Comprising 11 tracks lasting over 67 minutes long, The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara recorded their debut album 'Full Spectrum' between February and June of 2020 at the artists' home studio in Camden Town during the first London Lockdown. 

The album sweeps across the wide spectrum of music genres and the songs are arranged in a way that it takes listeners through the Full Spectrum of human experience and emotion. Each song is a complete experience on its own, each blending different influences and styles, while also continuing and building upon the meaning and message presented in the previous.  

'Full Spectrum' traverses dystopia and utopian worlds, balancing dark and grim reminders of human mortality with triumphant moments of hope and individual agency, opening up avenues for listeners to escape beyond the crisis and harsh realities of the current times – into the sphere of the transcendent and the numinous.


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About The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS) are a London-based duo comprising Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang. Coming together in early 2020 to record their debut album FULL SPECTRUM, the duo are fast establishing their niche in music as pioneers of a new form of expression, through the performance of poetry in music, and as an act that traverses between the wide-reaching spectrums of music. 

Drawing inspiration from TOOL and Kraftwerk, as well as the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Jim Morrison, TCOMAS brings literature, art, and history together into a space where rock and metal meets electronic. 

Read more: https://tcomas.com

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Connect With The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara: 

➤ Official Website: https://tcomas.com
➤ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2V3zzIcq2sbRbaEjbGypc8
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Full Spectrum

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
"Message for the King"
Music Composition: Daphne Ang, Andrea Papi
Lyrics & Vocals: Daphne Ang

A comic interlude


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About The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS) are a London-based duo comprising Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang. Coming together in early 2020 to record their debut album FULL SPECTRUM, the duo are fast establishing their niche in music as pioneers of a new form of expression, through the performance of poetry in music, and as an act that traverses between the wide-reaching spectrums of music. 

Drawing inspiration from TOOL and Kraftwerk, as well as the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Jim Morrison, TCOMAS brings literature, art, and history together into a space where rock and metal meets electronic. 

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Connect With The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara: 

➤ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2V3zzIcq2sbRbaEjbGypc8
➤ Official Website: https://tcomas.com
➤ Website: https://ffm.bio/tcomasmusic
➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tcomasmusic
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Message for the King

"Atoms" 
The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
Music Composition: Andrea Papi
Lyrics & Vocals: Daphne Ang
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"Atoms", tells the story of the creation of the universe to the fall of civilisation. It deals with the existential questions surrounding mankind’s purpose and place in the world. The lyrics combines original written material, with extracts adapted from religious and mythological texts (The Rigveda, The Bible, Corpus Hermeticum, The Mystery of Amergin), canonical texts such as Inferno by Dante, Phaedo by Plato, and the works of William Blake, William Morris and Ernst Niekisch.

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Lyrics

In the beginning,
There was darkness 
A formless blackness,
Amorphous, atonal, discordant, disharmonious
The Prima Materia
A primordial pool of death decay, life and birth, 
Suspended in a timeless continuum, 
The spiralling substrate of the anonymous, the absolute 
For nothing came before the movement of God over these waters

Form and matter joined
A ray shines with no pause, 
From its coming to its being
Order was created, 
Order was constructed,
And in the purest of acts,
The summit of the universe was created

I am in heaven and on earth, 
In water and in the air,
I lead forth the roaring waters,
I am the wind that shapes the mountains,
I am both cloud and rain,
The wave of the ocean, the beam of the sun
I am the animals and the plants,
The babe in the womb,
The one born, and the one yet to be conceived
I am present, everywhere
I am the flesh and soul of man,
The Mother and the Father
I am the pain of the sick,
The heart of saints,
And the will of sinners

The machine is the achievement of which man is capable 
If he relies entirely on himself, 
God is no longer needed
Eventually, it transforms him into a machine himself

When nation grows old, 
The arts grow cold, 
And commerce settles on every tree

It is the enterprise of industrial civilisation that modern wars have arisen, 
And will arise
It is on the same impoverished soil, that empires have grown,
And by the same greed that many civilisations have been destroyed

The body, for the sake of which we desire wealth, 
Is the ultimate cause of all wars

If we are to progress, 
We must not cease from mental fight till we have built Jerusalem

I have no more faith than a grain of mustard seed in the future history of civilisation, 
Which i know now, is doomed to destruction
What a joy it is to think of!

