System 7 Phoenix a-wave AAWCD012 || 28.01.2008 || £9.36  $ € ¥  + p+p +tax Click for big pic System 7's unique and personalized psychedelic techno ascends to new level a-wave's 'Phoenix page mp3 samples of all tracks! System 7's album 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. 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. The CD has a fascinating and detailed 12 page booklet full of background information on each of the tracks. There is an additional collaboration between System 7 and Japanese animation team Mu-Magic - including manga animators famous internationally for work on "Animatrix" – which resulted initially in a beautiful promotional video clip for the track "Hinotori". You can see some of the video at a-wave.com There will also be a 12" vinyl single featuring remixes of the track "Space Bird" by Dubfire and Liquid Soul - more of that shortly. System 7's live style powerfully shows their special position on the dance music genre map, occupying a space where progressive house, techno and psy-trance meet. They will be promoting their new Phoenix sound at festivals and dance events in the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, and other Asian territories throughout the next year. Track Listing: Total Runtime 68.11 Hinotori Space Bird (collaboration with Jam El Mar) Scramble (collaboration with Slack Baba) Masato Eternity (collaboration with Jam El Mar) Song For The Phoenix Strange Beings (collaboration with daevid allen) Chihiro 61298 (collaboration with Son Kite) Makimura - Space Pilot (collaboration with Mito) Wolf-Head (collaboration with Eat Static) Hinotori Video (by Mu-°C Magic) Mpeg-1 included on CD - playable on a computer