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Release Date: 2020-02-27Label: In Paradisum
The tracks are consecutively numbered on the back of the sleeve.The release is dedicated to AMESYS, the controverse French developer of surveillance software technologies. Somaticae summarise information about them and their sordid activities in the text "AMESYS: THE SURVEILLANCE SOFTWARE BUSINESS SOLD TO THE DICTATORSHIPS OF TODAY AND TOMORROW." on the back of the sleeve.
The artwork is an attempt to represent and visualize the operations of censorship and repression, resulting from the use of their spying surveillance software. If the cut & paste artwork on the sleeve cover would be layered over the 6 photographies of protests in different parts of the world, printed on one side of the black and white paper insert, the coloured cut outs from the sleeve fill out the blank white spots in the photos.