EXCLUDED - Tony Iommi is back with "Scent of Dark" - Rolling Stone
Tony Iommi releases his first rock song since Black Sabbath's "13", the dark "Scent of Dark". The song is accompanied by the guitarist's new cologne, a collaboration with luxury perfume house Xerjoff
When Tony Iommi decided to develop his own fragrance, he already knew how some Black Sabbath fans would react. "They'll think I've gone crazy," he laughs. “It's something I never would have thought to get involved in. But it's nice to have done it."
Last year, when the world was in lockdown due to the Covid pandemic, Tony Iommi befriended Sergio Momo, the founder and creative director of Italian perfumer Xerjoff, after Momo asked the guitarist to play on a track at a charity concert. Unfortunately, Iommi couldn't do it at the time, but Momo sent him a box of perfumes anyway to thank him for thinking about it. Iommi phoned him to thank him and Momo ended up asking, "Would you be interested in creating your own perfume?" ". I said, “Oh, that's amazing,” says Iommi. "I had to write down all the different smells that I like, and then he built perfume from that." Within months, Iommi had both a new scent and a new song.
"Sergio also loves music, and he plays the guitar," Iommi said. “He said to me: 'And if we did an air for the perfume? ". And we thought it was best to do an instrumental rather than have a singer and go through all that. So I had this idea, played it to him and he liked it, then added other parts to make it what it was. »
The duo ended up recording 'Scent of Dark', the first musical composition Iommi has released since writing a classic piece for Birmingham Cathedral in 2017 and the first rock song since Black Sabbath's album 13 in 2017. 2013. The track bears all of Iommi's signature marks – a dark, mystical intro, heavy, offbeat riffs and, of course, a bluesy, lyrical guitar solo – but with a bit more drama than usual, thanks to the layers of orchestral strings. Momo, who plays an Iommi model guitar, takes the lead on the song, while Jimmy Crutchley (who introduced Iommi to Momo) plays bass, Ash Sheehan handles drums, and Mike Exeter, longtime Iommi producer, plays keyboards; Rebecca Rose and Julianne Bourne play cello and violin respectively. The musicians filmed the music video for the song, which features extensive cologne footage, at Sudeley Castle, near Gloucestershire, England.
“The only problem was that when I was filming outside, I had an audience,” Iommi says during an interview in which he also discusses his future musical projects. All the people who visit the castle were there looking at me, thinking, “What is he doing? Oh my God. "
Kory Grow, translated by the editorial staff
