Message From The Band:
The Kuiper Belt album idea came out during the writing
process for another future album. Considering that we are in lockdown, we
couldn’t met each other to jam and put together new ideas, so we thought we
would go back through some of our old recorded jam sessions instead. We looked
through and found some good input for the album, even though we’re still
writing. Doug (our bass player) luckily recorded our jam sessions since 2014
till now. We realized that the music material we had recorded already at the Music
Complex –London during our music jams was well performed and sounded good
enough to consider as a proper release. Wayne
(drums) had the idea to choose some of the best tracks and to make an album out
of it , which we all agreed on. Doug did not just record the full album but
even mastered the entire release, he did an impressive job.
At this moment we thought it would be a good idea to release
a live album considering that we can’t play live for the time being. The best
thing about this release is that all tracks have been played just once, none of
the tracks were ever rehearsed or played twice. All tracks are pure
improvisations and there was no intention from us to make it sound that tight
or to release an album out of it. The tracks are frozen in time, left behind,
like most of the Kuiper Belt object, frozen volatiles (termed “ices”) but we’re
here to bring them back to life.
The artwork is just unbelievable, it’s a sculpture inspired
from the change of our band name. 'John Summers' the sculptor met Francesco our
front man in an art gallery. John is a brilliant artist, he liked ‘Eight’ our
previous album under the name Francesco Fonte Band (2018) before we changed it
to 8Snake. John got inspired by our music project and the way it has evolved.
The sculpture is about 6ft tall, John said The title of the album fits the
image perfectly. The white complex form is inspired from geometric forms but
it’s completely organic, also the face give us the idea it could be looking out
into the Belt. The face of the sculpture is like a mask and the white complex
form is his true identity, his true complex presence.
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