Prospekt Mira ... a modern electro dark rock band with Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Jarre, Cure, Deine Lakaien influences

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Thursday 03 September 2010

While the number of followers is growing each day, thing of what I am pleased, while the player has spin for almost 5000 times from people from all over the world, while I still receive positive and encouraging feedback from friends and new followers from the 4 corners of this planet... While all that, I am happy to announce the first Prospekt Mira show. It would be held at THE ZENITH in Islington, London. The previews of Little Newborns Stars will be held the 26th November and I am happy to give here the setlist of the show. Together with the songs of LNS we are going to play old songs as well and it could be to add some besides belonging to LNS. Here is the possible setlist for the show.
In the while we are waiting for some important feedback from graphic designer and video maker to help to realize an unforgettable prima.

Part 1 
Agent Provokateur, Somewhere,Against the Glass, Save Me, Through You

Part 2
(Semi-Unplugged)
Helein, Scorpio, Just Another Day (Tell me your name), Looking for Margot

Part 3
In league, Thirst for Truth, Two Steps to the Moon, Call Me Revolution, Dark Star, 
In the Room of Whispers

We are working to release new dates soon. We are in touch with Jam Promotion for the realizations of 4 more gigs in the area of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. More news will follow, keep tuned.

Tuesday 24 August 2010

It's almost one month since I update Prospekt Mira's website.
It has been a very busy month. I have been working on different things.
New lyrics have been written, new melodies have been laid down, new sounds have been engineered. Spending almost 4 to 5 hours a day in composition. 
I am working hard ( here I give my greeting to my friends at Galu) to go in studio for the recording session of the whole Little Newborn Stars work. 
So far the feedback received are really impressive and let me think positive for the near future. I am sure that the sound I propose is very different than what the music panorama is  giving out today. I am not working for easy-to-sell music, I am not looking to associate my work to any trend in vogue, I am just trying to give life to a project which sounds unique, well identifiable and with its own dimension. The lyrics are very personal and intimate, tehy can be told as the diary of my life. Songs speak of dreams and wishes, philosophies and politics, spirituality and edonism, research of oneself, doubts, lost loves, repressed desires, but also emancipation and visions of any kind. 
Of course, I have my influences. Those are stated, you can read them on the top line of this page. I can't deny those bands as Depeche, Cure and composers as Jarre, Morricone, Vangelis, Arvo Part they are a big influences on me. Lyrically I adore Martin Gore, who I think to be the best songwriter ever around the music business today. I can't deny as well the interest in the music of Mr Alan Wilder (another form Depeche Mode) or of the former Depeche electro visionaire Vince Clark. No, I don't deny them, but I am trying to taking their teaching to a level which is called Prospekt Mira, which is basically the way I see and I feel music in my mind by the vibration of my soul.
I know that who will read my lyrics will have a little hassle to understand the meanings. I play a lot with metaphors, Oximors and other formulas. But this is my way to approach music. I leave the easy songs to other people, there is a world out there making music of any kind, so i think the world does not need one more to make silly lyrics about " jumping on my Lamborghini Gallardo skake shake shaking ass and f..k in the night with you love babe....". I leave this tremendous effort to those having fun writing this stuff and to their huge audience. 
Next step is to get in touch with record labels and promoters. I need a breakthrough. I know that out there someone is interested in my music. 
The nice messages I have got in Facebook, Reverbnation, Myspace and Twitter are a confirmation. I'll keep on going. I'll try the hardest to make it truth. Never stop the dream.

See you soon with other news
Nunzio Cartalemi

Friday 23 July 2010

Ciao to all my friends and supporters. Hope you doing fine.
I am really happy. Why? Simple. We have got positive feedbacks after  the launch of the previews of the new work “Little Newborn Stars”. Positive comments from many places of this blessed planet.  I am really thankful to those people from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Usa, Russia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England who have been spinning the player for listening the music.  If Prospekt Mira is growing in term of listening and popularity is thank to you all. It is fantastic to see the increasing number of people joining ahd share their comments with us. 
I feel to publish some of them:

Pig : Hi there Mira, nice tae greet ye, good music here, I enjoyed muchly. PEACE and top vibes from the STY, PIG, X ; 
Bohemia Road :  Ochen kruta - y krutaya izvilina! Maladit!! 
Typing Monkey's : love your sound..very different:)  
VIVEYNNE : Hey - greetings from Canada ! I like your tunes - sweet vocals :)  
angelcatmaster : hey! very cool sound and songs. rock on!  
Alex Jv : Cool bro! Very cool! I like it!!! Keep rockin' steady!  
-Y4Z- : I really enjoy your music!! Great job!!  
 Neferblue : Pleased to get introduced to your music ! I love it ! Big supports to you
Craig : Hi Mira, just having a quick surf in the reverbnation ocean and bumped into you. Really good sounds and arrangements. Some very cool tones happening in 'Deified'. 
All the best
Ulyana : I am now a fan of your group PROSPEKT MIRA what I listened to - is very interesting, nice voice!
Lori : I checked out some of your music, and I definitely liked what I heard! Cheers!

