| Digitalis Purpurea | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Origin | Turin, Italy |
| Genres | Industrial rock, alternative rock, industrial metal, Electro Industrial |
| Occupations | Musician, band |
| Instruments | Vocals, Bass, Computer |
| Years active | 2000 – present |
| Labels | Aural Musica, Dreamcell11 |
| Website | digitalispurpurea.net |
| Members | |
| Pi Greco | |
Digitalis Purpurea is an Italian industrial metal band.
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Digitalis Purpurea is an industrial metal project creating music since 2000 from Turin, Italy.[1] Digitalis Purpurea is the botanic name of the Purple Foxglove, 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 "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".[2]
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, selected to take part to the second volume of the "IBM compilation" a manifesto of the EBM-Electro-Industrial made in Italy. 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 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".[3][4][5][6] 10 unreleased tracks sound engineered by Victor Love[7] (Dope Stars Inc.) 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" the renowned pop song by Nelly Furtado born from the artistic partnership with the Italian electro rock "spanker" Tying Tiffany. This cover represents a turning point for Digitalis' sound.[8]
In November 2010 the band released for the label Dreamcell11/Aural Music the new concept album "Emotional Decompression Chamber".
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 Wilde, Pirandello, Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, De Sade, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, 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".