Mortal – Pura

Description

Pura is the fourth studio album by the American industrial band Mortal, released on Intense Records in 1995, an imprint of the Frontline Music Group, releasing FMG’s industrial/metal output. Distributed by Diamante Distribution. The album was recorded and mixed by Mark Rodriguez at The Mixing Lab in Garden Grove, California; and was produced by Mortal’s Jerome & Jyro.

Since I got this, it’s been on almost constantly. I like it! I’m quite new to this sort of music, but I can tell good stuff when I hear it. Dedicated to all hardcore e-z listening fans, the notes say, “This is not a trance-ambient-techno-industrial-dance project: that sounds way too presumptuous! It’s meant to be a soundtrack of sorts, to perhaps…life.” Some of it is clearly dance, some much more ‘meditational’. Four of the 10 tracks have vocals, with some powerful lyrics that reminded me of the Psalms. «Nightfall & Splendor» stands out as a particularly strong song, although on the whole it was the instrumental tracks that really got to me. If you’re involved at all in ‘alternative’ worship, this would provide some excellent material to stimulate the imagination. I just like listening to it and as the notes say, “JESUS LIVES! It’s all good.” [Jonathan Evans, Cross Rhythms, June 1996]

> iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/album/pura/389081709)

CD tracklist:

01. Judah
02. Grip
03. Sand Starr
04. Solamente
05. Nightfall & Splendor (feat. Holly Steinhilber)
06. Pura
07. Liquid Gift
08. Gaza
09. Bells
10. The Nightfall (feat. Holly Steinhilber)

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Intense Records.

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