Maximilian’s impressions about it: A great book by Ian McEwan ispired me for the title of this third album. There’s a sense of bitterness that the title includes along with regret mood. I’ll always feel this sense of spleen I tried to develop here. I know a lot of people will say “No, always sad stuff, sad stories”, but , ‘nuff said, my inspiration, true one, comes from grief and disillusion in love as in life so there’s no way for me to escape from these feelings. Therefore I’m proud to walk in the path a great band like the Cure has traced, maybe because I’ve been in a cover band of them in my twenties and it has been one of the most intense periods of my life I still don’t want to let go. There’s something about keeping certain feelings inside that’s full of nostalgic beauty and still give sence of my life that is not, in any sence, the common one of people envolved in rock’n roll. I prefer to think about myself as a 

painter that use music to draw scenes and emotions, that’s what A Cool Devotion is about lyrically and musically. When the most sincere emotions are denied in a common life like mine the only way out is working to recreate them. The world is a marvelous place to live in if you’re a robot. It seems a lot of people lives (and dies) in order not to prove true sensations. The fact is that once you proved ‘em is really difficult to forget how it feels and what you’re losing when they’re gone. Here’s where art can help and how. It’s like a time machine and a void remover all in one, a cure sometimes sweet, most of times painful but intense and honest. That’s the reason why I had in mind to give up, but I couldn’t as A Cool Devotion became my drug to sustain empty life and empty people. And you know the world is full of them definitely! Sometimes I think my life could have been easier and safer if I didn’t start playing and composing most of all. Creating art is certainly an heavy weight but a pleasant one at the same time like sustaining a woman’s body making love and obviously, if you see things in this way, it’s worth sleepless nights and hours of rehearsals trying to get the music right, trying to capture something that, not anyone, but closer spirits can easily understand and feel inside. Having the privilege of doing such a thing it’s both a blessing and a curse even if money are little but satisfaction is worth it, .Getting this sort of universal inspiration is difficult and I don’t know if I obtained this result in this last work of mine but that’s exactly what I aimed composing music and words this time. I’d never be the kind of person that writes and plays only to hear other’s saying “Hey, you rock” even if I do enjoy to be appreciated (Who doesn’t).I love to listen to the result thinking “That’s really what I had inside and now it’s a sharable thing”. Was I good at it ? Well, samples will soon be online and free single only one click away so decide for yourself. I beg your pardon, unluckily I still can’t put samples out ’cause envious monsters out there that do hate me for what I’m capable to create damaged my master by hackin’ my computer. They can go to the hell they deserve anyway as they won’t stop me for long.

Maximilian

Here’s the Atonement tracklist, which scheduled exit date is 9/1/2008. Samples of tracks will be on line as soon as possible, stay tuned.