''Emotional Decompression Chamber'' released with "Dreamcell_11/Aural Music" is the second full-length album of the Italian

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band

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. 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 ''

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'' (first work of

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) chasing the legendary city called Tar on a

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’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 gramophone 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

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and the cut-up method of

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. 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.Anna Lucylle Taschini
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, 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 –

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Synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

Drum machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. Drum machines may imitate drum kits or other percussion instruments, or produce unique sounds, such as synthesized electronic tones. A d ...

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, Producer ;Production *Victor Love from Dope Stars Inc. - 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

Notes

External links

Digitalis Purpurea
– official web site
Digitalis Purpurea
– official

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Aural Music
– official label site
Aural Music
– official label

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