A double album formed by 11 tracks per CD, a purple disc and a black one, one hour and a half of disturbing, obsessive, impervious music. This is the secret of Fake, the new album by OUTOPSYA (OUT Of PSYchical Activity), the duo from Trentino that makes its comeback two years after their debut album, the widely appreciated SUM, released in 2009 by Videoradio. After two years of studio work – with several interruptions due to non-music-related projects such as a movie – OUTOPSYA produce a brave and complex record, that found its rightful home in the Lizard Records roster, a prestigious label operating internationally in the field of Progressive, lead by Loris Furlan.
Like before, in Fake the duo formed by Luca Vianini (guitars, vocals, synth, drums) and Evan Mazzucchi (bass, cello) have a reflective, strict approach, dense with ideas and references stemming from an "unconscious numerology": "Fake was born as a single composition that, for our comfort but also by chance, we ended up dividing into 22 tracks. Chance wanted that, with 11 tracks in each CD, the duration of the two discs ended up being pretty much the same. Those elements of randomness, along with some further coincidence, made us pick 11-11-11 as the release date, which fits perfectly! So somehow we could say that we have been unconsciously guided by numbers."
Born as a soundtrack for Rupert Julian's mute film The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Fake is a work that, differently from SUM, is focused on the atmosphere, on expressive, evocative electronics. Ideated as a single, 90-minute track, the new visionary OUTOPSYA record abandons the "post fusion" style of its predecessor to explore the avant-rock and neo-psychedelic style without forgetting the lessons learned from Frank Zappa, Mr. Bungle and King Crimson. Distributed by BTF, GT Music Distribution, PickUp Export, Eventyr Records, Ma.Ra.Cash Records, also available on the main digital channels.
Information:
OUTOPSYA Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/outopsya
OUTOPSYA on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/outopsya
Lizard Records:
http://www.lizardrecords.it
