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The Kuiper Belt album idea came out during the writing process for
another future album. Considering that we are in lockdown, we couldn’t met each other to jam and put together new ideas, so we
thought we would go back through some of our old recorded jam
sessions instead. We looked through and found some good input for
the album, even though we’re still writing. Doug (our bass player)
luckily record
ed our jam sessions since 2014 till now. We realised
that the music material we had recorded already at the Music
Complex–London during our music jams was well performed and
sounded good enough to consider as a proper release. Wayne
(drums) had the idea
to choose some of the best tracks and to make
an album out of it , which we all agreed on. Doug did not just record
the full album but even mastered the entire release, he did an
impressive job.

At this moment we thought it would be a good idea to release
a live
album considering that we can’t play live for the time being. The best
thing about this release is that all tracks have been played just once,
none of the tracks were ever rehearsed or played twice. All tracks are
pure improvisations and there was
no intentions from us to make it
sound that tight or to release an album out of it . The tracks are
frozen in time, left behind, like most of the Kuiper Belt object, frozen
volatiles (termed “ices”) but we’re here to bring them back to life.

The artwork is just unbelievable, it’s a sculpture inspired from the
change of our band name. ‘John Summers’ the sculptor met Francesco
our front man in an art gallery. John is a brilliant artist, he liked
‘Eight’ our previous album under the name Francesco Fonte Band
(2018) before we changed it to 8Snake. John got inspired by our
music project and the way it has evolved. The sculpture is about 6ft
tall, John said The title of the album fits the image perfectly. The
white complex form is inspired from geometric forms but it’s
completely organic, also the face give us the idea it could be looking
out into the Belt. The face of the sculpture is like a mask and the
white complex form is his true identity, his true complex presence.

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