Massive Attack: an unpublished for an artistic installation

While the wait is growing to see them in concert in Italy next summer, i Massive Attack They presented an unpublished through their collaboration with the designer and artist Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian for his new immersive artistic installation in the West End in London, baptized “Piccadilly A: Plugged“.

The duo formed by Robert del Naja and Grant Marshall has made the registration, never published beforeof the cover of “Everything is Going According to Plan“Of the Russian punk band of the Graždanskaja Oborona (often abbreviated to grob). The engraving of the massive attacks It acts as a soundtrack to exposurewhich is inspired by the lively culture of the London neighborhood, but also reflects on astronomy, spatial environmentalism and our connection with the outdoor space. Includes huge neon cats inspired by physics experiments, extraterrestrial rocks, high quality telescopes and – as reported by consequence – a “sound landscape rebounded by the moon” – which means that these traces are sent directly to the moon through the “EME (Earth to Moon to Earth) technology) technology.

The duo is just one of the groups who contributed to the installation by sending songs to the Moon, joining Pussy Riot, Avalanches, Moses Boyd, Ayse Hassan (Savages), MirrorD Fatality and Eobiont (Láwû Makuriye’Nt).

“‘Everything is Going According to Plan’ was written by Yegor Letov in the 80s and was A pungent criticism in the Russian state“, The Massive Attacks have recently made it known in a statement:” It was performed live in Russian by the Massive Attack in 2013 as part of a collaborative show with the filmmaker Adam Curtis “. The unpublished track is now available in the promotional video of the event on Instagram:

Although it has been reported that it is the first time that the Massive Attacks publish the engraving of the cover, the Naja and Marshall they had therefore already reread and presented live their own versions of “Everything is Going According to Plan”. As videos available online and second setlist.fm testify, the duo performed the song in 2013 On the occasion of the shows of the show “Massive Attack V Adam Curtis“, a project that united the group of the group and the cinematographic narratives of the documentaryist Adam Curtis, and in 2020 during the streaming of the virtual show show”Minecraft“.

Speaking of the project within “Piccadilly Una: Plugged”, Professor Simon Garrington of the University of Manchester also explained the use of “Earth-Moon-Earth” technology in the exhibition: “Using Earth-Moon-Earth technology to transmit sounds to the moon and return is a fascinating fusion between science and art Receiving speeches and music in this way is a technical challenge and requires powerful radio and telescopes, such as the gigantic Lovell telescope of the University of Manchester.

What we feel combines our human creativity with the signals from the moon and the cosmos in a truly unique way. The lunar landscape is actually imprinted in the sounds and signals we receive. Astronomes can exploit it to imagine the surface of planets and asteroids, similarly to how bats perceive their environment “.

The publication comes after Robert’s declaration of Naja granted to the NME in which he made it known that the group he formed together with Grant Marshall, whose latest publications date back to 2016, held in the drawer of the unpublished material for four years, due to what is described by the musician as a “dispute with the label”. “We hope to be able to publish new music next year before doing some concerts“, The British artist had therefore affirmed in the interview.

The Massive Attack will be in Italy for Two appointments in concert next summer: on June 18 a MilanAnother festival, music park in Milan, and on June 24 a GoriziaCasa Rossa Arena, as part of the ‘Go! 2025’.