''Gipnoza'' ( rus, гипноза) is the second album by Kaku P-Model.

Overview

The

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was worked in as a plot device for the album's

dystopia A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

concept story, a sequel to the events of ''

Vistoron is the first album by Kaku P-Model, a solo continuation of P-Model led by Susumu Hirasawa. Overview ''Vistoron'' has a dystopian theme, something that was especially prominent in Hirasawa's work for a number of years starting with 2003's ''Blue ...

'', in which the reality-distorting Gipnoza

nanobots Nanoid robotics, or for short, nanorobotics or nanobotics, is an emerging technology field creating machines or robots whose components are at or near the scale of a nanometer (10−9 meters). More specifically, nanorobotics (as opposed to mi ...

are being planted inside of people through the food and medicine supply. Other story elements were taken from the 1996 album ''Convex And Concave'' by the

P-Model P-Model (also typeset as P-MODEL and P. Model) was a Japanese electronic rock band started in 1979 by members of the defunct progressive rock band Mandrake. The band has experienced many lineup revisions over the years but frontman Susumu Hiras ...

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tribute band Pevo. Yasumi Tanaka, a founding member of

, returned 30 years after his departure from music as a guest performer on "Go for it! Halycon". Pevo's 1go also appeared as a guest musician on "Time-eliminating Light", and performed alongside

Susumu Hirasawa is a Japanese musician and composer. In the fifth year of elementary school, Hirasawa took up the electric guitar, inspired by the surf and instrumental rock bands he heard on the radio and on TV, later joining his junior high school's band. ...

at the album's ''Parallel Kozak'' live concerts.

Track listing

The tracks with

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words in their titles are stylized with the Cyrillic word first, followed by the

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equivalent in brackets.

Personnel

- All instruments, Programming,

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*Yasumi Tanaka -

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solo on "Go for it! Halycon" *Pevo 1go - Right channel

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

on "Time-eliminating Light" *Masanori Chinzei - Mixing, Mastering *Syotaro Takami - Translation *Toshifumi "non graph" Nakai - Design *Presented by Chaos Union/TESLAKITE: Kenji Sato, Rihito Yumoto, Mika Hirano, Kinuko Mochizuki, Misato Oguro

References

External links

''Gipnoza''
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