How  Beat Out was born

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This CD presents a series of songs composed and recorded between 1989 and 1991, which we originally recorded on analog 4-track.

We, Emilio and Peppe, know each other since we were very young. We played in different bands in our small town, until our creative paths crossed for a few months, just before Emilio went to USA for two years, and when he returned home Peppe moved to Sweden for far more years. So, at that time, when internet was not available and distance was a high dividing wall, we put our demo recordings in a drawer, forgetting them for about thirty years or so, until now. This summer we decided that the songs were too good (for us, at least) to be left alone in our closets. So we felt that we had to publish them.

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This collection of songs is an exact picture of our musical passions in the late ’80. As we were doing post production in Summer 2018, we discovered that those musical influences are still extremely valid for us. And we want to share this passion.

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The mood of the songs is extremely varying in musical styles and lyrics, yet all of them have a unifying sound. There are clear influences of the Prog Era (mainly Yes / Genesis / Crimson) in some tracks (particularly in “A neat man”), and influences of ’80 big acts such as the Police, Talking Heads, XTC, Eno and other artists which we both still deeply love. There are echoes of Musique Concrète, that is the process of composing using everyday sounds and noises instead of notes, too. This technique, which was first developed in late ’40 by Pierre Shaeffer, is particularly evident in “Noises from the big zoo” and the ending section of “Lullaby for you”.

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At present Peppe is a word renowned storyboard artist and graphic designer, living in a big house whose walls are full of an incredible number of music and art memorabilia, filled by  archive collection of whatever has been physically published in the field of cinematography, music, art and graphic design, while Emilio grown an interest in technology and music, resulting in a degree in electronic music and in a professorship of Music Technologies in a music lyceum.

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So this is our story, and this is the music we urge to share with you.

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Peppe and Emilio