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    Left-To-Live is the title of the fifth album of the Italian psychedelic-progressive rock band Twenty Four Hours. The songs were designed in the period between March 2014 and August 2015, although the crucial phase of composition took place in the same Trullo, in San Marco di Locorotondo where in 1995 was composed and recorded the third album of the band Oval Dreams. However, the following arranging and production steps took place in the period between March and July 2015 between Fano (PU) and Preganziol (TV), Italy.

    For the first time the band has turned to an external artistic producer, Andrea Valfrè, former producer of Le Orme and Lunapop, who took care for the arrangement of five of the twelve songs of the album and mixed the whole work in the analog domain. Mastering has been instead entrusted to Marco Lincetto, record producer and label owner of "Velut Luna" that in 2012 published the "audiophile" vinyl edition of Oval Dreams.

    The album will be released on compact disc in April 2016 by Musea, the French label of progressive rock historically linked to the band since 1998,[1] while from March 29, 2016 the album is already available on iTunes [2] and by March 30 on Deezer [3] and Spotify [4]

    The themes of Left-To-Live, which is announced by the band as a classic concept-album, are essentially social, but are faced with a dreamlike-paradoxical approach; the band in fact asks itself: "If all mankind had only 24 hours left to live, what memories would pass in his virtual mind before final passage?" The cover, a collage of powerful images, evocative of the great human tragedies, from the Inquisition to the great genocides, from the Crusades to the Jihad, from the extermination of the American Indians to the atomic bomb, from deforestation to cyber bullying, tells us just the "flash" that humanity would have before the final act. And there are not good memories or concessions to happy events, even in the texts of the most representative songs of this album, except for some references to love, and to an ethereal sister telling of his virtual family, as if they were the only lifeline, the only slender thread of hope, before the inevitable denouement.

    The second track on the album, "Sister Never Born" is inspired by the last novel by Francesco Carofiglio, "Voglio vivere una volta sola" and its video, released on October 31 of 2015, ranked among the best progressive songs together with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree, now launched into a prolific solo career and Steve Hackett of Genesis on the English Teamrock.com web magazine.[5][6] On 2015 Christmas Eve however, it was released the video of the 3rd track on the album, "That Old House" ,[7] while at Easter it was released the video of the first song of the album "Soccer Killer", dedicated to the 13 children executed by ISIS jihadists on January 12, 2015 in Mosul, Iraq for watching a football game on television.[8]
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    released April 7, 2016

    All songs composed between March and August 2014, mainly by Antonio Paparelli and Paolo Lippe, except where otherwise indicated. The crucial phase of the composition took place at the “mythic” trullo of San Marco di Locorotondo, between August the 9th and the 20th 2014, while the decisive arranging phase took place between Fano and Preganziol during three arranging and recording sessions (March-July, 2015).

    Recorded at Magister Recording Area, Preganziol (TV) between April the 1st and 7th and July the 3rd and 6th, 2015 by Andrea Valfrè.
    Mixed analogue at Magister Recording Area between July the 21st and 31st, 2015 by Andrea Valfrè.
    Mastered at Velut Luna Studio on August the 1st, 2nd and 17th, 2015 by Marco Lincetto.

    Line-up:
    - Marco Lippe: drums, lead vocals on track 6, backing vocals, artwork (credits/inlay)
    - Paolo Lippe: piano and synths, lead and backing vocals, artwork
    - Antonio Paparelli: electric and acoustic guitars
    - Paolo Sorcinelli: bass guitar, classical guitar on track 3 and rythm guitar on track 6

    Guest musicians:
    - Elena Lippe: backing vocals
    - Giovanni Lombardi: jazz and solo fuzz guitar on track 7
    - Andrea Valfrè: Hammond organ and synths on track 5, electric piano and synths on track 6, synths on tracks 1 and 10