We are trying to enter the network of Depeche fans, of The Cure, Jarre and other electronic combos. I know we can give something to those community, a kind of sound whcih will please their hears. We are trying our best. To be personal and unique by shaping and giving a special dress to our main influences. Today it is not easy, but we are trying the hardest to sound more Prospekt Mira and less our influences.
For us is time of seeding and I can see that the job done so far is fruitful in term of building a network. What is music after all if not an enjoyment spread all over a group of people who enjoy that special sound. Hopefully there will be in the next future some live shows, where, I am sure, we can increase our fanbase.
In few days time I am going to add the lyrics to the songs, I’ll be keeping them hidden and concealed for a while. But I am asking to me, why not make them available? So, keep tuned ‘cos the sooner or the later I will publish them on this website.
It is not easy maintain a music project when you are all on your own, and you have to think about the music, the production, the promotion, the public relation. Basically it’s a mess, and above all is a mess when you are not involved in it in term of 100% of the time. I just wish to be a full time composer, but I am not, I share my life with plenty of other job to help me to survive and live a rather than not-normal ;-) life.
The positive feedbacks given to the whole job are guiding me toward a decision. The next step for me is to contact producers and promoters. I am eager to play those songs live, no matter how small or big the audience, but it is so high the desire to share my music that I feel I have too.
In the while I am preparing independently the presentation of the album in few venue here in London and South England. The lack of musician scares me a little bit, but I’ll try in the next day to find some sessionists, if not, I’ll go alone without anyone assistance, as usual. Not that I enjoy doing things on my own, but just because I don’t want to stop my work just fort he reason of not finding anyone to play with. 
As I said previously, the file uploaded so far are Rough Mixes, and I hope to smooth the sound, to make it cleaner and more enjoyable and definable once in studio. The add of the vocals i think it will give an extra quid to the whole work. 
Many person have been told me questions about previous job, here I can state what I have done so far.
2007, Orange Album.  2008, Desert Soul. 2009, Un Almost Unplugged Album. 2010, Little Newborn Stars. These come all as Prospekt Mira, although they are not all available if not for some songs of the album Desert Soul.
What more... plenty of other things to say, but it will be for another day.
Nunzio Cartalemi

Saturday 10 July 2010

Ciao amici miei. Hope you well.
It's long time since I posted the last note on my Prospekt Mira page. Almost 6 months without any special news. During this period I have not been staying hand in hand but I have been working hard writing down new songs, new visions, new images, but specially trying to give a new direction to the sound and the atmospheres in Prospekt Mira. 
Prospekt Mira is always in evolution, not just because I am forcing the change inside the project itself, but just because it comes on its own. Evolution, changes, well, this is what sound for me, for you out there, once you will listen to the new work, you could easily may say, "Oh My God, this is involution". But to be honest, I don't really care about the outside judgement, just because I know that the new project is sincere, the music came this way, I did not force it, I did not premeditate, I did not sat down and thought "Now, I have to make it sound this way", but more than me to steer clear of the sound of "DESERT SOUL", and it was just last year, it was the music, the melodies, the sound that came to visit me, if you allow me to express myself this way, yes, indeed, it was the perception of what could be.
Always using basic instrumentation, always trying to create my soundscape with few tools, and specially with no founding, no big finance, no big costs, but just the time and the passion..and of course the vision.
So, here I am to introduce you now the new Prospekt Mira.
I think it will please the hear of Depeche Mode, The Cure, Deine Lakaien, Kraftwerk, Jan Micheal Jarre, Vangelis and all that Dark New Wave of the 70ies, 80ies. Of course, there's a different touch, a personal one, a Prospekt Mira one i'd say, the right personal touch which makes my music sounds this way.
I called the album "Little Newborn Stars", out of a line of one of the songs featured in the album. Why such a name. Because I love the stars, I love the universe, and I think at it, at Nature as a form of divinity. A divinity that does not require prayers, but respect. A divinity that can be devastating and sublime at the same time.
I stopped to be religious time ago, or maybe, for personal instinct, I have never been such. But when we come to term as Universe or Nature, then my respect is absolute and it matches the condition of divinity that can be for any devout of any religion.
At the end of the day I really think we are all "little new born stars of system out of our touch shining of own light".
Are we ready to make that light shining? Are we ready to behave as stars? Are we ready to love the way the Universe, in form of energy, loves us?
I was amazed at the news I heard few days ago. It was about "The sun emitting melodies". In my perception of the Universe the dark matter is nothing else than sound, yes, music emitted at very low frequencies, unhearable to human ears, and this dark matter composed by billion low frequencies is so packed that everything on it flows, moves, and it exists. Well I am not a scientist, I just say what I always felt. But I was amazed about the news which came right then I was working an "Little Newborn Stars".
Well, I leave you to the music. As usual, I invite you to interact with me, I just want to know your feedback, just don't be to rude ahahah.
At the end of the day art is art. One day a friend of mine told me : would you hang a Picasso on the living room of your house?
.... honestly I took my time to answer, and I did not at the very end.
Silly, isn't it?

Nunzio Cartalemi