Leaving Eden (Antimatter album)

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Leaving Eden
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Studio album by
Released13 April 2007
Genre Alternative rock, dark rock
Label Prophecy Productions
Producer Mick Moss
Antimatter chronology
Planetary Confinement
(2005)
Leaving Eden
(2007)
Live@An Club
(2009)
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Leaving Eden is the fourth album by the UK band Antimatter. [2] It was released on 13 April 2007. [3] It also marks the first Antimatter album to be written entirely by Mick Moss since the departure of Duncan Patterson two years earlier. [2]

Contents

Promo Video

A promo video for the song 'Conspire' was made by Polish artists Krzysztof Baran, Kasper Grubba and Andrzej Szych. [4] The 4 and a half minute film was comprised of over 3,000 hand-painted watercolour images by Krzysztof Baran, a task which took 6 months to complete. [5] The video went on to win a distinction at the Camera Action Festival in Lodz, Poland, in 2011, and was shown at Supertoon Animation Festival in the Best Music Videos category next to works by Depeche Mode and Coldplay. [6]

Track listing

All songs written by Mick Moss

No.TitleLength
1."Redemption"6:07
2."Another Face in a Window"7:00
3."Ghosts"4:37
4."The Freak Show"5:11
5."Landlocked"4:00
6."Conspire"4:12
7."Leaving Eden"5:50
8."The Immaculate Misconception"5:11
9."Fighting for a Lost Cause"5:36
Total length:47:14

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References

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  5. Mick Moss (2017). Leaving Eden Audio Commentary (Conspire) (CD). Prophecy Productions. each second of film had 12 frames, and each frame was a hand-painted watercolour image on A4 paper. The film came in at just under 4 and a half minutes long. In all, Krzysztof hand-painted over 3,000 different images to make the video. Can you imagine that ? It took him 6 months of his life to make
  6. Mick Moss (2017). Leaving Eden Audio Commentary (Conspire) (CD). Prophecy Productions. The video went on to win a distinction at the Camera Action Festival in Lodz, Poland, in 2011, and it was shown at Supertoon Animation Festival in the Best Music Videos category next to works by Depeche Mode and Coldplay
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