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Pre-order available

December 14, 2015 by Mechanimal

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Third album officially announced today by Inner Ear Records.
“Delta Pi Delta” is coming out on 180gr white vinyl (incl. download card) or digital album on January 4th and is now available for pre-order @ the Inner Ear online store or the label’s Bandcamp page.

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Official Press Release

After two albums exploring the dystopian universe of their city in crisis, the Athenian group Mechanimal delve now into the outskirts of their hometown, away from the sociopolitical fragmentation of the Greek capital, inside a deep and prolonged silence of the mountain forests surrounding Athens.
“Delta Pi Delta” started with a new lineup, erasing the events of a rather tense and tough past, focusing on nature as a means of escape from the modern depression of urban life. This time with female vocals, featuring lead singer Eleni Tzavara (formerly of Film and Etten), electric guitars by Tassos Nikogiannis and Kostas Matiatos, and electronic programming by Giannis Papaioannou, Mechanimal started recording the backbone of their new album during the spring of 2015, while final editing and mixing took place during August 2015, in an isolated room by some faraway beach.
The result of these new recordings is 8 new songs plus 2 instrumentals which will be included as extra tracks in the digital version of the album. Ten new tunes captivating the mystery that lies beneath a quiet life outside a big city. The group’s own hybrid blend of mechanical beats, shoegazing guitar drones and repetitive electronic patterns, shapes now a different perspective that embraces the strangeness and the atmosphere of dreamy landscapes around Athens. The materializing of these silent places into a conceptual sound revealed a new process, which helped the group transform their vision into a tangible medium.
The symbolical acronym title “Delta Pi Delta” is referring to the lyric “giving names to stars”. As a whole it represents the existential journey of any two-footed animal. In this journey, dreams reveal desires and fears that we’re not consciously aware of, but play an important part in consciously or subconsciously helping us become better at dealing with life.
“Delta Pi Delta” is dedicated to the loving memory of Greek artist and painter Nicholas Liber (1956 – 2013), a long-term friend of the band.

 

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Radio On (Single Version)

June 14, 2015 by Mechanimal

Sample track from forthcoming album, featuring the band’s new singer Eleni Tzavara (aka Etten).

Free download on Bandcamp and Soundcloud from Tuesday 16/6 onwards.

 

Arranged & performed by Mechanimal:

Eleni Tzavara: Vocals
Tassos Nikogiannis: Guitars
Kostas Matiatos: Guitars
Giannis Papaioannou: Electronics & beats

Written & produced by Giannis Papaioannou.

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Cover photograph by Angelica Vrettou.
Design by Manos Daskalakis.

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Recorded at Dreamland Studio, Athens during spring 2015.
Mastering by Christoph Kardek.
https://www.facebook.com/djchristophk…

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Radio On

With the radio on
I woke up in a black spring
And summer seemed away
From the feast of love
Like a letter found one day
In the first blue moments
Of a twisted play
On a breaking up bed
With the radio on.

I’m walking down the street
This means nothing to me
It could be any street
Dressed with beautuful walls
Dressed with broken words
For people drifting alone
In the city
With the radio on.

We hanged down the stars
Spilled their golden dust
And now we’re drifting alone
With the radio on
With the radio on.

In broken weather
We’re broken toys
Tripping wildly
With a broken radio.

With the radio on
With the radio on.

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