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From Genova to the world, Transhumanity by Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice has drawn praise from international reviewers for its vision, scope, and humanity. Critics across continents celebrate it as a concept album that turns philosophy and science into melody.
Indie Dock Music Blog (UK) noted:
“The Italian collective arrive with their debut album Transhumanity carrying the weight of grand ambition and the lightness of genuine curiosity. The album’s structural intelligence becomes apparent through repeated listening.”
They described it as “elevated above standard science-fiction rock opera by its harmonic sophistication and emotional sincerity.”
(indiedockmusicblog.co.uk)
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JYLA Blog (International) called the record
“an immersive journey through technology, imagination, and human emotion… intimate and expansive at once.”
The site highlighted its multimedia nature: “Each track is not only a song but part of a larger creative universe that includes animations, visuals, and even a short novel.”
(jylablog.com)
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Savoy Truffle Tunes (UK) praised the band’s daring:
“Transhumanity has landed, and it’s every bit as bold, daring, and boundary-pushing as I had hoped — an eleven-track concept album for the digital age.”
(savoytruffletunes.com)
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From Italy, Blog della Musica underlined the philosophical depth:
“Un concept che mette in scena la tensione storico-filosofica verso il superamento dell’umano. Transhumanity traduce il pensiero transumanista in racconto musicale con rara coerenza.”
(blogdellamusica.eu)
SoundsGood Webzine (IT) added:
“Un ponte tra passato, presente e futuro — tra musica e narrativa. Pochi dischi riescono a trasformare la speculazione filosofica in qualcosa di così melodico e cinematografico.”
(soundsgoodwebzine.com)
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In the Spanish-speaking world, La Caverna emphasised its conceptual unity:
“Más que un simple conjunto de canciones, la obra funciona como un recorrido conceptual donde ciencia, tecnología y emoción se entrelazan en una trama musical de tintes futuristas.”
(lacaverna.net)
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The French magazine ExtravaRock offered an evocative image:
“On entre dans Transhumanity comme on pousserait la porte d’un planétarium secret, illuminé de fresques scientifiques et de fantômes historiques. L’album, ample et kaléidoscopique, joue à la fois comme un concept-album progressif et comme une série de nouvelles musicales.”
(extravafrench.com)
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Finally, Os Garotos de Liverpool (BR) stressed its uniqueness:
“Um álbum que entrega 11 faixas e uma sonoridade definitivamente única, mostrando riqueza, talento e versatilidade ao longo de toda sua extensão.”
(osgarotosdeliverpool.com.br)
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Across languages and continents, Transhumanity is described as bold, cinematic, and visionary — a fusion of science, philosophy, and emotion that confirms Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice among the most distinctive voices in today’s independent scene.
Transhumanity
Transhumanity is Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice’s Album Out Now
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Their new album Transhumanity is an ambitious collection of songs that explore the human condition and futuristic visions through bold arrangements and a strong sense of theatricality.
Each track feels carefully placed, carrying the listener into a different emotional and imaginative territory.
The record opens with Ada, a piece that sets the tone with tremolo guitars and ethereal keys. The atmosphere is dreamy yet purposeful, soon joined by vocals that carry a vintage charm. The melody unfolds with a refined touch, balancing nostalgia with fresh energy. Immediately after comes Goodbye, a track that leans on memory and longing. Its nostalgic mood paints faded polaroids in sound, making it feel like a delicate meditation on passing time.
The intensity rises with The Current War, a dynamic track powered by a funky and intricate bass line. The groove is infectious, and the rhythmic foundation gives space for sharp instrumental interplay. In contrast, Bombshell offers a darker, electronic drive. Hypnotic arpeggiators pull the listener into a futuristic dimension, while theatrical vocal delivery heightens its cinematic quality. It’s easy to imagine this one set against the backdrop of a sci-fi film.
We Are All Bots deepens the dystopian mood, yet its rhythmic cadence keeps it intense and engaging. Harmonic shifts and sudden changes in tone make the song a journey within itself. The adventurous spirit continues in To The Space And Beyond, where medieval-inspired melodies and fantasy-driven textures mix with an avant-garde sensibility. The vocal interplay feels ritualistic, guiding the listener into a surreal space where tradition meets experimentation.
Closing the album is Eternità, a haunting finale built on piano and operatic female vocals before a more alternative rock outro. Its medieval choral character roots the song in Italian tradition while carrying an almost timeless quality. The track feels ancient and modern, a chant echoing across centuries. It is arguably the most striking piece on the album, wrapping the entire journey in a sense of grandeur and dreamlike beauty.
With Transhumanity, Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice deliver an album that refuses to be boxed into a single style. Instead, it embraces multiple dimensions—nostalgia, futurism, ritual, and experimentation—while keeping an emotional thread intact throughout.
Transhumanity is Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice’s Album Out Now!
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Album: Transhumanity by Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice
ByNada Medhat
The potential of the independent industry is that every once in a while you see something monstrously creative, an unpredictable way of becoming that escapes the framework of “good” and “bad”, “enjoyable” or “not enjoyable” and instead has value in being genuinely new and fascinating. Andrea Pizzo and the Purble Mice’s latest album,“Transhumanity”, is such an example.
A collective of artists from Genova, Italy, that mixes rock, pop and electronic music, philosophy, art, science, and machines, Andrea Pizza and the Purble Mice is born of a vision, one that doesn’t see a clear-cut distinction between things we have put in different categories: humans, machines, emotions, thoughts, ideas, people. In their new album, released in late August this year, those ideas in all their messy glory are explored in a spacious, speculative, and musically experimental fashion.