O good beginning, to what vile ending must you fall!

And in the end, 
There was darkness
A formless blackness,
Amorphous, atonal, discordant, disharmonious 
The Negredo
Death decay, life and birth,
A timeless continuum

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About The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS) are a London-based duo comprising Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang. Coming together in early 2020 to record their debut album FULL SPECTRUM, the duo are fast establishing their niche in music as pioneers of a new form of expression, through the performance of poetry in music, and as an act that traverses between the wide-reaching spectrums of music. 
Drawing inspiration from TOOL and Kraftwerk, as well as the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Jim Morrison, TCOMAS brings literature, art, and history together into a space where rock and metal meets electronic. 

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Connect With The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara: 

➤ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2V3zzIcq2sbRbaEjbGypc8
➤ Official Website: https://tcomas.com
➤ Website: https://ffm.bio/tcomasmusic
➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tcomasmusic
➤ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tcomasmusic
➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tcomas.music

© 2020 The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara / TCOMAS Music
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Atoms

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"Psychopath’s Monologue"
The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
Music Composition: Andrea Papi
Lyrics & Vocals: Daphne Ang

Inspired by Dante’s Inferno, “Psychopath’s Monologue” charts the path of damnation – from purgatory to the depths of hell. The track fleets between the harsh and the heavenly, the brutal and the beautiful - Grinding metal guitar and baselines layered over pounding industrial techno kicks encases the theatrical spoken-lyrics delivered as an elegiac monologue. 

The composition is an assemblage of 7 sonnet poems written over a 10 year period. The work assimilates ancient imagery with the contemporary. While the meaning of the lyrics is often abstracted and cryptic, its delivery is always awash with emotion.

“‘Psychopath's Monologue” is  the second single of The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS). The track forms part of the independently produced album ‘Full Spectrum'. 

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About The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS) are a London-based duo comprising Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang. Coming together in early 2020 to record their debut album FULL SPECTRUM, the duo are fast establishing their niche in music as pioneers of a new form of expression, through the performance of poetry in music, and as an act that traverses between the wide-reaching spectrums of music. 

Drawing inspiration from TOOL and Kraftwerk, as well as the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Jim Morrison, TCOMAS brings literature, art, and history together into a space where rock and metal meets electronic. 

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Connect With The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara: 
➤ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2V3zzIcq2sbRbaEjbGypc8
➤ Official Website: https://tcomas.com
➤ Website: https://ffm.bio/tcomasmusic
➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tcomasmusic
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Psychopath's Monologue

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
"Deus Ex Machina"
Music Composition: Andrea Papi
Lyrics & Vocals: Daphne Ang

Deus Ex Machina is an arresting sonic and theatrical experience of man’s perennial struggle between fate and free will. Charged with both pathos and ethos, the song is a musical revisitation of classical literature’s greatest tragedy – the story of Oedipus Rex.

"Deus Ex Machina" tells the story of King Oedipus of Thebes, who despite all his efforts, ends up fulfilling the prophecy he was trying so hard to avoid: that he would kill his father and marry his mother.

Inspired by the sonnets of Shakespeare and the lyrical poetry of Ancient Greece, the lyrics tells the story of Oedipus Rex – a play by Sophocles written over two thousand years ago. The song is chanted and recited over the music much like in the chorus in Greek tragedy.

Released worldwide on September 18, 2020, "DEUS EX MACHINA" is the third single of The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara. The track forms part of the independently produced album ‘Full Spectrum'. 

