Paradiso

by Chino Amobi

Paradiso cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 May 2017
  • Label: NON
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:05:22
  • Community rating: 3.64/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The NON Worldwide co-founder unleashes a terrifying, dystopian conceptual opus structurally framed as a descent into a fictional, hellish airport. The album is a chaotic, overwhelmingly dense audio collage, violently clashing industrial sirens, cinematic orchestration, and fragmented spoken-word samples. It functions as a brilliant, deeply unsettling critique of globalization and late-stage capitalist anxiety.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, complex, sampling, atmospheric, conceptual, experimental, electronic, deconstructed, industrial, dystopian

Tracklist

  1. LAW I (THE CITY IN THE SEA) (3:22)
  2. G脝NOVA (1:59)
  3. BLOOD OF THE COVENANT (3:36)
  4. NEGATIVE FIRE III (3:50)
  5. THE FAILED SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF FANTASIA (3:15)
  6. BLACKOUT (3:06)
  7. ANTIKEIMENON (4:10)
  8. NKISI (EDIT) (2:49)
  9. EIGENGRAU (CHILDREN OF HELL II) (4:13)
  10. LAW II (DEMOLITION) (1:18)
  11. POLIZEI (3:58)
  12. WHITE M脝TEL (3:00)
  13. RADICAL ZERO (1:11)
  14. PARADISO (7:02)
  15. LAW III (ADAM) (2:24)
  16. THE FLOATING WORLD PT. 1 (1:46)
  17. THE FLOATING WORLD PT. 2 (2:09)
  18. DIXIE SHRINE (4:41)
  19. KOLLAPS (4:08)
  20. END (THE CITY IN THE SEA) (3:16)

Credits

  • Chino Amobi - primary artist, written-by
  • Elysia Crampton - written-by
  • Dutch E Germ - written-by
  • Rabit - written-by
  • Aurel Haize Odogbo - written-by
  • Embaci - written-by
  • Haleek Maul - written-by
  • Nkisi - written-by

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