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Kirlian Camera - Radio Signals for the Dying
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On the surface, KIRLIAN CAMERA continue on the dark musical path they chose to follow on their previous double album "Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak)" (2021). It speaks volumes about the Italian electro-provocateurs' extreme level of energy that the band is able to follow up such a massive work with another powerful double full-length. Yet "Radio Signals for the Dying" is anything but a mere repeat of its glorious predecessor. Instead KIRLIAN CAMERA subtly change their sound architecture by a thousand smart details, delightful tricks, grand effects, unexpected twists, digressions, and clever variations of existing themes. That KIRLIAN CAMERA maintain an audible level of continuity to their celebrated previous work with its subtle dark rock undertones embedded in electronic fields as opposed to a radical break also resonates in the stability of the band's current incarnation. KIRLIAN CAMERA's founder, multi-instrumentalist, and main composer Angelo Bergamini, who took his first musical steps closely linked to HAWKWIND during their "Lemmy Kilmister period" and has worked with YES-guitarist Trevor Rubin back in the days is still joined on stage by bass player Mia Wallace, who is linked to the realm of metal through her previous involvement with ABBATH and NERVOSA among others, as well as guitarist Alessandro Comerio, who has ties to Tom Gabriel Fischer's TRIUMPH OF DEATH and FORGOTTEN TOMB. Above all thrones the yin-half of KIRLIAN CAMERA's core duo: vocalist, songwriter, and instrumentalist Elena Alice Fossi. The multi-faceted voice of the singer that grew under the tutelage of Susanna Rigacci, who was cherished by legendary composer Ennio Morricone, ranges from the darkly seductive via the dangerously hypnotic to an ethereal beauty – and also expresses every emotion in between. For many decades, KIRLIAN CAMERA have inhabited and continue to dwell in a realm of multi-layered constructions and occult transcendence as well as subversive content that has always been at the core of their art. In the past, their unapologetic at times outrageous delight to provoke and to hold a truth-telling mirror to the world has repeatedly sparked controversy. Yet in their most impressive career, the Italians have never abused provocation for a means in itself or succumbed to thoughtless confrontation. Their artistic furor has always sought a delicate balance and extraordinary contrast between the pleasing and the murky, the otherworldly and the dreamy. All of which have established KIRLIAN CAMERA as a unique and powerful force in the world of music. Having passed their impressive 40th anniversary as a constantly evolving, ever changing band that has never ceased to search for new answers, KIRLIAN CAMERA possess both the credibility and comfortable ease to look for fresh perspectives in the works of others as well. "Radio Signals for the Dying" comes with respectful interpretations of DEPECHE MODE's track 'Wrong' and the song 'Winter' from THE SOUND. From a collaboration with SOLITARY EXPERIMENT comes KIRLIAN CAMERA's take on 'The Great Unknown', which the German electro veterans have previously released in their own version with vocals contributed by Elena Alice Fossi. With "Radio Signals for the Dying", KIRLIAN CAMERA invite the listener to join them on an adventurous musical journey to occult dimensions and magical places of dangerous beauty and joyful darkness. The Italians are electronic shamans, rock mystics, sonic revolutionaries, and high priests of the free arts that are again reborn as a musical phoenix in creative fire. Release date: February 23, 2024 Style: Electronic Rock Label: Dependent Records Tracklist Disc 1 1. Il Tempo Profondo 2. Stella Ominis 3. Winter (In memory of Adrian Borland) 4. Götter, geht weg! 5. Monarch Architecture 6. Wrong 7. Madre Nera 8. Luminous Shade (incl. Julian Assange's speech excerpts) Tracklist Disc 2 1. The Great Unknown 2. C. R. U. D (Corpse Recovery Unit D) 3. Deleted MSG 4. Genocide Litanies 5. Il Tempo Profondo (Radio Signal Version) 6. Esilio 7. We Have To Amputate 8. Homicide Aristocracy Current Line-up Elena Alice Fossi vocals, electronics, theremin, synthesizers, piano, additional bass Angelo Bergamini synthesizers, electronics, e-guitars, additional vocals Mia W. Wallace bass, live backing vocals Alessandro Comerio guitars, live backing vocals Thalìa Bellazecca guitars Recording Line-up Elena Alice Fossi vocals, electronics, theremin, synthesizers, piano, additional bass Angelo Bergamini synthesizers, electronics, e-guitars, bass Mia W. Wallace additional bass Terri Harrison cello |