New album available on iTunes

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.

Third new album coming out on January 4th via Inner Ear Records.

More info coming soon.

Here is the latest Mechanimal interview on Daily Secret Greece.

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Song To The Sirens

Now that clubbing days are over
And all your friends are lost
You’re praying to the sirens
Save you at any cost

I’m sorry you’re in pain now
I’m sorry it was me
That left you in a nightmare
Of purple ecstasy

Time is the fourth dimension
That will ignore our needs
A mess of blood and sorrow
We are all on our knees

Nothing is happening here
The schools are empty now
Once, how this was a kingdom
Now it’s a broken home
Nothing is happening here
It’s getting pretty late…

I’m praying to the sirens
I’m seeing through your eyes
Look at your glorious lifestyle
Oh, how it falls apart!

Lyrics & music: Giannis Papaioannou

© Inner Ear Records, 2014

Ode To Europe 

Memories designed to fade
Ears dripping sounds of grey
Some more real than desire
Echo will set us all on fire

As the night is full of screams
Words like moths beat on the screens
All men born with wings that sing
Mother Europe trapped in dreams

Charming stories, open wounds
The muted light of sacred woods
One thousand years lost in a glance
Midnight drifters of the boulevards

Pulsing fragments, inner life
Trading time for a smile
Silent paths to healing scars
Love will die amongst the brightest stars

Tiny worlds of memories
Whispers hanged on violins
Some more real than desire
Echo will set us all on fire

Sing my verses of youthful crimes
On breaking dawns with bitter suns
In hidden places such as this
Every rebel deserve a kiss

So, keep your love for a rainy day
When all the flowers will be thirsty again…

Lyrics & music: Giannis Papaioannou

© Inner Ear Records, 2014

The Den 

Aerial lineage
Parading shapes
The flag of the den flies
As we all realise

Sun / rise and fall / each day

We’re eternal children
Of a fractal sky
Betrayed by socialism
And hangover insight

Sun / rise and fall / each day

If many yesterdays
Were dark and heavy
Today is drifting rays
Keeping the grief away

Sun / rise and fall / each day

Lyrics & music: Giannis Papaioannou

© Inner Ear Records, 2014

We Come Alive

We come alive

As the strong light of the day
We come alive
Like a neon halo

We come alive
Fodder to your beast
We come alive
Like the heathen rainbow

We come alive
Like a deathwish ride to you
We come alive
Like the change of seasons

We come alive
Like a massive dose of dreams
We come alive
But you’re holding scissors

Lyrics & music: Giannis Papaioannou

© Inner Ear Records, 2014

Cut Communications

Now that everything fades
In loves and desires
Life is a dream
In between other dreams

But no one is near now
No one is here
And I still hear your voice
So I open my eyes

I’m still in this dream
Burned dot on a screen
Excessive example
Of human greed

Perhaps we should rest
How wrong can we be?
Trespassing mind properties
Exploring our needs

Of bitter punishment
On open wounds
On scars of intention
Of an amazing youth

Killing all idols
With magic and pins
Defending minorities
When adrenaline kicks

No noise cancellation
Applied on cut
Communications
With my inner God

And I stand here exposed
And it feels like I need you
But my landline is dead
By your fantasy bed

Lyrics & music: Giannis Papaioannou

© Inner Ear Records, 2014

Sehnsucht

The setting sun lights the sky
In tides of purple / seasons dry

Heartbeat rhythm
Blinking eyes
Always waking
Waking up

Lost horizon / Megacity 5
Pagan sacrifice

Heartbeat rhythm
Blinking eyes
Always waking
Waking up

Little further close to you
Ride on, tired, sleepless, too

Heartbeat rhythm
Blinking eyes
Always waking
Waking up

Kids are building castles in the sand
Taking over some more land

Heartbeat rhythm
Blinking eyes
Always waking
Waking up

Rich man / suit and tie
Poor man / homeless
Both dream / both wake up
All crave / always

Always, always, always waking up
Always, always, always waking up

Lyrics & music: Giannis Papaioannou

© Inner Ear Records, 2014