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This is the heavyweight vinyl format of Gizmodromes selftitled debut album the new band of Stewart Copeland, Adrian Belew, Mark King amp Vittorio Cosma which comes in a double gatefold. ldquoStrange Things Happenrdquo is the title of a song on Gizmodromeacutes debut album. Certainly great things have happened in the studio, when the four incredible talents met to create one of the most exciting and versatile albums of 2017. Gizmodrome is in fact a highvoltage ldquoAllStarBandrdquo formed by Stewart Copeland The Police and multiawarded soundtracks composer, Mark King Level 42, Adrian Belew ex King Crimson, David Bowie, Frank Zappa and Talking Heads and Vittorio Cosma who played with Italian prog legends PFM and an impressive list of Italian and international stars. In days of ldquolongdistance recordingrdquo, with musicians emailing each other sound files, never having been in the same room, Gizmodrome started with the very opposite approach real old school excitement by four musicians in the rehearsal room It is not a surprise that four musicians with such diverse talents and backgrounds, playing one step from each other, have created music that is vibrant, electric and unpredictable. Stewart Copeland who is known for his exceptional drum style in songs that changed pop rock forever, is obviously the wild talent behind the drums, but he takes the lead as the main singer in almost all songs and it is the match of his unique vocal approach with the melodic vocals lines of Mark King and the extravagant singing style of Belew to make each song a masterpiece One would naturally wonder how two US based musicians could end up forming a band with one English and one Italian musicianhellip Stewart Copeland explains ldquoVittorio and I have been playing together for years, in Italy, but it got serious when Adrian and Mark joined us for 15 days of wild creativity in a Milan recording studio. If you put the right guys together in a rehearsal room, ldquostrange thingsrdquo definitely happenrdquo. ldquoStewart texted me and asked if I fancied joining him and some of his friends in a studio in Milanrdquo, remembers Mark King, ldquoand next thing, Irsquom banging out basslines to his ferocious beats with Mr. Adrian Belew bouncing sounds off the walls that I never heard before, and Vittorio who somehow always pulls it all together. That is Gizmodromerdquo Adrian Belew adds ldquoGizmodrome totally surprised me I went into a studio in Italy not knowing what to expect and by the end of day one of recording I knew two things the musical chemistry was incredibly exciting and we were having incredible funrdquo. The result of this amazing experience is something new and truly unique. Gizmodrome is unpredictable and pioneering. ldquoGizmodrome took me back to the authentic joy to play music I had when I was sixteen, says Vittorio. ldquoJust a band and a garage with the walls covered with the posters of all my music heroes. Only it happens now that Irsquom playing with the people on the postersrdquo ldquoGizmodromerdquo has been produced by Claudio Dentes, a wizard producer that could be best described as the musical version of Dr. Brown in ldquoBack To The Futurerdquo, responsible for some of the most creative and successful Italian production for the last 30 years. Gizmodrome Heavyweight-LP is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £20