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VENICE. "No digital at all, it's 100% purely analog". With this "business card" the venetian P. Mike III, Frez and Sanze - also known as Hypnoise - presented in London their new album "St. Valentine's Porno Bar", produced by American producer Ronan Chris Murphy: a "warm souding" concept album recorded with just 8 tracks reel to reel tape recorder and 4 microphones, (Including famous tube Neumann U47 microphone built at the end of the '40s).
An album who talks about a slow but high quality natural life style: an ancient family villa as recording studio, the voices of Rialto's Fish Market and the sounds of the canals of Venice between a "spritz" and "Prosecco" before Metropole Hotel, sounds recorded live to be used in some of the songs of the album; a microphone in an old demijohn to get the right bass sound for "Lee Super Dark"; medium waves amplified by an old Magnadyne S53 (1953) on "My own World" and "Prologue".
And again, the natural reverb of the old chapelle of Villa Spessa to warm Cheryl Porter's Voice on "Like a Free Bird". Because "St. Valentine's Porno Bar" - as explained in band's website, www.hypnoise.net, "it's the journey of Ceasar, leaving his past in search of a new life. He travels until he finds a mystical place far from the plastic life and modern stress he has known. He descends into a world of decadence where he finally feels free enough to take off his social masks.
Despite his apparent freedom in the world of depravity and temptation, he ultimately finds peace and happiness in the purity of nature."
To present at the same time in London and Los Angeles their new album the band exactly choosed St. Valentine's Day but, what happened two days ago at very known Giuseppe Mascoli's "Blacks Club" in Dean Street was an anti-Valentine consumeristic day party, as conceived by venetian art-director Michele Gervasuti, the man who both conceived the cover design and sung strange refrain "Life is unbelievable" you can listen quite sometime in the record.
A party surrounded by an intimate atmosphere where candle and fireplace lights accompanied the notes of "Sexual Entertainer", "Freedom" and "The Ocean" .
Guests famous designer Sam Buxton and artist Sebastian Horseley. (r.d.r)
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