...

 name of Zoroastrianism's Satan

Satan

Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...

. The 44th track, titled Ahriman (The Liar), reflects the Zoroastrian

Zoroastrianism

Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of prophet Zoroaster and was formerly among the world's largest religions. It was probably founded some time before the 6th century BCE in Greater Iran.In Zoroastrianism, the Creator Ahura Mazda is all good, and no evil...

 opposition between asha

Asha

Asha is the Avestan language term for a concept of cardinal importance to Zoroastrian theology and doctrine. In the moral sphere, aša/arta represents what has been called "the decisive confessional concept of Zoroastrianism." ...

("Truth") and druj ("Lie"). 'Ahriman' is a contraction of 'Angra Mainyu' and druj is the "realm" of Ahriman.

The album consists of many tracks with Bela breathing and different sounds which Bela recorded in her apartment on a small recorder that used computer disks to save files.

On the album, Bela used mostly just vocals in many languages to create over 30 all vocal tracks. Then she began using various objects found around her apartment as musical instruments, including hairbrushes, a vacuum cleaner, and pots filled with water. After those tracks were complete, she began using 17 instruments from around the world to add instrumental songs making a total of 65 tracks in all.

She also used her talent of Japanese

Music of Japan

The music of Japan includes a wide array of performers in distinct styles both traditional and modern. The word for music in Japanese is 音楽 , combining the kanji 音 with the kanji 楽...

 and Tibetan

Music of Tibet

The music of Tibet reflects the cultural heritage of the trans-Himalayan region, centered in Tibet but also known wherever ethnic Tibetan groups are found in India, Bhutan, Nepal and further abroad...

 growling vocals that sound like many voices coming from the same vocal cords on many of her noise tracks in addition to the experiments she did with sound and photons. On the track, "One Night", Bela used her cat Loralie's meow as well and her own unique baby voice whispering in the backdrop while chimes ring. Many tracks have references from Shakespeare in quotes or titles of songs such as "Bare Bodkin" from Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

and "not a jot, not a jot" from Othello

Othello

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

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Track listing

1. "Wooaah!"
2. "Opening Prayer in Aramaic"
3. "Chaos to Calm"
4. "Intro"
5. "Breath Ritual"
6. "Going Under"
7. "Noise"
8. "I Have Woken"
9. "Who are u"
10. "Cheshme"
11. "One Night"
12. "Take Me Home Now!"
13. "Quantum Reality"
14. "Lover... I Can See You There!"
15. "V-1"
16. "Shatter"
17. "Gypsy Sunrise"
18. "V-2"
19. "Gypsy Killing Prey!!!"
20. "Pull My Strings"
21. "M(1)"
22. "V-3"
23. "M(2)"
24. "eeee eee eeeeee"
25. "Let Me Help You Mr. Monster Man..."
26. "Grrrnnr Monster!"
27. "V-4"
28. "Listreaux Grackle Inc."
29. "Mermaids"
30. "Fairys Playing Chimes"
31. "Pregnant Pause... Intermission"
32. "V-5"
33. "Night of Santour"
34. "Vocal Extacy"
35. "Titanic"
36. "Salute to the Fairy Princess..."
37. "Race"
38. "Majnoon"
39. "Punish Me Please!"
40. "V-6"
41. "Not a Jot! Not a Jot! My Love..."
42. "Khhhhkhhhnana"
43. "V-7"
44. "Ahriman! (The Liar)"
45. "Incubus in the Night"
46. "In ur Bed"
47. "Weird Sex"
48. "The Exorsism Begins..."
49. "A Bare Bodkin!"
50. "V-8"
51. "Apparition Faith1... A Sort of Daos X Machina"
52. "Faith2"
53. "V-9"
54. "Jesus Walked on Water..."
55. "Much Lazier Race"
56. "Yes! No! I MeanYes! No I Don't!"
57. "Sultan of my Heart"
58. "Mad Childs Play"
59. "Chice Chica & Meow"
60. "Ping Pong?"
61. "Waiting on April... for You"
62. "Come Peeshy Kitty"
63. "Demon in My Heart"
64. "Leaving Her Quantum Journey Behind..."
65. "Screams for a Finale!"