Led by vocalist and songwriter Andrea Pizzo, along with his wife Raffaella Turbino, who co-writes the lyrics, and joined by various friends and acquaintances like Roberto Tiranti and Riccardo Morello, as well as guest singers like Irene Buselli and Antonella Suella, the band has only released EPs and singles before this debut album, which functions as the first complete window view into their initial vision.
The album opens with the song Ada, which is sung in the voice of English mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace, who was one of the first thinkers to imagine and conceive of applications beyond calculations for the machine. In the song, “Ada” says, “If you can give me poetry, give me logic/Imagination, mathematics are the language/Of unseen relation between things.” In a brilliant mathematicical, logical mind, the collective sees poetry, imagination, language and beauty. In that way, this song functions as a type of a thesis statement for the band’s vision, providing not only interesting music but interesting views of those we have been taught to see in only a certain light. Though in English, the vocalist, perhaps unintentionally, sings in a purely Italian cadence, which brings a certain foreignness to the song’s sound and voice. Not a failure, but rather another interesting aspect of a song that is all about fusions.
More songs follow in the album that are interested in historical, scientific figures, such as “The Current War” that overlooks the rivalry between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. Imaginative, playful, and fun, the song mixes narration with lyrical singing. Its fun, punk-y sound, stands in contrast to “The ballad of Alan Mathison”, that takes a more melancholic, contemplative, and poetic direction. “Hidden Figures” and “Bombshell” are more songs that center known figures, giving them a different voice.
“We are all bots” and “the Machine” are among the album’s songs that explore the possible aftermaths to such relationships with machines. The tracks that stand out the most, however, are “The Space and Beyond” and “”. The former is an adaptation of Versus de Naturis Rerum By Ambrosius Mediolanensis (Saint Ambrose), with added recitative text from The Three Laws of Robotics by Isaac Asimov. The song lingers than nearly all others in the fandom in the instrumental section, with no lyrics except for the recitations, becoming a definite unique standout. “Eternità, on the other hand, might just be the most beautiful in the album. The lyrics, excerpted from the Homeric Mymn to Aphrodite translated into Italian by Ettore Romagnoli, make the only Italian singing in the entire album, strikingly performed by Andrea Pizzo and Antonella Suella in an operatic fashion. The result is an eerie, captivating track that is reminiscent of Florence and the Machine mixed with hardscore electric guitar solos. Overall, Andrea Pizzo is a unique, unusual voice, who alongside the rest of the collective, brings to us a fresh, experimental vision.
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Potatoes On Mars
Long-awaited and every bit as creatively unpredictable as hoped, Andrea Pizzo and band deliver their latest conceptual deep-dive and rock-kissed arena of entertainment, in the form of the vast and artistic Potatoes On Mars.
Notably a rock album at its core, arrangement matters, and the art of the album stands tall from the moment those vocals pierce through to introduce Keep On Searching.
Soon after, we welcome electric guitars, punk-rock rhythms and soulful, choir-like buildups for an ultimately inspiring hit of possibility that starts things off on a mighty high.
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As the album moves forward, strings and deeper reflections meet with catchy guitar riffs for the ambient consideration of Song Of Nothing – concept takes over in the place of weight and pace, reminding us of the historical context that so frequently shows itself in the Andrea Pizzo catalogue. This song is beautiful, its acoustic delicacy allows the leading voice to sound naturally emotive and quite stunning as it softly yet passionately guides us through the reflections on offer.
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The unmistakable funk of Among The Stars makes a worthy appearance, quickly elevating the eclecticism and versatility of the project for its reimagination of genre and purpose; and those Zeppelin-reaching vocal shifts.
Then there’s the title-track, country-soaked with a hint of ska, melodically infectious, shedding light on the inspiration behind the work; whilst uplifting its audience with an undeniable air of brightness and bounce. Another highlight for the sheer strength of this as an inescapable earworm and booster for good vibes.
Suddenly the cinematic drama of strings and rising intensity contrasts heavily afterwards, as the again unmistakable and extensive journey of Jupiter And The Galilean Moons takes hold. During this nine-minute-plus part of the experience, you’d be forgiven for forgetting there was an external album at work.
Other highlights from the eleven-track Potatoes On Mars include the rise and fall of a longing and poetic Go Fishing In The Ocean of Enceladus, and the shifting tempo and swagger of Pale Blue Dot. There’s also a cinematic charm and melodic soul to the story and build-up of Goldilocks Zone, marking this brief section of the project perhaps the most easy to revisit.
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The closing quarter brings further sci-fi-strings and dashes of other-worldly production in the form of an eventual prog-rock anthem, Masters Of The Galaxy, and the rock and roll caress continues for an unmissable Road To Universe at the penultimate moment – a frenzy of electric guitars more than worth waiting for.
There’s another absolute earworm to finish, the catchy and courageous, uplifting closer Starship To Heaven – raising the roof and the mood of the room to leave you with a lingering sense of having really been somewhere new with this music.
As ever, unlike anything else you’ll hear this week. Familiar yet not, comforting yet fearlessly strange and exotic, thought-provoking in ways you can’t quite prepare for. The album is built of stages, evolving levels of Space and Time, with various stories and factoids planted throughout to really get the mind working. Check out our interview for more insight.
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