The Alpha States – Solitude Standing [EP, 3 songs]

Label: RadioSpia
Release date: Mar 15th, 2013
UPC: 887516487705
Catalogue: RadioSpia 02 – RS 02
Genre: Electronic / Ambient / Trance
Comments: Cover versions, Suzanne Vega

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Songs:

– 1 – Solitude Standing  [4:39]
Composer: Suzanne Vega – Publisher: W B Music Corp Warner Chappell Music Inc Performed by: Marco Maffei: Programming, Arrangement, Samples – Mara De Mutiis: Vocals
ISRC: US-CGJ-13-14878

– 2 – Violentiaak [5:44]
Composers: G. Colonna – Marco Maffei – Publisher: RadioSpia Publishing (BMI) Performed by: Gianrico Colonna and Marco Maffei: Programming, Synth, Samples  ISRC: US-CGJ-13-14879

– 3 – Solitude Standing (trip remix) [4:57] Composer: Suzanne Vega – Publisher: W B Music Corp Warner Chappell Music Inc Performed by: Marco Maffei: Programming, Arrangement, Samples – Mara De Mutiis: Vocals – Gianrico Colonna: Guitar
ISRC: US-CGJ-13-14880

Bio:
The Alpha States are an electronic music project, born among some of the “Violent Bop Generator” members. This new project aims to perform good electronic music, from Trance to pure research. Its members declare to hate limitations and strongly want to gain a very important musical role in our society. The name of The Alpha States derives from a futuristic vision: the Political States arising from the failures of the modern man, a utopian social perfection so high that it may become real (perhaps) just after a destruction of the existing schemes (see the song Violentiaak). The assonance of the name with dream induction gets the previous concept stronger: the dream of a utopian society.

Notes:
– Cover Art: The Gorky
– “Violentiaak” was originally mixed in 1992 by Marco Maffei at VBG Audio Labs.
– “Solitude Standing” and “Solitude Standing (trip remix)” were originally mixed in 1997 by Marco Maffei at VBG Audio Labs.
–  All track re-mastered in 2013 at Mastering.it
– Produced by Marco Maffei – (C) and (P) 2013 RadioSpia records

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Solitude Standing – Lyrics

Solitude stands by the window
She turns her head as I walk in the room
I can see by her eyes she’s been waiting
Standing in the slant of the late afternoon
And she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

Solitude stands in the doorway
And I’m struck once again by her black silhouette
By her long cool stare and her silence
I suddenly remember each time we’ve met
And she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

And she says “I’ve come to set a twisted thing straight”
And she says “I’ve come to lighten this dark heart”
And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear
And I say “I’ve never thought of finding you here“

I turn to the crowd as they’re watching
They’re sitting all together in the dark in the warm
I wanted to be in there among them
I see how their eyes are gathered into one
And then she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

And she says “I’ve come to set a twisted thing straight”
And she says “l’ve come to lighten this dark heart”
And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear
And I say “I’ve never thought of finding you here“

Solitude stands in the doorway
And I’m struck once again by her black silhouette
By her long cool stare and her silence
I suddenly remember each time we’ve met
And she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

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