Simulakrum Lab is a synthwave/retrowave music project created by the composer and sound designer Paolo Prevosto.
Here are the renowned guests featured on the 2019 “SIMULAKRUM LAB II” album:
Cody Carpenter
Keys & Synth Solo on Tracks 1, 3, 6, 8
Dana Jean Phoenix
Vocals on Tracks 2, 4, 7, 9
The new album was born from the idea of composing a hypothetical soundtrack of a 70s-80s science-fiction B-movie, with sounds inspired by electronic music pioneers like Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, Giorgio Moroder and Goblin. In fact prevails the analog sound of the synthesizers Prophet, Moog and Korg.
Prevosto, editor of the magazine FantascienzaItalia, a great collector and historian of cinema and astronautics, dedicates this album to the space conquests, in the year of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
Paolo Prevosto boasts collaborations with Claudio Simonetti and Fabio Pignatelli of Goblin on the album “Simulakrum Lab”, released in 2013. He also made two remixes for the vinyls published on the occasion of the anniversaries of the “Demons movie by Lamberto Bava and Opera by Dario Argento: “Killing” from the soundtrack of “Demoni” and “Confusion” from the soundtrack to “Opera”
The core of Simulakrum Lab is the balance between old school electronic music and groundbreaking future sound engineering.
Here are the renowned guests featured on the the 2013 “SIMULAKRUM LAB I” album:
Claudio Simonetti (famous author, together with Goblin, of many Dario Argento’s movies soundtracks) keyboard player in track “Aggregat 4”.
Fabio Pignatelli (legendary bass player, former Goblin member, renown for “Profondo Rosso” and “Suspiria” soundtrcks) bass guitar player in track “Backlit”.
Kenneth Johnson (maker, producer and director of many famous tv series, among which “Visitors”, “Bionic Woman”, “The Incredible Hulk” and “Alien Nation”) voice in track “The Day The Vocoder Stood Still”
Liz Enthusiasm (singer for the U.S.A. synth-pop band “Freezepop”) vocals in “Quiet Girl” and “Far Worlds”