Emotional Decompression Chamber
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Emotional Decompression Chamber released with "Dreamcell_11/Aural Music" is the second full length album of the Italian industrial metal
band Digitalis Purpurea
. It was released on November 12, 2010 with a worldwide distribution.
(first work of Alejandro Jodorowsky
) chasing the legendary city called Tar on a David Lynch
’s Lost Highway. The sound is the soundtrack to this imaginary film.
The presence of electro-clash beats, lysergic desert rock guitars and the unusual use of the voice sometimes played from a busted grammophone give a decadent sound, in which the figures appear faded and where the substance is tinged with noir and the mind is lost forfeited in a thick consistency sensory tunnel where the end is distant and blurred. The voice is used as an instrument that fits the metric and the tone with the mood of the texts. Pi Greco explored the research on the voice of Demetrio Stratos
and the cut-up method of William Burroughs. Puns and variations of the pronunciation are used to create a grotesque effect and to reveal hidden words or concepts: there are dialogues hidden in the mix and hidden messages encrypted in the playing time of songs.
(Alejandro Jodorowsky
), particularly to the first scene where Lis is eating a white rose and the scenes set in the desert.
Production
Industrial metal
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...
band Digitalis Purpurea
Digitalis Purpurea (band)
-Biography:Digitalis Purpurea is an industrial metal project creating music since 2000 from Turin, Italy. Digitalis Purpurea is the botanic name of the Purple Foxglove, a plant symbol of temptation, pleasant but at the same time destructive. Traditionally the foxglove was used as medical plant but...
. It was released on November 12, 2010 with a worldwide distribution.
Themes and lyrics
This album can be defined as a cinematic record because of the combination between sounds and images set as its keystone. The protagonists of the lyrics, Junichiro and Ishtar, are a modern version of Fando y LisFando y Lis
Fando y Lis is a film adaptation of a Fernando Arrabal play by the same name, and it is Alejandro Jodorowsky's first feature length film. Arrabal was working with Jodorowsky on performance art at the time...
(first work of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
) chasing the legendary city called Tar on a David Lynch
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
’s Lost Highway. The sound is the soundtrack to this imaginary film.
The presence of electro-clash beats, lysergic desert rock guitars and the unusual use of the voice sometimes played from a busted grammophone give a decadent sound, in which the figures appear faded and where the substance is tinged with noir and the mind is lost forfeited in a thick consistency sensory tunnel where the end is distant and blurred. The voice is used as an instrument that fits the metric and the tone with the mood of the texts. Pi Greco explored the research on the voice of Demetrio Stratos
Demetrio Stratos
Efstratios Demetriou better known as Demetrio Stratos was an Italian lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, music researcher, and co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion band Area – International POPular Group.Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, of Greek...
and the cut-up method of William Burroughs. Puns and variations of the pronunciation are used to create a grotesque effect and to reveal hidden words or concepts: there are dialogues hidden in the mix and hidden messages encrypted in the playing time of songs.
Artwork
The artwork sees again the collaboration with the graphic artist and photographer Anna Taschini. The theme is inspired by the film Fando y LisFando y Lis
Fando y Lis is a film adaptation of a Fernando Arrabal play by the same name, and it is Alejandro Jodorowsky's first feature length film. Arrabal was working with Jodorowsky on performance art at the time...
(Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
), particularly to the first scene where Lis is eating a white rose and the scenes set in the desert.
Track listing
All songs written by Pi Greco.- "Musclebound" - 3:39
- "Dust Devil" - 3:03
- "Magic Cube" - 5:05
- "The Shedding" - 5:53
- "Fall of Rimmel" - 4:43
- "Blear" - 7:02
- "Scotch-Taped Hours" - 3:48
- "Horror Pleni" - 4:40
- "Devote" - 4:17
- "Venus Eclipse" - 5:39
Personnel
Digitalis Purpurea- Pi Greco – VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, DrumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, producer, recording
Production
- Victor Love from Dope Stars Inc.Dope Stars Inc.Dope Stars Inc. is an alternative and industrial rock band formed in Rome, Italy in late 2002, though the band was not officially formed until 2003. The band was founded by Victor Love, Darin Yevonde, Grace Khold and Brian Wolfram. They have four albums and three EPs released, with the latest being...
- Mix and mastering - Miss Pussyfoot - Female vocals on "The Fall of Rimmel" and "Horror Pleni"
- Anna Lucylle Taschini - Graphic Design, cover photography
- Tenshi Diamond - Cover model
External links
- Digitalis Purpurea – official web site
- Digitalis Purpurea – official MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- Aural Music – official label site
- Aural Music – official label MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....