    Analogue and digital line-up:
    - Kirchhoff Drums, Zildjian, Paiste, Sabian and Ufip cymbals, Tama pedals & Vic Firth “Metal” sticks
    - Gibson, Fender and Ibanez electric guitars, Bernabè classic guitar, Martin acoustic guitar
    - Kurzweil, Novation, Korg, Roland and Sequential Circuits Synthesysers
    - Steinway Grand Piano
    - Hammond C3 Organ with Lombardi rotary speaker



    Our very special thanks to: our Families for support and patience, Cecilia Grilli (diplomacy), Tatiana Farroni (singing lessons), Rebecca Lippe (artwork), Tonuccio, Vitina and Sante Calaprico (true friendship), Annamaria D’Amelio and Malcolm Dome (support in U.K.), Gianni Della Cioppa, Loris Furlan, Paola Cimini (graphics), Alessandro Andreoli (actor), Wilson Santinelli (photographer), Maurizio Nardelli (video maker), Claudio Lippe & Concetta Ardizzone (life, endless Love, support & initiation to the Arts), Alessia Camozzini, Italo Ghilardi, Andrea De Felice & family, Deborah Lot & family, Katiuscia Cauzzi, Melania Lucchini, Benny Bruno, Andrea Metzger, Seaweed (Ozrics), Giuseppe Fenoglio & Antonio Sorano, Carmela Cecca, Sergio De Marzo & Peppe, Josée Van Wezel, Davide Ricca, Elisa De Palma, Stefania Manca, Michele Barillaro, Fajo Girardi, Valerio Fumarola, Nirnaeth, Feronia.

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    Our fifth album is dedicated to our former bassist Nico Colucci and to the beloved brother Alfonso Ferretti

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When composing songs at the trullo in summer 2014, we ate very late .... after the 2-3 o'clock at night. There was always an incredible battle between a few geckos and monstrous wasps. Almost always he won the gecko. Marco's dog, called Baffino warned us with ultrasonic sounds that pierced our already proven eardrums.

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On the hidden wall of the entering door
there's a fainting gecko who carefully retires
He has seen a monster wasp near the human light
And three guilty fat men, clumsily trying to kill her
never hoped, never unsaid, and now, after a while

There was a hard and incredible fight (no holds barred)
At some point you don't understand who succumbed
Baffino was decisive, with its deadly ultrasound
Finally, the disgusting repulsive wasp lost all its fetid liquid

Inside the virtual pool of an unresponsive childhood
there are many faint memories that hit you hard and strong
try to smile to you, but your eyes are still as the screams of the dog
never failed, never reborn, and now, after the smile

How do you feel now? Something has changed
How do you feel now? Something has changed
Is it getting better? What do you want now?
What do you need now? What do you need now?

I speak no more to you, since you're totally drowned
Painting that gecko with warm soil
Try to smile to me, my eyes speak cloudy
deserving intentions never dreamed, never confessed
And now... after the trial...

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from OFFICIAL 5th ALBUM - "LEFT​-​TO​-​LIVE" (A meditation on past and present perfect crimes) - MASTER HD 24 BIT​/​88​,​2 KHz, released April 7, 2016
- Marco Lippe: Kirchhoff Drums, Zildjian, Paiste, Sabian and Ufip cymbals, Tama pedals & Vic Firth “Metal” sticks
- Paolo Lippe: Steinway Grand Piano, Kurzweil PC-3 and Novation Mininova synths, lead and backing vocals, artwork
- Antonio Paparelli: Ibanez, Gibson Les Paul Studio and Fender Telecaster electric guitars
- Paolo Sorcinelli: Ibanez GSR bass guitar

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TWENTY FOUR HOURS Fano, Italy

Twenty Four Hours is an Italian progressive rock band with various influences, including the psychedelic one that is the predominant element.
After their first album, "The Smell of The Rainy Air", vinyl produced in January 1991, the group has acquired a certain notoriety thanks to the welcome of critics signaled the debut of the band among the best releases of 1991. See Wikipedia for details.
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