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Lyrics 

On the path of peril, the blind king staggers away
All he can see is darkness like a shroud
Groping through mist and cloud, the devil his only friend
Doomed is he to find release only at his end

Cursed is he who incurs the wrath of envious gods
Woe is he, he who walks alone on the road to ruin
Woe is he, whose fate is abandoned to the wind
Woe is he, the end too dread to tell, too dark to see

Trial is the test of man
Hubris will be his fall
Fate is the curse of man
In god’s envy, tragedy befalls

Hamartia is the flaw of man
Hubris be his downfall
Trial is the test of man,
But death befalls us all

Oh cursed Oedipus, 
Pursued by the hounds of fate
For slaying and laying with kindred, 
You took out both your eyes

All your sins laid bare
Your shame you alone will wear
So you go away without a guide
A vagrant with no sight

Oh cursed Oedipus, 
Hallowed be thy pain
A blind man wandering across the land
Never to be seen again 

Oh cursed Oedipus, 
Hallowed be thy shame
Architect of his own tragedy
So vanished he, into a shoreless sea 

Trial is the test of man
Hubris be his fall
Fate is the curse of man
In god’s envy, tragedy befalls

Hamartia is the flaw of man
Hubris be his downfall
Trial is the test of man,
And death will end it all

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Connect With The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara: 

➤ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2V3zzIcq2sbRbaEjbGypc8
➤ Official Website: https://tcomas.com
➤ Website: https://ffm.bio/tcomasmusic
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Deus Ex Machina

"Mata Hari"
The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
Music Composition: Andrea Papi
Lyrics & Vocals: Daphne Ang

Mata Hari (meaning "sun" in Malay) reimagines the sound of the 80s in the year 2080. The song is told through the eyes of an artist, who creates a painting as a declaration of love and as a testament to the intensity of emotions and feelings (for another) when words and actions were inadequate.

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Released on October 16, 2020, “Mata Hari” is the fourth single of The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS). The track forms part of the independently produced album ‘Full Spectrum'. 

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About The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS) are a London-based duo comprising Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang. Coming together in early 2020 to record their debut album FULL SPECTRUM, the duo are fast establishing their niche in music as pioneers of a new form of expression, through the performance of poetry in music, and as an act that traverses between the wide-reaching spectrums of music. 

Drawing inspiration from TOOL and Kraftwerk, as well as the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Jim Morrison, TCOMAS brings literature, art, and history together into a space where rock and metal meets electronic. 

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Lyrics

So you said to do it for feelings
Feelings for you
So I decided to put it to the test
In the way I know best

It was catharsis
A spectacle
A supernova
Paint drops like teardrops
Falling rain on a November’s day
My heart cries out
My soul implodes
A violent meeting of sea and stars on stretched linen
I have made a mess
But oh what a glorious mess

Mata Hari
Pagi Bintang
With you I burn so bright
Incandescent light
You and me
We will become
The brightest stars in the sky

Mata Hari
Hati Saya
Deep and precious are the experiences we share
The mundane, the sublime
All of time, intertwined

You bring out the best in me
And the rest of me
You have the best of me
Take the rest of me

Take the rest of me
Take the rest of me
Take the rest of me
The best of me

Mata Hari
Pagi Bintang
With you I burn so bright
Incandescent light
You and me
We will become
The brightest stars in the sky

Mata Hari
Hati Saya
With you I burn so bright
Ablaze like stellar light
You and me together we are
The brightest stars in the sky
The brightest stars in the sky
For all of time, intertwined
All the time
Together, entwined

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Connect With The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara: 

➤ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2V3zzIcq2sbRbaEjbGypc8
➤ Official Website: https://tcomas.com
➤ Website: https://ffm.bio/tcomasmusic
➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tcomasmusic
➤ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tcomasmusic
➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tcomas.music

© 2020 The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara / TCOMAS Music
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Mata Hari

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
"The Descent"
Music Composition: Andrea Papi
Lyrics & Vocals: Daphne Ang

‘The Descent’ presents a theatrical experience of the awe-inspiring, impetuous, almost frightening, beauty of nature. It is narrated by the voice of Mother Nature herself, who recites an ominous monologue warning us of an imminent disaster.

