ATHENS, GREECE (Top40 Charts/ Inner Ear Records) One year after the successful launch of their self-titled debut album, Athenian industrious trance band return with a new brand driving 7inch single as precursor for their upcoming sophomore album.
Both tracks were recorded in the summer of 2013 in the studio of Mechanimal in Kessariani, Athens and express experiences that while personal they reach a large part of people's everyday life. "Obscure" speaks about all those well-hidden information running through our veins, some of them unconsciously, while "The Last Summer" is a melancholy ballad that describes the end of a false era when one realizes that perhaps we are nothing more than the memory of a wounded machine.
The single was mastered by Coti K. The cover artwork comes from visual material of the band's visual artist, Aggeliki Vrettou. The video for the track "Obscure" was directed by Yannis Karabelas, a member of the creative team Les Yper Yper.
Inner Ear Records
INN091L
Released 22 January 2014
Track list:
01. Obscure
02. The Last Summer
Stream Single (Bandcamp)
If one had to describe Mechanimal with a single reference to genre, then «drone 'n' roll», a name the members themselves give their music, would suffice: an explosive concoction of industrial synthetic sounds and krautrock rhythmology, penetrated by a shoegaze guitar-wall of sound and spreading through ten musical tales, told on their first album.
Spawned out of the riots that shook the centre of Athens during the spring of 2011, Mechanimal is the brainchild of Giannis Papaioannou, a pioneer in the Greek electronic scene, contributor to the underground band mythology (Rehearsed Dreams, Raw, Elfish Records) and with a number of releases as ION in some of the most eclectic labels in Greece and abroad. His encounter with the photographer Freddie F. and their first recording entitled «Low Land» were the catalyst that spawned the idea and sparked the sound of the group. The line-up was finalised with the addition of guitarist Tassos Nikogiannis and video-artist Angeliki Vrettou. In 2013 the band finds their new guitarist in Kostas Matiatos.
Mechanimal
Freddie F: Vocals
Giannis Papaioannou: Synthesizers & Keyboards
Kostas Matiatos: Guitars
Angeliki Vrettou: Visuals
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