Digitalis Purpurea (band)
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Digitalis Purpurea is an industrial metalIndustrial metal
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...
project creating music since 2000 from Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. Digitalis Purpurea is the botanic name of the Purple Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea
Digitalis purpurea , is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae , native to most of Europe.-Description:...
, a plant symbol of temptation, pleasant but at the same time destructive. Traditionally the foxglove was used as medical plant but had also an obscure use, an overdose in fact is lethal. That's why it was called "devil's finger". Pi Greco chose the name referring to a poem by Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli was an Italian poet and classical scholar.- Biography :Giovanni Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna , into a well-to-do family. He was the fourth of ten children of Ruggero Pascoli and Caterina Vincenzi Alloccatelli...
"Digitale Purpurea", where he compares Maria, the blonde innocent to Rachele the brunette with "burning eyes". This is also the inspiration for one of their first songs "Elena & Maria".
The first demo tape “Pi Greco Squad" has been produced in a limited number of copies and it has been recorded in winter 2003 at CryptoStudio with a vintage analogic 8-tracks recorder that provides a rough, rotten and rusty sound to the songs. An approach that mixed together modern electronic beats and old school black metal style making the band appreciated in the Italian industrial music scene. Some songs included in the first release has been re-proposed in 2004 with the self-produced full-length “19 celebrations in 19 mutilations”. In 2005 they recorded the cover of ‘Ideomatic’ as a tribute to the space rock band Rockets
Rockets (band)
Rockets were a French space rock band that formed in Paris in 1974. Some of the former members had played together since 1970 in a local band called Crystal...
, selected to take part to the second volume of the "IBM compilation" a manifesto of the EBM
EBM
EBM may stand for:* Electron beam melting, a type of additive manufacturing for metal parts* Electronic body music, a music genre* "Epic Beard Man", see AC Transit Bus fight* Espresso Book Machine, a print-on-demand book printing press...
-Electro-Industrial made in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. In March 2007 has been released the split-cd "Gears of Industry" together with the band No Forgiveness to promote the live show "Turin Industrial Massacre" and in May 12 they have been selected to support Das Ich
Das Ich
Das Ich is a German electronic music group formed in 1989. The group, fronted by Stefan Ackermann and Bruno Kramm, were one of the prominent founders of and contributors to "Neue Deutsche Todeskunst" a musical movement in the early 1990s...
with a show in collaboration with the fetish burlesque performers "Diamond Dolls". During that show was filmed their first videoclip "Coded Feel" by MPD Production.
After two years of gigs and recording sessions in 2008 Digitalis Purpurea signed a worldwide contract with Aural Music/Dreamcell11 to publish the full-length album titled "Aseptic White
Aseptic White
Aseptic White released with "Dreamcell_11/Aural Music" is the first full length album of the Italian industrial metal band Digitalis Purpurea. Recorded in winter 2007/2008, was released on October 2, 2008 with a worldwide distribution.-Artwork:...
". 10 unreleased tracks sound engineered by Victor Love (Dope Stars Inc.
Dope Stars Inc.
Dope Stars Inc. is an alternative and industrial rock band formed in Rome, Italy in late 2002, though the band was not officially formed until 2003. The band was founded by Victor Love, Darin Yevonde, Grace Khold and Brian Wolfram. They have four albums and three EPs released, with the latest being...
) where their sound mixed with a more hit-oriented production will made this record a masterpiece of the band. In this record there are several collaborations beginning with the artwork, designed by Anna Taschini and the cover model SeaOfSin from "SickGirl.it _ Le spaghetti pin-up". The tracklist include two bonus tracks: "Ideomatic" featuring Celine Cecilia Angel from the Austrian project Sanguis et Cinis and the cover "Maneater
Maneater (Nelly Furtado song)
"Maneater" is a song written by Nelly Furtado, Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley, Jim Beanz and Nate "Danja" Hills for Furtado's third album, Loose . It was co-produced by Timbaland and Danja and includes influences of 1980s music by artists such as Eurythmics and Hall & Oates...
" the renowned pop song by Nelly Furtado
Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm Like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy...
born from the artistic partnership with the Italian electro rock "spanker" Tying Tiffany
Tying Tiffany
-Biography:Tying Tiffany was born in Padua. In the early years of her career she has travelled Europe as bass player and singer in various indie rock bands and she has acted in some independent movies, artistic films and theatrical performances....
. This cover represents a turning point for Digitalis' sound.
In November 2010 the band released for the label Dreamcell11/Aural Music the new concept album "Emotional Decompression Chamber
Emotional Decompression Chamber
Emotional Decompression Chamber released with "Dreamcell_11/Aural Music" is the second full length album of the Italian industrial metal band Digitalis Purpurea. It was released on November 12, 2010 with a worldwide distribution.-Themes and lyrics:...
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Discography
- 2003 - Pi Squad - Demo Cd, Crypto Records
- 2004 - 19 Celebrations in 19 Mutilations - Full-length, Crypto Records
- 2005 - I.B.M.(Italian Body Music) Vol_2 - Compilation cd
- 2007 - Gears of Industry - Split cd, "Le Follie Satanike"
- 2008 - Aseptic WhiteAseptic WhiteAseptic White released with "Dreamcell_11/Aural Music" is the first full length album of the Italian industrial metal band Digitalis Purpurea. Recorded in winter 2007/2008, was released on October 2, 2008 with a worldwide distribution.-Artwork:...
- Full-length, "Dreamcell_11/Aural Music" - 2010 - Emotional Decompression ChamberEmotional Decompression ChamberEmotional Decompression Chamber released with "Dreamcell_11/Aural Music" is the second full length album of the Italian industrial metal band Digitalis Purpurea. It was released on November 12, 2010 with a worldwide distribution.-Themes and lyrics:...
- Full-length, "Dreamcell_11/Aural Music"
Lyrics and Influences
Pi Grego is the group's sole lyricist. His lyrics are inspired by "daily alienation, self-injuring, suicide tendencies, cryptic cut-ups and totally hopeless vision of future". This misanthropic attitude is extended with his passion for Math, films, books and different forms of art. The most important literary influences are Pascoli, D'Annunzio, Oscar WildeOscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
, Pirandello, Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
, De Sade, William Blake
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
, Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...
, Enzo Fileno Carabba, Enrico Remmert and even Gillo Dorfles that inspired him with the reflections on "the horror pleni and grotesque characters of everyday life".
External links
- Digitalis Purpurea – official web site
- Digitalis Purpurea – official MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- Aural Music – official label site
- Aural Music – official label MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....