The song offers a glimpse into the psyche and essence of Mother Nature and her duality – who is both at once Gaia – the gentlest mother, who at her bosom feeds plants and all things living, and Mother Nature – the great equaliser, the wrathful goddess Kali, she who is the source of all of Earth’s calamities. 

Hypnotic, meditative, and bittersweet, ‘The Descent’ seeks to evoke an experience of the purity and beauty of Mother Nature and how quickly she can turn into a wild and destructive force, bringing death and desolation to all who stand in her path. 

'The Descent' by The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara, was released worldwide on November 6, 2020.

➤ WATCH OFFICIAL VIDEO: https://ffm.to/thedescent-vid

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About The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS) are a London-based duo comprising Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang. Coming together in early 2020 to record their debut album FULL SPECTRUM, the duo are fast establishing their niche in music as pioneers of a new form of expression, through the performance of poetry in music, and as an act that traverses between the wide-reaching spectrums of music. 

Drawing inspiration from TOOL and Kraftwerk, as well as the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Jim Morrison, TCOMAS brings literature, art, and history together into a space where rock and metal meets electronic. 

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🎵 'The Descent' - Lyrics

Why won't you and I escape from this gilded age,
Away from this crumbling world
We can sail away on the seven seas,
On a porcelain ship, with satin sails, on seas of mercury

We will coax the monsters out from their deepest trenches 
To meet Surya's warm rays
We will relive the purity and innocence before the Fall of man

In our utopia, 
we will make a nest of fresh grass and lace,
And spend endless nights solving the mysteries of the Arnolfini portrait

We will never experience apathy, ennui, nor despair
We will be far from the scourge of disease,
And grow forbidden fruit from a tree,
And eat from it without fear or guilt 
Each day will have the glory of all four seasons

Everything will be sublime,
Every day will be divine 
It is only a universe away
Just you and me

We can live as immortals, 
Forever nubile, 
Forever fertile,
Your flesh in mine 

Won't you come with me
Only if you want to

When the jarring silence confronts you, 
Reply with a melodious, well-strung haiku
When faced with nothing but shards and smithereens of a flawed existence
A glorious train wreck on her maiden voyage to a phantom promise land

Detesting the white light of truth,
Its unflattering glare, 
Leaving nothing bare,
Penetrating the thickest smog of ignorance

Gasping for air as your flounder and flail
Your face pressed against a glass ceiling
Silence,
White light,
Greatest nemesis

What we need is a baptism of fire,
A tabula rasa
Fertile soils to sow the seeds of a new world
But will we emerge scarred or unscathed

Huddle with me
In a foetal gnarl 
How cathartic it must be
Toba has awaken

All is white-hot,
All is chaos
Happy now, 
They put down their shotguns and bibles

Indeed, purgatory is at our doorsteps
One thousand years of darkness
Finally, the long-awaited rapture has arrived,
Sucking the self-righteous into its clouds.

But not you, not me
I’d like us to be left behind on this godforsaken wasteland,
To witness the apocalypse
Climbing trees, to have a glimpse of the world,
Crumbling, nevertheless

© 2020 The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara

The Descent

— ОRIĢINS —
New Album • Out Now
Listen: https://ffm.to/origins-album

Origins, the third album by The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara, is out now.

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS), a UK-based duo featuring Daphne Ang (Singapore) and Andrea Papi (Italy), emerged in London in early 2020. Their debut album, Full Spectrum, established their innovative fusion of poetry performance and heavy music, creating a unique form of expression that has become synonymous with TCOMAS.
TCOMAS's sophomore album, Trust No Leaders, released on July 1, 2022, explores the history of metal, paying tribute to various subgenres. Set against orchestral and cinematic landscapes, the songs also incorporate non-Western musical influences. The lyrics draw inspiration from contemporary and classical poetry, as well as Jungian psychology.

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