Phoenix, by System 7

Phoenix

by System 7

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Marcs Absolutely timeless classic. Masterpiece and I wish there was a vinyl release. Favorite track: Song For The Phoenix.

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System 7's big album from 2008 now on CD. Jewel case with 12 page booklet, containing detailed info on the creative basis of the tracks and how they relate to Osamu Tezuka's ground-breaking graphic novels.

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1.	Hinotori 05:46 video	buy track
2.	Space Bird 07:16	buy track
3.	Scramble 08:13 video	buy track
4.	Masato Eternity 07:17	buy track
5.	Song For The Phoenix 07:52 video	buy track
6.	Strange Beings 05:52	buy track
7.	Chihiro 61298 10:35	buy track
8.	Makimura - Space Pilot 07:18	buy track
9.	Wolf-Head 07:58	buy track
10.	Chihiro 61298 (Robita Bells Mix) 09:05	buy track

about

System 7 take their unique and personalized psychedelic techno style to a new and higher level on their album PHOENIX.

System 7’s project is inspired by the manga graphic novel series 'Phoenix' by Tezuka Osamu - one of the founding fathers of Japanese manga culture. The project grew from a meeting a few years ago between System 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy and Tezuka’s daughter Rumiko Tezuka who has her own techno label Music Robita in Japan. Rumiko suggested that System 7’s sound would fit perfectly with her father’s Phoenix stories and his universal message. The resulting album release is a collaboration between Music Robita and System 7’s own label A-Wave.

This project has led to an ongoing collaboration between System 7 and Japanese animation team Mood Magic – including manga animators famous internationally for work on 'Animatrix' – which has resulted initially in a superb promotional video clip for the first track on the album Hinotori. 'Honitori' in Japanese means literally 'Bird of Fire'. The clip uses 21st century Japanese manga animation techniques to transform the original Tezuka images in ways that work perfectly with System 7’s music track. This video has been endorsed by Tezuka Productions.

The Phoenix music portrays, in a variety of ways, travel through time and space, life, death and rebirth, with each track inspired by characters or images from the books. System 7 have also worked on these tracks with a number of musical collaborators including Jam el Mar (of Jam and Spoon), Son Kite, Eat Static, Slack Baba, Daevid Allen of Gong and Mito from the Japanese band Clammbon.

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released January 28, 2008

Album produced by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy

Tracks 2 & 4 are collaborations with Jam El Mar
Track 3 is a collaboration with Slack Baba
Track 6 is a collaboration with Daevid Allen
Tracks 7 & 10 are collaborations with Son Kite
Track 8 is a collaboration with Mito
Track 9 is a collaboration with Eat Static

All tracks mixed by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy at A Wave Studio, Notting Hill, London in July 2007, apart from track 7 mixed by Son Kite at High Hat Studio, Malmo, Sweden, in June 2007.

Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange, London

Tracks 1 & 5 written by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy
Tracks 2 & 4 written by Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy and Jam El Mar
Track 3 written by Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy and Jonathan Smith
Track 6 written by Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy and Daevid Allen
Tracks 7 & 10 written by Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy, Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson
Track 8 written by Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy and Mito
Track 9 written by Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy, Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton

Tracks 1, 5 & 6 published by Stage Three Music
Tracks 2 & 4 published by Stage Three Music / Edition All Star II
Tracks 3, 8 & 9 published by Stage Three Music / copyright control
Tracks 7 & 10 published by Stage Three Music / Minds on Fire

Ⓟ and © 2007 A-Wave.com Ltd

Artwork design by Shigeki Ando, using a Space Bird image by Osamu Tezuka

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SYSTEM 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy have had a strong influence on the birth of psychedelic dance music and it’s journey up to the present, forging a unique and bang up-to-date identity on the genre map, in a space where techno, progressive and trance meet - and with the added element of Steve's highly specialised techno guitar. ... more

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May 10

Duo Music Exchange

Shibuya, Japan
May 23

Catton Hall

Walton-on-trent, UK
Oct 3

Hangar34

Liverpool, UK
Oct 5

Bedford Esquires

Bedford, UK

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