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When you're ready to listen to "St. Valentine's Porno Bar", the new Hypnoise album, you don't have to think the word progressive can be used just to describe bands like Genesis, Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer etc etc... Think about the meaning of this word in the widest way, add a post modern minimal rock and mix everything with a classic 70's sound.
If you then consider that producer Ronan Chris Murphy worked with King Crimson and the album has been recorded totally analog using just an eight track tape machine, you'll have a perfect idea of what the album is like.
This is a concept album that relates the adventure of Ceasar, a fugitive from a stressed and stressing modern world, taking refuge at the St. Valentine's Porno Bar, a club with its own world on the inside. This is an album a bit snobbish, thinking about the sounds, the technology and machines used in the recordings.
The result is extremely interesting, very American like, (thinking about the producer...),
you can find some dreaming, priceless parts, a few others really researched even if they sound a bit "small", maybe almost boring compared to the previous ones.
The tracks that stand out to me are the second; song that titles the album and the last one The Ocean, which moves in an ocean of sensations and relaxed atmospheres.
Many special guests had played with P. Mike III (guitars, Rhodes, lead vocal), Frez (drums, percussions vocals) and Sanze (bass and vocals). On the album appears (beside the producer at guitar), American singer Cheryl Porter and her Gospel choir.
At the end; a bridge between past and future forgetting a present made of computers and electronics, technology not in tune with the band.
Must talk about the artwork of Michele Gervasuti with the photography of Augusto Collini, they gave a great interpretation of Hypnoise's Style.
A must to listen album. - Review by Stefano Rossi -
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